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Green activists in Hong Kong are urging lawmakers to reject the government’s plan for a new office to spearhead Lantau’s development unless more conservation experts are included. The Sustainable Lantau Office, which will be set up after funding is ... ( read original story ...)

Women’s rights campaigners from across Asia have gathered in Hong Kong to discuss the lack of funding for their projects, which they claim are being ignored in favour of organisation that represent pro-establishment groups. Representatives from ... ( read original story ...)

Wong spoke with As It Happens host Carol Off about the new film about his life and what's ahead for Hong Kong as it approaches the 20th anniversary of its handover to China. Carol Off: I want to start with the news, which is that you plan to plead guilty ... ( read original story ...

former deputy director of Xinhua News Agency, struck a sympathetic tone as he talked about the city where he was stationed for 13 years until his retirement in 1998. Xinhua’s Hong Kong branch was the predecessor of the central government’s liaison ... ( read original story ...)

The legal chief of Beijing’s liaison office in Hong Kong says Hongkongers should wake up from the “illusion” that they can develop a different set of politics from China under “one country, two systems”, declaring that “all politics is central”. ( read original story ...)

The spot, located in the ritzy Upton apartment complex in western Hong Kong, is only 188-square-feet. That’s slightly bigger than a regular parking space anywhere else, about four times the size of a king-size bed and one-fifteenth the size of a tennis ... ( read original story ...)

But what does he park in it? A business executive paid $664,000 for a parking space in his ritzy Hong Kong apartment building, according to property records, setting a new record for the city by $50,000. The South China Morning Post reports that Kwan Wai ... ( read original story ...)

Local banks have been reluctant to pass on higher costs Hong Kong’s de facto central bank followed the Federal Reserve and boosted interest rates for a third time since December, elevating the risk of a selloff in the world’s priciest housing market. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong just set another property-price record. This time, it was for a parking space. A 188-square-foot space on Hong Kong island sold for HK$5.18 million ($664,300), or HK$27,500 a square foot, last month, newspaper Ming Pao reported Wednesday ... ( read original story ...)

A study by a Hong Kong university has found that the city’s government lags behind other Asia-Pacific jurisdictions in terms of preventing and treating chronic viral hepatitis – linked to liver cancer. Chinese University researchers surveyed 13 ... ( read original story ...)

Its property prices are famously sky-high but now a Hong Kong parking space has been sold for an eye-watering HK$5.18 million (US$664,200) in what local reports said was a world record. The space is on the first floor at a luxury apartment complex near the ... ( read original story ...)

City’s pegged currency has declined most in Asia this year Hang Seng stock index has rallied 18% amid ample liquidity The Hong Kong dollar may be sliding into the weak end of its trading band, yet money managers see no reason for stock investors to turn ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG Hong Kong's top court on Wednesday upheld a corruption conviction against a billionaire property tycoon, putting an end to a years-long landmark court battle that exposes the cosy ties between government officials and powerful tycoons. ( read original story ...)

The officials responsible for the missing laptops that contained the personal information of 3.78 million voters may face disciplinary action, Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Raymond Tam Chi-yuen said on Tuesday. Releasing the results of ... ( read original story ...)