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The Immigration Department, Hong Kong Police and Labour Department today (February 2) mounted anti-illegal worker operations in the East District of Hong Kong Island and the West Kowloon Region to combat illegal employment activities.

The Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Henry Tang, called on master artist Wu Guanzhong in Beijing today (February 2).

The first month of 2010 was milder than usual.The first half of January was cooler than normal while the weather became significantly milder than usual in the second half, resulting in a mean temperature of 16.8 degrees for the whole month which was 0.7 degrees above normal. There were only four cold days (daily minimum temperature at 12.0 degrees or below) in the month, the least for January since 2001. The month was also cloudier than normal. The mean cloud amount for the month was 73%, about 13% above normal. The total bright sunshine duration was 108.7 hours, about 23% below the normal figure of 141.7 hours.

At least 1,792 doses of human swine influenza (HSI) vaccine were administered to target groups at Hospital Authority (HA), Department of Health (DH) and private clinics and residential care homes during the 24 hours ending at 1pm today (February 2).

The Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) today (February 2) issued a new Code of Practice to provide the telecommunications industry with guidelines on the drawing up of service contracts.

The following is issued on behalf of the Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited:

Hong Kong will present a rich selection of cultural and other events in Shanghai this year for World Expo.

Police have conducted a territory-wide anti-drink driving operation from January 29 to February 1 and arrested 5 drivers for drink-driving related offences.

Following is the speech of the Chief Secretary, Mr Henry Tang, at the Joint Business Community Consultative Forum on Methods for Selecting the Chief Executive and for Forming the Legislative Council in 2012 organised by four chambers of commerce and the Real Estate Developers Association at United Centre today (February 2):

NEW YORK and OSLO, Norway - Today, TANDBERG announced it added the new Codec C40 to its industry-leading C Series codec platform to allow even greater scale for high-definition video deployments. Based on the award-winning TANDBERG C90, the most advanced telepresence and collaboration codec on the market, the C40 is designed to meet the needs of organizations of all sizes and broaden access to high-quality video conferencing and telepresence from any meeting space.

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Guy Elliott, chief financial officer, Rio Tinto, said “The completion of this complex transaction is another significant step in the recapitalisation of our balance sheet. Since the start of 2009 we have completed divestments of US$5.6 billion despite a difficult environment created by the global financial crisis. These proceeds, together with the proceeds from our successful rights issues and strong underlying cash flows, provide us with the flexibility to pursue value adding investment opportunities as they arise.”

SAN DIEGO - FLO TV Incorporated, the company that pioneered the live mobile TV category, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), today announced it will launch a Super Bowl ad campaign with three separate spots, featuring a remix of The Who’s classic “My Generation” by international recording artist and Black Eyed Peas frontman will.I.am, as well as appearances by Emmy® Award-winning CBS Sports and Super Bowl personalities Jim Nantz and James Brown.

For the customers on board flight SQ11, it may have felt like a typical flight. But they were part of an important chapter in civil aviation.