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Hong Kong Commercial Daily, China Daily, Sing Pao Daily News, South China Morning Post, Phoenix Satellite Television and TVB. The change in tone and content has been particularly evident in the South China Morning Post, for example, after Jack Ma of ... ( read original story ...)

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Japanese and Hong Kong share markets led Asian stocks higher on Wednesday, with the Chinese central bank's weekend move to free up more liquidity boosting sentiment as the world's second-largest economy grows at a steady pace. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong pop singer Leo Ku Kui-kei and his wife have described ... their phone batteries draining while they waited for news from authorities. The lockdown on all Las Vegas hotels continued late into the night. On Tuesday’s radio show, Ku thanked ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong will be wooing wine connoisseurs at the annual Wine and Dine Festival again later this month, but many will have to sample the goods in plastic glasses instead of actual wine glasses for safety and security reasons, according to the Tourism Board. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong (AFP) - Thousands of festival-goers packed a historic neighbourhood of Hong Kong to watch a "fire dragon" lit with incense sticks dance through the streets in a century-old ritual. The 67-metre (220-foot) long dragon snakes around the network of ... ( read original story ...)

A Hong Kong pro-democracy activist who threw a "smelly fish sandwich" at a police officer as voters went to the polls last year pleaded not guilty to assault Tuesday. The sandwich had been aimed at the city's then leader, Leung Chun-ying, who was on his ... ( read original story ...)

For Hong Kong democrats, the news from the other side of the Pearl River Estuary has provided a modest morale-booster. With six pro-democracy legislators already disqualified in the oath-taking saga, several others awaiting the same fate, 16 political ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo and Hong Kong led gains on most markets in Asia Wednesday following ... global co-head of foreign-exchange strategy at National Australia Bank in Sydney, told Bloomberg News. But he added that talk of Powell taking the top post have "seen the dollar ... ( read original story ...)

A domestic helper on Tuesday asked a Hong Kong court to grant her and 350,000 others the choice of living apart from their employers, in the first judicial review of the live-in rule imposed since 2003. Lawyers for Nancy Almorin Lubiano from the ... ( read original story ...)

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is pressing ahead with controversial plans to set up a joint checkpoint in the city for the cross-border high-speed rail link, citing opinion polls showing that the “majority of Hong Kong people” support the ... ( read original story ...)

These are external links and will open in a new window A 1,000-year-old bowl from China's Song Dynasty has sold at auction in Hong Kong for almost US$38m (£28m) - a record for Chinese porcelain. Sotheby's, the auction house, said the rare Ru-ware brush ... ( read original story ...)

The USS Ronald Reagan will be the first U.S. carrier visit to Hong Kong in two years. In April 2016 ... United Press International is a leading provider of news, photos and information to millions of readers around the globe via UPI.com and its licensing ... ( read original story ...)

Some Spanish expatriates in Hong Kong have condemned police violence in their home country, but remain divided over the legality and timing of Sunday’s referendum on independence for Catalonia. A Madrid business leader in Hong Kong urged pro-independence ... ( read original story ...)

A day not for celebration, but for "national sadness" for the "status of the rule of law in Hong Kong." The memory of the three young Occupy Central activists sentenced to months in jail by will of the city government. "Political persecution" also for co ... ( read original story ...)