Category: NEWS

Founded in 1993, i-Cable operates a 24-hour Cantonese-language news network in Hong Kong, and has received plaudits for its investigative journalism in Hong Kong and mainland China. But the channel’s future came into question last month after its parent ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG: Hong Kong plans to toughen information security rules after a series of embarrassing hacks at the city's brokers, the securities regulator said on April 20. The draft rules would likely include requirements for two-step authentication for ... ( read original story ...)

Yick said the government’s proposal to put an additional 600 franchised taxis from three operators on Hong Kong roads would create unfair competition and put cabbies’ livelihood at risk. Representatives from the taxi industry and the pro-establishment ... ( read original story ...)

Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying led a high-powered delegation to Guangdong on Wednesday with one thing on his mind: fitting Hong Kong into Beijing’s “Greater Bay Area” integration scheme for the Pearl River Delta. As he began the three-day visit he ... ( read original story ...)

Ai Weiwei, the Chinese dissident artist, has launched an attack on eroding freedoms in Hong Kong after he was refused a bank account at HSBC in the former British colony. The burly artist, who is a constant thorn in the side of Beijing’s Communist Party ... ( read original story ...)

The boy, surnamed Ho, escaped from Hong Kong Student Aid Society’s Island Hostel at Shek Pik, where he had lived for the past six months. His mother alerted Lantau police that day and said her son might have headed towards the Kwai Fong area, Langham ... ( read original story ...)

OUR TURN. Marcus Elliott's scorching second quarter helped Hong Kong withstand his third quarter ejection. Game 2 wasn’t going to be like Game 1 of the 2016-2017 Asean Basketball League Finals. Josh Boone, Marcus Elliott, and, in the endgame, the Hong ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong should expand the types of listed structured products to maintain the competitiveness as a world-leading listed structured products marketplace, the Financial Services Development Council (FSDC) of the Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean and Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying reaffirmed the longstanding friendship between Singapore and Hong Kong, said Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in a media statement on Tuesday (Apr 18). ( read original story ...)

It’s a seven-minute walk down the road from the nearest MTR station to reach Hong Kong’s most expensive site since the 1997 handover in the government’s recent land sale. In February the rectangular stretch of land measuring 126,595 sq ft was sold to ... ( read original story ...)

This statement was originally published on globalvoices.org on 10 April 2017. Satirical news show, China Uncensored, says that the Apple TV app store has blocked users from accessing it not only in mainland China, but also in Hong Kong and Taiwan. ( read original story ...)

"But when they do — you kind of [take a step] back and go, 'wow.' " Chan is a television actress, appearing regularly on one of the biggest stations in Hong Kong. But fame is never something she anticipated. Rather, it's the byproduct of a childhood ... ( read original story ...)

WWF-Hong Kong is launching a trial scheme with local fisheries representatives to use more sturdy crates made of cheap, lightweight corrugated plastic that does less ecological harm than foam. Pollution from foam boxes used by the fisheries sector has long ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong police have arrested two men from mainland China suspected of carrying out a series of burglaries in the city. The pair, aged 25 and 27, were intercepted outside 397 Clear Water Bay Road, Sai Kung, at around 7.30am on Sunday during an operation c ... ( read original story ...)