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The news brought a wave of sympathy from the city’s legal community ... “No words are adequate for this.” Law Yuk-kai, director of Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor, which promotes the protection of legal rights in the city, said Ms Dykes had worked ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s finance chief has indicated that boosting land supply to ease the city’s housing problems will be a key part of his upcoming budget, through which he said he would strive to elevate “the people’s sense of being well-off”. Paul Chan Mo ... ( read original story ...)

Two Hong Kong college students were kicked out of their own graduation ceremony on Saturday after refusing to stand for the national anthem. The social work students from Hong Kong College of Technology sat silently while March of the Volunteers played ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd.’s proposal to change which companies are eligible to list in the city will boost the pipeline of initial public offerings, according to Chief Executive Officer Charles Li. Technology and so-called new-economy companies ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd.’s proposal to change which companies are eligible to list in the city will boost the pipeline of initial public offerings, according to Chief Executive Officer Charles Li. Technology and so-called new-economy companies ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong architect William Lim Ooi-lee is surrounded by skyscrapers in the city’s business district, Central – a few of them designed by him. But looking up, the 60-year-old says he believes that building vertically fast is not the best for the city ... ( read original story ...)

News.com.au reported. The original trial in 2005 received widespread media attention. Kissel has maintained she acted in self-defense after physical and sexual abuse by her husband. At Hong Kong’s High Court on Friday, Kissel’s legal team challenged a ... ( read original story ...)

News.com.au reported. The original trial in 2005 received widespread media attention. Kissel has maintained she acted in self-defense after physical and sexual abuse by her husband. At Hong Kong’s High Court on Friday, Kissel’s legal team challenged a ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - An American serving a life sentence in a Hong Kong jail for the 2003 "milkshake" murder of her Merrill Lynch banker husband made a fresh challenge against her sentence on Friday. Nancy Kissel, who is in her mid 50s, has been in jail ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG - A British banker sentenced to life in prison for the gruesome slayings of two Indonesian women appeared in a Hong Kong court on Tuesday in a bid to appeal his conviction. Lawyers for Rurik Jutting presented their arguments in the semiautonomous ... ( read original story ...)

The last time China pressured Hong Kong to scrap its curriculum in favor of one developed by China's Communist Party-led government, tens of thousands marched through the city chanting, "Down with national education!" It was the summer of 2012, and the ... ( read original story ...)

The defence’s attempt to quash the Hong Kong government’s case against a shipmaster and shipping firm accused of illegally importing nine Singaporean military vehicles into Hong Kong last year was rebuffed by prosecutors on Monday, at a preliminary ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s District Court has no authority to determine the appropriateness of the charge brought by the city’s justice minister against a shipmaster and shipping company for unlicensed transportation of nine Singaporean military vehicles last year ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Hong Kong-based activist investor in Toshiba Corp has told the embattled conglomerate that the $18 billion sale of its chip unit sale to a Bain Capital-led group is no longer necessary after its recent capital injection, according to a ... ( read original story ...)