most people want to hurt their business in hong kong. the many advantages such as corporate and structured so that i completely hopeless the related charges. no comment. mentally they shouldn't have the better the committee commented that the congress can make it more than that the only be made in china. you have to spend a lot of time getting drunk. it may cost of forty one thousand us dollars. i am told. like this. the chinese very strong person with a built in stages. so people should give birth to their youth in china rather than other countries in terms of children. the advantages to become legal residents of hong kong. pack i can't make up to thirty three pounds i think. you cannot legally. we can rent them to hong kong they can happen to any church in a locked. conti of congress who made the pattern and don't let the healing china i get the price may be thirty three thousand us dollars. i know my friends and spent about thirty three two thousand us dollars on giving birth to their baby the people. the ppp or child right. however i

we have a look at the market in hong kong. it is not working and i can tell , so far, and is nearly as part of the trading day and the financials are up a quarter of one percent. decline in health care and tech stocks. large holdings and dictates. financial services have risen the most of any sector and there are gains in key areas. there andhem industrial securities are seeing gains in the best-performing groups at the early stages of the day. the pmi is coming out in 10 minutes time. >> thank you. let's talk about gold. we have investment in gold .xchanges and a record andhave the precious metal it is down this year. >> stock prices are down 26% and i think we are down 36% or 37% from the peak in 2011. it has not been the best months for gold and only sober and corn have had worse years than gold. silver andd corn -- corn have had worse years than gold. it has gotten easier to get into gold than out of gold. andcan traded like stocks get into it and out of it on a whim. you look at the flow of money and that is a good gauge

tomorrow is a half day in china and hong kong.f the best-performing stocks on this monday morning is because of apple. >> those markets there in china getting underway, the main concern of investors today is this deepening cash shortage. david is here with the latest. >> it is those interbank lending rates, whatever you want to call it. we are just getting underway. you saw john showing a little bit of gains at the open on shanghai, the shanghai composite. perhaps a good sign is that earlier on, we saw borrowing costs have come down at the start. we are at 5.5% for this one week benchmark. we are not seeing a lot of movement but it is still very early. this is what happened yesterday at the session. friday, you see that on your screen. we started the day lower and as we moved through the session, that quickly went up. let's see if this holds at 5.5%. the market is not exactly in good spirits. we were at nine days of losses on friday. -- shanghai composite >> it is ridiculous the way this market has performed this year. so what is

show, a toy today's wolf becomes a protest in hong kong. bank'sopean central online game commemorating the new bank note and an actual car made entirely out of legos. based on the little red riding hood fairytale, a stuffed wolf at ikea. there is nothing subversive about it, if the cuddly toy has become a symbol of the opposition movement after one through one of the chief executive on december 9. it was a conscious choice of projectile. critics have long nicknamed the head in hong kong the wolves. they say he is a puppet with the fed pulling the strings. plus the word for wolf found similar to a profanity in the cantonese highlight. it is no surprise the wolf has sold out in hong kong. a social media hit. it has its own facebook page, and as we can see from these photos online, whether it is by waving the wolf at demonstrators photos, the him and toy has been adopted by protesters in hong kong calling for democratic reforms in this colony. andmber of online phone games have been created. this pac-man game is one of the most popular. hong k

in hong kong, you can. we can spend more in 2014.ut in places like taiwan, korea, and china, they cannot automatically pass through those costs. >> what about what we are hearing overall? is there any linkage between energy policies in other parts of the world? thing that should happen but hasn't been happening is really for the japanese, the taiwanese, the koreans and the chinese to get together and form a syndicate and drive the price because it is a key market. but obviously, for a lot of geopolitical reasons, etc., that is very difficult to achieve so that will not happen anytime soon. >> joseph, think is a much for joining us. >> thank you. >> let's talk about gold. etp's reached a record last year and investors have been pulling out as the world loses faith in the precious metal. david has been following this story. we should probably remove the word "precious" from this category. corn --ave silver and not exactly a precious metal -- and gold. for gold, it really has been the worst year since 1981 in terms of the percentage dro

