China’s Agriculture Ministry has confirmed a suspected outbreak of H5N1 bird flu among ducks in southern China, Hong Kong’s health secretary said today.

Censors have cut scenes of Chow Yun-Fat as a bald, scarred pirate in the new Pirates of the Caribbean film, saying they insult China’s people, according to the Chinese state news agency today.

Bird flu has become endemic in Hong Kong after its recent discovery in both local wild birds and chicken, the territory’s health secretary said today.

A tourist bus overturned on a highway in southern Egypt early today, killing 14 tourists from Hong Kong and injuring 30 more, some critically, Egypt’s news agency reported.

Kung Fu Hustle

A strong earthquake hit near the Indonesian island of Sumatra today, Hong Kong seismologists said.

Hollywood stars Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-fat are headlining a string of Hong Kong celebrity donations to earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in southern Asia.

The beautiful game has been translated into a feel-good joy in Chow's charmingly dotty film in which a group of monks form a team and set out to gain revenge against their old foes: Team Evil.

After almost a year of trying to bring Asia’s bird flu under control, World Health Organisation experts are now warning that the disease is the most likely candidate to cause the world’s next pandemic, with the possibility of as many as seven million deaths.