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A Hong Kong court on Monday rejected a defence request to summon the officer who fired bullets into the air during clashes in Mong Kok last year, finding his evidence irrelevant to the trial of nine men accused of rioting soon after the warning shots. ( read original story ...)

A suspected Hong Kong triad member accused of making an elderly man drink a can of Coke at knifepoint was arrested in a police raid on Monday. The 44-year-old man with a pigtail was picked up at a Portland Street guest house in Mong Kok at about 10.30pm ... ( read original story ...)

The world number five took just 74 minutes to see off Japan`s Ozaki in hot and humid conditions in Victoria Park. Hong Kong: Venus Williams raced through her opening match in the WTA Hong Kong Open on Tuesday with a 6-2, 6-2 win against Risa Ozaki. ( read original story ...)

Prime News, International, Business, Hong Kong, October 10:- Visitors departing Hong Kong International Airport can opt for self-service departure from Tuesday. The airport has installed a new biometric system, called Smart Departure, which uses facial ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong police were searching on Tuesday for three men who assaulted a 55-year-old man at a cash machine and stole 127,000 yuan (HK$149,590) in Sha Tin. The men, wearing caps and face masks, attacked the victim from behind as he and his wife were ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam provided glimpses into her vision for Hong Kong's future on Monday (Oct 9) during an event held as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of the China Daily's Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's securities regulator plans to implement a real-time investor identification system around mid-2018 for "northbound" trading under the Stock Connect program with China, its chief said, a move aimed at detecting potential ... ( read original story ...)

An investor identity system covering the northbound stock trading link between Hong Kong and mainland China is expected to start in the middle of next year, according to Ashley Alder, chief executive officer of the city’s Securities and Futures Commission. ( read original story ...)

Liberal Party chair Tommy Cheung Yu-yan declined to comment on Chung’s motion. In a TV interview in August, Chung said enacting a national security law was Hong Kong’s constitutional duty. He said at the time: “I don’t see any problem if we are to ... ( read original story ...)

A diminutive Ru Guanyao brush washer from the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) set a new auction record for a Chinese ceramic on 3 October when it sold for HK$294.3m (US$37.7m) (all prices with fees) at Sotheby's Hong Kong. At nearly three times the ... ( read original story ...)

About 71,000 poor Hong Kong households do not have enough money to meet even their most basic food needs, and are surviving on less than HK$15 per meal per ­person, a study has found. And poor people who do not have public housing are shelling out larger ... ( read original story ...)

Alok Gupta is a Hong Kong-based freelance journalist who specialises in environment and development issues. This story was published with permission from Citiscope, a non-profit news outlet that covers innovations in cities. More at Citiscope.org. ( read original story ...)

A 34-year-old man who was accused of murdering his bedridden mother before jumping from a 16th-floor flat in a suicide bid on Sunday was a psychiatric patient at a Hong Kong hospital and received his last consultation 11 days ago before the brutal killing ... ( read original story ...)

Former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang Yam-kuen played by his own “secret” rule, which existed only “in his head”, when it came to declaring his private yacht and jet trips with friends, his bribery trial heard on Monday. The High Court heard this ... ( read original story ...)