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Hong Kong is unlikely to get a fourth runway after its third airstrip is completed by 2024, even as Asian cities race to boost flight capacity to meet surging demand for air travel, the man running one of the world’s busiest airports has said. ( read original story ...)

The man supervising Hong Kong’s first social housing project using prefabricated container homes believes it could ultimately be the solution to solving the city’s housing crisis. Stephen Lai Yuk-fai, the managing director of Rider Levett Bucknall ... ( read original story ...)

A survey of Hong Kong Christians has thrown up at least another 55 sexual harassment cases in churches, half of them allegedly committed by pastors or church leaders. The survey, released on Sunday by the Hong Kong Christian Council, came after pastor Ngai ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor will meet China’s vice-premier Han Zheng on Tuesday to discuss Beijing’s plan to transform the city, Macau and nine mainland cities into an economic and innovation powerhouse to rival Silicon Valley. ( read original story ...)

Jin’s plight and thoughts, along with other untold stories of how several “709 wives” escaped China with their young children to seek asylum in the US, are documented in a film produced by two independent Hong Kong journalists to mark the third ... ( read original story ...)

A Coptic Christian couple who say they are fleeing persecution in Egypt have accused Hong Kong immigration authorities of mistreatment, amid a spate of allegations submitted to local lawyers concerning similar cases at the city’s largest centre for ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong prisons are struggling to cope with an ageing population after the number of elderly inmates almost doubled in the past decade, placing tremendous pressure on manpower. Figures obtained by the Post show the number of prisoners aged 60 and above ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong wants to lure new business to the city by turning itself into a production hub for electric vehicle manufacturers – at the expense of its rivals north of the border. A rise in the cost of a production licence on the mainland, which now costs ... ( read original story ...)

News this month of her stepping down as head of the science ... Law said the future of developing innovation and technology in the city depended on finding and retaining talent. “Hong Kong has good scientists. We also have young people devoted to science. ( read original story ...)

In the first half of the year, one Hong Kong policeman was arrested on average per week for a crime of some kind. They also followed news on Friday that a female model complained about a police constable harassing her after taking her mobile number during ... ( read original story ...)

This week, City Weekend explores places in Hong Kong with colourful backstories and fascinating names. Bride’s Pool In the warm light of day, this sun-dappled pool and waterfall located near Tai Mei Tuk in Plover Cove Country park paint quite the idyllic ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong police said that a suicide note found in Ching-yu’s ... a dermatologist and researcher at Women’s College Hospital and the University of Toronto, tells Global News. “Many patients have a family history of atopic dermatitis or related ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s sole member of the nation’s top legislative body on Friday dismissed concerns that Beijing would act against mounting legal challenges to legislation allowing mainland laws to be enforced at a rail terminus in the city. The remarks by Tam ... ( read original story ...)

Stacking prefabricated homes on a plot of land reserved for an expanded Disneyland would be better than the Dutch flower garden Hong Kong officials just agreed to put there, a lawmaker has said. Democratic Party legislator Andrew Wan Siu-kin on Friday said ... ( read original story ...)