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HONG KONG -- Just opposite the entrance to a neon-lit night market, one of Hong Kong's few remaining carvers of mahjong tiles engraves the two Chinese characters for the number 8,000 on a piece of ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG -- A court in Hong Kong handed down prison sentences of up to 16 months Wednesday to eight leaders of massive 2014 pro-democracy protests on public nuisance offences. The sentences are seen ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG -- A court in Hong Kong handed down prison sentences of up to 16 months Wednesday to eight leaders of massive 2014 pro-democracy protests on charges of public nuisance offences. The ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court jailed four leaders of the 2014 pro-democracy “Occupy” movement on Wednesday amid heightened concerns over the decline of freedoms in the China-ruled ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court on Wednesday jailed key leaders of the 2014 pro-democracy “Occupy” movement in a move that highlights political divisions nearly five years after protests ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court will hand down sentences on Wednesday for nine leaders of the city's "Occupy Central" protests that paralyzed parts of the former British colony for 79 days in ... ( read original story ...)

Pierre Mouette is a two-time entrepreneur that was born in Paris, met the co-founder of his current firm in Hong Kong, and is looking to get his line of smart sportswear manufactured in Shenzhen. Now ... ( read original story ...)

Four directors at Hong Kong Airlines have been served with an injunction that prevents them from making any decisions about the future direction of the business. The legal step was taken on Tuesday by ... ( read original story ...)

People clean the tombs of their deceased relatives in Diamond Hill cemetery in Hong Kong. Spaces are rarely available in cemeteries such as these. Photograph: Jérôme Favre/EPA “Per square foot, it has ... ( read original story ...)

The husband of Hong Kong’s justice minister Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah was on Tuesday fined HK$20,000 (US$2,500) after being found guilty of building an unauthorised pool in his garden. On January 6 last ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong forecasters are hoping the power of social media will help them become better at warning the public about the onset of typhoons, flash floods, and storm surges. The Hong Kong Observatory ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has too many co-working spaces following rapid expansion in the sector, and some operators will withdraw from what has become a highly competitive market, industry analysts say. "There were ... ( read original story ...)

According to a global study by consultancy firm Randstad, workers and bosses have conflicting priorities. Polling about 4,300 jobseekers in Hong Kong last year, it found the majority ranked work-life ... ( read original story ...)

Eight companies offering genetic testing in Hong Kong are under investigation by authorities after they were accused of exaggerating claims that they could map out talents and character traits in ... ( read original story ...)