hong kong limited government allows people to try stuff. america's piles of regulations make that very difficult and it is getting worse. we are becoming more like india. oy tried to open a business in calcutta kau once. they have a thousand rules. people who want to obey the rules line up to deal with the bureaucrats. they want to make sure the food is clean the building is safe. but the result is so man fee good ideas die. diaz forms under others who are waiting. we keep passing more rules. maybe some day american politicians, too, will fi figure out it is not more rules that make it better it is free market that allow them free tomorrdom experiment and try things and that let's people prosper even the poor because the riding tied of prosperity lifts all votes. that is our show. see you next week. >> tonight on huckabee. >> it is details and illustrations about killing a large amount of people. >> a reporter with a big scoop protecting her confidential sources she faced jail time unless she named names. tonight the story of her. >> he spe

back to you in hong kong. >> thank you.eeping gain in the street. .aking control of the capital we are still waiting the full results of the bjp. the bills also give a sharp point to that national election victor. let's get reaction from all of this. joining us is a chief executive an energy producer. are you surprised by any of this? >> no, i don't think so. i think the fact that there was a song, a vote for change was -- the results have shown that. polling before the elections was very much pointing in this direction. i do not think it is a surprise to anyone as such. >> what does this tell us about what happens -- before may anyway? >> there is still a few months left for the general elections. thatnk what it means is there is a very strong the vote for change. there is a strong desire for change. the congress party has been in government for the last 10 years. clearly they are not doing well here it out of the four states that went for elections, and two of them are ruled by the congress party. the congress ended up lo

i try to open businesses in delaware, new york from india and hong kong. and hong kong.y day we're working to be an even better company - and to keep ouour commitments. and we've made a big commitment to america. bp supports nearly 250,000 jobs here. through all of our energy operations, we invest more in the u.s. than any other place in the world. in fact, we've invested over $55 billion here in the last five years - making bp america's largest energy investor. our commitment has never been stronger. ♪ john: lemonade for sale. $0.50. i tried to do that legally, but i gave up. the regulations are and listen would have taken me at least two months to wade through them and passed the food safety test commit the approved fire extinguisher. fortunately it is easier in delaware. >> i am told it is wonderful. john: i was able to get permits to open a store in wilmington. >> you want to buy a t-shirt? >> not right now. john: delaware and nevada are the states that make it easiest for but that does not been i had to register with the delaware secretary of state, the division of

but yes, 2014 has officially arrived here in hong kong. >> oh, my. i know it continues in the pubs as you said. this is so over the top. this is amazing. did they outdo themselves this year compaired to last? >> i think they tried to out do themselves every single year. certainly fireworks off barges in the harbor, off some of the tallest buildings in hong kong. you know the city. it's a vertical city. it's a spectacular tribute any day of the week, let an own on new year's eve when the fireworks are out of control. but certainly a lot of planning went into this and the crowds absolutely loved it. it's starting to get very cold here. the winds have picked up. but we had clear skies which fantastic. a great way to appreciate the spectacular light show the. >> have a would you feel time tonight and going into the morning and celebrating. it looks absolutely amazing. >> thank you. >> fantastic. i want to bring in sarah from dubai. they don't do anything small where you are, sarah. they're going to go for a world record, right? >> you want to talk about

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by contrast, in hong kong i could start a business in one day.do. the next day i was in an indoor shopping center running my own business. it was a stupid business. no one wanted to buy the frisbee and yo-yos, but this ability to illegally trng a business is why places like hong kong and america, years ago, prospered. people were not desperate poor just a few decades ago. today they are not as rich as we are. it happened because the limited government allows people to try stuff. america's piles of regulations make that very difficult. anit is getting worse. we are becoming more like india. i try to open a business in calcutta, but i quickly gave up. cummins hostile to markets, thousandnds of rules. people who want to obey the rules wind up to deal with the bureaucrats. it is all well intended. rules to make sure the food is clean, the building safe. the result is that so many good ideas die as forms bumbled and stacked on shelves already cluttered with bundles from other people who are waiting. that is why in the is a sport. india is beginning to

