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Would you live in a flat in Hong Kong with panoramic sea views, but have your home built on an 80-metre high podium above one of the world’s busiest container terminals? Hong Kong residents will be asked in a public consultation next March if they would ... ( read original story ...)

A Beijing adviser on Hong Kong affairs warned on Friday that the central government could “take action” to safeguard national security if Hong Kong failed to enact the relevant local legislation. Lau Siu-kai, vice-chairman of the Chinese Association of ... ( read original story ...)

Dumplings, wontons and dim sums are what make Hong Kong a foodie’s delight. The smell of meat soup wafting through Hong Kong’s old streets sends both bag-packers and pin-striped Wall Street bankers, starving. On Peak Road in Wanchai, egg tarts from the ... ( read original story ...)

Would you live in a flat in Hong Kong with panoramic sea views, but have your home built on a 80-metre high podium above one of the world’s busiest container terminals? Hong Kong residents will be asked in a public consultation next March if they would ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Chinese official admonished Hong Kong on Thursday for failing to introduce a national security law, ramping up pressure on the former British colony to enact the contentious Article 23 that critics say will further choke its freedoms. ( read original story ...)

Undoubtedly the most notorious Hong Kong incident involved an act of naked violence ... New Territories, made the news. The three-storey upmarket villa at JC Castle along Shan Tong Road was reportedly bought under the name of Hsieh Ping-sung for HK$ ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has been a top breeding ground for job recruitment frauds as thousands of Filipino domestic helpers in the city have been trafficked to countries like Russia, Brazil and Turkey for bogus jobs, a senior Philippine official told the Post on Wednesday. ( read original story ...)

Lawmakers finally gave a symbolic green light to the government on Wednesday to get moving on a politically contentious joint checkpoint on the Hong Kong side of the cross-border railway to Guangzhou, as filibustering opposition members exhausted all their ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s largest franchised bus operator said on Wednesday it planned to launch its highly anticipated HK$800 monthly pass early next year for all passengers. The Transport Department approved KMB’s application for the offering last month and was ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has been a top breeding ground for job recruitment fraud as thousands of Filipino domestic helpers in the city have been trafficked to countries like Russia, Brazil and Turkey for bogus jobs, a senior Philippine official told the Post on Wednesday. ( read original story ...)

A former top Hong Kong judge said on Wednesday he did “not see any threat to judicial independence” amid concerns in the city and abroad regarding the jailing of three prominent political activists in the city. Former Court of Final Appeal judge Henry ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s taxi operators are set to embrace the era of the hybrid with the arrival of four energy-saving, next-generation Toyota taxis that now await the government’s importation approval. A spokesman for Crown Motors Ltd, the sole distributor of ... ( read original story ...)

Two key mainland Chinese officials overseeing Hong Kong affairs have assured the city’s largest group of barristers that Beijing has not tightened the “one country, two systems” policy in light of two highly contentious political issues. They urged ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hundreds of Hong Kong soccer fans booed and jeered the Chinese national anthem at an Asia Cup qualifier match on Tuesday in defiance of Communist Party rulers in Beijing, while others turned their backs. The booing of the anthem ... ( read original story ...)