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Hong Kong's stock exchange operator said on Monday its 2016 net profit fell 27 percent due to a decline in fees generated by stocks and metals trading on the bourse as it struggled to match stellar volumes seen during 2015's record rally. Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

Five Hong Kong think tanks have made it onto a list of the top 90 in the region compiled by a US university – two more than in the same study last year. But the highest spot occupied by one of the city’s think tanks was only 60th place, taken by Our ... ( read ...

Chinese-language newspaper Sing Pao Daily News called the police on Sunday after the home ... the travel document that enables Hong Kong residents to travel to mainland China. The newspaper said late last week that it received a large number of nuisance ... ( read original story ...)

They kept their story secret until going public last year. Edward Snowden's Hong Kong lawyer, Robert Tibbo, who also represents the asylum seekers, told a news conference on Thursday that he has received information from "multiple sources" that members of ... ( read original story ...)

Residents of a Wong Chuk Hang block of flats were evacuated Friday morning after a man accidentally lit his own bed on fire while trying to smoke a cigarette. The 41-year-old man, his elderly parents and their domestic helper were all taken to Ruttonjee ... ( read original story ...)

Senior Hong Kong police officers are scrambling to snuff out a growing ... A video by Chinese-language news outlet Apple Daily recorded him saying to the crowd: “It’s like we’re now in the second world war. We are Jews facing the persecution of ... ( read original story ...)

Chief executive contenders Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and John Tsang Chun-wah are set to submit their nominations and formally become candidates in Hong Kong’s leadership race early next week, while underdog Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee vowed to fight until ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG: Developments in Hong Kong have affected confidence in a system of government intended to ensure the Chinese-ruled city's autonomy, though its rule of law remained robust "despite challenges", former colonial power Britain said on Friday. ( read original story ...)

A video recap of METALLICA's January 20 concert at AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong can be seen below. Also available is a professionally filmed video clip of the "Atlas, Rise" performance from the same show. METALLICA has also announced the formation of its ... ( read original story ...)

With Hong Kong in the grip of a murky, cloud-covered cold snap, Zac Purton is crossing his fingers that any rain will remain locked overhead, at least until Beauty Only has had his chance to break the gloom in Sunday’s (26 February) HK$10 million G1 Citi ... ( read original story ...)

Banking stocks fell 0.3 percent, as news of Guo Shuqing, governor of China's eastern Shandong province, becoming China's new top banking regulator brings uncertainty to a sector facing increasing deleveraging pressure. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index ... ( read original story ...)

On Tuesday, the Hong Kong-based airline announced a new in-flight innovation ... then the executive vice president of Americas for British Airways, told Fox News that a passenger’s “ability to taste food and wine decreases thirty-percent at altitude.” ( read original story ...)

Michael Freedman was at Sha Tin racecourse this morning (Friday, 24 February) to meet local media, one week on from last Friday’s announcement that the Sydney-based trainer will join the Hong Kong ranks in July, working out of the Olympic Stables complex. ( read original story ...)

They also plan to file a police report. Mr Thilina, who arrived in Hong Kong in 2005, said he was frightened by the news. "I am nervous and scared. I don't have a normal life now," he said. His compatriot, Mr Kumara, an army deserter who served as an ... ( read original story ...)