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Chiuchow Cuisine

Admin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:14:13 +0000

Chiuchow cuisine, Teochew cuisine or Chaozhou cuisine or Chaoshan cuisine (Chinese: 潮州菜; pinyin: Cháozhou cài) originates from Chaoshan, a region of China in the easternmost area of the Guangdong Province. However, Chaozhou cuisine is closer to Fujian cuisine and even shares many of the same dishes. This is likely due to its neighboring location and also the closely related culture. Chaoshan emcompasses the prefecture-level cities of Chaozhou, Shantou and Jieyang. The region’s cuisine is often mistakenly labelled as “Cantonese cuisine“.

Chaozhou cuisine is particularly well known for its seafood and vegetarian dishes and is often regarded as being very healthy. Its use of flavouring is much less heavy-handed than most other Chinese cuisines and depends much on the freshness and quality of the ingredients for taste and flavor. Chaozhou cuisine is also known for serving rice soup (潮州糜 or mue) in addition to steamed rice with meals. The Chaozhou mue is rather different from Cantonese porridge or congee. The former is very watery with the rice sitting loosely at the bottom of the bowl.

Authentic Chaozhou restaurants serve very strong Oolong tea called Tieguanyin in very tiny cups before and after the meal. This is Gongfu cha and is a very strong tea which has a bittersweet taste, called gan gan (甘甘).

A condiment that is commonly used in Chaozhou cuisine is Shacha sauce. This popular paste is also used in Fujian and Taiwanese cuisine. It is made from soybean oil, garlic, shallots, chilis, brill fish, and dried shrimp. The paste has a savory and slightly spicy taste. As an ingredient, it has multiple uses:

as a base for soups
as a rub for barbecued meats
as a seasoning for stir fry dishes
as a component for dipping sauces, for example as used in hot pot meals

Chaozhou chefs often use a special stock called shang tang (上湯). This stock remains on the stove and is continuously replenished. One Hong Kong chef allegedly has used the same shang tang for over fifty years. You will see this stock on Chaozhou TV in their cooking programmes, even today.

There is a famous feast in Chaozhou cuisine / banquet called “jiat dot” (食桌) which roughly means “eat table”. A myriad dishes are often served, which include shark fins soup, bird’s nest soup, lobster, steam fish and braised goose.

Chaozhou chefs pride themselves on their skill in vegetable carving, and carved vegetables are used as garnishes on cold dishes and on the banquet table.

Chaozhou is also known for a late night dinner called “Da Leng” (打冷). Chaozhou people like to eat out in restaurants or at roadside food stalls close to midnight before they go to bed. Some restaurants stay open till dawn.

Unlike the typical menu selections of many other Chinese cuisines, Chaozhou restaurant menus often have a dessert section.

Many people of Chaozhou, also known as Teochiu or Teochew, heritage have settled in Southeast Asia, especially Singapore; influences can be noted in the cuisine of Singapore. This review article illustrates a Teochew Noodles House in Singapore. A large number of Teochew people have also settled in Taiwan, evident in Taiwanese cuisine.

Famous dishes

Some famous Chaozhou dishes include, among others:

