Hong Kong police are checking roadside surveillance footage around the city to try to trace the movements of missing mainland billionaire Xiao Jianhua as they investigate his disappearance from the luxury hotel where he was staying on Lunar New Year’s ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong wheels out pilot food truck scheme with 16 vendors
HONG KONG: Hong Kong's long-awaited pilot food truck scheme gets off the ground on Friday (Feb 3), with an initial 16 trucks parked at eight tourist locations. The Tourism Commission initiative is meant to draw more tourists to the city while helping ... ( read original story ...)
Chinese-Canadian billionaire missing from Hong Kong
Xiao Jianhua is on mainland China, according to a report by Hong Kong's South China Morning Post on Wednesday, citing an anonymous source close to the tycoon. Overseas Chinese news sites said earlier that Chinese police officers escorted Xiao from his ... ( read original story ...)
Mystery over Chinese-born Canadian billionaire's disappearance from Hong Kong
Xiao Jianhua is in mainland China, according to Hong Kong's South China Morning Post on Wednesday, citing an anonymous source close to the tycoon, one of China's richest individuals. Overseas Chinese news sites said earlier that Chinese police officers ... ( read original story ...)
Chinese billionaire, a Canadian citizen, missing from Hong Kong
Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a Chinese billionaire reportedly taken away from his Hong Kong hotel by mainland police ... according to overseas Chinese news sites that carry reports of political gossip and unverified corruption scandals. ( read original story ...)
Chinese billionaire whereabouts a mystery, but denies abduction from Hong Kong – media
... China-born billionaire was quoted by state media on Tuesday as saying he had not been abducted from Hong Kong by mainland Chinese agents as some news outlets had reported, but was receiving medical treatment. Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of Xiao ... ( read original story ...)
Chinese billionaire protected by all-female bodyguards is feared to have been abducted from Hong Kong amid rumours he has been kidnapped by Beijing agents
Xiao is reported to have come to Hong Kong in 2014, two years after Chinese President Xi Jinping started a much-publicised anti-corruption drive. He has denied that he was ever the target of an investigation. Chinese-language news site Boxun said Xiao had ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s biggest pro-Beijing party takes a swipe at John Tsang over his spending record
Hong Kong’s biggest pro-Beijing party has launched a veiled attack on a front runner in the city’s leadership race, John Tsang Chun-wah, for consistently underestimating fiscal reserves when he was financial secretary. The comments indicate that the ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong husband makes new year wish for double lung transplant for ailing wife
In January, Kum was transferred to the intensive care unit at Grantham Hospital in south Hong Kong Island after her condition took a turn for the worse. Dr Michael Wong Ka-lam, an associate consultant at the hospital’s cardiac medicine unit, said Kum was ... ( read original story ...)
Would YOU live in a 'coffin home' to beat the housing crisis? Hong Kong residents forced to live in tiny bunkers after property prices skyrocket by 50 per cent
Skyrocketing rental prices in Hong Kong have seen more people living in 'coffin homes' measuring just 1.9 square metres in size as that is all people can afford there. The likes of Wong Ziwa lives in one of these tiny low-ceiling abodes that he calls home. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong needs dozens more foreign doctors, health minister says
Hong Kong’s health minister says the public hospital authority should recruit dozens more doctors from overseas and give them longer contracts to relieve a manpower shortage. Dr Ko Wing-man said there was a shortage of between 200 and 300 medical staff ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong police seize four cars in street racing crackdown
The four cars where found travelling with speeds of up to 100km/h along Wong Chuk Hang Road and Nam Fung Road. Officers at the Hong Kong Island traffic branch’s enforcement and control division task force gave chase in unmarked vehicles while road ... ( read original story ...)
Kirins fail to make HK final
Thai League champions SCG Muang Thong United failed to reach the final of the Lunar New Year Cup, going down to top Hong Kong club Kitchee FC 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out after a 1-1 draw in normal time. The tournament is being held in Hong Kong to celebrate ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong New Year’s Horse Racing
Beauty Only’s storming stretch run to win last month’s G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile might have announced the gelding on the world stage but jockey Zac Purton is under no illusions as to which horse remains the Hong Kong Mile division’s big daddy ... ( read original story ...)