the peak of the thousands of hong kong dollars. and no women on how much to think that the copper mainly dependent upon investigation permission to monitor anti vigil vermont or by the detective derek and to guard his doctoral student the detective agency. but that didn't complete detective has increased in recent years. hong kong private detective agency that beavers for the hundredth of a cake this year. more than forty percent of them are from dropping him in times past. the detective agency pm like that as of now most women can be hung over from wealthy families the character pain a lot of attention behavior of the top the hong kong government last year when in doubt to me meant for studying. don't go wake up next to money matters were talking art school. stay tuned. i never really know to topeka for creative art expression. but there is a huge art market. will the market moved into my calf happy customers the chinese buyers have shown interest in coming kitchens for tiny car chinese art of contemporary and traditional could be

back to you in hong kong. >> thank you very much. get a roundup of the day's big corporate stories. company headlines -- bitcoin lost a fifth of its value after baidu stopped taking the virtual money. that comes after the central ned. ban it said that it is not currency with real meaning and cannot enjoy the same legal status. suntory beverages says it will take a break from m&a for 12 months. it wants to boost its current businesses to catch up with bigger rival coke. it's next focus will be on vietnam and indonesia. most -- qbeng the is plunging the most in 12 years. the company now sees a loss of $215 million. analysts had forecast a profit of over $1 billion. premiums in north america fell 16% in the first half. >> the global bakery market will reach more than $400 billion by 2017. the asia-pacific is enjoying perhaps the highest annual growth here as well. martha swift, thank you for joining us. what brings you to this part of the world? >> i am exploring the asian market. i've been to singapore before and i have come to hong ko

hong kong dishwasher stylish top name in chinese people. help wanted poster in the door of the hong kong restaurant has gone viral and china the dublin report and dishwashers forty thousand hong kong dollars one thousand two hundred us dollars per month. the court to some restaurant owners many dishwashers have a monthly salary. i think thousand five hundred dollars due to the labor force started to hear many restaurants cannot and dishwashers. even if the offer early winter over speaking of dollars according to data from the hong kong federation of restaurant related trade for nearly thirty thousand patient in need of people throughout the whole record industry. run the keepers of the commission for dishwashers and cleaners the labor shortage problems increase. many restaurants are not trying to reply to this question people with the washer machine the timing is not in the main item on my tail. recently china's largest online shopping website about the cause of the most valuable harper but the line between contending they came back for som

he should have been mortured and protected by his teacher. >> did she flee to hong kong? >> someone in the apartment declined to talk to us, but police say hong kong is exactly where the alleged abuser is now. in rockville, bruce leshan, wusa9. >>> d.c. mayor, vincent gray refuses to go into detail about the 2010 campaign debacle he will concentrate on the future. >> this is bruce johnson at 7th and o where the mayor held a press conference, his first since announcing his reelection bid and the mayor did not want to talk about the 2010 campaign. >> can you go any further than you've already gone other than saying you did nothing wrong? can you tell us when you found out? >> people get in a campaign because they want to. people get in the campaign because they want to be the mayor of the district of columbia. they aught to articulate a vision for the district of columbia. >> four people from that campaign have taken felony guilty pleas for corrupt activities. federal prosecutors are not accused gray and the mayor denied any wrong doing, but with no further explanation of h

. >>> health authorities in hong kong say another strain of bird flu has killed someone. they say a woman in mainland china died earlier this month after contracting the h10n8 strain. experts say it's the first time they detected it in a person. officials at hong kong's center for health protection say the victim is a 73-year-old woman. she went into the hospital on november 30th with pneumonia. she died six days later. officials say before following ill, she visited a live poultry market. health authorities are now checking to see if anyone around her has contracted the flu, but they haven't found any abnormalities. an expert with the institute of infectious diseases says gene analysis shows it's a weak strain of the virus but health authorities need to monitor the situation closely. another strain has infected more than 140 people this year in chi china, taiwan, and hong kong. at least 45 have died. >>> united nations officials fear hundreds were killed. battles erupted on sunday between rival groups, soldiers in the capital juba. a group close to the former vice presid

