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Liverpool hosted an open training session at Mong Kok Stadium in Hong Kong on Friday - here is a gallery of the players' workout in the blazing sun. Local supporters were in the stands to watch as the Reds prepared for tomorrow's Premier League Asia Trophy ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong stocks snapped a nine-day winning streak on Friday as investors took a breather after the benchmark index scaled a fresh two-year peak in the previous session. The Hang Seng index shed 0.1 percent, or 34.12 points to 26,706.09, ending its longest ... ( read original story ...)

MACAU (Reuters) - While Hong Kong has been roiled by protests and calls for independence from China, things have been quieter in the neighboring gambling center of Macau, which has seen little dissent to rule from Beijing. The calm in the former Portuguese ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong employers may be forced to set aside a sum of money in the form of “savings” to pay long service and severance payments under a proposal the government is considering for the time when bosses can no longer dip into staff pension funds to ... ( read original story ...)

Klopp took time out of Liverpool's hectic pre-season schedule this week to spend time with local school children in Hong Kong, taking part in a light-hearted ... Klopp will not be pleased however with the recent news of the club having a £66million ... ( read original story ...)

“I would consider my cartoon as photography or news reporting,” said Zunzi. “It’s an exaggerated way of documenting what is happening in Hong Kong society. It might not be 100 percent factual; rather, a creative way of expressing the collective ... ( read original story ...)

Two former student leaders face imprisonment following their conviction on Thursday for their roles in a chaotic siege of a University of Hong Kong council meeting last year. Former student union president Billy Fung Jing-en, 23, was convicted after trial ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s divided legislature on Wednesday finally approved the government’s funding boost of HK$3.6 billion for education, but relations between the administration and opposition lawmakers were left in tatters over the recent disqualification of ... ( read original story ...)

A foreign domestic helper was in police custody on Wednesday night after being arrested on suspicion of indecently assaulting her employer’s 10-year-old son, who was in her care. The 47-year-old woman was detained after her employer – the boy’s ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong Book Fair’s organiser still expects about 1 million visitors, similar to last year’s turnout. “I think the rain will not put out the Hong Kong people’s passion for reading,” said Benjamin Chau Kai-leung, deputy executive director of ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — Twenty years ago this July, Prince Charles and former Prime Minister Tony Blair formally returned sovereignty over this British Dependent Territory to China’s then-president, Jiang Zemin. After the Union Jack had been replaced by the ... ( read original story ...)

Legal experts warn that more Hong Kong pan-democratic lawmakers face the same fate as their six colleagues barred over improper oath-taking in the Legislative Council. One legal scholar has even proposed allowing a judge to ­administer oath-taking to ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority will pay for the transfer of patients from overcrowded public hospitals to private ones in an arrangement that could become a long-term measure to cope with an influx of sick people, according to a senior health official. ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A consortium of private equity firms TPG Capital Management LP and MBK Partners, and investment manager I Squared Capital Advisors LLC have put in separate bids for the fixed-line phone unit of Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-Shing ... ( read original story ...)