News at Seven-Thirty highlights:HSBC has launched a rights issue; local stocks finished lower today; Heng Sang Bank’s 2008 earnings dropped substantially; warning about over-the-counter cold and cough medicine; bidder of Qing Dynasty bronze fountainheads refused to pay; AIG will receive another bailout; Egypt is hosting international donors' conference; British scientists will undertake three-month trek to the North Pole; drunk driver killed a motorcyclist in Island Eastern Corridor was sentenced in jail; Labour Tribunal adjourned the case of a tour escort claiming rest day compensations indefinitely; female smoking cessation programme through psychotherapy; many people are still reluctant to take the vaccine for cervical cancer; riches-to-rags experience for "Slumdog Millionaire" child actors.