Chai tao kway (菜头粿), a fried ‘cake’, made of white radish and rice flour. It is a popular dim sum commonly stir fried with soy sauce, eggs, garlic, spring onion and occasionally dried shrimp.
Braised Goose, (滷鵝) or Lou Gho in the Chaozhou dialect.
Steamed goose (炊鵝)
Teochew-style duck (潮州鹵水鴨)
Teochew-style steamed fish, which normally makes use of pomfret and has a distinctive clear broth, seasoned with preserved plums and tomatoes.
Popiah (薄饼 / 潤餅), a fresh (non-fried) spring roll. It is essentially a thin paper-like crepe made from wheat flour (rice flour is sometimes used) and is typically filled with finely grated and steamed or stir-fried turnip, jicama, carrots, lettuce leaves, shredded omelette, Chinese sausage, thinly sliced fried tofu, chopped peanut or peanut powder and sweet bean sauce. However, there are many variations of popiah, with some including pork, shrimp, crab meat, fried shallots, hoisin sauce or sweetened soy sauce.
A steamed dumpling called hung gue (粉餜) in the Chiuchow language filled with a tuber, dried radish, and peanuts. In Cantonese, these are called Chiuchow fun guo (潮州粉果), and used the wrong character for dumpling and use the fruit character guo (果).
Steamed chives dumplings called gucai gue 韭菜餜. Sometimes, they are sauteed to give it a crispy texture.
Prawn roll (fried) called heh geng in Chaozhou language (蝦捲[虾卷])
Oyster pancake (蠔烙) which is called O Luah (蠔烙) in Chaozhou language
Yusheng (鱼生), a raw fish salad. Typical ingredients include: fresh salmon, daikon (white radish), carrot, red pepper (capsicum), ginger, kaffir lime leaves, Chinese parsley, chopped peanuts, toasted sesame seeds, Chinese shrimp crackers (or fried dried shrimp), five spice powder. The dressing is made primarily from plum sauce. It was a delicacy invented 1,500 years ago during the Song Dynasty.
Mee pok (面薄), a popular noodle dish served with minced pork, braised mushrooms, fish balls, dumplings, sauce and other garnishings.
Kway chap (粿汁), a dish of flat, broad rice sheets in a soup made with dark soy sauce, served with pig offal, braised duck meat, various kinds of beancurd, preserved salted vegetables, and braised hard-boiled eggs.
Chaozhou Chicken, a dish of sliced, crisp-skinned marinated chicken served with fried spinach leaves. The leaves are fused with a five-spice and Shaoxing wine fragrance.
Fish balls (鱼蛋) and Beef balls (牛丸), which can be cooked in many ways but are often served in Chiuchow-style noodle soups.
Fishball Noodle Soup (鱼丸面 yú wán miàn). Any of several kinds of egg and rice noodles may be served either in a light fish-flavoured broth or “dry” with the soup on the side, with fishmeat balls, fishcake, beansprouts and lettuce.
Cold crab (潮州凍蟹). The whole crab is first steamed and served chilled. The species of crab most commonly used is Charybdis cruciata of the genus Charybdis (genus).
Chaozhou-style Congee (粥[糜]), a rice soup that has a more watery consistency than its Cantonese cousin.
Ou ni (芋泥) which is a yam dessert and is called Ou ni in Chaozhou language.
Crystal balls which is a steamed dessert with a variety of fillings such custard as [ni ung] 奶黃, yam paste [ou ni 芋泥], bean paste [daosua 荳沙] made from mung beans, unusual crèmes, fruity gels. The crystal balls are called Zuizian bao 水晶包. They are similar to the Japanese mochi.
Tieguanyin (鐵觀音 a premium grade Oolong Tea). However, Chaozhou people prefer their own Oolong tea which is Feng Huang Dancong cha (鳳凰單丛茶).

Chinese Estates Holdings

Admin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:25:44 +0000

Chinese Estates Holdings Limited (SEHK: 0127) is a major Chinese investment holding company, based in Hong Kong.

Its subsidiaries are principally engaged in property investment and development, brokerage, securities investment and money lending.

The Company is organized into five divisions: property development and trading, which is engaged in property development and sales of properties; property leasing, which is engaged in property rental; money lending, which is engaged in loan financing; listed securities investment and treasury products, which is engaged in listed securities investment and trading, over-the counter trading and structured products, and unlisted securities investment, investment holding and brokerage, which is engaged in unlisted securities investment, trading and brokerage.

On March 13, 2006, the Company acquired 100% equity interest of JadeField Limited. On January 5, 2006, it acquired 70.01% equity interest of Moon Ocean Ltd.

External links

Joseph Lau

Admin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:21:31 +0000

Joseph Lau Luen Hung (Born in Hong Kong with family roots in Chaozhou, Guangdong) is a billionaire Hong Kong real estate investor who owns a 61% stake in Chinese Estates Holdings. His fortune is estimated by Forbes at $2.1 billionUS.^[1] In May 2007, Lau was revealed to be among the first seven purchasers of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet for private use.^[2] And on November 7, 2007, he made the top purchase of the evening at a Sotheby’s Auction by paying $39.2 million for Paul Gauguin’s Te Poipoi, a painting of a Tahitian scene.^[3]

References

^ #458 Joseph Lau - Forbes.com
^ ABC News: ABC News
^ (German) Sothebys Auction - Portfolio.com

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lau

Dr. Ko Wing Man

Admin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:39:45 +0000

高永文（英文名：Ko Wing Man，已婚，育有兩子）。籍貫廣東惠州，太平紳士，香港著名醫學界人物，香港醫務委員會委員，香港新聲會顧問，樂善公益基金會顧問，中國香港醫療衛生學會會長。

