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Hong Kong leadership candidates Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and Woo Kwok-hing crossed swords during the first public debate of the election race on Sunday, taking aim at each other’s policy platforms and governing styles. But popular underdog John Tsang ... ( read original story ...)

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has for the first time publicly denounced the notion of Hong Kong independence in his annual work report, warning that the movement would “lead nowhere”. While Beijing’s firm rejection of such separatist sentiments is well ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (CNN) - China's second highest-ranking politician criticized calls for Hong Kong independence in a speech to the nation's parliament Sunday. Speaking at the opening of the annual National People's Congress, Premier Li Keqiang said calls from ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong, March 5 (IANS) This bustling city is smaller than New Delhi and has less than half its population, but it is the world’s eighth-largest trading economy, seventh-largest exporter in merchandise trade, Asia’s largest FDI recipient in 2016 ... ( read original story ...)

It was the Mr Stunning show at Sha Tin this afternoon (Sunday, 5 March), or Messrs Stunning, to be more accurate. While the horse of that name shone in the Class 1 Friendship Bridge Handicap to place himself on the cusp of Group 1 assignments, it was the ... ( read original story ...)

With three weeks to go before the chief executive election, the state leader who oversees Hong Kong affairs has emphasised Beijing enjoys a “substantive and constitutional” power to appoint the city’s leader. During a meeting with delegates from Hong ... ( read original story ...)

A series of news features by Worker News debunking the idea that asylum seekers arriving in Hong Kong are “fake refugees” won the Best Journalism Award in the 2016 E-Citizen Awards organized by civic groups inmediahk.net and the Culture and Media ... ( read original story ...)

Parents, schools, businesses and the Hong Kong government must work harder to promote science and mathematics to girls to close the gender gap in education, a leading women’s campaign group has urged. New research suggests gender stereotyping ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong chief executive hopeful Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has backtracked on a proposal in her election manifesto to set up a religious affairs unit after the “resolute opposition” expressed by the local Catholic diocese which fears restrictions ... ( read original story ...)

A candidate who failed to officially join the Hong Kong chief executive election launched a veiled attack on front runner Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Saturday, dismissing her campaign as “shallow”, “insincere” and a “facade”. Regina Ip Lau ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s three chief executive candidates will attend a debate hosted by a local teachers’ union in the run-up to the election for the city’s highest office. The debate is to be held at a moot courtroom in Cheng Yu Tung Tower at the University of ... ( read original story ...)

Since the beginning of February this year, at least six Hong Kong schoolchildren have taken their own lives. And on February 28, a 19-year-old Japanese man with a Hong Kong ID card was found dead in a suspected hanging at an apartment building in the Mid ... ( read original story ...)

Years later, Cheung is just the traveller he hopes to convince to fly direct from Hong Kong to Vancouver on Hong Kong Airlines. Cheung is a regional marketing manager with the airline, which is embarking on an aggressive pricing campaign to establish ... ( read original story ...)

Four pro-democracy lawmakers threatened with disqualification for improper oath-taking urged the High Court on Friday to dismiss the case, claiming an abuse of process arising from selective prosecution. The unexpected twist came just as the three-day ... ( read original story ...)