Category: NEWS

The news triggered an immediate response from the president of ... Valente told a Portuguese-language radio station in the city. The chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, Philip Dykes, did not wish to get drawn into the matter. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's best-known independence activist went on trial on riot charges Wednesday over protests in 2016 which saw the city's worst violence for decades. Edward Leung, 26, the former leader of pro-independence party Hong Kong Indigenous, pleaded guilty ... ( read original story ...)

More than 60 million tourists are expected to pour into Hong Kong this year, marking a 3.6 per cent uptick year on year as officials hope two cross-border links will help bring in visitors from mainland China when the projects open later this year. ( read original story ...)

A fast-growing carnivorous fish that was originally bred in a laboratory could be invading Hong Kong waters, environmentalists have warned amid reports of juveniles being caught off the city’s coasts. The Sabah giant grouper, a hybrid species of the ... ( read original story ...)

A Hong Kong arm of embattled Chinese conglomerate LeEco was on Wednesday ordered by a court to wind up its business operations in the city. The High Court order came after LE Corporation filed a winding-up petition to liquidate its business in December ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. plans to appoint Laura Cha as its next chairman, according to a person briefed on internal discussions at the operator of the world’s fourth-largest stock market. Cha, long seen as the favorite for the job, is likely ... ( read original story ...)

Hongkong Land Holdings Limited (SGX: H78) is one of the companies related to the web of Jardines companies. Hongkong Land is currently trading close to its 52-week low price. This raises a question: is the company trading at a bargain price now ... ( read original story ...)

Oxfam Hong Kong has lost 715 local donors in the past 11 days who collectively gave the organisation more than HK$1.1 million a year, as a prostitution scandal involving seven staff members continues to rock the charity’s British arm. The number is a ... ( read original story ...)

Restrictions on cross-media ownership in Hong Kong are set to be liberalised, under a government proposal announced on Tuesday to revise broadcasting regulations widely viewed as outdated since they were enacted 17 years ago. A three-month public ... ( read original story ...)

Asian theme park, Hong Kong Disneyland is “back on (a) trajectory of growth,” operators proclaimed on Tuesday. But losses in 2017 doubled to $44.4 million (HK$345 million) in the year to September 2017, up from $22 million (HK171 million in 2015-2016). ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Disneyland Resort lost some of its magic on Tuesday when it revealed its financial deficit had more than doubled in 2017 to hit HK$345 million (US$44.1 million). The Lantau Island theme park, in which the Hong Kong government is the ... ( read original story ...)

Don’t pit golf against the city’s need for more homes, the Hong Kong Golf Association head said on Tuesday as he urged the government to look for land elsewhere to deal with the housing shortage. The association’s CEO, Danny Lai Yee-june, said ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has partnered with the Moscow School of Management (SKOLKOVO) to launch a dual-degree EMBA programme, a response to the development of a Eurasian economy thanks to the “Belt and Road Initiative”. ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong tourist who died last Saturday in a snorkelling accident in the Philippines was an avid traveller and photographer who frequented outlying islands with his wife. Hong Kong’s Immigration Department confirmed on Sunday that the 54-year-old ... ( read original story ...)