Former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Beverley McLachlin, has announced her retirement from the controversial Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.
Drones light up Hong Kong sky to mark Dragon Boat festival
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2 arrested at Hong Kong S20 Songkran Music Festival for alleged drug offences
Officers on patrol intercepted man, 33, and woman, 34, after they were spotted acting suspiciously at water-themed festival.
Hong Kong’s South Lantau tourism planning to draw from mainland China, overseas: authorities
Hong Kong will look to overseas and mainland China national parks as a reference for the development of South Lantau into a tourist destination, authorities have said. Wu Kwok-yuen, head of the ...
Fierce competition as annual dragon boat racing festivals held in Beijing and Hong Kong
Amateur athletes competed in dragon boat races in Hong Kong and Beijing to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival on Monday.
Hong Kong waste recyclers ‘barely holding on’, industry veterans say after policy shelved
Hong Kong’s only recycler of drinks cartons has at last settled into a new home near the border, eight months after a government-backed landlord told the company to leave its old site in Yuen Long.
Hong Kong launches ‘smile offensive’ to boost flagging tourism
Five years after the world watched pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong meet with fierce repression, authorities in the territory think they have worked out how to get tourists back – everyone needs to ...
Hong Kong police arrest 17 in crackdown on dangerous drivers amid Dragon Boat Festival
Hong Kong police have arrested 17 people after setting up roadblocks across the city during the Dragon Boat Festival extended weekend in a bid to clamp down on dangerous drivers. Officers manned ...
Dragon Boat Festival races a big draw in Hong Kong, but who builds the boats?
With family-run shipyards dependent on finding someone to keep them going, and others moving to China, dragon boat building risks becoming another sunset industry in Hong Kong.
Lulu Wang Discovered Hong Kong’s Hidden Neighborhoods, Noodle Shops and Speakeasies While Shooting ‘Expats’
The atmosphere of Hong Kong permeates Lulu Wang's "Expats": the crowded streets, the muted colors, the stained-concrete high rises, the neon. Anna Franquesa-Solano's cinematography seems to even pick ...
Hong Kong parents send one in five Nepalese students to Nepal against will: report
Parents in Hong Kong send one in five Nepalese students to Nepal against their will. according to a survey publicized on Friday by Hong Kong Unison, a non-profit organization focusing on equal ...
Vigilante Hong Kong cabbies went undercover to ensnare illegal Uber drivers. It backfired
They hire their Uber through the app just like any other passenger, and hop in the back of the car. But halfway through the ride, the mood changes and they reveal their identity. “Pull over here. It’s ...
Hong Kong issues amber rainstorm signal as Lantau and New Territories see heavy rainfall
Bands of intense thundery showers to the south of Hong Kong have badly affected areas of Lantau Island and the New Territories with the city’s Observatory issuing the amber rainstorm warning at 7.15am ...
Dragon Boat Festival 2024: Hong Kong’s visually impaired team ‘challenge the impossible’
The Darkness Fighters are Hong Kong’s only team to pair visually impaired people with sighted volunteers to compete in the annual festival.