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One of Hong Kong’s oldest brokerages is boosting its wealth management operations in the city, where millionaires are being minted by a property boom. Everbright Sun Hung Kai Co., a unit of China’s Everbright Securities Co., plans to add 100 ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong police have seized about HK$20 million (US$2.5 million) worth of cash and drugs in seven arrests over the past three days as part of the wider Thunderbolt 18 operation against organised crime. On Monday night, police arrested three suspected drug ... ( read original story ...)

A mainland Chinese woman accused of taking photos in a Hong Kong court was on Tuesday remanded in police custody, after she failed to post cash bail of HK$50,000 (US$6,400) as ordered by a judge. Tang Lin-ling was told last Friday by Mr Justice Andrew Chan ... ( read original story ...)

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss watch exports rose 13.8 percent in April to 1.76 billion Swiss francs ($1.77 billion), powered by a boom in the crucial Hong Kong market, trade data showed on Tuesday. The news is a boon for Swiss watchmakers such as Swatch Group ... ( read original story ...)

Releasing its findings on Monday, the group estimated there were about 2,900 people on the streets of Hong Kong each day collecting rubbish, though it was a rough projection based on visits to 58 of the city’s 320 recycling shops. “They are mostly ... ( read original story ...)

Ethnic minority children in Hong Kong are struggling to learn Cantonese because schools are not equipped to teach it as a second language, even though the government devotes HK$200 million (US$25.6 million) a year to the cause, an NGO said on Monday. ( read original story ...)

In some instances, they have been forced to pay tariffs when moving lab machines and equipment outside of Hong Kong. So, a report by state news agency Xinhua earlier this month revealing that President Xi Jinping had pledged to make the city an ... ( read original story ...)

Pro-establishment lawmaker Eunice Yung Hoi-yan briefly apologised to Hong Kong’s domestic workers on Sunday, and was immediately criticised for not going far enough. The New People’s Party legislator said sorry after offending many of the city’s ... ( read original story ...)

More than two thousand volunteers hit the beach on an outlying island of Hong Kong for a mass rubbish clean up Sunday as environment campaigners warned plastic is killing sea turtles and other wildlife. There has been increasing concern over the amount of ... ( read original story ...)

A small group of Hong Kong professionals, such as university professors, who work on the mainland for more than 183 days per year may be exempt from paying higher mainland Chinese salaries tax under new arrangements, according to the city’s financial ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has become the second largest market for smuggled endangered black spotted turtles, an international report published on Monday found. Customs and police officers in Hong Kong seized 1,775 black spotted turtles – 17 per cent of the overall ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — European stock markets slipped Monday after small ... ANALYST TAKE: “The euro has had a rough go lately, reflecting a firehose of negative news headlines. It started with the loss of data momentum and now political risks have injected ... ( read original story ...)

A greater amount of a date rape drug was seized in Hong Kong in the first four months of this year than in the whole of 2017, customs figures show, with the chemical also finding its way to the city centre when previously it was mostly discovered in ... ( read original story ...)

Uber Hong Kong is in talks over an ex gratia payment to the family of a driver who died last month in the city’s first fatal accident involving the ride-hailing firm, the Post has learned. Fifty-year-old Uber driver Hui Ki-wai was killed when his BMW ... ( read original story ...)