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A diminutive Ru Guanyao brush washer from the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) set a new auction record for a Chinese ceramic on 3 October when it sold for HK$294.3m (US$37.7m) (all prices with fees) at Sotheby's Hong Kong. At nearly three times the ... ( read original story ...)

About 71,000 poor Hong Kong households do not have enough money to meet even their most basic food needs, and are surviving on less than HK$15 per meal per ­person, a study has found. And poor people who do not have public housing are shelling out larger ... ( read original story ...)

Alok Gupta is a Hong Kong-based freelance journalist who specialises in environment and development issues. This story was published with permission from Citiscope, a non-profit news outlet that covers innovations in cities. More at Citiscope.org. ( read original story ...)

A 34-year-old man who was accused of murdering his bedridden mother before jumping from a 16th-floor flat in a suicide bid on Sunday was a psychiatric patient at a Hong Kong hospital and received his last consultation 11 days ago before the brutal killing ... ( read original story ...)

Former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang Yam-kuen played by his own “secret” rule, which existed only “in his head”, when it came to declaring his private yacht and jet trips with friends, his bribery trial heard on Monday. The High Court heard this ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s first affordable social housing operator has revealed it will introduce a new project for low-income young singles next year to celebrate its fifth year in operation. Social enterprise Light Be on Monday invited 10 landlords, who have ... ( read original story ...)

A FIRE broke out on the tarmac of Hong Kong’s international airport on Monday, with black smoke seen billowing near the belly of an American Airlines plane. The blaze began around 5.30pm (8.30pm AEDT) in one of the parking berths and one person was ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's government continues to keep the maritime sector abreast of the latest international developments with a proposal to tweak legislation on shipowners' liability to bring them in line with changes at the IMO level. The government said in a press ... ( read original story ...)

The Leighton-Chun Wo joint venture standardized on a BIM methodology to drive consistency on this large multi-discipline design project that will connect Hong Kong, Macau, and Zhuhai. This revolutionary project includes 50 kilometers of bridges and tunnels ... ( read original story ...)

Whether he's opening bottles with chopsticks or doing the splits on the floor, the owner of Hong Kong's Tung Po restaurant is always ready to put on a show. CBS News 2:30 56 mins ago ( read original story ...)

3,000 entrants rise to the challenge for Hong Kong edition of Asia's signature photography competition HONG KONG, CHINA - Media OutReach - 8 October 2017 - The last shots have been snapped at the Canon PhotoMarathon (CPM) Hong Kong 2017, the local edition ... ( read original story ...)

A record 4,900 professional and amateur cyclists battled it out in Hong Kong on Sunday at the annual cyclothon, even as participants said the city had much work to do to transform itself into a truly bike-friendly place. A wide range of races was scheduled ... ( read original story ...)

A team from the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE) is joining the race for the third time, but with a new, much lighter car called SOPHIE VI. The event has become one of the world’s foremost innovation challenges with teams looking to ... ( read original story ...)

Advocates of Hong Kong independence are intolerable, Zhang Xiaoming said last week on his first day as director of the State Council's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office in Beijing. "What is Hong Kong independence?" he asked rhetorically while meeting the ... ( read original story ...)