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Hong Kong is coping with a mental health crisis as the city's happiness index has fallen. Despite the growing crisis, the city's public health system is struggling to cope -- with some patients having ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's chief justice on Monday defended the handpicking of judges to hear controversial national security cases, dismissing "unsubstantiated" concerns about the rule of law in the Chinese finance ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's top judge on Monday said the city's vaunted judicial independence was "a fact", acknowledging international and local concerns as prosecutions mount under a Chinese-imposed national ... ( read original story ...)

The new owner of struggling Hong Kong franchised bus firms Citybus and New World First Bus has sold its 27-year stake in contactless payment company Octopus Holdings. Without revealing the proceeds of ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s onerous system of hotel quarantine for travelers was meant to stop infection from seeping into a largely virus-free city. Instead, it’s become a spreading ground, seeding an omicron ... ( read original story ...)

More than 2,500 hamsters and other pets have been “humanely dispatched” after being surrendered to the Hong Kong authorities in a bid to control a Covid-19 outbreak, the city state’s government has ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong police on Monday morning arrested a man the day after he allegedly slashed two people in unprovoked attacks with a box cutter in Sham Shui Po. After identifying the suspect using CCTV ... ( read original story ...)

Cathay Pacific is poised to lose nearly $200 million a month from February, the embattled Hong Kong carrier reported Monday, as the city's Covid-19 restrictions have seen cargo flights slashed. Hong ... ( read original story ...)

Photos and videos circulate of apparently lax separation of contaminated areas as residents complain of crowded testing lines and spiralling hygiene situation 'We may not have the virus today, but we ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Free Press. Residents of a public housing estate at the centre of Hong Kong’s latest Covid-19 outbreak heckled Chief Executive Carrie Lam and two other top governme ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong will take steps from Tuesday to cut the number of civil servants working in their offices, as it battles a spate of COVID-19 infections in the run-up to the busy Lunar New Year holiday. ( read original story ...)

It's a stark example of how the coronavirus brought once-thriving businesses to their knees, which has the potential to impact cruise customers across the region ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's government said that special work arrangements would be put in place from Tuesday to reduce the number of civil servants working in the office amid a growing spate of local COVID-19 cases. ( read original story ...)

Once-thriving Genting Hong Kong is headed for liquidation after seeing business evaporate during the pandemic. ( read original story ...)