Living on a boat in Hong Kong is a legally grey area, with laws against it open to “liberal interpretation”, experts have said. The debate over the legality heated up after it was brought to public at... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong will be keen to upset India and Pakistan: Venkatesh Prasad
Player and fitness management will be key factors for both teams." India, Pakistan and Hong Kong are in Group A. Hong Kong is led by a player of Indian origin Anshuman Rath. It is a team of semi ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong sociologist behind charity Teen’s Key aims to offer a way out for young women ensnared in sex trade
A Hong Kong sociologist has made it her personal mission to shed light on the plight of a marginalised and often misunderstood group of women in the city – prostitutes. “Some 80 per cent of girls we’v... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Jeweler Introduces Blockchain App for Diamond Authentication
Hong Kong jewelry company Chow Tai Fook has partnered with Gemological Institute of America (GIA) to create a blockchain-based app that will enable customers to ascertain the origin and ... ( read original story ...)
Bears Claim Hong Kong, IPOs, Reforms: A Week in China’s Markets
Hong Kong stocks are paying a price for being the darlings of global ... push to expand in sports as Beijing bids to host the Winter Olympics in 2022. On the bad news front, worsening Sino-U.S. trade ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Discovery Bay houseboat saga: bad investments, First World problems, or a callous destruction of homes?
Some have reached out to Hong Kong Resort International, the company which owns the club. Boat owners were told they could expect a response by September 11, but as of Friday they had not received any ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong National Party fails to justify its separatist agenda before official deadline, as government ponders ban
A Hong Kong separatist party facing an unprecedented ban has failed to justify its existence in writing before a deadline issued by the government of 5pm on Friday, the Post has learned. The Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)
New Hong Kong airport luggage rules ‘great danger’ to security, cabin crew say
Luggage rules at Hong Kong airport believed to have been secretly relaxed to beat a lawsuit concerning the daughter of the city’s former leader Leung Chun-ying should be reinstated, a local flight att... ( read original story ...)
Super Typhoon Mangkhut: engineer warns massive storm could put structural safety of Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau mega bridge to test
The structural safety of the multibillion-dollar Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge could be put to the test by a super typhoon predicted to be the most powerful in Hong Kong’s history, an engineering expe... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s leader has to make decisions she doesn’t like, former finance chief John Tsang says in rare show of sympathy for Lam
Hong Kong’s former financial secretary, in a surprisingly rare show of sympathy for his ex-political rival Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, has said anyone in the top job would need to enfo... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Observatory issues very hot weather warning from subsiding air as Super Typhoon Mangkhut approaches
The Hong Kong Observatory issued the very hot weather warning early on Friday morning, with temperatures expected to rise to 35 degrees Celsius on Saturday as the city warmed under subsiding air from ... ( read original story ...)
Strong winds from Tropical Storm Barijat hit Hong Kong but Observatory says unlikely to raise No 8 signal
Strong winds blew over Hong Kong on Wednesday as Tropical Storm Barijat moved closer to the city but all attention was focused on a larger threat – Super Typhoon Mangkhut – barrelling towards the Sout... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong braces itself for Super Typhoon Mangkhut, the strongest tropical storm in decades
HONG KONG: Hong Kong was on Thursday (Sep 13) preparing for Super Typhoon Mangkhut, predicted to make landfall this weekend. It may be the strongest ever tropical storm to lash the city in decades, th... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong and Vancouver researchers argue shark-fin soup must be abandoned to prevent shark extinction
According to Hong Kong government data, shark fin exports to mainland China ... study co-author and Sea Around Us principal investigator Daniel Pauly stated in a news release. “This overexploitation h... ( read original story ...)