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It was expected to fetch about £10million but the price kept climbing at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong. The price paid by the anonymous winning bidder was a world record for a Chinese ceramic piece, beating the £27.1million paid in 2014 for a 15th century ... ( read original story ...)

A one-off compassionate payment of HK$30,000 has been granted by Hong Kong bus operator Citybus to 15 victims who ... Cheng, who has been helping about a dozen victims, said he received news on Wednesday that Citybus had agreed to allocate the sum of ... ( read original story ...)

Judges will get a pay rise of 2.95 per cent, the lowest in eight years, as Hong Kong’s judiciary seeks to bring salaries to competitive levels to tackle a manpower shortage that has left more than 20 per cent of posts on the bench vacant. The government ... ( read original story ...)

Unpopular former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying testified on Wednesday in a ... Footage of the incident captured by local news network i-Cable was played in court and showed the back of Leung, who was seen ducking smoothly when the sandwich was thrown. ( read original story ...)

Universities in Hong Kong were recognised as top schools of law and education in Asia according to a global survey, despite ongoing controversies involving the city’s rule of law and freedom of expression. The rankings announced by the Times Higher ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Commercial Daily, China Daily, Sing Pao Daily News, South China Morning Post, Phoenix Satellite Television and TVB. The change in tone and content has been particularly evident in the South China Morning Post, for example, after Jack Ma of ... ( read original story ...)

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Japanese and Hong Kong share markets led Asian stocks higher on Wednesday, with the Chinese central bank's weekend move to free up more liquidity boosting sentiment as the world's second-largest economy grows at a steady pace. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong pop singer Leo Ku Kui-kei and his wife have described ... their phone batteries draining while they waited for news from authorities. The lockdown on all Las Vegas hotels continued late into the night. On Tuesday’s radio show, Ku thanked ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong will be wooing wine connoisseurs at the annual Wine and Dine Festival again later this month, but many will have to sample the goods in plastic glasses instead of actual wine glasses for safety and security reasons, according to the Tourism Board. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong (AFP) - Thousands of festival-goers packed a historic neighbourhood of Hong Kong to watch a "fire dragon" lit with incense sticks dance through the streets in a century-old ritual. The 67-metre (220-foot) long dragon snakes around the network of ... ( read original story ...)

A Hong Kong pro-democracy activist who threw a "smelly fish sandwich" at a police officer as voters went to the polls last year pleaded not guilty to assault Tuesday. The sandwich had been aimed at the city's then leader, Leung Chun-ying, who was on his ... ( read original story ...)

For Hong Kong democrats, the news from the other side of the Pearl River Estuary has provided a modest morale-booster. With six pro-democracy legislators already disqualified in the oath-taking saga, several others awaiting the same fate, 16 political ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo and Hong Kong led gains on most markets in Asia Wednesday following ... global co-head of foreign-exchange strategy at National Australia Bank in Sydney, told Bloomberg News. But he added that talk of Powell taking the top post have "seen the dollar ... ( read original story ...)

A domestic helper on Tuesday asked a Hong Kong court to grant her and 350,000 others the choice of living apart from their employers, in the first judicial review of the live-in rule imposed since 2003. Lawyers for Nancy Almorin Lubiano from the ... ( read original story ...)