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Media tycoon who faces charges of fraud and foreign collusion released under house arrest ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was granted bail on Wednesday, nearly three weeks after he was remanded in custody over fraud and national security-related charges. Lai, ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's new online-only banks plan to venture into business lending and wealth management, seeking more lucrative avenues beyond basic savings accounts and transfer services, senior executives ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's stock benchmark swung between gains and losses amid concerns about a delay in US stimulus package to support the economy, while investors assessed the economic fallout from a series of ... ( read original story ...)

The 1857 trial of American pirate Eli Boggs in Hong Kong was a riveting affair, filled with tales of plunder, kidnapping and murder on the high seas. But it was Boggs' two-hour closing statement that ... ( read original story ...)

International investors including BlackRock and Fidelity are anchoring a boom in Hong Kong biotech listings, with Chinese healthcare companies raising a record $21.1bn from share offerings in the city ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong residents should be allowed to choose which Covid-19 vaccine they take from a pool of suppliers, medical experts said on Tuesday, after the health minister sought to clarify whether the ... ( read original story ...)

A police officer breached the data privacy law when he displayed a journalist's identity card during a live stream of a protest in Hong Kong last year, the privacy watchdog said on Tuesday. The Office ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong and China stocks slumped on Tuesday after a highly infectious Covid-19 strain sparked UK lockdowns and clouded the economic recovery outlook, and the US further expanded its blacklist of ... ( read original story ...)

A former Hong Kong village head was killed in an apparently well-organised knife attack at a tombstone factory in the New Territories on Tuesday, sparking a citywide manhunt for the gang involved. ( read original story ...)

A warrant was issued Tuesday after a court no-show for a Hong Kong student who was shot by police during last year's democracy protests, as an activist group claimed he had gone "into exile". Tsang ... ( read original story ...)

Hang Seng Indexes Co. is considering wide-ranging changes to Hong Kong’s stock benchmark that would dilute the influence of its largest companies. ( read original story ...)

A Hong Kong student protester who was shot by police during last year's anti-government demonstrations and later charged with rioting and assaulting officers is in exile in an undisclosed location, an ... ( read original story ...)

Nathan Law, a prominent Hong Kong activist in exile in London, has revealed that he is applying for political asylum in the UK six months after he left Hong Kong.“If I don’t act now, I will become a ... ( read original story ...)