1980年，高永文畢業於香港大學醫學院。後來加入瑪嘉烈醫院。他當年師承瑪嘉烈的骨科顧問馮醫生，骨科醫生實習3年，及後選了骨科作為他的專業。1991年加入香港醫院管理局，任職專業事務及人力資源總監。2003 年嚴重急性呼吸系統綜合症肆虐香港期間，時任醫管局行政總裁何兆煒染病入院，高永文臨危受命，擔任醫管局署理行政總裁。2004年12月，他因為前醫管局主席梁智鴻請辭所觸動而離開香港醫院管理局。離職後，高永文合夥開辦骨科診所。2006年，曾為苗圃行動出任「助學大使」。現在為泰山公德會的滅癌獻愛心國際慈善基金會擔任信託人。^[1]

醫學專業資格

Crocodile Garments

Admin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:32:31 +0000

Crocodile Garments SEHK: 0122 is a textile and garments company in Hong Kong. Crocodile Garments was founded by the late Dr. Chan Shun in 1952.

Chan sold the business in 1987 to Lai Sun Garment, controlled by the late billionnaire Lim Por Yen.^[1]

Crocodile Garments originally sold dress shirts before expanding to become the largest chain garment store in Hong Kong. They exported to Japan, Singapore and other Asian Countries. A second line called Cal-Thomas was started in CA, USA. Crocodile emerged as the leading fashion label with the expansion of a woman’s line and children’s line called CrocoKids. At its peak, Crocodile garments was the largest garment chain before the conception of G2000, Giordano, U2 and Bossini in the 1990s.

Crocodile had a long standing dispute over the logo and clothing lines with Lacoste.^[2] Crocodile uses a crocodile logo that faces left while Lacoste uses one that faces right. The two fought for the logo rights in China which was won by Crocodile.

References

^ 13元錢起家的一代富豪:林百欣生前身後事 “The Lim Por-yen story“, www.cctv.com, October 17, 2005 (Chinese)
^ http://edition.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/10/31/crocodile.logo

External links

Official Website

Lai Sun Development

Admin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:28:37 +0000

Lai Sun Development (”LSD”) is a public company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange SEHK: 0488 established in 1987 by the textiles magnate Lim Por-yen.^[1] His company, Lai Sun Garment, (”LSG”) was founded in 1947, is also listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Lai Sun Garment is the controlling shareholder in LSD.

The Company is headed by Peter Lam, son of the founder, who also runs the Media Asia Entertainment Group.

History

1997 financial crisis

Lai Sun Development, then already under the management of Peter Lam, paid HK$7 billion for Furama Hotel Enterprises in June 1997.^[2] Lai Sun acquired a 45.42 per cent stake for $3.13 billion, and made a general offer at $33.50 for each remaining shares at a total cost of $6.893 billion.^[3]

While the other Furama Group hotels became part of the hotels division, Lai Sun Hotels, LSD intended to combine the Furama plot with the Ritz Carlton plot, which it already owned, for redevelopment into a prime office block. Then the Asian financial crisis struck, plunging the entire group into distress and forced asset sales.^[4]

The company had geared itself up heavily in order to finance the acquisition at the top of the market. It had taken took on $5 billion in bank loans and issued bonds worth more than $2 billion.^[5] Its value halved in the ensuing months, plunging the company into crisis. In 2000, the parent company commenced restructuring the group operations.^[5] In March 2000, LSD announced that a 65% stake in the Furama would be sold to a 50:50 joint venture between Pidemco, controlled by Temasek Holdings, and AIG for HK$1.88 billion^[6]. As part of the deal, Lai Sun would continue to operate the hotel until its redevelopment, at an annual rental of HK$145 million.^[6] The Furama closed in November, and was demolished in December 2001. Together with CapitaLand, and AIG, LSD formed Bayshore Development Group to develop AIG Tower, a 39-storey commercial office block with a gross floor area of 450,000 square foot (41,800 m²). AIG and CapitaLand each owned 35 per cent, and Lai Sun owns 30 per cent.^[7]

The asset sales to ungear the company continued - debt remained above HK$6 billion as at September 2002, when LSD sold its 32.75 per cent stake in Asia Television Limited (ATV) to its chief executive, Chan Wing-kee, for HK$360 million

Ritz Carlton plot

The plot was held by Diamond String, a 76.57% group-owned entity. In November 2007, it was announced that China Construction Bank would take a 40% stake in the company for a consideration of HK$1.37 billion, while LSD stake would fall to 60%. The project to redevelop the 14,900 sq ft site as an office tower, due to complete in 2011, will be partly occupied by the CCB.^[8]^[9] The hotel formally closed its doors on 1 January 2008, and has become probably the largest billboard n Hong Kong.

