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Her next paycheck isn’t for a week, and she doesn’t have enough money to feed her family of four crammed into her small, government-subsidized Hong Kong apartment. Her husband can’t work, and the kids don’t understand why their mother keeps buying ... ( read original story ...)

TEAM Hawkes are in no rush to lock in a rider for Chautauqua in The Everest this spring after Tommy Berry’s bid to ride The Grey Flash in the $10 million race was rejected by the Hong Kong Jockey Club on Tuesday. Berry will join the Hong Kong jockey ... ( read original story ...)

From syringes and television sets strewn on its beaches to brimming landfills, Hong Kong is struggling to keep pace with a growing waste problem in one of the world's most densely populated cities. Landfills in the global financial hub of 7 million people ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s outgoing leader has vowed to deliver on his promise to scrap a controversial arrangement whereby bosses dip into workers’ pension funds for severance and long-service payments, although his earlier proposal had failed to please neither ... ( read original story ...)

Three heads of Hong Kong’s government – past, present and future – gave their full vote of confidence on Monday to the “one country, two systems” formula that guarantees the city’s freedoms, tracking its performance over the last two decades ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG, June 13 (Xinhua) -- The government of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) said Tuesday that Hong Kong has become a new member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). The Finance Committee of the Legislative ... ( read original story ...)

Long lines seen at metro stations, piers as people rushed home Hong Kong braced itself for its first typhoon this year, as Tropical Storm Merbok lashed the financial center with rain and wind. The Hong Kong Observatory hoisted Signal No. 8 at 5:20 p.m ... ( read original story ...)

China's national observatory issued a blue alert for Merbok earlier on Monday, the state Xinhua news agency reported, the least serious level on its four-tier, colour-coded weather-warning system. There will be no trading in Hong Kong's financial markets ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong issued its third-highest storm signal for the first time this year as Tropical Storm Merbok lashed the financial center with rain and wind. The Hong Kong Observatory hoisted Signal No. 8 at 5:20 p.m. local time. and said the warning would remain ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong should consider ­raising taxes to counter a growing wealth gap that is now at a historic high, a social policy academic who is tipped to be the next ­welfare minister said. Dr Law Chi-kwong, a member of the Poverty Commission, warned that the ... ( read original story ...)

Will Hong Kong’s property bubble burst soon? It’s a million-dollar question, the answer to which seems obvious unless you’ve been turning a deaf ear to the government’s increasingly frequent and intensified warnings. From analysts and the city’s ... ( read original story ...)

Protesters gathered outside a popular Hong Kong restaurant demanding it take shark fin soup off its menu. The demonstrators, many of whom were children, dressed in shark costumes and dumped a bag of fake fins outside Maxim's Palace restaurant as customers ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour is one of the world's busiest ports, but every morning daring elderly swimmers dive in to its choppy waters against a teeming backdrop of ferries, cargo ships and fishing boats. The city's older generations fill public spaces ... ( read original story ...)

Governments across Asia - most notably Hong Kong and Singapore - have launched a raft of initiatives to grab a slice of the $100 billion invested in fintech globally but the regulatory hotch-potch is making it tough for firms to scale up, the Asia ... ( read original story ...)