sharon is believed to be in hong kong.ops are working on getting her extradited back here to the united states. and just a short time ago, the d.c. council voted to raise the city's minimum wage to $11.50 an hour. today's vote is just preliminary. final approval is expected next month. >>> a debate over a living wage in d.c. earlier this year threatened to derail wal-mart's plans to open stores in the district. now months after some controversy, the first stores will open tomorrow. debra is live at the h street store blocks away from union station. it's also going to bring in a lot of jobs. >> absolutely. 300 of them. they say people working behind us at this wal-mart on h street. a lot of people very excited about this. just as many, not so happy. critics say they just pay too little while supporters need the job. if you're wondering what a wal- mart looks like in the middle of the concrete jungle, here's the sneak peek. >> first of all, we have a -- this is our urban washington, d.c. store. >> this is a big box retailer

weekend across much of southern china, hong kong, taipei. this is going to develop and head off towards east, though, and basically push just south of japan, including the tokyo area, some rain showers coming out of that. next week, enjoy the dry weather while it lasts. tokyo, high of 11, partly cloudy. saturday, seoul with a high of only 1. cloudy for you. beijing at 7. ulan bator, minus 11. on the flip side of that, 30s across the tropics. let's talk about what's going on in the americas, where frigid temperatures are still the big topic. we've been watching this moisture flow out of the pacific ocean and it has started to spawn this low pressure area towards the east of the rockies and while that is going to be developing here the next 24 hours and throughout friday, pushing off here towards the east. snowfall across the ohio river valley, some thunderstorms down towards the south. few could become strong, about 15 to 20 centimeters as far as your snow and even the mixed

>> i was in hong kong. found ape place. you go to church in hong kong. anybody recognizes me outside of the country. going to church in hong kong. i go to the church. it's packed for 8:00 mass. missed 7:00 mass. really crowded here. i walk into the church. find this bench seat myself. sit in the back. all of a sudden all these people look. and like ten women on each side of me squish me in. none of them are from hong kong. they're all filipino. they realized i know manny pacquiao. and it was 99% women in the mass. incredible. thought i was disrupting the mass. next week went at 7:00. they expected me. it was pretty crazy. an amazing service. >> jimmy: did you understand any of it? >> it was in english? >> jimmy: so then yes. >> they knew. some of it. not all of it. but they knew, you know, every aspect of the mass. then most didn't speak english other than knowing what the service was about. >> jimmy: wow, how about that. >> a special experience. i felt blessed. >> interesting, when you hatch that, where you go to another country, and you have a very, be

numbers, top left, is hong kong. in hong kong, the weather is very hot. it is very, very successful. we have another store in los --eles am aware the climate in los angeles, whether climate is hot again, and we are very successful. i think the world has changed. you have to follow your customer. they travel. our product is travel. think about our jacket in summer, 150 grams,, you can put in your bag in hong kong and then you travel to japan and you take the jacket out the back. hong kong is one of our first markets. number two out of our 130 stores. something. miami, we have good feedback. >> one quick question. do you think now that you have a currency to spend, your shares, that mergers and acquisition in an air -- is an area you would be advised to pursue? are you interested in buying another company to accelerate a different part of your business? >> i don't think i want to buy another company or another brand. but maybe thinking aboutknitwear -- thinking about wear, maybe i will buy a manufacturer. building up a company is not easy. culture is very l

so we have already entered tibet taiwan and hong kong. those were the first to markets outside of mainland china. and it was launched and they have been very successful options. no we're not looking beyond taiwan and hong kong look at southeast asia for example as a region that to be. i would be great for the kinds of products that were built. we are researching these markets carefully even try to figure out the best way to enter a weak country to go first so one time and will know that the next two weeks for sure in your view. hobbs is often used in taiwan and hong kong contents of those chinese name. so i want is a really huge market in the same time and time and even though users in taiwan and to buy phones very differently from hubby buy phones in china and taiwan and the often perch is a form for mobile operator for example instead of buying on the internet. on b for songs that we've seen and done to our products has been equally exciting was the main compresses the fonts this sound the entire besides what sets me on the promotion ha

