Category: NEWS

Hong Kong flower seller opens his farm to the public as lilies finally bloom in warmer weather In light of the recent annual Hong Kong Flower Show in Victoria Park, City Weekend explores the significance of flowers for Chinese people. From orchids to ... ( read original story ...)

More than three years after Myanmar stopped its citizens from working as domestic helpers in Hong Kong, a local lawmaker is paving the way for their return – but this time as nursing carerslooking after the city’s growing elderly population. ( read original story ...)

A transport firm run by the daughter of Macau casino kingpin Stanley Ho Hung-sun looks set to be the biggest winner when the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge opens, after her company won the exclusive rights to run shuttle buses across the multibillion-dollar ... ( read original story ...)

A liberal academic who was a key leader of the 2014 Occupy protests has earned an unusually strong public rebuke from the Hong Kong government for suggesting in Taiwan that the city could “consider becoming an independent state”. “The Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

“I have seen the overwhelming support of the community in Hong Kong and in other posts [Israel ... Soon after receiving the news about his recall, Dela Torre told the Post: “Whatever the outcome is, I will continue to fight human traffickers ... ( read original story ...)

The China Medical case is the most high-profile and closely watched contest in years over the production of Chinese audit work papers, an issue that has put Hong Kong and U.S. regulators at loggerheads with China - and at one point threatened to leave U.S ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s profitmaking railway operator is set to raise ticket prices by 3.14 per cent this summer, prompting renewed calls for an overhaul of its controversial fare adjustment mechanism. With government data paving the way for the MTR Corporation to ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong investors are splashing some HK$170 million (US$22 million) on new fleets of coaches to ply the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge, in what could be a gamble aimed at winning a bigger slice of the market for travel to the casino city. But Macau’s ... ( read original story ...)

The future of three Hong Kong-based families was thrown into limbo on Monday, after a court rejected their appeal against a decision by the Immigration Department that disallowed their loved ones to continue staying in the city. The affected people are ... ( read original story ...)

In Hong Kong’s latest high-profile residential burglary, thieves evaded surveillance cameras and two guard dogs as they broke into a three-storey house and prised open and emptied a safe before daybreak on Monday. A domestic helper, 34, was unhurt during ... ( read original story ...)

According to Japanese news agency Kyodo, both sides affirmed their collaboration in preventing North Korea from evading the sanctions. This was in response to incident in which a Hong Kong-registered tanker was found to have secretly transferred oil to a ... ( read original story ...)

Manila has recalled the labour attaché of its consulate in Hong Kong, Jalilo Dela Torre – one of the most important positions in a city where there are more than 190,000 Filipino domestic workers – a year before he completes his term, in a move that ... ( read original story ...)

Tuberculosis in Hong Kong has dropped to its lowest level since 1947, with 40 fewer cases reported last year than the year before, but the health authority urged the public to stay vigilant due to the city’s risk factors and ageing population. ( read original story ...)

Worker News grew out of the dock worker strike in 2013, one of the biggest labour movements in Hong Kong in the past decade. At the time, dock workers at the Kwai Tsing Container Terminal went on strike for 40 days over work conditions and wages against ... ( read original story ...)