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Hong Kong’s football authority has appealed to local fans not to boo the Chinese national anthem at a match against Malaysia next week, but admitted it expected some to do so. The appeal came after boos were heard for March of the Volunteers when the ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s private sector rebounded to record a slight growth in September, according to a key economic indicator, although businesses retained a pessimistic outlook for the year ahead. Analysts expect the city to be on track for an economic growth of 3 ... ( read original story ...)

A group of Hong Kong football fans have booed their national anthem - which the territory shares with mainland China - during a friendly match with Laos. Fans jeered and raised their middle fingers as the anthem played ahead of the game, which Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

Arnault Castel, who owns a small business in Hong Kong, already has plans for the money he will save from a tax cut that the city’s leader is expected to announce next week. Castel owns seven lifestyle stores in the city under the Kapok brand ... ( read original story ...)

Eventually I thought bitcoin is going to change the world and I have to go do it so I got on a plane to Hong Kong.” Two years later, Harrap established his start-up, Bitspark. The remittance payment company accepts fiat currency such as Hong Kong dollars ... ( read original story ...)

Photos never published before offer a unique glimpse of life in Hong Kong in the 1950s. They show a city that was in much less of a hurry than it is today. ( read original story ...)

Genting Hong Kong, a part of Genting Group, has received a green light from the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (SGX-ST) for its proposed voluntary delisting from the Main Board of the SGX-ST. Genting Hong Kong has a primary listing on the ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong police were on Thursday investigating a string of threatening letters sent to staff and contributors at an online news outlet, one of which was sent to the website’s co-founder’s family. The letter was posted to the family of Tom Grundy ... ( read original story ...)

Jetstar Hong Kong, another budget carrier ... Explain This takes a closer look at topical issues or news of the moment and presents it in easy-to-understand summaries ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's Hang Seng advanced 0.7 percent to 28,392.77 but Australia's S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.7 percent to 5,660.40. Stock markets were closed in mainland China, South Korea and Taiwan for holidays. LOOKING FOR LEADS: With some key Asian markets closed ... ( read original story ...)

It was expected to fetch about £10million but the price kept climbing at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong. The price paid by the anonymous winning bidder was a world record for a Chinese ceramic piece, beating the £27.1million paid in 2014 for a 15th century ... ( read original story ...)

A one-off compassionate payment of HK$30,000 has been granted by Hong Kong bus operator Citybus to 15 victims who ... Cheng, who has been helping about a dozen victims, said he received news on Wednesday that Citybus had agreed to allocate the sum of ... ( read original story ...)

Judges will get a pay rise of 2.95 per cent, the lowest in eight years, as Hong Kong’s judiciary seeks to bring salaries to competitive levels to tackle a manpower shortage that has left more than 20 per cent of posts on the bench vacant. The government ... ( read original story ...)

Unpopular former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying testified on Wednesday in a ... Footage of the incident captured by local news network i-Cable was played in court and showed the back of Leung, who was seen ducking smoothly when the sandwich was thrown. ( read original story ...)