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HONG KONG (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam provided glimpses into her vision for Hong Kong's future on Monday (Oct 9) during an event held as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of the China Daily's Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's securities regulator plans to implement a real-time investor identification system around mid-2018 for "northbound" trading under the Stock Connect program with China, its chief said, a move aimed at detecting potential ... ( read original story ...)

An investor identity system covering the northbound stock trading link between Hong Kong and mainland China is expected to start in the middle of next year, according to Ashley Alder, chief executive officer of the city’s Securities and Futures Commission. ( read original story ...)

Liberal Party chair Tommy Cheung Yu-yan declined to comment on Chung’s motion. In a TV interview in August, Chung said enacting a national security law was Hong Kong’s constitutional duty. He said at the time: “I don’t see any problem if we are to ... ( read original story ...)

A diminutive Ru Guanyao brush washer from the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) set a new auction record for a Chinese ceramic on 3 October when it sold for HK$294.3m (US$37.7m) (all prices with fees) at Sotheby's Hong Kong. At nearly three times the ... ( read original story ...)

About 71,000 poor Hong Kong households do not have enough money to meet even their most basic food needs, and are surviving on less than HK$15 per meal per ­person, a study has found. And poor people who do not have public housing are shelling out larger ... ( read original story ...)

Alok Gupta is a Hong Kong-based freelance journalist who specialises in environment and development issues. This story was published with permission from Citiscope, a non-profit news outlet that covers innovations in cities. More at Citiscope.org. ( read original story ...)

A 34-year-old man who was accused of murdering his bedridden mother before jumping from a 16th-floor flat in a suicide bid on Sunday was a psychiatric patient at a Hong Kong hospital and received his last consultation 11 days ago before the brutal killing ... ( read original story ...)

Former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang Yam-kuen played by his own “secret” rule, which existed only “in his head”, when it came to declaring his private yacht and jet trips with friends, his bribery trial heard on Monday. The High Court heard this ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s first affordable social housing operator has revealed it will introduce a new project for low-income young singles next year to celebrate its fifth year in operation. Social enterprise Light Be on Monday invited 10 landlords, who have ... ( read original story ...)

A FIRE broke out on the tarmac of Hong Kong’s international airport on Monday, with black smoke seen billowing near the belly of an American Airlines plane. The blaze began around 5.30pm (8.30pm AEDT) in one of the parking berths and one person was ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's government continues to keep the maritime sector abreast of the latest international developments with a proposal to tweak legislation on shipowners' liability to bring them in line with changes at the IMO level. The government said in a press ... ( read original story ...)

The Leighton-Chun Wo joint venture standardized on a BIM methodology to drive consistency on this large multi-discipline design project that will connect Hong Kong, Macau, and Zhuhai. This revolutionary project includes 50 kilometers of bridges and tunnels ... ( read original story ...)

Whether he's opening bottles with chopsticks or doing the splits on the floor, the owner of Hong Kong's Tung Po restaurant is always ready to put on a show. CBS News 2:30 56 mins ago ( read original story ...)