Month: May 2017

A prized commercial property site in Hong Kong, currently being used as a public car park, has been sold to Henderson Land Development for a record HK$23.3 billion ($3 billion). As Sonia Legg reports, it outbid eight other developers including local giants ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG - Death is inevitable but it doesn't have to be bad for the environment. Caskets made of paper and wicker coffins on display at a recent Hong Kong funeral industry trade highlighted a trend toward "green burials" in an industry booming as Asia's ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s two-year trial run of electric taxis has backfired as its long charging time was viewed as unsuitable to operate the cabs round the clock. The Environment Bureau reached the conclusion as it examined the results of 40 trials of electric ... ( read original story ...)

The families who sheltered U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden in Hong Kong need to be brought to Canada immediately while the country processes their asylum claims, their lawyers said Monday. Hong Kong-based attorney Robert Tibbo said Canada needs to take this ... ( read original story ...)

One of the refugees, Vanessa Rodel from the Philippines, who lives in Hong Kong with her five-year-old daughter, broke down over the news of the decision. Another of the refugees, Ajith Pushpakumara from Sri Lanka, told AFP the government had "taken his ... ( read original story ...)

Space-starved Hong Kong is moving ahead with a highly controversial government proposal to use protected country park land for subsidised housing. The not-for-profit Housing Society has been tasked to conduct an 18-month study into the feasibility of ... ( read original story ...)

Death is inevitable but it doesn't have to be bad for the environment. Caskets made of paper and wicker coffins on display at a recent Hong Kong funeral industry trade highlighted a trend toward "green burials" in an industry booming as Asia's population ... ( read original story ...)

Lured by mainland China’s enormous box office, some A-list Hong Kong directors are finding favor with Beijing, while a new generation is committed to free speech and edgier cinema. Throughout the past decade, the financial incentives and political ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong police arrested 13 men and confiscated more than 27,000 photographs and video clips depicting child sex abuse stored on computers and hard disks in a series of raids across the city. The operation was mounted by about 100 officers on Thursday ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG -- Death is inevitable but it doesn't have to be bad for the environment. Caskets made of paper and wicker coffins on display at a recent Hong Kong funeral industry trade highlighted a trend toward “green burials'' in an industry booming as ... ( read original story ...)

May 17 Hong Kong stocks eased on Wednesday but held near 21-month highs ... The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles Next In First Republic News ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG - Asian stock benchmarks skidded lower Thursday following Wall Street's worst day in months as Washington's political chaos made investors more nervous about risky assets and the outlook for U.S. President Donald Trump's business-friendly proposals. ( read original story ...)