catch it at 720 hong kong and singapore time. let's get straight to the markets. >> the australian dollar is currently trading at 91 u.s. cents. it is strengthening this morning. museum and seen gains higher. kiwi is also seeing strength this morning. 82 u.s. cents. let's head over to japan. the nikkei last closed like this. it was higher. nikkei futures are pointing to a higher open. in theseeing weakness yen. it is at the 10317 level. that is going to support japanese exporters today. 5 wall st firms are under investigation for hiring practices in china. u.s. regulators have widened their injuries, seeing whether they broke anti-bribery laws. ended this.he bank we are waiting for official results from india state elections. the opposition is seen as the big winner. he is ahead in three state polls. they give a pointer to the national vote which much be held by monday. could add aeal that trillion dollars to the economy. u.s. compliments on food subsidies in a latin american block. president obama praised the draft agreement. an

the infection is very serious. >> that's why hong kong has shut down it's poultry markets. while will is no evidence that the h 7 n 9 strain spreads from human to human. there are fears that i there isa potential for a pan democrat. >> okay. they're taking this very seriously. this strain of influenza of birds often does not make the birds sick. you can't follow the sick. >> i see the front lines of vaccine research for the strain over in china funded by the national institute of health there is a team of a dozen doctors and scientists working to find a real vaccine to treat people around the world. >> dr. katherine edwards joined that search. >> the chinese were very good about sharing the virus with the with who and with the cdc so we could begin to grow the virus. >> reporter: they infected 200 people with the varying levels. that led to the development of a successful vaccine. while china is 800 miles away, a global flu pandemic could be on their door step at any time. >> it used to be that if something happened in china we wouldn't see it for a long time. but basically

the hong kong with skincare product in person you guys are appealing because of their big kick out if you change from previous years. the winners in the plot got to pick five litre got to thinking have changed a bit and with that of the chinese government which took some consumption is the top of the change data showed the bill would remark that have flowed on to what increase of two percent this year. finally people daily routine of the time for apple in china. the chinese word for apple picking well what to do with the tiny print edition could be done yet. and apple pulp with the bulk of gdp in china because of another prominent many chinese businessmen have taken advantage of this somewhere. lots of apples a raft of decorative paper and boxes to hold specially for christmas eve. getting a well decorated for the gift of the popular with children and youth among young chinese people. it's become another to come for holidays for country the large underground christian population the price of apple has risen as a result of the track the normal price and apple picking and the delicate a

in taiwan and hong kong or in greater china and others to stephen and me. four of war. palmer use platform and the voices platform where we didn't agree. i think the lady and she chose to call this what if i feel put out on that happy with the traditional media with his views and perspectives that of one of the team to use what's called is what i mean to lie. our fruit my views to write articles short commentary or others what the writer but we have our own website so we got to have any on newspapers and magazines is going to be strictly online but didn't connect everything as close as possible all the social media tools. so facebook twitter to go plus in the near future we want in on allegations of abuse was so a couple half of the card of pieces are to be very very hard news we wrap the different news sources we can stick with them. we are commentaries so when the committee left when aka the rights were not to be patently or pantry in order to provide you with a pair of green and pamper perspectives we're going to summarize it and tell you what are the main issues beh

deals gave a big boost to the ipo market in hong kong as the year wound to a close.rap up the past 12 months and look ahead for 2014. joining us is the asia pacific ipo leader. we have been talking about the concerns about the shy board rates picking back up to 8%. is seasonal.oncern part is may be trend. also, people might be concerned that you have all these ipos coming up next year which means lessollars are going to be in the broader pie. what are your thoughts? veryght now it is different from the pre-financial crisis. now the government is very powerful. of changedo any kind of policy, they look at the future. they are so fast and changing their policy because of the strong government. probably in case of any further problem a real fall down in the market they would come up and do something to recover the market. >> i have your report right here. the global ipo trends for 2013 and 2014. what are you sitting in the ipo space for 2014? what is your key take away? you can see in general this is a great sign for recovery. it is a fast two years good year. it is a p

