Category: NEWS

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 ...)

A Hong Kong man strangled his ex-girlfriend, a Dragonair flight stewardess, during a rage-fuelled attack and hid her body in a wardrobe after he learned that she had found a new lover, a court heard on Thursday. The High Court was told that Oscar Mok Chun ... ( read original story ...)

That’s the case for Hong Kong. The Chinese special administrative region recently made its pitch in the Lower Mainland, touting its newly upgraded admissions scheme for second-generation Canadians with Hong Kong roots to try to deepen the two cities ... ( read original story ...)

If you find the average flat in Hong Kong too small, get ready to feel even more cramped, as sizes are forecast to shrink further in the coming five years, lowering residents’ quality of life. That prediction came on Tuesday from the Our Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

Love it or hate it, the expression “fake news” will probably come to define the age of unprecedented change we find ourselves slap bang in the middle of. I’ve never really understood what it means, in my book it’s either news or it’s not. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong households and businesses that produce renewable energy through rooftop solar installations or wind systems could soon sell their excess supply to the city’s power grid – and charge up to five times what consumers currently pay. An ... ( read original story ...)

Few managers appreciate having their predecessor chime in with tips on how to do their job. In the case of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, it’s the agency’s most famous former boss. The city’s de facto central bank said in a statement Tuesday there ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong government will pour HK$23.7 million (US$3 million) into “national studies training” for civil servants this financial year – an increase of 30 per cent from the previous year – and has invited a Basic Law expert from Beijing to brief ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong may not be the manufacturing city it once was, but one man is hoping to bring its glorious past back – with a new twist. Francis Ngai Wah-sing, founder of the philanthropic organisation Social Ventures Hong Kong, launched a new 5,000 sq ft co ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong dollar remains stuck at the weak end of its currency band, even after the monetary authority plowed $1.2 billion into defending the peg. The city’s dollar traded near HK$7.85 per greenback at 11:01 a.m. local time, the level that can spur ... ( read original story ...)

Dozens of pugs and dachshunds, compensating for their lack of speed with dogged determination, took part in Hong Kong's inaugural "doggie dash" on Sunday to raise funds for abandoned and rescued canines. Dog-lovers packed a leafy and quiet area in the ... ( read original story ...)