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Long lines seen at metro stations, piers as people rushed home Hong Kong braced itself for its first typhoon this year, as Tropical Storm Merbok lashed the financial center with rain and wind. The Hong Kong Observatory hoisted Signal No. 8 at 5:20 p.m ... ( read original story ...)

China's national observatory issued a blue alert for Merbok earlier on Monday, the state Xinhua news agency reported, the least serious level on its four-tier, colour-coded weather-warning system. There will be no trading in Hong Kong's financial markets ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong issued its third-highest storm signal for the first time this year as Tropical Storm Merbok lashed the financial center with rain and wind. The Hong Kong Observatory hoisted Signal No. 8 at 5:20 p.m. local time. and said the warning would remain ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong should consider ­raising taxes to counter a growing wealth gap that is now at a historic high, a social policy academic who is tipped to be the next ­welfare minister said. Dr Law Chi-kwong, a member of the Poverty Commission, warned that the ... ( read original story ...)

Will Hong Kong’s property bubble burst soon? It’s a million-dollar question, the answer to which seems obvious unless you’ve been turning a deaf ear to the government’s increasingly frequent and intensified warnings. From analysts and the city’s ... ( read original story ...)

Protesters gathered outside a popular Hong Kong restaurant demanding it take shark fin soup off its menu. The demonstrators, many of whom were children, dressed in shark costumes and dumped a bag of fake fins outside Maxim's Palace restaurant as customers ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour is one of the world's busiest ports, but every morning daring elderly swimmers dive in to its choppy waters against a teeming backdrop of ferries, cargo ships and fishing boats. The city's older generations fill public spaces ... ( read original story ...)

Governments across Asia - most notably Hong Kong and Singapore - have launched a raft of initiatives to grab a slice of the $100 billion invested in fintech globally but the regulatory hotch-potch is making it tough for firms to scale up, the Asia ... ( read original story ...)

Shocking photographs have been taken of the horrifying conditions 200,000 Hong Kong residents live in. The pictures show the city's residents who live in low income apartments that have been dubbed "coffin cubicles". Figures from the Society for Community ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index climbed to another 23-month closing high on Thursday, as China's solid May trade data somewhat offset investor caution ahead of a slew of key global events. China stocks extended gains on Thursday, with the blue-chip ... ( read original story ...)

They've been condemned by the UN as 'an insult to human dignity', but so-called 'coffin homes' still house around 200,000 people in jam-packed Hong Kong. According to the Census and Statistics Department, those people are being housed in around 88,000 ... ( read original story ...)

Integrated efforts both inside and outside government will be required to tackle health care challenges brought by Hong Kong’s ageing population, the head of a top American medical institution said. Professor Victor Dzau, president of the US National ... ( read original story ...)

With just weeks to go before being sworn in as Hong Kong’s next leader, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has pledged to provide a platform for the young generation to participate in politics and allow them a bigger say in policymaking. The chief executive ... ( read original story ...)

A cleaner was jailed for eight months by a Hong Kong court on Tuesday for helping strangers enter a mahjong school in Yau Ma Tei to cheat customers. The Kowloon City Court heard that two men had switched the school’s tiles with those that were marked to ... ( read original story ...)