References

^ Raymond Wang and Teddy Ng, Lai Sun Group founder Lim dies at 93, The Standard, February 19, 2005
^ Dennis Eng, A little less debt for ailing Lai Sun, The Standard, November 18, 2002
^ Veronica Luk, Furama stock skyrockets after Lai Sun stake purchase, The Standard, June 21, 1997
^ Dennis Eng, A little less debt for ailing Lai Sun, The Standard, November 18, 2002
^ ^a ^b Clare Cheung, Lai Sun in move to bail out unit, The Standard, March 11, 2000
^ ^a ^b AIG joins Pidemco in $1.88b bid for 65pc of waterfront site, The Standard, March 01, 2000
^ Reuters story, Lai Sun joins $4b office venture at Furama site, The Standard, July 30, 2002
^ ‘In Brief’, “CCB pays HK$1.37bn for 40% stake in Ritz Carlton owner”, Pg B2, South China Morning Post, November 9, 2007
^ Victor Cheung, “CCB secures new Central abode for $1.3b”, The Standard, November 09, 2007

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lai_Sun_Development

now TV

Admin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:08:22 +0000

now TV (traditional Chinese: now 寬頻電視; pinyin: Kuānpín Diànshì) is a 24-hour pay-TV service provider in Hong Kong SAR. It is transmitted through the company’s Netvigator broadband network via an IPTV service. Launched in September 2003, the service is operated by the leading Hong Kong fixed-line telecom operator Pacific Century Cyberworks Limited (PCCW), through its subsidiary, PCCW VOD Limited.

The word “now” is abbreviated from “Network Of the World”. now TV is currently the largest pay-TV operator in Hong Kong.

History and Establishment

Launched in March 1998, PCCW’s Interactive TV (iTV 互動電視 Pinyin: Hùdòng Diànshì) pay- TV services included a wide range of information and entertainment, such as news, video-on-demand (VOD) , music videos, home-shopping, home-banking and educational content. iTV had some 67,000 subscribers at the end of 2000.

Due to the liberalization of the pay-TV market by the HKSAR government in early July 2000, the then existing duopolists, iTV and i-Cable, were confronted with ferocious competition. With fewer subscribers and hence the decline in the revenue generated from iTV, the interactive television operation was terminated in the final quarter of 2002. now Broadband pay-TV service was officially launched in September 2003 with 23 channels under the same umbrella company PCCW; iTV is thus commonly viewed as the predecessor of now TV.

now TV is owned by PCCW.

In December 2005, now TV introduced a technology with connection speed up to 18 megabits per second (Mbit/s). At least 75% of the service area will be offered a service running up to 8Mbit/s. In addition, Video-On-Demand services were launched in January 2006.

Now TV subscribers currently have access to 136 channels.

Chronology

March 1998 Hong Kong Telecom commercially launched iTV
July 2000 Liberalisation of the pay-TV market
Last quarter of 2002 Termination of iTV
August 2003 now TV was unveiled
September 2003 now TV was officially launched

Charging schemes

Since each household has to install a special decoder to view the channels, there is an extra deposit and installation for the decoder. However, these charges are waived for Netvigator broadband subscribers. With the decoder, households are able to watch approximately 20 free channels.

For the subscription channels, now uses the pricing model of pay-per-channel basis. There are bundle offers in existence, for given bouquet of channels, but these are less comprehensive than those offered by rivals.

now TV offers a business package (in which there are fewer channels for subscription than household customers) for businesses at a higher price than household subscribers.

With effect 1st September, NOW TV no longer offers STAR Sports or ESPN as stand-alone packages, preferring instead to bundle them in to a single multi-sport package. This has caused wide-spread distress amongst many viewers who view this move as a breach of their commitment contracts that stipulates that upon expiry of channel contracts, contracts are automatically renewed.

The company, to date, has refused to comment on this issue.

