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Applications to claim Hong Kong government subsidies for continuing education have plummeted 73 per cent since 2006, suggesting an incentive scheme has been ineffectual, according to a Legislative Council study released on Friday. The study by the Legco ... ( read original story ...)

Two alleged members of a pro-independence party in Hong Kong were found guilty on Friday of making explosives shortly before the city’s legislature was to vote on a controversial electoral reform bill. They were also convicted of further charges of ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s leader played down concerns over Beijing’s perceived tighter control of the city on Thursday, and said the central government was committed to upholding the “one country, two systems” principle that guarantees the city’s high degree ... ( read original story ...)

Would you live in a flat in Hong Kong with panoramic sea views, but have your home built on an 80-metre high podium above one of the world’s busiest container terminals? Hong Kong residents will be asked in a public consultation next March if they would ... ( read original story ...)

A Beijing adviser on Hong Kong affairs warned on Friday that the central government could “take action” to safeguard national security if Hong Kong failed to enact the relevant local legislation. Lau Siu-kai, vice-chairman of the Chinese Association of ... ( read original story ...)

Dumplings, wontons and dim sums are what make Hong Kong a foodie’s delight. The smell of meat soup wafting through Hong Kong’s old streets sends both bag-packers and pin-striped Wall Street bankers, starving. On Peak Road in Wanchai, egg tarts from the ... ( read original story ...)

Would you live in a flat in Hong Kong with panoramic sea views, but have your home built on a 80-metre high podium above one of the world’s busiest container terminals? Hong Kong residents will be asked in a public consultation next March if they would ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Chinese official admonished Hong Kong on Thursday for failing to introduce a national security law, ramping up pressure on the former British colony to enact the contentious Article 23 that critics say will further choke its freedoms. ( read original story ...)

Undoubtedly the most notorious Hong Kong incident involved an act of naked violence ... New Territories, made the news. The three-storey upmarket villa at JC Castle along Shan Tong Road was reportedly bought under the name of Hsieh Ping-sung for HK$ ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has been a top breeding ground for job recruitment frauds as thousands of Filipino domestic helpers in the city have been trafficked to countries like Russia, Brazil and Turkey for bogus jobs, a senior Philippine official told the Post on Wednesday. ( read original story ...)

Lawmakers finally gave a symbolic green light to the government on Wednesday to get moving on a politically contentious joint checkpoint on the Hong Kong side of the cross-border railway to Guangzhou, as filibustering opposition members exhausted all their ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s largest franchised bus operator said on Wednesday it planned to launch its highly anticipated HK$800 monthly pass early next year for all passengers. The Transport Department approved KMB’s application for the offering last month and was ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has been a top breeding ground for job recruitment fraud as thousands of Filipino domestic helpers in the city have been trafficked to countries like Russia, Brazil and Turkey for bogus jobs, a senior Philippine official told the Post on Wednesday. ( read original story ...)

A former top Hong Kong judge said on Wednesday he did “not see any threat to judicial independence” amid concerns in the city and abroad regarding the jailing of three prominent political activists in the city. Former Court of Final Appeal judge Henry ... ( read original story ...)