shanghai ranks first followed by sean -- hong kong. singapore and japan in science.states is better at science that we are math. anyway. the fact of the matter is we are 21st. there is no good news. i was trying to think away to makehat -- make you feel better about that, but it is not going to happen. hard to believe that american exception was and continues into the next generation with test results like these raising the question, does it? joining us now, a veteran political consultant, national rereview columnist, fox is legal analyst. we look at these numbers, and this is a count where we are now in the fifth year of his presidency. and thi is a man it talked about education. for all amerans, and this is what we are looking at. your reaction. >> an education president. that is how he portrayed himself from the very beginning. lou: ateast compared to john mccain. >> endo we always tell our kids, one in college and one on the way to my education is big-ticket in this country. education is your ticket to prosperity and happiness. completely discouraging. >> we look

they plan to list in hong kong. welcome back to "countdown."'m anna edwards >> and i'm mark barton. ifestors are waiting to see the announcement will start tapering. our next guest says with more qe we can expect that the markets to head higher. let's bring in matthew beasley. markets with hold ? >> theywere to occur tried to forecast it forward and we see a lot of the trends in german markets higher this year continuing into next year. everyone is very focused on the u.s. tapering and we have to remember that the bank of japan is going to further expansion to provide some level of support. >> it's the reason that tapering does not derail that rally because it will be replaced by a stronger growth story in the u.s.. bottom line for us. we look at the tapering that's occurring and yet it is not the foreshadowing in rate rises. ande having this debate when it tells us the economy is better, all things being equal, it should be good for corporate profitability which should be good for stocks. >> can we narrow the game we see this year, the msci th

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hong kong with a high of 20.hanghai at 11, even seoul and beijing, though, you're still in the single digits, staying in the cold side. all that cold air will start pushing down there towards the south going into the weekend. already, cold air, arctic air really dominating much of the central u.s. and even off towards canada. we are seeing that filter in towards the southeast. remember earlier this week we were talking about the storm system moving off the new england coastline. that's gone, moved away, but we're seeing lake effect across parts of erie, ontario, up to 45 centimeters falling out here. remember with this lake effect snow, it's usually concentrated in narrow bands, so if you're driving north to south to it, you may only be in it for ten minutes, but while you're driving through it, it's going to be windy conditions and even whiteout conditions where that snow will be falling out here and really going to be causing some delays out there on the roadways. also looking at a storm system in the pacific n

fireworks in hong kong. i know steve paulson's tie was hand delivered from hong kong. [laughter] >> there we go. 2014, hong kong. >> three degrees of separation between hong kong and steve paulson. good morning, everybody. i'm brian flores. dave clark has the morning off. >> good morning. i'm tori campbell. >>> let's go to steve with his tie -- >> we should explain. >> tori's husband, larry, who is a great guy, brought this back from hong kong. very nice. whenever there is a ktvu event, i always look to see if larry is there because i know i have somebody to talk to. he's a great guy. [laughter] >> we do have a lot of high clouds over us. forecast tonight might play into the forecast, that little bit of fog, upper 40s, 50s. fog came back and some of that is really thick. about an eighth of a mile. it will burn off by 9:00. most of it seems to form after the midnight hour. there's some after the coast. that's a little different twist on what we've had the last few days except for high clouds and extremely hazy conditions. that fog is only going to add to that. the visib

hong kong with a high of 22. shanghai at 16, seoul at 9, and tokyo at 15. warming up and getting above average later on this week. moving over towards the americas, above average, far from actually across much of the north it's going to be getting well below average, blasts of arctic air coming in out of northern canada. already seeing heavy snowfall into the northern rockies. you could be seeing some areas up and over 60 centimeters of snow, even extending towards the west into the western portions of the great lakes, but remember that means some fairly gusty winds, so you have this big stretch of heavy snowfall, gusty winds, that's going to be creating whiteout conditions, but not just that, you're going to be looking at very dangerous wind chills. high temperatures in some areas here, especially up near southern canada, well below zero. winnipeg by friday, minus 20 here for your high. that is not your low and does not take into account the wind chill. hypothermia could set in. chicago, you don't think of a polar type of weather there for you, but minus 4

