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The first of three anti-riot vehicles equipped with water cannons will arrive in Hong Kong this month after a two-year wait, but the controversial police purchase will not be deployed during the annual July 1 pro-democracy rally. A senior police source ... ( read original story ...)

Health authorities in Hong Kong are trying to determine whether an expatriate man confirmed with measles was infected on a Tigerair flight linked to outbreaks in Japan and Taiwan which have left more than 100 people ill so far. The 46-year-old expat had ... ( read original story ...)

Infrastructure and professional services have long been hailed by Hong Kong officials as the city’s advantage in Southeast Asia under Beijing’s “Belt and Road Initiative”, yet business leaders with projects in Indonesia tell a different story. ( read original story ...)

Chinese firms splashed out on purchases of Hong Kong brokerages in recent years to get a foothold in the former British colony. That wave is ebbing after regulators tightened scrutiny of the practice. Buying Hong Kong-licensed asset managers, brokers or ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - When Hong Kong unveiled plans last year to encourage biotech companies to list in the city by loosening listing rules, the financial industry and investors cheered. Hong Kong was an obvious financing center for a growing number of ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s justice minister did not reveal if she had discussed with state officials the enactment of a controversial national security law as she wrapped up her first duty visit to Beijing on Sunday. Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah said the ... ( read original story ...)

But recently, a woman’s story of how Hong Kong’s housing crunch had forced her into a cubicle home in an industrial building tugged at his heartstrings, and underscored how public policy could transform lives. The woman, who looked middle-aged ... ( read original story ...)

Protesters were back out in force outside of Hong Kong’s most exclusive golf club on Sunday, demanding the government take back control of the 170-hectare property and build houses on it. Two days after a Labour Party member was assaulted by a golfer ... ( read original story ...)

Landscaping officials are studying the safety and structure of Hong Kong’s iconic stone wall trees in the hopes of finding a new way to manage them. Typically banyans and many centuries old, the trees are common across the city and often get seeded in ... ( read original story ...)

Every Tuesday and Saturday Hong Kong student Tommy Kwong Tze-man goes to the gym and pulls weights, lifts dumbbells and does leg presses – and gets a little closer to his dream. The visits to Optimum Performance Studio in Tsim Sha Tsui are part of his ... ( read original story ...)

While fossil fuels serve more than 70 per cent of Hong Kong’s energy needs, a village house in Tai Po may hold the key to a sustainable future for a city notorious for excessive consumption. Eddie Chan Wai-lai, 61, built his own home solar power system ... ( read original story ...)

News of his departure came with the authority having received ... which were “pivotal to the continuous enhancements of Hong Kong’s public health care system”. Patients’ rights advocate Tim Pang Hung-cheong also had good things to say about ... ( read original story ...)

Tensions over the possible development of Hong Kong’s Fanling golf course boiled over on Friday after a Labour Party member who stormed the gate was grabbed by the neck and thrown to the ground by an unidentified man. Oscar Lo, 28, was left with red ... ( read original story ...)

The leading British lawmaker behind his country’s latest anti-slavery law said on Friday that Hong Kong was “in denial” about its human trafficking problem and that a single, dedicated piece of legislation would be a good start to curbing exploitation. ( read original story ...)