Category: NEWS

A double-decker bus has crashed in Hong Kong killing 18 people and injuring nearly 50, officials say. The bus was carrying spectators and workers from horse races before it overturned in the New Territories area. Reports suggest it was going too fast. ( read original story ...)

A double-decker bus crashed in a Hong Kong suburb on Saturday evening ... Multiple passengers interviewed by the TVB and Cable TV news channels said the bus was moving at a high rate of speed when the accident happened. The passengers were not identified ... ( read original story ...)

A double-decker bus has crashed in Hong Kong killing 19 people and injuring another 40, officials say. The bus was carrying spectators and workers from horse races before it overturned in the New Territories area. Some reports suggested it was going too fast. ( read original story ...)

Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images At least 19 people have been killed and dozens injured after a double-decker bus overturned in Hong Kong. Photographs published by local news media showed the bus lying on its side with its roof torn off near the town of Tai ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is set to launch a news-based education and tourist hub that will be a first in Asia for multimedia content and the first in the world to provide free entry, its officers have revealed. The Hong Kong News-Expo, expected to open in December after ... ( read original story ...)

Regulators in Hong Kong have issued a strict warning to exchanges doing business with Chinese customers about trading tokens deemed as securities. In an announcement today, Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) said it has sent letters to ... ( read original story ...)

Rurik Jutting, the British banker jailed for life in Hong Kong for brutally murdering two Indonesian women ... was refused,” Lunn said in a brief court hearing as he broke the news to Jutting. Despite initially pledging not to appeal against his ... ( read original story ...)

Lawyers representing asylum seekers who helped American whistle-blower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong on Thursday claimed local police targeted them instead of looking into their concerns that Sri Lankan authorities were hunting them down in the city. ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG – Hong Kong's retired archbishop has warned that a deal between the Vatican and China that cedes too much power to Beijing would place the country's Catholic followers in a big "birdcage." Cardinal Joseph Zen said Friday that the Holy See ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court on Friday rejected a British banker's appeal of his conviction in the gruesome murders of two Indonesian women. Three Court of Appeal judges said in their decision that Rurik Jutting's appeal had no merit. Jutting is ... ( read original story ...)

Some 203 adults and 12 children developed severe complications after becoming infected, The South China Morning Post reported Australian expat Alexis Galloway, 33, who lives in Hong Kong with her husband and three young children, told news.com.au she had ... ( read original story ...)

While Lunar New Year decorations typically include plants and flowers that symbolise luck and good fortune, florists in Hong Kong expect overall sales to droop compared to last year, with some estimating earnings to fall by up to 30 per cent. Those who ... ( read original story ...)

A young boy believed to be disabled was found abandoned in a Hong Kong park on Tuesday, prompting police to investigate whether he was brought from mainland China and dumped in the city. Police were searching for a masked man who was captured by security ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (REUTERS) - Hong Kong regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) said on Friday (Feb 9) it would crack down on cryptocurrency exchanges that operate in the Asian financial hub without a licence or violate local securities laws. ( read original story ...)