The pearl report [2011]
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23:57 11. Residential/commercial[videorecording] :the Hong Kong split /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2011-03-14
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Some of Hong Kong's busiest and most exciting urban areas won't always be places for people to live. Government planners have been moving residential zones away from the action. It's happening right n...
12. Japan in distress[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2011-03-21
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The devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan has unleashed what could become the worst nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl accident in 1986. The tremors on Friday triggered the automatic shutdown ...
13. Japan[videorecording] :reactions /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2011-03-28
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The international news media is coming under fire for sensational headlines and inaccurate reporting after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. People there say the outside world has been get...
24:12 14. Phoney[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2011-04-04
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Mainland China is notorious for low quality, counterfeit products. But lately, mobile 'phoneys' from the Huaqiangbei commercial district in Shenzhen has gained quite a good reputation. They include kn...
25:55 15. Sounds of heritage[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2011-04-11
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For many, the voice of Chinese musical heritage is embodied in the diminutive erhu, the Chinese fiddle, played in both grand orchestras and on the busk, solo. Reporter Douglas George found the erhu's ...
24:55 16. Green tooth[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2011-04-18
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As society becomes more health and environmentally conscious, many people are choosing to eat less meat and even go vegetarian. Reporter Diane To looks at the many reasons people go veg and how easy o...
24:19 17. Cougar[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2011-04-25
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They call them cougars, women who date or marry younger men. A new term for an old social phenomenon that's gone mainstream, thanks to Hollywood. In Hong Kong, most marriages are between an older man ...
18. Chernobyl's shroud[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2011-05-02
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In 1986, the first ever level-7 nuclear disaster erupted at the Chernobyl power plant in the Soviet Union. A quarter century later, history repeats itself at Japan's Fukushima power plant, prompting n...
24:26 19. Better safe than sorry[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2011-05-09
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Despite Chernobyl and Fukushima, China remains a key advocate of nuclear power. Its latest "Five-Year Plan" proposes rapid development of nuclear plants in coastal regions. This costly investment is s...
24:26 20. Reborn in 1000 days[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2011-05-16
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Three months before the Beijing Olympics in 2008, an 8-magnitude earthquake devastated Sichuan province. Three years on, infrastructural reconstruction is mostly completed, with the help of the centra...
