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A Hong Kong man caught with more than 300 kilograms of methylamphetamine — the largest seizure of the drug in Western Australia — will have to spend at least 18 years behind bars. Yik To Ng, 21, was arrested at a house in suburban Canning Vale in ... ( read original story ...)

Bed occupancy rates at Tuen Mun Hospital have topped 100 per cent in both medical and paediatric wards as the public health sector struggles to cope during the peak flu season. Secretary for Food and Health Dr Ko Wing-man told lawmakers in a written reply ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong and Guangzhou musicians will celebrate their common musical source over political differences in an experimental fusion concert aimed at forging a new style of Cantonese music. The “Guangdong Music Assembly”, four young local and four ... ( read original story ...)

Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, the only candidate in Hong Kong’s leadership race without any support from pan-democrats, has expressed confidence that she will attract some votes from the camp in the secret ballot. She also appeared unruffled about the ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG: Four rebel Hong Kong lawmakers were in court on Wednesday (Mar 1) to fight a government bid to disqualify them from parliament, a move criticised as an attack on democracy under pressure from Beijing. Hong Kong's unpopular leader Leung Chun-ying ... ( read original story ...)

Elite police officers from the VIP Protection Unit – previously known as G4 – will provide protection for chief executive hopefuls Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and John Tsang Chun-wah throughout the leadership race, the Post has learned. But their rival ... ( read original story ...)

The BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) may be off the agenda for Tony Cruz-trained California Whip, but jockey Neil Callan believes the four-year-old has the ability to still prove one of the best horses of his generation – albeit in shorter races. He will ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was voted in as a delegate to Beijing’s top political advisory body on Tuesday. Of the 280 delegates from the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference’s standing committee who took part in a vote to ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s stock exchange is vying for a position as an advisor to the Saudi Arabian team preparing for the initial public offering of Saudi Aramco, paving the Chinese financial center’s road to become the host of the largest financial event of its ... ( read original story ...)

has expressed concern over claims by Sing Pao Daily News that it has suffered political retaliation since it published a series of articles attacking a top official in China and the Mainland's two chief agents in Hong Kong. On February 21, 2017 ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's stock exchange will bank on its role as a gateway to mainland China's deep-pocketed investors to take on other leading venues and win the coveted $100 billion listing of Saudi Arabia's giant state oil company, Aramco ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's stock exchange operator said on Monday its 2016 net profit fell 27 percent due to a decline in fees generated by stocks and metals trading on the bourse as it struggled to match stellar volumes seen during 2015's record rally. Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

Five Hong Kong think tanks have made it onto a list of the top 90 in the region compiled by a US university – two more than in the same study last year. But the highest spot occupied by one of the city’s think tanks was only 60th place, taken by Our ... ( read ...

Chinese-language newspaper Sing Pao Daily News called the police on Sunday after the home ... the travel document that enables Hong Kong residents to travel to mainland China. The newspaper said late last week that it received a large number of nuisance ... ( read original story ...)