Officials approved nearly 1,700 applications in the past 16 months allowing people under hotel quarantine to see critically ill family members or attend their funerals Hong Kong reports 4,634 new ... ( read original story ...)
Viral Video: Huge Screen Falls On Stage During Concert in Hong Kong, Dancers Hurt. Watch
Videos circulated on social media showed Mirror members Anson Lo and Edan Lui performing with a dozen dancers when one of several suspended LED screens crashed down on the stage. ( read original story ...)
Viral video: Giant video screen falls on performers at Hong Kong pop concert, injures two dancers
A huge video screen suspended over a stage fell on members of a Hong Kong singing and dancing boyband Mirror during a pop concert. A viral video on Twitter captures the terrifying moment the screen ... ( read original story ...)
HSBC urged to appoint shareholder Ping An to its board
A Hong Kong politician has urged HSBC spin off its Asia business and appoint representatives of Chinese insurer Ping An to its board, as the global lender prepares to meet with Hong Kong shareholders ... ( read original story ...)
HSBC bosses ‘in denial’ over China’s resolve to split off Asian arm
Executives at the lender are understood to believe that a separation would be costly and disrupt its international trade business. ( read original story ...)
Organisers of coming shows in Hong Kong face temporary ban on large stage sets
Concert organisers may be barred from installing large stage sets for coming shows until the full completion of a probe into a shocking accident involving boy band Mirror, the city's culture minister ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong still has work to do on engaging ethnic minority groups
The Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS) this year launched the Professional Traineeship Programme for the Ethnic Minorities to subsidise NGOs and business partners to hire minority youth as ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s urban renewal chief rejects calls to help Housing Authority develop public flats
Wai Chi-sing, managing director of Urban Renewal Authority, says it is financially ‘unfeasible’ for the profit-driven statutory body to develop public housing. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s urban renewal chief rejects calls to help Housing Authority develop public living spaces
Wai Chi-sing, managing director of Urban Renewal Authority, says it is financially ‘unfeasible’ for profit-driven statutory body to develop public housing. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong residential sales drop 22.2% to 4,826 units in June
There were 1,382 primary sales during the month. Sales activity in Hong Kong’s residential market slowed down in June. Knight Frank reveals there were a total of 4,826 transactions recorded, dropping ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s finance chief warned the city to prepare for a geopolitical “worst-case scenario”
The city's finance chief has issued a warning that Hong Kong must be fully prepared for the worst of upcoming geopolitical te..|News Track ... ( read original story ...)
UN human rights watchdog urges Hong Kong to take ‘concrete steps’ to repeal national security law; govt slams ‘unfair’ criticism
A UN watchdog has urged Hong Kong to “take concrete steps” to repeal the Beijing-decreed national security law as it is threatening civil rights protected by an international covenant, a criticism the ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng drops more than 2% with tech stocks under pressure; yen strengthens
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell more than 2% on Friday as tech stocks came under pressure. Hang Seng heavyweights Alibaba and Meituan dropped more than 5% each. Thailand's market is closed for a ... ( read original story ...)
Will sharp rises in interest rates diminish Hong Kong’s love affair with property?
Housing prices in the city have risen in three of the past five rate-rising cycles since 1993, according to JPMorgan Concerns about the city's slowing economy, restrictions to control the pandemic ... ( read original story ...)