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Hong Kong's No. 2 government official resigned on Thursday in what is widely seen as preparation for a bid for the southern Chinese city's top leadership job. Chief Secretary Carrie Lam tendered her resignation to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's number two official Carrie Lam resigned Thursday ahead ... Lam, who has worked in government since 1980, would become the city's first woman chief executive. News of her resignation was announced by the government Thursday afternoon in a ... ( read original story ...)

Jan 11 Hong Kong stocks rose for a fifth straight session on Wednesday to hit fresh one-month highs as investors awaited U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's news conference later in the day for clues which may set the tone for global markets. The benchmark ... ( read original story ...)

Those cultural treasures, however, have become the focus of a dispute in Hong Kong. A recently unveiled proposal to build a local branch of the museum has met much resistance, amid growing political tension with the mainland Chinese government. The ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG -- Clare Hollingworth, a British war correspondent who was the first to report the Nazi invasion of Poland that marked the beginning of the Second World War, died in Hong Kong on Tuesday. She was 105. The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG: Hong Kong's former leader Donald Tsang abused his power and was "hopelessly compromised" while in office, prosecutors said Tuesday (Jan 10) in opening arguments at his high-profile corruption trial. Tsang, 72, held the leadership post of chief ... ( read original story ...)

Clare Hollingworth, a British war correspondent who was the first to report the Nazi invasion of Poland that marked the beginning of World War II, died in Hong Kong on Tuesday. She was 105. The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong announced her ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG Leading Hong Kong lawyers voiced fresh concerns on Monday ... to very basic principles … one is the independence of the judiciary," Ma told a rare news conference. Despite broad concerns in the legal community, including a silent protest ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore's defense minister said Monday that nine armored personnel carriers that are being held in Hong Kong should be returned immediately under sovereign immunity laws. Customs authorities in Hong Kong, a Chinese territory, seized the eight-wheeled ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG: Hong Kong's youngest legislator Nathan Law was attacked by anti-independence protesters at the city's airport late Sunday (Jan 8) after flying back from a political forum in Taiwan. Law, 23, was met by a crowd of angry pro-Beijing demonstrators ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE Singapore's defence minister said on Monday nine armoured vehicles seized in Hong Kong could not be detained or confiscated and that the city-state had repeatedly asked for their return. Hong Kong customs seized the troop carriers in November as ... ( read original story ...)

A dog poisoner has struck again in a scenic area of Hong Kong where up to 200 animals have been targeted, many with fatal results, stretching back at least 25 years. Animal welfare workers and police warned people to be on the alert while walking their ... ( read original story ...)

Lawmakers from Hong Kong and Taiwan said their common ground was a desire for democracy and social justice, not “collusion for political independence” as Beijing had suggested. Hong Kong lawmakers Nathan Law Kwun-chung, Edward Yiu Chung-yim ... ( read original story ...)

Want to curse Nigel Farage for leading the UK to Brexit? A group of sorcerers in Hong Kong have what you need, and a track record they say proves their success. Known locally as “villain hitters”, the group of mostly elderly women set up stall every ... ( read original story ...)