. >> hong kong confirmed its first case of human bird flu, a design the virus could be spreading. an indonesian woman is in critical condition in hospital after being infected with hsn9. she's a domestic worker. travelling frequently to mainland china. four people have been in close contact with her are showing signs of flu-like symptoms. >> talks in indonesia are seen as a final attempt to save a deal on global commerce and the reputation of the world trade organization. ministers arrived in bali from the start of the wto conference. if successful the agreement they are working on would be the first global trade deal since the organization was created in 1995. we report from new delhi on a major sticking point - food subsidies >> feeding four people on $70 a month is not easy, leaving the family with $10 of essentials. food subsidies is a life line. she applied for a food ration card. they may not exist if the world trade organization has its way. if we get 20 kilogram of grain, it's $10. if we have the card we get it for $2.50. >> the wto is trying to negotiate a world-wide trad

we told you the suspect hopped a flight to hong kong. pat collins is live with more on the search for this teacher. pat? >> reporter: the victim, a 15-year-old autistic boy. the suspect is 25-year-old teacher. police say while the boy's parents were at church, the teacher went to the boy's home and sexually assaulted that teen. sharon, she's 25 years old. a teacher at the frost school in aspen hill, a school for children with special needs. the victim, a 15-year-old boy, one of her students. now according to court documents, the teacher and the teenager exchanged sexually explicit messages. then they say the teacher went to the victim's residence while the family was out and had sex with her 15-year-old student. >> our victim is a child. and a child with special needs. he should have been nurtured and protected by his teacher, instead, his teacher chose, in her position of trust over him, she chose to violate that trust and further chose to harm this child. >> reporter: as police were getting a warrant for her arrest, the suspect made he

only reality we are reducing these countries to achieve any economic success economy can kong. the most what is structural adjustment. it is really the awareness of the fact that these countries were put in a complete deadlock. it is to say that these countries were in debt but and had an incapacity to continue to function which led to them taking quite drastic and radical measures. with the structural adjustments the following diagnosis was made with the economies acknowledge the deficits and these deficits have to be paid to pay these deficits with cuts in the public spending were necessary. expenses hits were social expenses unfortunately. in doing that we cut spending including social spending and that obviously had a negative effect on health education and social housing report obviously. supersede also this took place at a time when natur was in power in the u.k. and reagan in the us. it was really the law of the markets. and so the economists of the i.m.f. the world bank and in a lot of other countries even bilateral cooperation said allow real prices to rule and all pro

police think she's fled to hong kong. 25-year-old sharon kua taut at the frost school in rockville. she twice went®1#0óx0 t a 15-year-old-o dis jussnu÷ autism. he was her student and had sex with him, both times while his family was out.slowly. victim'se still discovering just how painfully the abuse is. >> because of my son's autism >> because of my son's autism his trauma will will be revealed slowly. >> police say she hopped on a flight to hong kong on november 13th, a day after they got an arrest warrant for her. >>> d.c. police cheer kathy lanier says she's, quote, sick after one of her officers was arrested on child porn charges. mr. mark washington is accuse of taking nude pictures of a 15-year-old girl reported as a run away. )÷ o undermines all the good that police officers do. policeh& /.é5 he zoned out moments before the crash. investigators also say tonight the brakes were working fine and alcohol was not a factor. nbc's jay gray has our report. >> the executive director of the employees union says 46-year-old engineer william rockefeller who was injured in the crash sai

we have a correspondent standing by in hong kong. why does the 4g make -- will not make such a difference? -- make said -- well make such a difference? there are millions of potential customers. that is a huge number of customers. there are many wireless subscribers over all. in the game.ate we know in places like the u.s., 4g has been rolled out. it is big news today for china mobile. received this network license, along with smaller rivals. mobile shares have been up in the hong kong session. it has been under a bit of pressure to date. there is a trend lower for some markets. china mobile will offer iphones as early as december 18 when it is set to unveil its branding for the 4g network. spokesman said talks for the apple iphone deal is ongoing. we will follow that angle of the story. this is big news. mobile carriers in china try to get customers to migrate to a and data plan. it has been hugely positive today for the online content creation company. like -- an internet companies like baidu. the rollout in 4g will benefit in many

