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Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour is one of the world's busiest ports, but every morning daring elderly swimmers dive in to its choppy waters against a teeming backdrop of ferries, cargo ships and fishing boats. The city's older generations fill public spaces ... ( read original story ...)

Governments across Asia - most notably Hong Kong and Singapore - have launched a raft of initiatives to grab a slice of the $100 billion invested in fintech globally but the regulatory hotch-potch is making it tough for firms to scale up, the Asia ... ( read original story ...)

Shocking photographs have been taken of the horrifying conditions 200,000 Hong Kong residents live in. The pictures show the city's residents who live in low income apartments that have been dubbed "coffin cubicles". Figures from the Society for Community ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index climbed to another 23-month closing high on Thursday, as China's solid May trade data somewhat offset investor caution ahead of a slew of key global events. China stocks extended gains on Thursday, with the blue-chip ... ( read original story ...)

They've been condemned by the UN as 'an insult to human dignity', but so-called 'coffin homes' still house around 200,000 people in jam-packed Hong Kong. According to the Census and Statistics Department, those people are being housed in around 88,000 ... ( read original story ...)

Integrated efforts both inside and outside government will be required to tackle health care challenges brought by Hong Kong’s ageing population, the head of a top American medical institution said. Professor Victor Dzau, president of the US National ... ( read original story ...)

With just weeks to go before being sworn in as Hong Kong’s next leader, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has pledged to provide a platform for the young generation to participate in politics and allow them a bigger say in policymaking. The chief executive ... ( read original story ...)

A cleaner was jailed for eight months by a Hong Kong court on Tuesday for helping strangers enter a mahjong school in Yau Ma Tei to cheat customers. The Kowloon City Court heard that two men had switched the school’s tiles with those that were marked to ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (AP) — African park rangers urged Hong Kong lawmakers to approve a ban on ivory sales but warned that giving in to traders' demands for compensation would fuel more elephant poaching. Lawmakers and officials heard public submissions from the ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG, June 6, 2017 /CNW/ -- Hong Kong Airlines and Virgin Australia today announced that they will form a codeshare partnership* that will provide customers with connectivity to 11 destinations across the flight networks of both airlines. The ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG - African park rangers urged Hong Kong lawmakers to approve a ban on ivory sales but warned that giving in to traders' demands for compensation would fuel more elephant poaching. Lawmakers and officials heard public submissions from the rangers ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying promised on Tuesday to look into communication issues within the government a day after his transport minister admitted he had been kept in the dark for nearly a year about problems with a multibillion-dollar mega ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s transport minister has revealed that he was not ­informed for almost a year about irregularities in a multibillion-dollar bridge project, only finding out from graft-busters last month. At a Legislative Council transport panel meeting on ... ( read original story ...)

While mainland Chinese are only dimly aware of what happened at Tiananmen Square nearly three decades ago, the subject is openly discussed in Taiwan, a self-governing island, and Hong Kong, a special Chinese region with much autonomy and legally entrenched ... ( read original story ...)