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Long before the Chinese conglomerate HNA started making international news — for buying a controlling share of Deutsche Bank or acquiring Ingram Micro, the largest wholesaler of electronic equipment in America — it was familiar to people in Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s legal system has been through some tumultuous times in the two decades since 1997. The first post-handover chief justice, Andrew Li Kwok-nang, tackled challenges arising from the new constitutional order, where the city’s common law ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG - Christie's says a luxury handbag has shattered the world auction record in Hong Kong. The auction house didn't identify the buyer of the matte white crocodile skin Hermes Birkin bag with 18 karat gold and diamond hardware at Wednesday's sale. ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG -- Christie's says a luxury handbag has shattered the world auction record in Hong Kong. The auction house didn't identify the buyer of the matte white crocodile skin Hermes Birkin bag with 18 karat gold and diamond hardware at Wednesday's sale. ( read original story ...)

In a letter to CBC News, a lawyer for the Chan family trusts ... Reid said donations went to such charities as Oxfam Hong Kong, World Vision Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong and Little Sisters of the Poor. The Isle of Man documents also show that ... ( read original story ...)

Facebook has apologised for "incorrectly" rejecting a Hong Kong activist's profile picture frame referencing the Tiananmen massacre. Fung Ka Keung had designed a layer of text, known as a frame, for his profile picture to commemorate the incident. ( read original story ...)

Police are investigating a bomb scare that forced the evacuation of hundreds of people at one of Hong Kong’s most popular shopping malls. The device planted outside a restaurant at the Star Ferry entrance of Harbour City in Tsim Sha Tsui turned out to be ... ( read original story ...)

Doctors and concern groups in Hong Kong are calling for heightened awareness of the mental state of patients suffering from a rare and incurable neurological disease as a local survey found close to 30 per cent of patients had experienced suicidal thoughts. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong customs officers uncovered more than seven tonnes of scales believed to have come from endangered pangolins in a shipping container that arrived from Africa, the government said on Tuesday. The 7,200kg haul – one of the biggest seizures of its ... ( read original story ...)

A young man who was reported missing while scouting for a site to play war games with friends on a Hong Kong hillside over the weekend was lured there, murdered and pushed down a slope, police said on Monday. Officers arrested three men, aged between 21 ... ( read original story ...)

John Moore-trained Werther (No. 1), ridden by Hugh Bowman, defeated Blazing Speed (No. 2) and Eagle Way (No. 4) to win the Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (G1 2400m) at Sha Tin Racecourse today. Werther delivered a timely reminder of his ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority confirmed on Monday that it would look into using facial recognition or fingerprint technology in the city’s cash machines to beef up financial security, as doubts remain whether such biotechnologies are mature and safe ... ( read original story ...)

Zhou Nan, former director of the official Xinhua news agency’s Hong Kong branch – Beijing’s de facto embassy before 1997 – made the suggestions in an article to be published in the latest issue of the pro-­establishment Bauhinia magazine on Thursday. ( read original story ...)

Residents in Hong Kong have started calling for the return of their former colonial rulers. Britain left the Far East 20 years ago on July 1, but citizens in the administrative region are now calling for their return. Serial sex offender locked up for 15 ... ( read original story ...)