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SINGAPORE: Singapore may be the setting of the movie Crazy Rich Asians, but the Asian city that has overtaken New York as the city with the largest population of the “ultra-rich” is Hong Kong. A resea... ( read original story ...)

Losses in the Hang Seng Properties Index on Thursday left the gauge of Hong Kong real estate stocks trading as much as 20 percent below its peak in January. Declines of that magnitude from major highs ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has long marketed itself as the gateway into China for foreign businesses, especially the U.S. With a trade war now raging between the world’s two largest economies, that’s precisely the pro... ( read original story ...)

Johannesburg - The notorious Hong Kong in-flight “organised criminals”, who apparently rob sleeping passengers, are believed to have been behind thefts allegedly perpetrated aboard an SAA flight this ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s two rival political camps put aside their differences on Thursday to lobby the government for a law empowering the city’s leader to give workers the day off after extreme weather such as r... ( read original story ...)

Prepare for even greater swings in the Hong Kong dollar and funding costs in the city, as a shrinking pool of liquidity amplifies moves in interest rates. Hong Kong’s one-week interbank borrowing cost ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong politicians are seemingly in high demand, at least among online scammers. The city’s former commerce minister Greg So Kam-leung has joined ex-lawmaker James Tien Pei-chun by becoming the sec... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau Tak-wah has thrown his support behind an idea to reclaim 2,200 hectares of land for housing to the east of Lantau Island, in a new video by the think tank that proposed th... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong’s leading Catholic cleric said on Wednesday that he feared continued suppression of Catholics in mainland China despite a landmark accord struck last month between the ... ( read original story ...)

Going by Hong Kong’s astronomical property prices, airline worker David Jones (not his real name) scored the deal of a lifetime. For HK$2 million (US$255,000), he bought a 1,500 sq ft Aberdeen propert... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong should follow in the footsteps of Singapore, Kyoto and dozens of other cities by creating an official post tasked with strengthening responses to shocks and stresses from typhoons to pandemi... ( read original story ...)

The newly opened high-speed railway connecting Hong Kong with mainland China is bound to “become more attractive”, even though passenger numbers have been lower than anticipated, Chief Executive Carri... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s leader has said it was “reasonable” to stop protesters holding pro-independence banners entering the forecourt of government headquarters after a rally on Monday. Chief Executive Carrie La... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's retail sales grew at a faster pace in August compared with the previous month, government data showed on Tuesday, although the outlook remains overshadowed by ... ( read original story ...)