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It was the Mr Stunning show at Sha Tin this afternoon (Sunday, 5 March), or Messrs Stunning, to be more accurate. While the horse of that name shone in the Class 1 Friendship Bridge Handicap to place himself on the cusp of Group 1 assignments, it was the ... ( read original story ...)

With three weeks to go before the chief executive election, the state leader who oversees Hong Kong affairs has emphasised Beijing enjoys a “substantive and constitutional” power to appoint the city’s leader. During a meeting with delegates from Hong ... ( read original story ...)

A series of news features by Worker News debunking the idea that asylum seekers arriving in Hong Kong are “fake refugees” won the Best Journalism Award in the 2016 E-Citizen Awards organized by civic groups inmediahk.net and the Culture and Media ... ( read original story ...)

Parents, schools, businesses and the Hong Kong government must work harder to promote science and mathematics to girls to close the gender gap in education, a leading women’s campaign group has urged. New research suggests gender stereotyping ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong chief executive hopeful Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has backtracked on a proposal in her election manifesto to set up a religious affairs unit after the “resolute opposition” expressed by the local Catholic diocese which fears restrictions ... ( read original story ...)

A candidate who failed to officially join the Hong Kong chief executive election launched a veiled attack on front runner Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Saturday, dismissing her campaign as “shallow”, “insincere” and a “facade”. Regina Ip Lau ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s three chief executive candidates will attend a debate hosted by a local teachers’ union in the run-up to the election for the city’s highest office. The debate is to be held at a moot courtroom in Cheng Yu Tung Tower at the University of ... ( read original story ...)

Since the beginning of February this year, at least six Hong Kong schoolchildren have taken their own lives. And on February 28, a 19-year-old Japanese man with a Hong Kong ID card was found dead in a suspected hanging at an apartment building in the Mid ... ( read original story ...)

Years later, Cheung is just the traveller he hopes to convince to fly direct from Hong Kong to Vancouver on Hong Kong Airlines. Cheung is a regional marketing manager with the airline, which is embarking on an aggressive pricing campaign to establish ... ( read original story ...)

Four pro-democracy lawmakers threatened with disqualification for improper oath-taking urged the High Court on Friday to dismiss the case, claiming an abuse of process arising from selective prosecution. The unexpected twist came just as the three-day ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Television Network Limited published this content on 03 ... 02/27 DJ TWENTY FIRST CENTURY FOX: Fox News' Head of Ad Sales, Paul Rittenberg, to Step ( read original story ...)

According to property consultants Cushman & Wakefield, the rental gap between Hong Kong and Singapore since 2003 has grown from 47 per cent to 189 per cent in 2010. By 2016, the level stood at 195 per cent. ( read original story ...)

Air transport directly contributes some 2.5 to 3% of Hong Kong’s GDP but this has not included the indirect and induced value added of aviation-related and non-aviation businesses at the airport. Thanks to our unique geographical location and the ... ( read original story ...)

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