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Hong Kong households and businesses that produce renewable energy through rooftop solar installations or wind systems could soon sell their excess supply to the city’s power grid – and charge up to five times what consumers currently pay. An ... ( read original story ...)

Few managers appreciate having their predecessor chime in with tips on how to do their job. In the case of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, it’s the agency’s most famous former boss. The city’s de facto central bank said in a statement Tuesday there ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong government will pour HK$23.7 million (US$3 million) into “national studies training” for civil servants this financial year – an increase of 30 per cent from the previous year – and has invited a Basic Law expert from Beijing to brief ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong may not be the manufacturing city it once was, but one man is hoping to bring its glorious past back – with a new twist. Francis Ngai Wah-sing, founder of the philanthropic organisation Social Ventures Hong Kong, launched a new 5,000 sq ft co ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong dollar remains stuck at the weak end of its currency band, even after the monetary authority plowed $1.2 billion into defending the peg. The city’s dollar traded near HK$7.85 per greenback at 11:01 a.m. local time, the level that can spur ... ( read original story ...)

Dozens of pugs and dachshunds, compensating for their lack of speed with dogged determination, took part in Hong Kong's inaugural "doggie dash" on Sunday to raise funds for abandoned and rescued canines. Dog-lovers packed a leafy and quiet area in the ... ( read original story ...)

The 55-kilometre bridge and tunnel project links the two special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau with the mainland, slashing travel time and linking up to 60 million people into a metropolis-style economy. When the first cars begin crossing ... ( read original story ...)

Three injured motorists who were told they might face prosecution after allegedly helping Hong Kong police stop a car chase by acting as a “human shield” spoke out for the first time on Sunday, with one saying he felt “wronged”. The incident in ... ( read original story ...)

They pay HK$5,500 a month and share the kitchen and bathroom with another family. They are among roughly 27,000 ethnic minority people in Hong Kong – excluding those working as domestic helpers – living in cheap partitioned units subdivided from bigger ... ( read original story ...)

Dozens of pugs and dachshunds, compensating for their lack of speed with dogged determination, took part in Hong Kong's inaugural "doggie dash" on Sunday to raise funds for abandoned and rescued canines. Dog-lovers packed a leafy and quiet area in the ... ( read original story ...)

It is Hong Kong’s responsibility to safeguard national security, two mainland Chinese officials in the city have said as they hit out at local activists for “colluding with external forces” and challenging China’s sovereignty. The remarks from the ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's monetary authority spent HK$9.96 billion (US$1.27 billion) to prop up the city's currency last week, but while the move is no cause for alarm, people should not expect the low-interest rate environment in the city to last forever, according to ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is the “only city in the world without national security legislation”, Beijing’s top official in the former British colony said on Sunday while warning of threats to sovereignty as pro-independence activists link up with anti-China forces ... ( read original story ...)

The Muslim community in Hong Kong has so far amassed about HK$300,000 (US$38,200) in a drive to build a mosque project that has been held up for over a decade. With donations “coming in” daily, according to United Muslim Association of Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)