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Kowloon neighbourhood in Hong Kong, with dozens of booths selling red packets, dried flowers, calligraphic greetings, decorations and more. Shoppers who took a closer look, however, could spot ... ( read original story ...)

on Friday as about 25 new cases were expected to greet the first day of the Lunar New Year. Yeung Wai-sing, chairman of the Association for Hong Kong Catering Services Management, told local radio it ... ( read original story ...)

In the maiden phone call with Xi, Joe Biden expressed concern on Beijing’s unfair economic practices, Hong Kong crackdown, human right abuses in Xinjiang and its increasing assertiveness in Taiwan. To ... ( read original story ...)

Racism, especially against South Asians, is not a new phenomenon in Hong Kong, whose population is 92 percent ethnic Chinese. But a wave of incidents during the pandemic — including comments from an ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's Lunar New Year fairs, usually an opportunity to sell creative merchandise critical of the government alongside festive foods and decorations, are subdued this year amid coronavirus ... ( read original story ...)

A combination of foreign demand, including those from emigrating Hongkongers, and a rush to beat the impending property tax, pushed UK home prices to their most unaffordable level in 10 years, ... ( read original story ...)

A Chinese asset manager has launched the first Hong Kong exchange traded fund to track China’s Star Market, a Shanghai-based science and technology board that has drawn huge int ... ( read original story ...)

Once grassy pastures that nurtured feral cows on an island in Hong Kong have been reduced to barren dirt by the feet of hordes of hikers and campers escaping coronavirus boredom, leaving the herd ... ( read original story ...)

Investors in Hong Kong's Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) can continue to bet on Chinese stocks in the Year of the Ox despite some short-term volatility, top performing fund managers said. The 401 ... ( read original story ...)

Because of its currency peg to the US dollar, Hong Kong does not have an independent monetary policy, which also means that we cannot sustain the current budget deficit in the long run. Article 107 of ... ( read original story ...)

The daily number of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. was under 100,000 for a third consecutive day on Tuesday, the first time that’s happened since the week of Nov. 2. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong will allow restaurant dining-in services until 10 p.m. and relax other social-distancing rules after the Chinese New Year as the city tries to move past a winter coronavirus wave that’s ... ( read original story ...)

With ornate pins in her hair and wearing a long flowing robe with sweeping sleeves over a heavily embroidered gold and purple silk skirt, Veronica Kam Pui-ka blends in nicely at West Kowloon's ... ( read original story ...)

Throughout months of pandemic-induced restrictions, city- or nationwide lockdowns, and intermittent office closures, working from home in one form or another has become commonplace all over the world. ( read original story ...)