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Hong Kong's legislature was again reduced to chaos on Wednesday as political divisions deepen over the swearing in of two new lawmakers who advocate a split from Beijing. There are growing concerns in the semi-autonomous city that China is tightening its ... ( read original story ...)

A banker accused of murdering two women in his Hong Kong flat wanted to kidnap three 'mid teenage girls' from a top British boarding school, a court heard. In a horrific video he filmed while sexually torturing and killing one of his victims, Rurik Jutting ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG – A jury in Hong Kong watched chilling video Tuesday of a British banker describing how he tortured and killed an Indonesian woman he met in a bar, saying he repeatedly raped her and "tortured her badly." In the video he shot, Rurik Jutting ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG - A jury in Hong Kong watched chilling video Tuesday of a British banker describing how he tortured and killed an Indonesian woman he met in a bar, saying he repeatedly raped her and "tortured her badly." In the video he shot, Rurik Jutting ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG – A British banker accused of killing two Indonesian women in his Hong Kong apartment had tortured one of the victims for three days while using cocaine, a prosecutor said at the opening of his murder trial Monday. The women's murders and the ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG -- A British banker accused of the grisly 2014 killings of two Indonesian women pleaded not guilty when he went on trial Monday in Hong Kong, in a case expected to highlight the Asian financial hub's inequality and privileged lifestyle of its ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG -- A British banker was using cocaine when he killed two Indonesian women by slitting their throats and then used his phone to film himself talking about it, a Hong Kong prosecutor said as a trial for the 2014 killings opened Monday. The banker ... ( read original story ...)

A British banker accused of murdering two Indonesian women in Hong Kong has pleaded not guilty on grounds of diminished ... but guilty to manslaughter," Mr Jutting said according to AFP news agency, entering his plea for the first time in the city's ... ( read original story ...)

It was the second week in a row that Chan had used his official blog to respond to critics of the land supply policy ahead of the expected release for public consultation this week of a government report on Hong Kong’s long-term development blueprint ... ( read original story ...)

The decades-old debate about whether Hong Kong exercises separation of powers has been unleashed again, following the government’s unprecedented move to ask a court to disqualify two democratically elected localist lawmakers. Some say the three words are ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s chief secretary defended the government’s decision to file a legal challenge against the ruling of the Legislative Council president to allow two localist lawmakers to retake their oaths, saying the administration was justified in doing so ... ( read original story ...)

But spare a thought for the real hard-workers. We’re talking, of course, about the cats of Hong Kong. Every day, these hard-working felines wake up, stroll out of their little cat baskets, and get stuck in to a hard day working up front in their shop. ( read original story ...)

The Social Welfare Department was aware that a controversial nursing home for the mentally disabled had falsely declared its level of manpower before a series of mysterious deaths and cases of alleged sexual abuse came to light, the department’s director ... ( read original story ...)

Racenet has secured the services of two of the best Hong Kong form analysts to assist in finding you a winner, quinella, trifecta or quaddie - whatever tickles your fancy. So whose tips are these? The Sheik - Vern Rhodes goes by the pen name "The Sheik of ... ( read original story ...)