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Passengers could end up having to pay more for flights from Hong Kong as the city’s aviation regulator announced it is considering allowing airlines to set their own fuel surcharges. The Civil Aviation Department said on Friday it had began a 12-month ... ( read original story ...)

A serious medical blunder at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in which a doctor operated on the wrong side of a patient’s skull, has led to an investigation by the facility. The doctor cut open the left side of a woman’s skull, when it was actually the ... ( read original story ...)

They did so at the request of Snowden’s Hong Kong-based Canadian lawyer ... as refugees,” Montreal-based immigration lawyer Marc-André Séguin said in a news release published on the new organization’s website, Fortherefugees.com. ( read original story ...)

Lawyers for three families who sheltered Edward Snowden in Hong Kong say they have formally asked the Canadian government to grant them asylum. They issued a statement Thursday saying that the families want to move to Canada because they face persecution ... ( read original story ...)

The aim of the privacy law though was to strike a balance between upholding the freedom of the press and protecting personal information, Hong Kong's privacy commissioner for personal data, Stephen Kai-yi Wong, said in a statement. Exemptions for news ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG -- Lawyers for three families who sheltered Edward Snowden in Hong Kong say they have formally asked the Canadian government to grant them asylum. They issued a statement Thursday saying that the families want to move to Canada because they face ... ( read original story ...)

The city’s mini-constitution should be reviewed and its implementation regularly monitored by the apex of the national legislature, according to two Hong Kong deputies in ­Beijing yesterday – whose controversial proposals were swiftly ­derided back home. ( read original story ...)

Though the blending of cultures is a core part of Hong Kong’s identity, it takes a strong root to turn out new leaves, Oscar-winningcomposer Tan Dun has observed. Tan, the first Chinese composer to win an Academy Award in 2001 for the film music in ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG: Refugees who sheltered fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong are formally seeking asylum from the Canadian government as their lawyers said on Thursday (Mar 9) their lives are in danger. The impoverished refugees living hand to ... ( read original story ...)

A 92-year-old cataract patient in Hong Kong had his eye eviscerated on Tuesday just days after undergoing surgical procedure on it at Tseung Kwan O Hospital. The Hospital Authority said his eye specimen had tested positive for streptococcus pneumoniae ... ( read original story ...)

“I thought it would be clumsier,” said Nick Holonyak Jr, the engineer behind the first visible light emitting diode (LED), in a 2012 corporate video 50 years after he invented it for General Electric. “And you know what, this isn’t the end ... ( read original story ...)

Beijing’s top bureaucrat on Hong Kong affairs has called it “reasonable and without dispute” for the central government to “be concerned” about the city’s upcoming leadership race, in an apparent response to accusations that mainland officials ... ( read original story ...)

Organisers of a mock vote to choose Hong Kong’s next leader aim to draw one million participants and show the 1,194 people that have real votes who the public want in charge. The “civil referendum” led by Occupy Central co-founder Benny Tai Yiu-ting ... ( read original story ...)

Outgoing Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying is seeking punitive damages from an opposition lawmaker who he is suing for defamation over remarks about a HK$50 million payment that the chief executive received from an Australian engineering firm. In addition ... ( read original story ...)