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On May 31, the Hong Kong Education Bureau issued a circular to local schools regarding new secondary education curriculum guidelines. Among the revisions was the inclusion of a new requirement for all schools to provide 39 hours of Basic Law education at ... ( read original story ...)

An unemployed Hong Kong man on Friday became the first person to plead guilty to a rioting charge over violent clashes between protesters and police in Mong Kok last year. Ng Ting-kai admitted to taking part in the riot, during which he threw bricks three ... ( read original story ...)

Born in Taishan, Guangdong province, Wong came to Hong Kong on a steam train at the age of nine. Wong joined the scouts, which he said had made him a caring and committed person. In 1989, he learned from the news that Beijing students were trying to root ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s outgoing leader Leung Chun-ying appealed to pan-democrats on Thursday to stop their filibustering as the legislature still had a backlog of items to debate, including at least two major funding requests, before it adjourns for the summer ... ( read original story ...)

Tsang and his “tank” drew a lot of attention as they moved from North Point to Xinhua’s headquarters in Happy Valley – China’s then de facto embassy in Hong Kong – with his fellow protesters. The now 61-year-old activist is one of the leading ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — A bottle of forbidden liquor produced last year by Chinese activists to mark the 1989 military crackdown on Beijing's Tiananmen Square has arrived in Hong Kong after a trip around the world. Hong Kong pro-democracy leaders on Friday unveiled ... ( read original story ...)

Long before the Chinese conglomerate HNA started making international news — for buying a controlling share of Deutsche Bank or acquiring Ingram Micro, the largest wholesaler of electronic equipment in America — it was familiar to people in Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s legal system has been through some tumultuous times in the two decades since 1997. The first post-handover chief justice, Andrew Li Kwok-nang, tackled challenges arising from the new constitutional order, where the city’s common law ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG - Christie's says a luxury handbag has shattered the world auction record in Hong Kong. The auction house didn't identify the buyer of the matte white crocodile skin Hermes Birkin bag with 18 karat gold and diamond hardware at Wednesday's sale. ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG -- Christie's says a luxury handbag has shattered the world auction record in Hong Kong. The auction house didn't identify the buyer of the matte white crocodile skin Hermes Birkin bag with 18 karat gold and diamond hardware at Wednesday's sale. ( read original story ...)

In a letter to CBC News, a lawyer for the Chan family trusts ... Reid said donations went to such charities as Oxfam Hong Kong, World Vision Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong and Little Sisters of the Poor. The Isle of Man documents also show that ... ( read original story ...)

Facebook has apologised for "incorrectly" rejecting a Hong Kong activist's profile picture frame referencing the Tiananmen massacre. Fung Ka Keung had designed a layer of text, known as a frame, for his profile picture to commemorate the incident. ( read original story ...)

Police are investigating a bomb scare that forced the evacuation of hundreds of people at one of Hong Kong’s most popular shopping malls. The device planted outside a restaurant at the Star Ferry entrance of Harbour City in Tsim Sha Tsui turned out to be ... ( read original story ...)

Doctors and concern groups in Hong Kong are calling for heightened awareness of the mental state of patients suffering from a rare and incurable neurological disease as a local survey found close to 30 per cent of patients had experienced suicidal thoughts. ( read original story ...)