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The safety of Hong Kong’s notoriously crowded waterways has also remained under scrutiny since 39 people were killed when a high-speed ferry and a pleasure boat crashed in 2012. /cbb Don't miss out on the latest news and information. ( read original story ...)

Multiple passengers interviewed by the TVB and Cable TV news channels said the bus was speeding. The passengers were not identified by name. Firemen work at the scene of a bus crash in Hong Kong, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018. A double-decker bus crashed in a ... ( read original story ...)

A bus union representative has blamed the Hong Kong government for ­Saturday’s fatal crash in Tai Po, saying the accident raised again a host of issues. Wong Yu-loi of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions cited excessive hours, a shortage of ... ( read original story ...)

Nineteen people were killed and more than 60 injured on Saturday when a Hong Kong bus packed with passengers heading home from a day at the races crashed. It was the city’s deadliest bus accident in nearly 15 years, sparking a full-scale emergency ... ( read original story ...)

A double-decker bus has crashed in Hong Kong killing 18 people and injuring nearly 50, officials say. The bus was carrying spectators and workers from horse races before it overturned in the New Territories area. Reports suggest it was going too fast. ( read original story ...)

A double-decker bus crashed in a Hong Kong suburb on Saturday evening ... Multiple passengers interviewed by the TVB and Cable TV news channels said the bus was moving at a high rate of speed when the accident happened. The passengers were not identified ... ( read original story ...)

A double-decker bus has crashed in Hong Kong killing 19 people and injuring another 40, officials say. The bus was carrying spectators and workers from horse races before it overturned in the New Territories area. Some reports suggested it was going too fast. ( read original story ...)

Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images At least 19 people have been killed and dozens injured after a double-decker bus overturned in Hong Kong. Photographs published by local news media showed the bus lying on its side with its roof torn off near the town of Tai ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is set to launch a news-based education and tourist hub that will be a first in Asia for multimedia content and the first in the world to provide free entry, its officers have revealed. The Hong Kong News-Expo, expected to open in December after ... ( read original story ...)

Regulators in Hong Kong have issued a strict warning to exchanges doing business with Chinese customers about trading tokens deemed as securities. In an announcement today, Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) said it has sent letters to ... ( read original story ...)

Rurik Jutting, the British banker jailed for life in Hong Kong for brutally murdering two Indonesian women ... was refused,” Lunn said in a brief court hearing as he broke the news to Jutting. Despite initially pledging not to appeal against his ... ( read original story ...)

Lawyers representing asylum seekers who helped American whistle-blower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong on Thursday claimed local police targeted them instead of looking into their concerns that Sri Lankan authorities were hunting them down in the city. ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG – Hong Kong's retired archbishop has warned that a deal between the Vatican and China that cedes too much power to Beijing would place the country's Catholic followers in a big "birdcage." Cardinal Joseph Zen said Friday that the Holy See ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court on Friday rejected a British banker's appeal of his conviction in the gruesome murders of two Indonesian women. Three Court of Appeal judges said in their decision that Rurik Jutting's appeal had no merit. Jutting is ... ( read original story ...)