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Nearly a year since Hong Kong came under the spectre of the coronavirus, local mask manufacturers, who jumped on the supply bandwagon at the start of the pandemic amid a frenzied demand for the ... ( read original story ...)

Unlike commercial snake catchers of yesteryear, whose catch often winds up in soup served at shops, a new breed of catchers strives to release the reptiles into nature. ( read original story ...)

A Hong Kong boarding school catering to teenagers with drug and behavioural problems has put out a plea for donations to sustain its ailing model, but years of shrinking enrolment and stubbornly high ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is home to a variety of snakes — from the venomous king cobra to larger species such as the Burmese python ... ( read original story ...)

Self-exiled former opposition lawmaker Ted Hui Chi-fung has accused banking giant HSBC of abruptly cancelling credit cards belonging to him and his family due to "political considerations" and ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong will complete an e-booking system for Covid-19 vaccine inoculations this month and is in talks with other countries to allow the records to be used for travel, local media including Hong ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's highest court sent media tycoon and outspoken Beijing critic Jimmy Lai Chee-ying back behind bars on Thursday, allowing prosecutors to appeal against his release last week on HK$10 million ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong confirmed 42 new Covid-19 infections on New Year's Day, the lowest daily caseload since the start of the fourth wave about six weeks ago, but health officials and experts warned numbers ... ( read original story ...)

Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, has described Hong Kong’s leadership as “lackeys” of a “fragile dictatorship” in Beijing who had “eviscerated freedoms” after ten activists were jailed for ... ( read original story ...)

Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, has described Hong Kong’s leadership as “lackeys” of a “fragile dictatorship” in Beijing who had “eviscerated freedoms” following the jailing of activists who ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong confirmed 42 new Covid-19 infections on New Year's Day, the lowest daily caseload since the start of the fourth wave almost six weeks ago, but health officials and experts warned more cases ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong endured a year of political crackdown in 2020, as the aftermath of last year’s pro-democracy protests took shape, with Beijing tightening its grip on the former British colony. The ... ( read original story ...)

As the clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve 12 months ago, groups of young people who had been gathering outside Times Square in Hong Kong - many of them couples - chanted "See you in Victoria Park ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong dissident and media mogul Jimmy Lai has been ordered back to prison, more than a week after he was freed on bail. ( read original story ...)