The pearl report [2009]
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31. A-Flutter[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2009-08-02
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Hong Kong boasts of about 240 species of butterflies, but it's nothing to cheer about because butterfly habitats areunder increasing pressure due to rapid urbanization. A major residential project is ...
25:58 32. Lives in limbo[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2009-08-09
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Indonesian domestic helpers belong to the fastest growing ethnic community in Hong Kong. As their numbers increase, so do their social problems. The most common is overstaying and the worst, unwanted ...
25:28 33. Shine on[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2009-08-16
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Shoe shining has long been a tradition in Hong Kong and shoeshiners have been plying their trade in the bustling Central business district for decades. But recently, officers warned them for "obstruct...
25:26 34. Full ban[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2009-08-23
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The ban on smoking in places of entertainment like bars, clubs and mahjong parlours is meant to have pushed cigarette smoking on to the streets of Hong Kong. Or, intohomes. Enforcing that ban though w...
26:58 35. Risk or retreat?[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2009-08-30
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The Pearl Report takes a look at why people seem to go outof their way to take unusual risks and at other times avoid risks altogether. From adrenaline junkies to young people who drift through the ni...
36. 60 years, a nation.[1],Born in 1949[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2009-09-06
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In ancient China, 60 years is considered a calendrical cycle. From dire poverty to eradicating starvation, from political fanaticism to affluence, the People's Republic of China has seen great changes...
25:37 37. 60 years, a nation.[2],The absolute principle[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2009-09-13
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China's breakneck speed of urban development has been dubbed 'The China Speed'. In the 2nd of our three-part show to mark the 60th anniversary of the PRC's founding, we visit a mammoth infrastructure,...
25:14 38. 60 years, a nation.[3],Beyond propaganda[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2009-09-20
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China once saw its own traditional culture as the greatestobstacle to achieving national greatness. Now that the sixty-year-old nation has impressed the world with the absolute principle of developmen...
27:58 39. The Shaw Prize 2009.[1],Galactic genius[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2009-09-27
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Frank Shu, this year's winner of the Shaw Prize for astronomy, is described by people who know him as a scientist, an educator, a visionary, a leader. The China-Born, M.I.T. and Harvard educated astro...
27:23 40. The Shaw Prize 2009.[2],Of mice & men[videorecording] ;A manifold difference /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2009-10-04
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Did you know that becoming really fat is not a psychological but a physiological problem? Well, youll know due to the work of two eminent scientists, Douglas Coleman and Jeffrey Friedman, joint winner...
