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When 38-year-old Vincent Cheng Wing-shun won the Kowloon West seat last month in Hong Kong’s Legislative Council by-election, the pro-establishment camp rejoiced. It was the first time since the city’s return to Chinese rule in 1997 that they had swept ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s 200 or so advisers to Beijing now have to prove their worth through annual reports of work accomplished, in line with a recent reminder to them that China’s annual “two sessions” of the national legislature and top political advisory ... ( read original story ...)

It is no coincidence Hong Kong’s first adult-only carnival falls on the same weekend as the tourist-laden Hong Kong Sevens, its organisers said on Wednesday. 18+ Central, which features erotic BDSM workshops, pole dancing competitions and Japanese AV ... ( read original story ...)

The good news is that Hong Kong got better the longer Women’s Sevens World Series Qualifier played out on Thursday. The bad news is that it all came too late to see them play their way through to the second day of the tournament. Hong Kong were overrun ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong taxi drivers who applied for injunction orders against Occupy Central protesters in 2014 were in the news last month for staging a slow-drive protest in Central against the Uber “invasion”. It is ironic that they who once faulted the Occupy ... ( read original story ...)

The mainland Chinese authority managing the multibillion-dollar mega bridge linking Hong Kong to Macau and Zhuhai has dismissed mounting safety concerns following the apparent collapse of a structure meant to protect an artificial island along the project ... ( read original story ...)

After raising eyebrows with a HK$30,000 (US$3,800) donation to the city’s largest opposition party at its annual fundraising dinner, there will be more tut-tutting when Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor welcomes five pro-democracy lawmakers to ... ( read original story ...)

A group of Hong Kong scholars on Thursday threw their weight behind embattled academic Benny Tai Yiu-ting over his purportedly pro-independence comments, urging the UN to take the incident into consideration when reviewing the city’s freedoms. ( read original story ...)

These women share a common problem: how to properly inter their babies. In Hong Kong, only a fetus miscarried after the 24th week is recognised by the Hospital Authority as a stillbirth. And only a certified stillbirth can be cremated and buried in public ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG |April 4, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) World stock markets slid Wednesday after China announced details of its plans to retaliate against the proposed U.S. tariff hikes, in a escalation of trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies. ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's once thriving pro-democracy movement, weighed down by growing pessimism among its supporters over China's ever-increasing control in the city, is facing a crisis of confidence about its future. As China tightens its grip ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Pressure is mounting on a Hong Kong academic who helped lead pro-democracy protests in 2014, as dozens of pro-Beijing groups ran newspaper advertisements on Tuesday to demand his dismissal for allegedly advocating independence from China. ( read original story ...)

The row over controversial academic Benny Tai Yiu-ting’s independence remarks intensified on Monday as Beijing mouthpiece People’s Daily demanded the Hong Kong government take legal action against him under the city’s existing criminal law ... ( read original story ...)

A massive urban redevelopment project in London where half of the flats must be set aside for low-income families may offer ideas for Hong Kong officials mulling co-development of some 1,000 hectares of farmland with private firms to ease the local housing ... ( read original story ...)