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The Philippine national women’s volleyball team opens its campaign in the 19th SMM Asian Senior Women’s Volleyball Championship against Hong Kong. The Philippine national women’s volleyball team's journey in the 19th SMM Asian Senior Women’s ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong (AFP) - Residents in Hong Kong desperately tried to clear the coastline of greasy lumps of palm oil Tuesday as it continues to wash ashore after a huge spillage at sea. Their efforts came as the government said around 1,000 tonnes of the ... ( read original story ...)

It’s a very important game for the Philippines especially if we want to enter the quarterfinals. So we need to win against Hong Kong -- PHI team head coach Francis Vicente Philippine national women’s volleyball team head coach Francis Vicente sees the ... ( read original story ...)

A debt-laden and crowbar-wielding delivery man was jailed for four years and eight months on Tuesday for burgling nine homes across Hong Kong to steal almost HK$900,000 in cash, jewellery and electronics. Both the judge and the lawyers in the case said ... ( read original story ...)

Public Eye can reveal that the Hong Kong government is in secret talks with the United States and Canada to have joint immigration clearance at the city’s airport. US and Canadian officials will be stationed in Chek Lap Kok to clear passengers for entry ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is the “most mobile” market when it comes to news consumption, a Reuters Institute study has shown, with a 36 percentage point difference between those using smartphones and computers as their main news source. The study also found that 31 ... ( read original story ...)

Earlier on Sunday, MTR engineer Wong Yuen-wood, also chairman of the Hong Kong Railway Professionals Union, claimed he learned the three computer systems that controlled the “interlocking” had broken down around the same time. In railway signalling ... ( read original story ...)

Cancer patients in Hong Kong will receive more advanced and timely treatments once the city’s first cancer centre begins operations in eight years, the head of the billion-dollar project has said. “In future, patients can benefit from laboratory ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG – Ten beaches typically packed on a hot weekend were closed in Hong Kong on Sunday due to a palm oil spillage from a ship collision in mainland Chinese waters. Photographs showed styrofoam-like clumps lining the shores, while the waters at a ... ( read original story ...)

A bunch of prospective runners are presumably pretty disappointed this week after organizers of the upcoming Hong Kong Beer Run announced that it would no longer be giving participants beer. Now the beer run is just a regular race. According to the South ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG - Eight people were injured on Sunday (Aug 6 ... The injured were taken to Yan Chai Hospital for treatment. In i-Cable news footage, a man showed a hole in his shirt apparently caused by the liquid. "I didn't know what happened. ( read original story ...)

Nearly a dozen beaches across Hong Kong were closed to the public on Sunday morning after congealed palm oil washed up on them, having spilled into the sea when two boats crashed in mainland waters. Local residents noticed clumps of oil on the sand ... ( read original story ...)

The last day of Hong Kong’s first e-sports festival will see professional gamers from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan battle the winner of an earlier contest between Team China and Team North America, in a clash to be crowned kings of popular real-time ... ( read original story ...)

Eight people were injured when liquid which was suspected to be corrosive dripped from the ceiling of a Hong Kong shopping mall on Sunday ... taken to Yan Chai Hospital for treatment. In i-Cable news footage, a man showed a hole in his shirt apparently ... ( read original story ...)