i'm going to be in to clean teeth in hong kong and taipei and one stella and decreased. ri across the america that peak winter storm is still flying over the north where the us canada border producing heavy snow showers. the heavy snow is going to be found in dairy industry getting great over the us canada border and the northern rockies and into tuesday about ten to twenty centimeters likely for a windy area and over the teeth and is likely for an old kodak and i combined a very gusty conditions the half to travel to this area make sure to bring her winter survival kit and a carry extra food and water in case of emergency that temperatures are going to be very cheery in the north minus ten degrees forty in with that knocked out in denver on tuesday but that could be starkly going down as a good ten minus twelve the crease with a high on wednesday as well as their stake nine to nineteen degrees with high on their stay to watch out for the traffic cooling the primary across the europa we have a snow showers in north eastern part of the moral code to kill the cat in the di

hong kong placed second in reading and science and third in that. an expert on academic testing has this to say the students in asia seem to have a strong belief that with mosley took place in a high ranking university which in turn leads to a stable future. professor for the sustenance and a balk countries tend to be less motivated to study he says the japanese government is to come up with ways to foster an interest in learning the chinese government leaders are trying to contain what they see as rebels who want to split the country some members of the muslim community of wheat beers are demanding autonomy in response violent attacks have been launched to make their message heard. but for a group of leaders the tension has now turned to the plot of land has been the final resting spot for generations of their ancestors and eight year olds today she told our exploits. she hides the seasonal katy keen to see joe week local paddlers region. the final release the government and decrees we should respect of grapes off the streets the fourth two hundred

in this particular in shanghai china hong kong china and singapore comical. on each of reading maths and science maths. the main focus of this one time. what's different is that those countries are stopping to preach a hand mirror is likened to thirty nine the last thing we did this he could see north america a year the australasian represented in the school. lincoln country's nine. since none of it all came and my mom thinks that coming from asian countries. time to see the elderly success stories and having great success and baltic countries over sixty five the chesapeake and made some improvement in need of reading maths and science and we see his improvement the toll for the shanghai is in singapore who go on film you can integrate that we've seen countries like poland and germany who going from idiotic cryptic and nine countries like poland actually nice to go on from there the end of it i think it through to the crit so we're seeing improvement across the keys. and i love trains is. normally i really can use all of its proponents of systems will selecti

. >> and it's another big week for hong kong ipos. china everbright bank started building its books today for a $2.8 billion offer. its third attempt at a hong kong listing, trying to tap recent demand for mainland lenders. steve joins us now. nice to see you. how much interest are these ipos going to get? >> hi, how are you, ross? actually, there's a lot of hype about upcoming ipos. i mean, in terms of there is everbrite, there is china cinda and there is a unique funeral services ipo coming online. there is a lot of interest, people waiting to see how it performance. i think in terms of ever did his bright, people are looking at a very, very tight pricing range. we'll see where it goes, but i think in terms of overall capital raising, we're going to look very large here. $18 billion u.s. will be raised in hong kong this year compared to last year. >> recently, bank ipos haven't done particularly well, have they? is this priced fairly expensively? >> i think so. we'll see where it trades. and as you said, that recent ipo from the ban

singapore and hong kong and epic eighty one notch improvement compared to two thousand and nine. taiwan had finished first in the category in two thousand and six. meanwhile the disparity could to the level of achievement of males than females. marie talents. add to the large number of students we cannot meet mathematics standards compared to other asian countries. the disparity in mathematics achievement highlighted by the two continents will survey the full fifteen in the english language section of the basic competence at the junior high school students. the main issue that you can't miss that family background and the gap between city and countryside factors. as for reading and science that one finished eighth and thirteenth for the city an improvement in eighteen nineties and a drop of one notch effectively compared to two thousand and nine many students and parents who were concerns that there were news reports indicating to fight by the universities are planning to push the hike. several groups along the protests in front of the ministry of education to voice their opposit