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HONG KONG – Hong Kong and Chile have signed a bilateral investment agreement on the sidelines of an Asian-Pacific summit in Peru. The Hong Kong government said Saturday that the deal provides for investment disputes to be settled under internationally ... ( read original story ...)

A flamboyant Hong Kong tycoon has placed full-page adverts in local media to announce that he has separated from a girlfriend. Joseph Lau is the 65th richest man in the world with a net worth of $12.6 billion (£10 billion), according to Forbes. ( read original story ...)

A Hong Kong court has disqualified two pro-independence politicians from taking office, ruling their oath of allegiance invalid in a judgment in step with Beijing, which last week intervened in the city's legal system. Hong Kong judge says the court's ... ( read original story ...)

In 1997, when Britain turned over Hong Kong to China, everyone agreed the change would leave Hong Kong with a “high degree of autonomy.” It would keep its own legal system as well as freedom of speech and religion. Under the Basic Law, passed by ... ( read original story ...)

But the president accepted her second oath. Lau, a lecturer and an advocate for Hong Kong self-determination, is among 13 pan-democratic and localist lawmakers being sued by citizens for adding words or using props when taking oaths last month. Their ... ( read original story ...)

A citywide police hunt for a sex ­offender is under way after two girls aged eight and 11 were indecently assaulted in two separate incidents in Sau Mau Ping over the past two weeks. The suspect is thought to be aged between 30 and 40, thinly built and ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — Facebook rumors force a well-known politician to publish ... Well before last week’s American election threw Facebook’s status as a digital-era news source into the spotlight, leaders, advocacy groups and minorities worldwide have ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s top bishop hopes the winner of the leadership race in March can “help the city to be peaceful and where people can live happily”. Cardinal John Tong Hon spoke yesterday as more than 1,500 people were nominated to run for the 1,200-member ... ( read original story ...)

China’s President Xi Jinping is expected to meet Hong Kong’s leader at the Apec forum in Peru on Sunday ), as the city continues to be embroiled in one of the biggest constitutional crises since the handover. The meeting also comes as Hong Kong is ... ( read original story ...)

NAIROBI - Kenya beat Hong Kong by three wickets in their rain-affected first match of the World Cricket League Championship at the Nairobi Gymkhana club ground on Friday to secure two points. Set 223 to win, the Kenyan chase -- spearheaded by opener-cum ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG, Nov 18 (Reuters) - A trading link between the stock exchanges of Hong Kong and China's Shenzhen, allowing investors to buy and sell shares on either side of the border, may be delayed until December, a local newspaper reported on Friday. ( read original story ...)

So it was bracing to talk with Joshua Wong, a leader of the movement for democracy in Hong Kong in the face of implacable opposition from Beijing. All the more so since the slight, intense Wong - wearing large black-rimmed glasses - has just turned 20 ... ( read original story ...)

Nov 18 (Reuters) - Hong Kong stocks rose on Friday, but posted a fourth consecutive weekly loss amid worries the United States will raise interest rates next month and a strong dollar could keep drawing money there from emerging markets. The benchmark Hang ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is one of the most expensive places to live in the world, with the median property price 19 times the median annual household income. For some, the only option is to live in one of the city's notorious cage homes, which consist of a bunk bed ... ( read original story ...)