Hong Kong’s newest private hospital will expand its all-inclusive fixed price packages to cover more medical conditions and complex surgeries to ease patients’ fears over forking out more for complica... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker barred from contesting local election
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong authorities have barred a pro-democracy lawmaker from running in a local election for "implicitly" supporting Hong Kong's independence from China, in what critics said ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong lawmaker Eddie Chu’s ban from village election based on shaky argument, legal scholar Johannes Chan says
Johannes Chan Man-mun, the former law dean of the University of Hong Kong, was speaking on Sunday after Chu was told he would not be allowed to run for a post as a local village’s representative. Retu... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong business leaders welcome 90-day trade truce between China and US – but some are still considering relocating factories
Hong Kong’s business leaders are cautiously optimistic about a ... “Of course, the truce is good news to me. But we’ll have to see how things go in the 90 days.” President Xi Jinping and his US counte... ( read original story ...)
News-Expo to open in December
It was later included in the Revitalising Historic Buildings Through Partnership Scheme and has been revitalised into the Hong Kong News-Expo, the first exhibition and education centre in Asia dedicat... ( read original story ...)
New HK$85 million museum dedicated to media industry to open in Hong Kong
Inside the historic Bridges Street Market in the heart of Hong Kong, there is a news stand offering a dozen newspapers printed on March 8, 1969, some magazines and lottery tickets, while change is a h... ( read original story ...)
Tung Chung in Hong Kong sees major improvements after measures to control crowd chaos from mega bridge
A series of official measures to ease the tourist influx at a quiet Hong Kong suburb near the new cross-border sea bridge led to significant improvements on Saturday with smaller crowds, as residents ... ( read original story ...)
How the emotional toll on HIV and Aids patients is largely overlooked in Hong Kong society
Since 1984 – when Hong Kong saw its first HIV case – 9,543 people in the city ... He told his family about his illness, and while they were never close to begin with, the news made them even more dist... ( read original story ...)
Read all about it: new HK$85 million museum dedicated to media industry to open in Hong Kong
Inside the historic Bridges Street Market in the heart of Hong Kong, there is a news stand offering a dozen newspapers printed on March 8, 1969, some magazines and lottery tickets, while change is a h... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong retail sales growth picks up in October, headwinds cloud sentiment
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong’s retail sales growth picked up in October from the prior month, government data showed on Friday, but consumer sentiment could be increasingly clouded by weak asset ma... ( read original story ...)
Make ‘Greater Bay Area’ opportunities easier to avail of to spur city’s success, experts tell Hong Kong authorities
Hong Kong should adopt a liberal and pragmatic approach as it seizes business opportunities under Beijing’s initiative to turn the city and 10 of its neighbours into an economic powerhouse rivalling S... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong alcohol office puts extra 30 inspectors on streets as new rule banning sale of booze to under-18s comes into effect
The Tobacco and Alcohol Control Office has put an extra 30 inspectors on Hong Kong’s streets to ensure retailers are enforcing the new law regulating the sale of booze to minors. Officers will conduct ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong eye doctors face misconduct charge over patient referrals to private clinic
Three former public eye doctors in Hong Kong have been arrested and charged for allegedly referring patients to a private clinic operated by two of them, the city’s corruption commission disclosed on ... ( read original story ...)
Five dead, 32 injured in Hong Kong coach crash
Five people were killed and 32 injured when a coach carrying Cathay Pacific staff to Hong Kong’s airport collided with a taxi on Friday, police said, with passengers thrown from the coach’s ... ( read original story ...)