Channel Highlights

In the beginning, now TV only operated 23 channels, most of which were in English. In response to competition, it has expanded its repertoire of new channels, adding programming such as the Disney Channel and ESPN. By June 2005, the number of channels grew to more than 70, with an increased number of Cantonese channels.

In 2006, now TV outbid i-Cable for the rights to broadcast English Premier League football in Hong Kong, starting with the 2007-08 season.

now TV currently has the most channels of any pav TV provider in Hong Kong. At present, it offers 21 free channels and 103 pay channels, including 15 audio channels. The total number of channels exceeds 130.

now TV catogorizes the 25 free channels (denoted by asterix*), and the 103 pay channels into 9 groups:

Movie/Drama Series - e.g. HBO HiTS (#111), HBO Family (#112), HBO Signature (#114), HBO (#115), Cinemax (#116), STAR Movies (#117), Turner Classic Movies (#119), MGM (#122), Hallmark Channel (#123), China Movie (#134), Mei Ah Movie Channel (#137), STAR Chinese Movies (#139)
Travel/Documentary - 10 infotainment channels including 5 Discovery Channels, 3 National Geographic Channels, the The History Channel, and BBC Knowledge and BBC Lifestyle, which provide a spectrum of animal, geographic, scientific, and historical documentaries
News/Info - including CNN International (#316), CNN Headline News (#317), Fox News Channel (#318), CNBC (#319), BBC World (#320), Bloomberg Television* (#321), Sky News (#323), Al Jazeera English* (#325), now News (#332), now Business News Channel (#333)
Kids - Children channels include 3 Disney channels, 2 Cartoon Network channels, and 2 STAR TV and Nickelodeon channel:
Music/Entertainment/Shopping - There are in total 2 Shopping and Gaming Channel, 25 Australian and English Lifestyle, Crime, Fantasy, and Entertainment Channel, 27 Chinese Signature Entertainment, Lifestyle and Music, and 5 Chinese and English Flight Music Channels, including AXN (#512), Fox Crime (#523), Asian Food Channel (#527), STAR World (#528), BBC Entertainment (#529), Zone Reality (#530), E! Entertainment Television (#531), MTV Southeast Asia (#554), Channel [V] International (#555)
Sports - A total of 15 sports channels including The Golf Channel (#682), ESPN (#684), STAR Sports (#685), ESPN Plus (#690), Eurosport (#695)
Foreign Language - including NHK World TV* (#710), TV5MONDE Asie (#714), GMA Pinoy TV(#720), STAR News Hindi news channel (#795)
TVB Pay Vision Special Pack
Adult - There are 5 adult channels in addition to AV-on-Demand, including Playboy TV (#904)

On 10 May 2006, now TV re-arranged the channel numbers into a category format, where the first digit of the three-digit channel numbers indicates the programme category.

Languages of channels provided

The majority of its programming is in English, Cantonese or Putonghua, though some programming in Hindi (STAR One), and French (TV5MONDE), is available.

Business Performance and Development

now TV service was launched with 23 channels in September 2003 but was soon expanded to exceed 30 with the addition of sports-related channels and BBC World and the Animax channel, as well as the Cantonese-language Star Chinese Movies and Xing Kong channels. Within four months of launch, now TV had attracted more than 200,000 customers by end-2003.

Although now TV mainly targets high-income viewers, its subscriber numbers have grown sharply. As well as home viewership, the service has been extended to hotel rooms, offices, sports bars and hotels.

According to a report in Ming Pao Finance on 5 October, 2005, the number of subscribers to now TV exceeded 450,000. Per annual reports issued by PCCW, at the end of December 2005 the number of paying subscribers to now TV stood at 549,000 (approximately 61% were paid subscribers, with 31% being free subscribers). These figures compare with totals of 361,000 at end-December 2004 and 269,000 at end-June 2004. Despite the growth in subscribers, now TV was operating at a loss in 2005. By August 2006, now TV had in excess of 654,000 subscribers.

Although NOW TV can claim consistent growth in subscriber numbers, quality of service remains ‘average’ at best. Many viewers report ‘jerky’ TV reception, slow refresh times when changing channels, and picture freezing extending over several minutes at multiple instances during single programming.

