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HONG KONG: Hong Kong's long-awaited pilot food truck scheme gets off the ground on Friday (Feb 3), with an initial 16 trucks parked at eight tourist locations. The Tourism Commission initiative is meant to draw more tourists to the city while helping ... ( read original story ...)

Xiao Jianhua is on mainland China, according to a report by Hong Kong's South China Morning Post on Wednesday, citing an anonymous source close to the tycoon. Overseas Chinese news sites said earlier that Chinese police officers escorted Xiao from his ... ( read original story ...)

Xiao Jianhua is in mainland China, according to Hong Kong's South China Morning Post on Wednesday, citing an anonymous source close to the tycoon, one of China's richest individuals. Overseas Chinese news sites said earlier that Chinese police officers ... ( read original story ...)

Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a Chinese billionaire reportedly taken away from his Hong Kong hotel by mainland police ... according to overseas Chinese news sites that carry reports of political gossip and unverified corruption scandals. ( read original story ...)

... China-born billionaire was quoted by state media on Tuesday as saying he had not been abducted from Hong Kong by mainland Chinese agents as some news outlets had reported, but was receiving medical treatment. Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of Xiao ... ( read original story ...)

Xiao is reported to have come to Hong Kong in 2014, two years after Chinese President Xi Jinping started a much-publicised anti-corruption drive. He has denied that he was ever the target of an investigation. Chinese-language news site Boxun said Xiao had ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s biggest pro-Beijing party has launched a veiled attack on a front runner in the city’s leadership race, John Tsang Chun-wah, for consistently underestimating fiscal reserves when he was financial secretary. The comments indicate that the ... ( read original story ...)

In January, Kum was transferred to the intensive care unit at Grantham Hospital in south Hong Kong Island after her condition took a turn for the worse. Dr Michael Wong Ka-lam, an associate consultant at the hospital’s cardiac medicine unit, said Kum was ... ( read original story ...)

Skyrocketing rental prices in Hong Kong have seen more people living in 'coffin homes' measuring just 1.9 square metres in size as that is all people can afford there. The likes of Wong Ziwa lives in one of these tiny low-ceiling abodes that he calls home. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s health minister says the public hospital authority should recruit dozens more doctors from overseas and give them longer contracts to relieve a manpower shortage. Dr Ko Wing-man said there was a shortage of between 200 and 300 medical staff ... ( read original story ...)

The four cars where found travelling with speeds of up to 100km/h along Wong Chuk Hang Road and Nam Fung Road. Officers at the Hong Kong Island traffic branch’s enforcement and control division task force gave chase in unmarked vehicles while road ... ( read original story ...)

Thai League champions SCG Muang Thong United failed to reach the final of the Lunar New Year Cup, going down to top Hong Kong club Kitchee FC 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out after a 1-1 draw in normal time. The tournament is being held in Hong Kong to celebrate ... ( read original story ...)

Beauty Only’s storming stretch run to win last month’s G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile might have announced the gelding on the world stage but jockey Zac Purton is under no illusions as to which horse remains the Hong Kong Mile division’s big daddy ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG – TRAVEL – Hong Kong is set to be bathed in colour and light as the Lunar New Year celebrations 2017 promise to be the territory’s biggest and most spectacular ever. Themed “Best Fortune. World Party”, the 2017 Cathay Pacific ... ( read original story ...)