An eight-month-old Ragdoll cat was stolen from a party room in a Hong Kong commercial building in the early hours of Wednesday, sparking a police manhunt for three thieves. Security camera footage ...
China’s big spenders are trickling back to Hong Kong’s luxury property market, boosting analysts’ hopes for a slow recovery
Property-market insiders see positive signs following the reopening of the border, especially in luxury developments, but a full recovery is expected to take months amid high interest rates.
Hong Kong home sales could surge 50% as rates peak, border reopens
Property developers are already saying that they are seeing homes being sold at an accelerated pace in recent weeks. Read more at straitstimes.com.
‘Happy to support Hong Kong’: city welcomes return of first international cruise ship in 3 years, as Silver Spirit sails in from Singapore
Vessel from Silversea Cruises docks at Tsim Sha Tsui to warm welcome, including lion dance performance City has at least 82 cruise calls lined up for the year with another ship, the German Mein Schiff ...
Hong Kong housewife allegedly ran HK$6 billion money-laundering syndicate, arrested with 8 others in record customs bust
Officers reveal 9 suspects, most of whom were unemployed, arrested after raid on Hung Hom flat in January Group believed to have used dozens of bank accounts over three-year period to launder money A ...
Staff shortages dent Hong Kong air hub reboot hopes
Regional airlines are struggling to ramp up flights to Hong Kong because of staff shortages at the airport, slowing the city's plan to recapture its travel hub status, industry insiders have told AFP.
Emirates to resume daily non-stop Hong Kong service
Emirates will ramp up frequencies to Hong Kong with a daily non-stop service from its Dubai hub, starting from March 29, adding to its existing daily flight from Dubai to Hong Kong via Bangkok. The ...
Mainland China money trickles into Hong Kong property market, especially luxury homes, as analysts expect slow recovery
Luxury homes are attracting mainland Chinese buyers, with three Ho Man Tin flats recently selling for about US$38 million Given high interest rates, it will take time for buying by mainland residents ...
Hong Kong’s secret abandoned houses and places – this interior designer loves them so much, she held a luxury dinner at one
Urban explorer Sacha Yasumoto has visited over 250 abandoned buildings and places in Hong Kong and her recent ‘Dangerous Dinner’ took blindfolded guests for a luxury meal at one.
Determining the future of virtual banking
The Bank of Thailand has issued a consultation paper for the virtual bank licensing framework as part of its hearings into the creation of virtual banks as new financial service providers. Below are ...
Former Hong Kong leader Tung Chee-hwa ‘to step down from China’s top advisory body as vice-chairman but no seat for Carrie Lam’
Former chief executive Carrie Lam will not take up Tung’s seat contrary to earlier speculation by the pro-establishment camp.
Hong Kong national security police arrest 6 for producing allegedly seditious books on 2019 protests, selling them at fair
Officers from force's National Security Department raid stall at fair on ground floor of Mong Kok shopping centre Three men and three women, aged 18 to 62, arrested in Kowloon and the New Territories ...
China developers’ debt risks persist after support policies’ slow start
China's Country Garden had some rare good news for the cash-squeezed property sector with an offshore debt repayment on Tuesday, but a closer look reveals just how much developers may still struggle ...
Hong Kong stock exchange expects boost from China reopening, HKEX chair says
Laura Cha, chairman of HKEX, discusses China's economic reopening and the outlook for stock markets in Hong Kong.