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Hong Kong’s junior secondary school pupils will spend less time on ancient Chinese history and more on political, economic and social developments related to modern China and the city, according to the revised curriculum unveiled by the Education Bureau ... ( read original story ...)

Two Hong Kong police officers and a businessman on Monday denied conspiring to obtain and divulge confidential details of a murder investigation in exchange for up to HK$600,000. The District Court heard that neither of the officers were involved in the ... ( read original story ...)

When a handful of students decided to express an opinion on a university campus bulletin board in Hong Kong, they never imagined the backlash that would follow. What began with a few posters emblazoned with a radical idea, that Hong Kong should split with ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is lagging behind mainland China in becoming a cashless society because the city’s first such payment option, the contactless Octopus card, was so successful that the city stopped exploring more options, Secretary for Commerce and Economic ... ( read original story ...)

Foreign companies are still attracted to Hong Kong for its “super connector” role to mainland China even though a lot now go north directly, the city’s commerce minister said. In an interview with the Post, Secretary for Commerce and Economic ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. is about to become the newest member of a once unthinkable club: stock exchanges without a trading floor. HKEX will shut its iconic Trading Hall on Friday, 31 years after opening the space in the heart of the city’s ... ( read original story ...)

Veganism is rapidly growing globally and Hong Kong is no exception, its local advocates claim, as dabbling in or adopting the plant-based lifestyle gains popularity. In the United States, six per cent of the population, or roughly 20 million people ... ( read original story ...)

Beijing’s top official in charge of Hong Kong affairs has issued the most detailed assessment to date of President Xi Jinping’s policy direction for the city, reassuring Hongkongers their autonomy will be preserved but reminding them of the central ... ( read original story ...)

Mainland Chinese authorities have released a detained Hong Kong bookseller and he has been reunited with his relatives, one of his friends said Friday. Chinese dissident poet Bei Ling said family members confirmed to him that Gui Minhai has been released ... ( read original story ...)

It's a bittersweet day at the Hong Kong stock exchange. Trading at the physical trading floor will close, after 31 years. In its heyday, during the 1980s and 1990s, the floor was home to more than a thousand traders. But the rise of electronic and internet ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong-based bookseller Gui Minhai has been reunited with his family in the Chinese city of Ningbo following his release from custody on the mainland last week, his long-time friend said on Friday. Dissident poet Bei Ling, co-founder of the Independent ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong government was accused of "brainwashing" on Thursday after it suggested schools broadcast to students a live address by a Beijing official visiting the city. It comes as concern grows that Chinese authorities are squeezing semi-autonomous ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's highest court freed pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong and Nathan Law on bail Tuesday pending an appeal of their prison sentences after they were convicted of sparking massive protests in 2014. The pair were imprisoned after the justice ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's highest court freed pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong and Nathan Law on bail Tuesday pending an appeal of their prison sentences after they were convicted of sparking massive protests in 2014. The two were granted bail by the Court of Final ... ( read original story ...)