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A Hong Kong amateur photographer who found a “decisive moment” when capturing an image of a leaping girl in an illuminated tunnel was voted the winner of People’s Choice award in the National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year competition. ( read original story ...)

Visitors wanting to go to the Disneyland Resort in Hong Kong will now be able to arrive over water as well as over land. From Sunday onwards, the Central to Discovery Bay ferry will stop at the theme park in the morning on weekends and on public holidays ... ( read original story ...)

Australia and Canada have vacancy taxes on home-owners. In Hong Kong, developers typically sell new units in batches, holding apartments back to reap higher prices. Some rushed to sell flats on news that the government was mulling a levy, according to the ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong will on Sunday mark the 21st anniversary of its return to Chinese rule, with city leader Carrie Lam struggling to win over residents even as she receives praise from Beijing. Lam took over as governor of the former British ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong was rated for the third consecutive year on the Tier 2 Watch List in the US State Department’s latest Trafficking in Persons report, escaping an automatic downgrade that could have placed the city among the countries and regions doing least to ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters/IFR) - Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp (1810.HK) priced its Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) at the bottom of an indicative range, said people close to the transaction. Xiaomi priced its share offering at HK$17 per share ($2 ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s flat-hoarding developers are set to face an annual vacancy tax amounting to double a property’s annual rental income, after the city’s top advisory body on Thursday endorsed a basket of new measures aimed at easing the housing crisis. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong and Macau have been identified as “pivotal” players in an international criminal racket which has seen massive amounts of drug money and other illicit funds laundered through casinos in Canada, exacerbating the country’s opioid overdose ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong soccer star Eddie Loyden had his contract terminated after he was accused of having too many “late-night love activities”. The Caroline Hill striker fell foul of team boss Veronica Chiu when she made a late-night visit to his flat and found ... ( read original story ...)

The woman suspected of gunning down four relatives in a Hong Kong park on Tuesday made an “unusual request” about buying a bulletproof vest, the head of the International Bodyguard Association revealed on Thursday, while also refuting claims she had ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Ng Goon-lau pointed at a window inside a dark, tiny bedroom. The window was small and easily sealed, Ng explained, a perfect place for carbon monoxide poisoning. A man once burned charcoal to kill himself there. Another tenant ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong securities regulator says they will be “keeping a close watch” on the crypto sector in their annual report released today. The SFC notes that since new technologies “come with risks,” they will be looking closely at crypto and ICOs and ... ( read original story ...)

A row over inheritance turned deadly on Tuesday afternoon when a 44-year-old female bodyguard allegedly shot dead an elderly aunt and wounded three other relatives during a family meeting in a Hong Kong park. Two of those injured were in critical condition ... ( read original story ...)

The 44-year-old woman who allegedly shot dead an elderly aunt and uncle and wounded two other relatives in a Hong Kong park on Tuesday was described as “weird” by those who saw her around Kin Ming Estate in Tseung Kwan O. One of her neighbours on the ... ( read original story ...)