Strategy

In early July 2000, the HKSAR government awarded five new pay-TV licences. The new entrants were all relatively seasoned broadcasting companies including Galaxy Satellite Broadcasting, Hong Kong DTV Company, a British broadcaster Elmsdsale, Hong Kong Network TV and Pacific Digital Media HK. The considerable opening of the market sparked intense competition for programming and viewer share, which can be seen by the extensive use of advertising.

To avoid direct competition with the two local digital terrestrial channels - Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and Asia Television Limited (ATV) - now TV has sought to build up and secure its local pay-TV position by signing long-term contracts with a variety of channels from around the world.

Exclusivity

On November 15, 2006, nowTV made a knock-out bid, of an estimated HK$1.56 billion, to secure the license to exclusively broadcast football matches of the Barclays English Premier League matches in Hong Kong for three seasons commencing from the 2007/2008 season^[1]. Two years previously, i-Cable had paid an estimated HK$700 million for a three-year contract^[2].
nowTV announced in January 2006 that a three-year deal was signed with ESPN STAR for the rights to live matches of the UEFA Champions League during the 2006-2009 seasons^[2].
In December 2006 secured the exclusive rights to broadcast the Euro 2008 football championship by agreeing to pay HK$400 million^[3].
Playboy TV will become exclusive to now TV from December 1, 2006.

Pricing

i-Cable has been forced to adopt an alternative pricing model for its subscribers. It allows subscribers to pick and choose their own channels, similar to to the pay-by-channel of now. Moreover, from Asia Media in October 2005, now TV claimed that they will not follow i-Cable to minimize monthly charges since they have added new channels and improved the delivery standard, in order to maintain competitiveness. In December 2006, it announced it was instead planning on raising subscription rates after having secured exclusive rights in the ESPN, English league, and Euro 2008^[4].

Awards

At the 2004 Convention of CASBAA (Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia), now TV was awarded “The Chairman’s Award”. CASBAA, representing 120 corporations serving more than 3 billion viewers, acknowledged now TV for its “innovative and proactive marketing of a secure and advanced pay-TV platform and for growing its interactive capability, resulting in a stellar subscriber take-up” on 31 October 2004.

Plans

The company had planned to roll out high-definition television (HDTV), which offers up to four times the picture resolution of standard-definition television, in late-2007. But on 19 July, 2007, it unveiled plans to begin HDTV broadcasts ahead of schedule. Included on the first slate of HDTV programming are 90 English Premier League football games. Subscribers will be required upgrade to a new set-top box with a one-off charge of HK$530, pay an additional HK$38/month for set-top box rental, and an additional HK$68/month over and above the existing charge for the “Mega Sports Pack”. The new service will require a Netvigator broadband connection of at least 11Mps.

Now TV as a Full Length Channel

Now TV (Network of the World) Channel is also seen via satellite in AsiaSat 3s through Pacific Century Matrix. The Channel features sports, adventure, internet and video gaming courtesy of Gamer TV.

Related Services

now.com.hk

now.com.hk internet content services was launched by PCCW in June 2000 for trial purposes. The website, “now.com.hk” is Hong Kong’s premier broadband service, offering a spectrum of locally relevant content, including news, movies, music, online games, and more. Members can enjoy a large variety of media when accessing the service.

In general, PCCW aims at providing experience of broadband home entertainment, with now.com.hk for personal computer users and now TV for television viewers, in which the latter tailor-makes content for young people.

References

^ Jeffrey Tam, NOW scores English football in $1.56b bid, The Standard, November 15, 2006
^ ^a ^b Wong Ka-chun, PCCW eyes league rights with tie-up, The Standard, January 13, 2006
^ Jeffrey Tam, Now TV wins Euro 2008 exclusive rights in $400m deal, The Standard, December 09, 2006
^ Benjamin Scent, PCCW cashes in on sports deals with plans to raise Now TV rates, The Standard, December 19, 2006

External links

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_TV

TeoChew Knowledge Base

Chiuchow Cuisine

Famous dishes

Chinese Estates Holdings

External links

Joseph Lau

References

Dr. Ko Wing Man

醫學專業資格

Crocodile Garments

References

External links

Lai Sun Development

Contents

History

1997 financial crisis

Ritz Carlton plot

See also

References

now TV

Contents

History and Establishment

Chronology

Charging schemes

Channel Highlights

Languages of channels provided

Business Performance and Development

Strategy

Exclusivity

Pricing

Awards

Plans

Now TV as a Full Length Channel

Related Services

See also

References

External links