Page 7 - Sphere No.21 (Mar 2008)

POWER PLAY
Cheung Kong Infrastructure
Holdings Ltd (CKI) has acquired and
subsequently privatised TransAlta
Power, LP, an energy company which
was formerly listed on the Toronto
Stock Exchange, in a deal worth CAD629
million (USD636 million). TransAlta
Power owns 49.99 per cent of TransAlta
Cogeneration, LP, which has interests in
five gas-fired power plants in Ontario,
Alberta and Saskatchewan and a coal-
fired generation station in Alberta. CKI’s
energy portfolio now spans Hong Kong,
Mainland China, the UK, Australia and
North America.
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Newsbites
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ARMANI LAUNCH
Nuance-Watson Hong Kong has opened a
Giorgio Armani Beauty Boutique at the Hong Kong
International Airport. The boutique is Armani’s first ever
travel retail outlet worldwide and the occasion was marked
by a superb make-up catwalk show. Like the boutique itself,
the event was a first for any airport in the world.
Cooking in
Harmony
Ethnic minority
families learned
about traditional
Chinese New Year customs and tried their hands at making festive
dumplings at a Cooking in Harmony programme organised by HK
Electric and Christian Action. The programme aims to encourage
cultural exchange and increase interaction between ethnic
minorities and the local community.
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
A group of volunteers
and chefs from the Harbour Plaza
North Point helped organise a Christmas
party for the elderly at the Haven of
Hope Sister Annie Skau Nursing Home
in Tseung Kwan O.
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Plugged In
Five more 3mobile TV channels are now available
on laptops in Austria. Customers can plug a 3datacard or
3datamodem into their laptops, connect to the Internet and
click on the “3Live! Stream” onwww.drei.at– and that’s it!
3 has also launched Laola.tv, the first mobile TV channel to
focus on sports. T
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