Tag: hongkong

But the president accepted her second oath. Lau, a lecturer and an advocate for Hong Kong self-determination, is among 13 pan-democratic and localist lawmakers being sued by citizens for adding words or using props when taking oaths last month. Their ... ( read original story ...)

A citywide police hunt for a sex ­offender is under way after two girls aged eight and 11 were indecently assaulted in two separate incidents in Sau Mau Ping over the past two weeks. The suspect is thought to be aged between 30 and 40, thinly built and ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — Facebook rumors force a well-known politician to publish ... Well before last week’s American election threw Facebook’s status as a digital-era news source into the spotlight, leaders, advocacy groups and minorities worldwide have ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s top bishop hopes the winner of the leadership race in March can “help the city to be peaceful and where people can live happily”. Cardinal John Tong Hon spoke yesterday as more than 1,500 people were nominated to run for the 1,200-member ... ( read original story ...)

China’s President Xi Jinping is expected to meet Hong Kong’s leader at the Apec forum in Peru on Sunday ), as the city continues to be embroiled in one of the biggest constitutional crises since the handover. The meeting also comes as Hong Kong is ... ( read original story ...)

NAIROBI - Kenya beat Hong Kong by three wickets in their rain-affected first match of the World Cricket League Championship at the Nairobi Gymkhana club ground on Friday to secure two points. Set 223 to win, the Kenyan chase -- spearheaded by opener-cum ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG, Nov 18 (Reuters) - A trading link between the stock exchanges of Hong Kong and China's Shenzhen, allowing investors to buy and sell shares on either side of the border, may be delayed until December, a local newspaper reported on Friday. ( read original story ...)

So it was bracing to talk with Joshua Wong, a leader of the movement for democracy in Hong Kong in the face of implacable opposition from Beijing. All the more so since the slight, intense Wong - wearing large black-rimmed glasses - has just turned 20 ... ( read original story ...)

Nov 18 (Reuters) - Hong Kong stocks rose on Friday, but posted a fourth consecutive weekly loss amid worries the United States will raise interest rates next month and a strong dollar could keep drawing money there from emerging markets. The benchmark Hang ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is one of the most expensive places to live in the world, with the median property price 19 times the median annual household income. For some, the only option is to live in one of the city's notorious cage homes, which consist of a bunk bed ... ( read original story ...)

Kenya captain Rakep Patel reckons that the home conditions will help the team and is aiming to win both matches and overtake Hong Kong in the process. © ICC Kenya and Hong Kong figure in important mid-table engagements of the ICC World Cricket League on ... ( read original story ...)

A senior Development Bureau official has asked police to investigate an incident during a Legislative Council panel meeting earlier this week in which his folder said to contain confidential information was snatched by protesting legislators. The incident ... ( read original story ...)

the applicant said the live-in rule infringed her right to privacy and placed her in a vulnerable position with no means of self-defence. Until 2003, Hong Kong’s army of domestic helpers did not need to live with their employers under their contracts. ( read original story ...)