Sichuan Quake's Impact on HK Food Prices
HONG KONG - Short-term inflation will hinge much on the movement of food prices in global markets, Acting Financial Secretary Carrie Lam says, adding the impact of the recent Sichuan earthquake on food prices remains to be seen.

Hygiene Standards Aid Suppy
HONG KONG - Hong Kong imported about 1,000 tonnes of chilled pork on average each month last year, about 83 per cent of it from the Mainland, says Secretary for Food & Health York Chow.

Volunteer Prices or Law Will Enforce Publication
HONG KONG - Legislation demanding that pork wholesalers publish their pricing details could be enforced unless the industry volunteers the information.

Profiteering Suspected in 'Unusual' Market
HONG KONG - The Consumer Council has started an investigation into the recent spate of pork price surges. It wants to find out if wholesalers are profiteering from market conditions.

Mainland agrees to boost chilled-pork supply
HONG KONG - The Food & Health Bureau has reached a consensus with the Mainland authorities to increase the chilled-pork supply to satisfy market demand. The market will determine the pork price.

Government Steps in as Bidding Causes Disarray
HONG KONG - A decision by Importers of live pigs to auction live pigs in place of the usual allocation process has left the market in disarray. Retailers and households are now paying inflated rates as fresh pork supplies are running out and prices are...

Boycott threatens supplies of fresh pork
HONG KONG - Fresh pork is expected to be absent from most small butchers as buyers stage another boycott today.

Pork Crunch in Hong Kong
HONG KONG - Pork lovers will have to dig deeper into their pockets following another price rise - the third in six months.

Pork supply to rise with third importer
HONG KONG - A third company has been given the green light to import live pigs from the mainland to increase the supply of fresh pork in Hong Kong and boost competition.

Smuggled pork seized at Lok Ma Chau
HONG KONG - The Food & Environmental Hygiene Department has seized 200kg of pork of dubious origin in a joint operation with the Customs & Excise Department at Lok Ma Chau.

Public warned on high pork prices
HONG KONG - Hong Kong consumers will have to pay a high price for pork for at least six more months even though the price in the mainland has dropped more than 6 percent in recent weeks.

Hong Kong Piggeries Head for China as City Cites Health Concern
HONG KONG - Li Chung Woon started his first hog farm in Hong Kong's rural Tai Wai district 40 years ago. When housing began to encroach, he moved to the border with mainland China. Now he has nowhere to go.

Inflation fears rise
HONG KONG - Mainland consumer prices will remain high in the second half as recent price increases are neither accidental nor temporary and inflation risks should be noted with concern, the People's Bank of China cautioned yesterday in its second-quarter...

Illicit pork seized in Tsuen Wan
HONG KONG - Food & Environmental Hygiene Department officers have seized 135kg of suspected illicit pork from a Tsuen Wan fresh provision shop. Two men are being questioned.

HK consumer prices trot higher as pork feeds inflation
HONG KONG - Hong Kong's inflation, which accelerated for the first time in three months last month, driven by a surge in pork prices, is likely to tread higher in the coming months on the back of pork and other food prices rallying in China.

Price of wholesale pork surges again
HONG KONG - Ng Fung Hong - the city's sole fresh pork importer - has again raised the wholesale price for pork, this time by more than 10 percent.

Pork union warns of action if supplies fail to stabilise
HONG KONG - The fresh-pork industry has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the city's sole importer and the government, threatening industrial action if supply does not stabilize by Sunday.

Importer denies control of pig supplies
HONG KONG - The city's main importer of live pigs has denied controlling the supply of fresh pork to the market to make a profit.

HK pork supplies almost back to normal
HONG KONG - The daily supply of live pigs in Hong Kong has returned to to 85 per cent of its normal level following the recovery of supplies on the mainland in recent days, according to the Hong Kong government.

Quality fears over wider pork supply
HONG KONG - The quality of fresh pork might decline if the supply market is expanded, a legislator and pig farmers have warned.