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Hong Kong: Controversy over a new cross-border rail link which will see mainland laws enforced in a Hong Kong train station escalated Thursday after the justice chief likened China to the city's "landlord". It comes at a time when fears are worsening that ... ( read original story ...)

Four con artists, believed to be African men, are being sought by Hong Kong police after a Taiwanese businessman was duped out of US$100,000 (HK$780,000) with fake gold granules in his hotel room. It is the third similar case in Tsim Sha Tsui district over ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's government has unveiled a controversial plan which would allow Chinese mainland law to apply in the territory for the first time. It's part of attempts to streamline operations at the new Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link ... ( read original story ...)

National laws will be enforced on Hong Kong’s soil for the first time under a controversial plan ­approved by the city’s government on Tuesday to lease to mainland authorities a quarter of the West Kowloon ­terminus of the high-speed rail link to ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong announced on Tuesday a controversial plan to allow mainland officials to enforce Chinese laws inside a Hong Kong train station, an immigration set-up critics say will encroach on the city's autonomy and put existing freedoms ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong government’s top policymaking body on Tuesday approved a controversial plan to let mainland officers enforce mainland laws within a leased area at the local terminus of the high-speed rail link to Guangzhou, a source told the Post. ( read original story ...)

A policeman and his wife denied cheating 14 people out of more than HK$20 million in a scheme that involved buying and reselling luxury watches. Mainland Chinese businessman Herman Yu told the District Court on Monday how he bought 30 Rolexes in May 2013 ... ( read original story ...)

For the past decade, Hong Kong travellers crossing the border at Shenzhen Bay Port in the west of the special economic zone have been able to complete the customs clearance of both sides under one roof thanks to an unprecedented joint checkpoint. ( read original story ...)

The death of veteran Hong Kong political heavyweight Lau Wong-fat will leave the Heung Yee Kuk, a powerful government-recognised advisory body on rural affairs, without the influence of its “big brother” for the first time in nearly four decades ... ( read original story ...)

Australia’s trade and business links with Hong Kong could see an expansion, the country’s new top diplomat in the city said, pointing to the policies Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor was set to launch. Australian Consul General Michaela ... ( read original story ...)

The plan for immigration checkpoints manned by mainland officials on Hong Kong soil will go ahead on schedule and with no plan B, the government reiterated ahead of the formal announcement of the details as early as Tuesday. Current and past officials ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong Observatory has downgraded the tropical cyclone warning, issuing a No 1 signal at 3.10pm on Sunday as Roke began to depart the territory. The forecaster earlier dropped the No 8 signal to No 3 at 1.20pm. Roke had made landfall at Sai Kung ... ( read original story ...)

Rural Hong Kong strongman and former Heung Yee Kuk leader Lau Wong-fat has died at the age of 80, according to sources. Lau retired from public life early last year due to poor health after helming the statutory body, which represents indigenous residents ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong Observatory said Cyclone Roke made landfall over the eastern part of the city after issuing a tropical storm signal No. 8, its third-highest warning, on Sunday morning. The weather service said the cyclone will continue to track westward and ... ( read original story ...)