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As the construction sector looks to turn a positive corner in Asia, Hong Kong looks at ways to reduce industry costs ... (c) 1998-2017 Iranian Students' News Agency - ISNA Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info)., source Middle East & North ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong students at universities in Britain are rushing to register to vote ahead of the upcoming UK general election, as the race heats up to decide the country’s next prime minister. There are an estimated 30,000 Hongkongers studying in UK ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s leader on Saturday launched a broadside at an opposition lawmaker investigating his past business dealings, saying he had combed through three years’ worth of the legislator’s Facebook posts to conclude there was no evidence against him. ( read original story ...)

There is hope finally for a grieving Hong Kong couple whose miscarried son was designated as “clinical waste” by a public hospital, locking them in a heartbreaking bureaucratic battle to get his body back. The couple have now been informed they can get ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong continues to face a water supply crisis and the government has failed to introduce urgent water tariff reforms which can significantly reduce wastage, campaigners have said. A report by public policy think tank Civic Exchange – titled The ... ( read original story ...)

When China took over Hong Kong’s sovereignty from Britain in 1997, the former British colony was promised “50 years unchanged” under the framework of “one country, two systems.” Twenty years on, a lot has changed, including Hong Kong cinema. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong continues to face a water supply crisis and the government has failed to introduce urgent water tariff reforms which can significantly reduce wastage, campaigners have said. A report by public policy think tank Civic Exchange – titled The ... ( read original story ...)

Li, a 52-year-old single mother from mainland China, was left to raise her two-month-old son alone when her Hong Kong husband died in 2004. Since then she has been trapped in an unbreakable cycle of poverty, although she has been receiving social security ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong stocks edged up on Friday, ending the week roughly flat, as Chinese money continued to flow into the city's share market, while index heavyweight Tencent closed at an all-time high. Sentiment was also aided by an overnight recovery on Wall Street ... ( read original story ...)

A prized commercial property site in Hong Kong, currently being used as a public car park, has been sold to Henderson Land Development for a record HK$23.3 billion ($3 billion). As Sonia Legg reports, it outbid eight other developers including local giants ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG - Death is inevitable but it doesn't have to be bad for the environment. Caskets made of paper and wicker coffins on display at a recent Hong Kong funeral industry trade highlighted a trend toward "green burials" in an industry booming as Asia's ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s two-year trial run of electric taxis has backfired as its long charging time was viewed as unsuitable to operate the cabs round the clock. The Environment Bureau reached the conclusion as it examined the results of 40 trials of electric ... ( read original story ...)

The families who sheltered U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden in Hong Kong need to be brought to Canada immediately while the country processes their asylum claims, their lawyers said Monday. Hong Kong-based attorney Robert Tibbo said Canada needs to take this ... ( read original story ...)

One of the refugees, Vanessa Rodel from the Philippines, who lives in Hong Kong with her five-year-old daughter, broke down over the news of the decision. Another of the refugees, Ajith Pushpakumara from Sri Lanka, told AFP the government had "taken his ... ( read original story ...)