The way poverty is measured in city is to change, with a more sophisticated formula to replace median household income drawn up before year-end.
SAR can become major green tech, finance hub: FS
Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Sunday said Hong Kong has the potential to become an international hub for green technology and finance, which he ...
Hong Kong customs arrests seven for laundering US$1.8bil
Hong Kong customs officials have arrested seven people suspected of being involved in a syndicate that allegedly laundered HK$14 billion (US$1.8 billion) using shell companies and “stooge” bank ...
Hong Kong builders respond to demand for sustainable construction methods as city pursues carbon neutrality
Yau Lee Holdings is seeing greater demand for construction techniques that improve the sustainability of the built environment while also cutting costs, waste and construction time.
1st Hong Kong adult video actress in Japan market breaking barriers
A Hong Kong actress grabbed headlines when she became the first woman from the former British colony to break into Japan's adult ...
Hong Kong’s economy needs reinvention to become more than just China’s superconnector after a lost half decade
Hong Kong’s superconnector status has not enabled its economy to outperform other rival Asian hubs such as Singapore.
A pregnant ex-prisoner of war’s anxious life in a Hong Kong camp after Japan’s World War II surrender
An excerpt from Searching for Billie sheds light on the life of a World War II internee at Hong Kong’s Stanley camp – the author’s mother – in the chaotic days following the Japanese surrender.
Is Hong Kong airport facing even stronger headwinds as rivals Shenzhen and Guangzhou eye air supremacy in Greater Bay Area?
Some experts have warned that Hong Kong could lose out in the battle for business as Shenzhen and Guangzhou airports eye aggressive expansion.
‘Expats’ Episode Puts the Spotlight on Hong Kong’s Domestic Underclass
Showrunner Lulu Wang explains the creative decisions behind the feature-length penultimate installment, which also depicts the territory’s 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement.
Hong Kong, mainland China authorities in talks to allow more visitors from tier 2 and 3 cities, top official says
Chief Secretary Eric Chan says he hopes for tourism boost from more mainland visitors ‘as soon as possible’, although he stopped short of giving timeline.
Hong Kong’s ‘Chubby Heart’ display skips a beat as high wind speeds force event to take ‘short break’
Hong Kong Design Centre says display at Statue Square Gardens in Central to take a pause as winds speed exceed tolerable limit for 12-metre heart-shaped installation.
Lost Hong Kong paraglider, 67, rescued after making emergency landing in heavy fog and spending night in woods
Hong Kong firefighters have rescued a 67-year-old paraglider who was forced to make an emergency landing in heavy fog and spent the night lost in woods. The man, surnamed Chung, had planned to fly ...
Axe all Hong Kong’s property cooling measures to boost sluggish market, political heavyweights and economists tell authorities ahead of budget
Four of city's top political parties call on finance chief Paul Chan to roll back property curbs, arguing partial easing last October didn't trigger feared soaring housing prices 'Scrapping all the ...
Hong Kong’s New European Coproduction Funding Scheme Is Aimed at Industry Revamp: ‘We Want Our Movies to Be More Diversified’
The Hong Kong-Europe-Asian Film Collaboration Funding Scheme being launched this week in Berlin is intended as a major component of an exercise in rehabilitating and internationalizing the Hong Kong ...