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The Sydney carnival may be the only chance for punters to see stars of the saddle Joao Moreira, Tommy Berry, Zac Purton and Nash Rawiller ride in Australia next year after a ruling from Hong Kong Jockey Club on Monday. Tougher rules: Joao Moreira and ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong secondary school pupils placed third in a worldwide ranking on collaborative problem-solving skills, according to results announced on Tuesday. The city came behind Singapore and Japan in the latest Programme for International Student Assessment ... ( read original story ...)

A two-year-old boy died on Thursday after suffering from a pneumococcal infection, in the third such fatality involving children this year. The patient, who had a record of good health and had received pneumococcal vaccines, developed a fever, cough and ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong government has invited a mainland delegation to brief its senior officials on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s report to the Communist Party congress last month, the city’s leader confirmed on Tuesday. The delegation, tasked by Beijing with ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong came in joint-25th with New Zealand and Sweden, beating larger countries like the US and Spain, with the delegation taking home one bronze medal and seven medallions of excellence, which meant the participants achieved above-average scores in ... ( read original story ...)

US authorities have arrested Hong Kong’s former home affairs secretary and the ex-foreign minister of Senegal for allegedly leading a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme in Africa on behalf of a top Chinese energy company, with some deals supposedly ... ( read original story ...)

About 88,000 Hong Kong families had applied for 620 subsidised homes, a record of 141 applicants competing for each flat, housing authorities said on Monday as the city’s overall property prices continued to soar. By the 7pm deadline, applications for ... ( read original story ...)

Sexual minorities in Hong Kong urged the government on Monday to set up gender-neutral public facilities to cut down on unwanted attention they claim to face. The suggestion came during a special meeting in the Legislative Council on what was the ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s Bitcoin business sector is feeling uncertain as local exchange Gatecoin loses its banking services. Just a month after reports of a mass ‘Bitcoin exodus’ from China after it banned crypto-to-fiat trading and ICOs, Hong Kong also appears ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong Poverty Situation Report for 2016, released last Friday, showed that 1.35 million of the city’s 7.35 million residents were living below the official poverty line, with the figure dropping to 996,000 after factoring in cash interventions ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong lawmaker Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung has urged Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor to follow Taiwan’s lead in using legal means to guarantee the supply of so-called orphan drugs for specific rare diseases, which drug makers are reluctant ... ( read original story ...)

India's Parupalli Kashyap and B Sai Praneeth will be able to take part in the Hong Kong Superseries after the visa issue concerning the two shuttlers was resolved. Hong Kong Badminton Association, the organisers of the Superseries resolved the matter for ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s road to greater democracy has come to a dead end for now and pan-democrats should shift their focus to call for better policies improving people’s livelihoods and safeguarding human rights, the Labour Party’s new chairman said on Sunday. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong youth will soon have the option to skip the city’s high-pressure secondary school leaving examination to pursue vocational education at an earlier age without worrying about the lack of opportunities to obtain a degree later. This route could ... ( read original story ...)