Category: NEWS

Tapping the enthusiasm of this festive season, Hong Kong Tourism is beckoning tourists to its destination through its new tourism campaign--"Best of All, It's in Hong Kong". This new global marketing campaign takes the traveller on an all-round tour around ... ( read original story ...)

HONG Kong tycoon Tony Fung is planning to build a beachside six-star hotel on the Gold Coast. The Gold Coast Bulletin can reveal Mr Fung’s Aquis Australia will today announce plans prepared by architects Wood Bagot for a $440 million hotel overlooking ... ( read original story ...)

according to remarks published on the Hong Kong government’s news website. Ms. Lam’s remarks appear to have done little to assuage her critics, many of whom have long been wary of efforts by Beijing to assert its influence in Hong Kong, a ... ( read original story ...)

Breaking point: Hong Kong’s overburdened mental health care system in need of a fix The Clara House hostel supported by the Mental Health Association allows residents a high degree of freedom to live independently. They are allowed to go out to work ... ( read original story ...)

Instead of charging into a crowd armed with rifles, he was met with smartphones, overwhelmed on a street in Hong Kong by pictures and selfies rather than enemy fire. Yu is a member of Watershed, a local historical group working to raise awareness of what t ... ( read original story ...)

The operator of Hong Kong’s first integrated recycling plant for electronics is hoping to increase the local recovery rate of such waste materials once its new facility and collection network become fully operational “on time and on budget” next year. ( read original story ...)

Travel and tour operators are worried that new rules imposed recently could bring down the number of tourists opting to go to Hong Kong and Macau — the latter known as the Las Vegas of the east. Recently, the Immigration Department of the Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

The last of more than 2,000 Hong Kong travellers who were stranded in snowbound northern Japan over Christmas were on their way home on Monday night amid criticism from some that an offer to compensate them for the chaos was “grossly inadequate’’. ( read original story ...)

A group of 40 angry Hong Kong Airlines passengers who were left stranded by a snowstorm in northern Japan for days have called for improved consumer rights for air passengers, after they rejected a “grossly inadequate” compensation offer. Air ... ( read original story ...)

He looks for what lies hidden through his camera lens to reveal the soul of the city. Through his short film Focus Hong Kong he hopes more people can appreciate the large and heterogeneous collection of underlying messages so that they can better ... ( read original story ...)

Cathay Pacific will return 1,600 passengers to Hong Kong in the early hours of Boxing Day. Three further rescue flights will pick up more passengers between December 26 and 27. In anticipation of the weather deteriorating in the Hokkaido region ... ( read original story ...)

Lee Ho-ching first sang Christmas carols and danced at the Christmas Marshmallow Charity Sale. Undeterred by the strong winds of December, the five year old then busily went about collecting donations from passers-by for the Salvation Army. “I have sold ... ( read original story ...)

75 years ago today the battle of Hong Kong ended with Canadian troops involved in the fight surrendering to Japanese forces. They would be interred in brutal prisoner of war camps. Jules Knox reports. ( read original story ...)

A people smuggling syndicate that provided a “one-stop service” to Vietnamese nationals seeking illegal entry to Hong Kong for work has been smashed by city and mainland Chinese authorities, with its two leaders sentenced to 24 and 32 months ... ( read original story ...)