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The US Consulate in Hong Kong has reached out to the city’s taxi drivers to ease tensions with Uber, while the transport minister slammed the US ride-hailing firm for its “big ego”, the Post has learned. There was immediate resistance from industry ... ( read original story ...)

Au Nok-hin is the youngest member of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council, but the 30-year-old is an old hand at working the ground to champion his cause. He cut his teeth as the internal secretary of Chinese University’s student union 10 years ago ... ( read original story ...)

A taxi operator has taken the first step in welcoming guide dogs on board amid complaints that visually impaired customers and their canine companions are being turned away by drivers and businesses in Hong Kong. SynCab, which operates a team of 120 cabs ... ( read original story ...)

VICE News went to Hong Kong to see just how hard it is for Hongkongers to find a resting place, and to look at some of the solutions being offered. In land-scarce Hong Kong, finding a final resting place for the dead can be a nightmare. And new regulations ... ( read original story ...)

With the daily smoking rate of Hong Kong’s population at a record low, one might think public health advocate Antonio Kwong Cho-sing could not be any happier as head of the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health, an anti-smoking activist group. ( read original story ...)

A Beijing legal heavyweight has rekindled controversy by suggesting Hong Kong judges have a “different understanding” among themselves of the city’s mini-constitution that at times produced “great disparity” in their adjudicated cases. ( read original story ...)

Foreign governments should stay out of Hong Kong’s internal affairs the city’s government has warned, after a US report raised concerns mainland Chinese authorities had encroached on the city’s autonomy. The report on human rights practices ... ( read original story ...)

On March 23, Chan said Hong Kong residents aged 18 or above as of December 31 this year who did not own property, did not receive government allowances and would not pay income tax for the 2017-18 financial year would get the full HK$4,000. Those who met ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s infatuation with technology and social media defines ... over 44 per cent of Hongkongers stated that Facebook was their first point of contact with breaking news. In addition, applications such as WeChat and Weibo, the mainland version ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong language teacher Ronny Mintjens, who had flown to North Korea to teach soon-to-be tour guides English, did the unheard of there – he asked for freedom for his students’ sake. In the capital Pyongyang, he had been given a textbook and ... ( read original story ...)

For six months, while Hong Kong’s schoolchildren bury themselves in textbooks to prepare for examinations, the world is the classroom for the four-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son of Cherry Chau Tsun-to. Chau and her husband consider themselves a ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong lawmakers on a five-city tour of mainland China called on the government back home to cut red tape and embrace new technologies, after visiting Shenzhen and Dongguan and praising examples of innovation there. The group, comprising 23 pro ... ( read original story ...)

The operator of Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) is mulling how to speed up key aspects of its expansion to allow more flights before the project’s 2024 completion date. The Hong Kong Airport Authority’s options are focused on the closure of the ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s banks, blindsided by rising funding costs due to the city’s costly defense of its currency peg, are clamping down on popular fixed-rate mortgages. These loans were provided at 1.68 percent for the first year of a new mortgage, lower than ... ( read original story ...)