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Now that you have passed through Customs, you are in the massive Arrival Hall of Hong Kong International Airport. Follow the signs to find your chosen form of transportation to your hotel. If you arrange for a private transfer, your driver or attendant .. ( read original story ...)

Insulting law enforcement officers should be made punishable by up to three years in jail, pro-establishment lawmakers proposed on Friday. Legislators including Priscilla Leung Mei-fun, Junius Ho Kwan-yiu and Horace Cheung Kwok-kwan had called for legal ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s top anti-corruption official made a rare official visit to Macau on Friday, heading a delegation which included two senior investigators. The one-day trip to the world’s most cash-rich casino destination was only the second time in five ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s next leader, Carrie Lam, vowed to heal political and social divides, pledging to return the global financial hub to its “normal course of development”. Lam takes office on July 1 after being selected in March amid widespread co ... ( read original story ...)

The commissioner for the foreign affairs ministry has accused Hong Kong’s most high-profile democracy campaigners of attempting to meddle in China’s internal affairs at a US congressional panel on Wednesday night. The campaigners urged the US to take a ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG Hong Kong's next leader, Carrie Lam, vowed on Thursday to heal political and social divides, pledging to return the global financial hub to its "normal course of development". Lam takes office on July 1 after being selected in March amid ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s former immigration director Eric Chan Kwok-ki is set to head the next chief executive’s office, according to incoming leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor. Announcing her choice for the chief executive-elect’s office director, Lam said she ... ( read original story ...)

It was about 3pm on March 29. Three workers at the construction site of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge had plunged into the sea and gone missing after a platform they were working on under the viaduct collapsed. “Visibility was low, the water was ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG: Hong Kong is unrecognisable now from the city which 50 years ago was the scene of bloody riots, fuelled by resentment of colonial rule and inspired by the Cultural Revolution unfolding in China. But although memories of the bomb-strewn chaos of ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong faces real dangers of lone wolf-style attacks, with some extremists possibly already having sneaked into the city and planning attacks, the South China Morning Post reports citing the security units. Law enforcement stated on Wednesday ... ( read original story ...)

A dozen climbers in Hong Kong scrambled up a 60-ft (18-metre) tower covered with plastic buns in an annual contest won by the first man and woman to reach the top with the most buns plucked off the column in their ascent. Nearly 50,000 people flocked to ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG: Extremists inspired by the Islamic State (IS) terror group may have sneaked into Hong Kong or are already lurking in the city, putting anti-terror police on alert to prevent lone wolf-style attacks. Police on Wednesday said the danger was real, ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong stocks slipped slightly on Thursday, as a jump in index heavyweight HSBC Holdings largely counterbalanced any bearish sentiment stemming from the U.S. Federal Reserve's hawkish policy statement. The Hang Seng index fell 0.1 percent, to 24,683.88 ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s most high-profile democracy campaigners urged the US at a congressional panel late on Wednesday night to take a tougher stance against Beijing to protect Hong Kong’s freedoms. The city’s last British governor, Chris Patten, joined them as ... ( read original story ...)