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Hong Kong's housing prices are among the world's most expensive, with many residents living in increasingly cramped conditions at spiralling costs and small businesses struggling to survive sky-high rents. A proposal to build a commuter town for ... ( read original story ...)

According to Fintech businesses, lawyers, and industry groups, the number of companies launching ICOs in Singapore and Hong Kong “has skyrocketed in recent months,” South China Morning Post reported on Monday. The news outlet then quoted Anson Zeall ... ( read original story ...)

The promise by Hong Kong’s leader to clamp down on the black market for show tickets appears to have done little to deter the city’s ticket touts. As hundreds of fans formed long queues outside various ticket offices on Tuesday morning in the hope of ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. approved the biggest change to its initial public offering rules in two decades, putting it in a position to battle New York for some of the world’s hottest companies. Technology firms that have shares with different ... ( read original story ...)

A measles outbreak in southern Japan has prompted one Hong Kong travel agent to cancel several trips it had planned to the area. Nearly 70 people in the popular tourist destination of Okinawa have contracted the highly infectious disease, local government ... ( read original story ...)

In Hong Kong, locals rarely play football with immigrants. Not surprising, perhaps, when a third of Chinese Hongkongers don't want to sit next to members of other ethnic groups on public transport, live next door to them, or have their children as ... ( read original story ...)

The US Consulate in Hong Kong has reached out to the city’s taxi drivers to ease tensions with Uber, while the transport minister slammed the US ride-hailing firm for its “big ego”, the Post has learned. There was immediate resistance from industry ... ( read original story ...)

Au Nok-hin is the youngest member of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council, but the 30-year-old is an old hand at working the ground to champion his cause. He cut his teeth as the internal secretary of Chinese University’s student union 10 years ago ... ( read original story ...)

A taxi operator has taken the first step in welcoming guide dogs on board amid complaints that visually impaired customers and their canine companions are being turned away by drivers and businesses in Hong Kong. SynCab, which operates a team of 120 cabs ... ( read original story ...)

VICE News went to Hong Kong to see just how hard it is for Hongkongers to find a resting place, and to look at some of the solutions being offered. In land-scarce Hong Kong, finding a final resting place for the dead can be a nightmare. And new regulations ... ( read original story ...)

With the daily smoking rate of Hong Kong’s population at a record low, one might think public health advocate Antonio Kwong Cho-sing could not be any happier as head of the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health, an anti-smoking activist group. ( read original story ...)

A Beijing legal heavyweight has rekindled controversy by suggesting Hong Kong judges have a “different understanding” among themselves of the city’s mini-constitution that at times produced “great disparity” in their adjudicated cases. ( read original story ...)

Foreign governments should stay out of Hong Kong’s internal affairs the city’s government has warned, after a US report raised concerns mainland Chinese authorities had encroached on the city’s autonomy. The report on human rights practices ... ( read original story ...)

On March 23, Chan said Hong Kong residents aged 18 or above as of December 31 this year who did not own property, did not receive government allowances and would not pay income tax for the 2017-18 financial year would get the full HK$4,000. Those who met ... ( read original story ...)