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Border guards in Hong Kong have seized more than HK$100 million worth of precious metals being smuggled in and out of the city at border checkpoints this year, more than doubling the amount seized in the whole of last year. Officials have attributed the ... ( read original story ...)

Chang Tieh-chih, also former chief editor of Hong Kong’s popular lifestyle and cultural monthly City Magazine, broke the news on Wednesday afternoon with a message on his Twitter account: “Finally, I was denied entry at the Hong Kong airport.” ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG – Hong Kong's young democracy leader Joshua Wong faces a possible new prison sentence in a case stemming from 2014 protests in the semiautonomous Chinese city. He's among a group of activists awaiting sentencing Thursday afternoon following ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has slipped to third place in an international reading literacy ranking, after being overtaken by Russia and Singapore. In the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2016, released this week, the city was ranked third ... ( read original story ...)

These are external links and will open in a new window An Indonesian domestic worker in Hong Kong has been charged with publishing child pornography after streaming a video of her employer's children naked. The 17-minute clip showed a girl and two boys ... ( read original story ...)

High-level Chinese reading skills among Hong Kong pupils have got worse, while more basic skills have improved, a new international literacy study has found. Experts believed the drop in standards in skills such as interpreting, integrating, and evaluating ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has slipped to third place in an international reading literacy ranking, after being overtaken by Russia and Singapore. Academics involved in the research warned of the effects of the city’s pupils plateauing in their performance. They urged ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong’s premium office space has topped the charts as the world’s most expensive for the second consecutive year, outpacing prices in No. 2 Midtown New York by 66 percent, according to property consultancy JLL. Offices at the ... ( read original story ...)

Showing pictures or videos of naked children showering is “not a big problem” in Indonesia, the country’s top envoy in Hong Kong said, blaming “cultural difference” for the arrest of an Indonesian domestic worker who live-streamed footage of her ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG—Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says Johnson Electric will invest more than $350 million in new equipment and capacity in Ontario, which she says is expected to create 326 new jobs. Wynne, who is on a trade mission to China and Vietnam ... ( read original story ...)

Developing Hong Kong’s protected country parks for housing will have to meet a “very high” threshold, an advisory committee warned on Tuesday, urging the government to “proceed with caution”. The government-appointed Task Force on Land Supply ... ( read original story ...)

A migrant worker group has called for more training and better guidelines to help overseas domestic workers understand the cultural differences between their home countries and Hong Kong, after a helper was arrested for live streaming herself giving ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s leader said Saudi Arabia could be a valuable export market for the city’s professional and financial services, as she vowed on Tuesday to continue her overseas trips promoting Hong Kong and exploring business opportunities. Chief Executive ... ( read original story ...)

He began by first noting that the constitution was the basis of the country’s sovereignty and also the foundation for the “one country, two systems” principle, under which Hong Kong is given a high degree of autonomy. Apart from these obvious aspects ... ( read original story ...)