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Pro-establishment lawmaker Eunice Yung Hoi-yan briefly apologised to Hong Kong’s domestic workers on Sunday, and was immediately criticised for not going far enough. The New People’s Party legislator said sorry after offending many of the city’s ... ( read original story ...)

More than two thousand volunteers hit the beach on an outlying island of Hong Kong for a mass rubbish clean up Sunday as environment campaigners warned plastic is killing sea turtles and other wildlife. There has been increasing concern over the amount of ... ( read original story ...)

A small group of Hong Kong professionals, such as university professors, who work on the mainland for more than 183 days per year may be exempt from paying higher mainland Chinese salaries tax under new arrangements, according to the city’s financial ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has become the second largest market for smuggled endangered black spotted turtles, an international report published on Monday found. Customs and police officers in Hong Kong seized 1,775 black spotted turtles – 17 per cent of the overall ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — European stock markets slipped Monday after small ... ANALYST TAKE: “The euro has had a rough go lately, reflecting a firehose of negative news headlines. It started with the loss of data momentum and now political risks have injected ... ( read original story ...)

A greater amount of a date rape drug was seized in Hong Kong in the first four months of this year than in the whole of 2017, customs figures show, with the chemical also finding its way to the city centre when previously it was mostly discovered in ... ( read original story ...)

Uber Hong Kong is in talks over an ex gratia payment to the family of a driver who died last month in the city’s first fatal accident involving the ride-hailing firm, the Post has learned. Fifty-year-old Uber driver Hui Ki-wai was killed when his BMW ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s record-breaking heatwave pressed on for a tenth straight day on Saturday, as new Post photos showed a barren reservoir in what was usually a scenic hiking spot. Hikers who would usually make their way around the picturesque dam at the Lau ... ( read original story ...)

For four years and 10 months, Surati, an Indonesian domestic helper in Hong Kong, had no mobile phone, could not visit her family back home, and was required to remain in her employer’s house unless she had to run errands. “My son has forgotten me ... ( read original story ...)

Property managers and security guards in Hong Kong will get trained in handling dementia as part of a high-level government campaign to tackle the citywide problem. Revealing the plan to the Post, Elderly Commission chairman Dr Lam Ching-choi said he hoped ... ( read original story ...)

Xi’s move was made in his open response to an appeal by 24 of the city’s leading scientists published by the state news agency Xinhua. In its latest budget, the Hong Kong government promised HK$50 billion for supporting innovation and technology ... ( read original story ...)

The past nine consecutive days of very hot weather in Hong Kong has broken the record for the month of May, with the run of high temperatures the longest since 1963 when there were eight consecutive days of the mercury rising above 33 degrees Celsius. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong may be the heartland of capitalism but it is also the improbable last redoubt of the unlikeliest of Chinese dissidents – China’s band of Maoists. The city has become the only place where the self-proclaimed holdouts of Mao Zedong’s cause ... ( read original story ...)

A Hong Kong man accused of assaulting his wife and children before his seven-year-old daughter nearly died from neglect told a court on Friday that his personal experience of child abuse has deterred him from using violence. Rocky Ling Yiu-chung ... ( read original story ...)