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A 92-year-old cataract patient in Hong Kong had his eye eviscerated on Tuesday just days after undergoing surgical procedure on it at Tseung Kwan O Hospital. The Hospital Authority said his eye specimen had tested positive for streptococcus pneumoniae ... ( read original story ...)

“I thought it would be clumsier,” said Nick Holonyak Jr, the engineer behind the first visible light emitting diode (LED), in a 2012 corporate video 50 years after he invented it for General Electric. “And you know what, this isn’t the end ... ( read original story ...)

Beijing’s top bureaucrat on Hong Kong affairs has called it “reasonable and without dispute” for the central government to “be concerned” about the city’s upcoming leadership race, in an apparent response to accusations that mainland officials ... ( read original story ...)

Organisers of a mock vote to choose Hong Kong’s next leader aim to draw one million participants and show the 1,194 people that have real votes who the public want in charge. The “civil referendum” led by Occupy Central co-founder Benny Tai Yiu-ting ... ( read original story ...)

Outgoing Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying is seeking punitive damages from an opposition lawmaker who he is suing for defamation over remarks about a HK$50 million payment that the chief executive received from an Australian engineering firm. In addition ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING/HONG KONG A controversial interpretation by China's parliament of Hong Kong's mini-constitution that effectively bars pro-independence lawmakers from taking office, showed Beijing's resolve to prevent secession, a Chinese leader said on Wednesday. ( read original story ...)

All three candidates vying for Hong Kong’s top job will face off in series of debates over the final weeks leading up to the city’s chief executive election. Former financial secretary John Tsang Chun-wah, former chief secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet ... ( read original story ...)

Beijing’s top official overseeing foreign affairs urged Hong Kong to play a more active role in the country’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative during a meeting with the Hong Kong delegates to the national legislature on Tuesday morning. Yang Jiechi ... ( read original story ...)

Vancouver will be first North American destination for the young but rapidly expanding Hong Kong Airlines. In an interview with the Georgia Straight at Sun Sui Wah Seafood Restaurant, commercial assistant director Wayne Wang explained that his company ... ( read original story ...)

I am confused. Is Leung Chun-ying the chief executive or not? Well, he is and he isn’t. It depends on what political points need to be scored. To opposition lawmakers, he is just a Beijing lapdog who won the top job with just 689 votes. And since they ... ( read original story ...)

China’s third most powerful leader said on Monday that Beijing had the right to “step in” to Hong Kong’s leadership contest, according to local politicians who met him, in remarks fueling fears of meddling from Communist Party leaders. The comments ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong SAR Government attaches great importance to enhancing the well-being of women in Hong Kong. A few figures are worth remembering: Of the Hong Kong’s current population of 7.3 million, if you take away 350,000 foreign domestic helpers ... ( read original story ...)

Pressure is mounting on the Hong Kong government to reveal its planned arrangement for setting up a joint immigration facility at the West Kowloon terminus of the HK$84.4 billion express rail link to Guangzhou. The issue is controversial as mainland ... ( read original story ...)

The city’s leading specialist doctor training institution wants to increase its standing on Hong Kong’s Medical Council in order to strengthen its role of monitoring medical standards. Dr Luk Hung-to, the representative of the Academy of Medicine on a ... ( read original story ...)