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Acquisition of office units in Sha Tin’s Metropole Square follows Metropolitan University’s US$334 million purchase of Hung Hom property.

Stricter checks to be imposed on all materials sampled on site amid concern over alleged falsified safety documents.

Ryan Moore secured a third International Jockeys Championship in dramatic fashion at Happy Valley, producing the suitably-named Triumphant More from the rear of the field to clinch the Far East finale.

Hong Kong has more than 300 companies in its IPO pipeline, having submitted paperwork to list. Listings so far this year in the territory have raised about US$34bn for companies, according to data from KPMG, making it the top IPO venue globally ahead of the NYSE, Nasdaq and National Stock Exchange of India.

Hong Kong authorities say they want a transparent investigation into a deadly building fire. They also have been arresting and detaining people who question why the fire was so deadly.

Insilico Medicine Inc. aims to list in Hong Kong as soon as this month, according to people familiar with the matter, rounding out a more than four-year effort to go public.

HONG KONG: The death toll in Hong Kong's worst fire in decades rose to 160 after an additional body was identified, police said on Tuesday (Dec 9), adding that six people were still listed as missing.

Bars hauled into flats at Wang Cheong House, the first of seven blocks engulfed by fire, while authorities say probe will take two to three weeks.

Chief Executive John Lee said on Monday he would work closely with the new Legislative Council in support of recovery

A get-out-the-vote campaign failed to lift turnout much above historic lows in a Hong Kong election in which the ballot was limited to “patriots” vetted by Beijing.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong's legislative election on Sunday (Dec 7) drew the second-lowest turnout rate on record, with voters choosing candidates under Beijing's "patriots only" rules in the aftermath of the city's deadliest fire in decades.

Bolttech, the global insurtech backed by Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li Tzar-kai, has acquired Kenyan digital insurance platform mTek, marking a strategic expansion into Africa’s growing protection market.

Hong Kong's legislative election on Sunday (Dec 7) drew the second-lowest turnout rate on record, with voters choosing candidates under Beijing's "patriots only" rules in the aftermath of the city's deadliest fire in decades.

Turnout in the legislative election was 31.9%, surpassing the 30.2% in 2021, though it was still much lower than before electoral changes that all but eliminated the opposition.