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Dubbed “Chinese Music Without Bounds”, the concert on Wednesday featured three composers from mainland China, two from Malaysia and one from Hong Kong, who made it to the finals from an initial 80 entries and 53 in the preliminary round. An ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG: Chan Yuen-ting, the first female coach to lead a men's professional soccer club to a top-flight title, hopes her success with Hong Kong's Eastern will inspire other women to follow their dreams. The 28-year-old turned a childhood crush on former ... ( read original story ...)

A former journalist has become the richest woman in Hong Kong after her tycoon husband gave her some £5.6 billion (HK$ 54 billion). Chan Hoi-wan, 38, is married to Joseph Lau, 66, a Hong Kong property magnate known for his long list of actress girlfriends ... ( read original story ...)

The two arch-rivals took pot shots at each other without meeting face to face at two separate sharing sessions organised by the Beijing-friendly All-China Women’s Federation Hong Kong Delegates Association. Tsang, the former financial secretary and only ... ( read original story ...)

This, she argued in an interview with the Post, was to enable Hong Kong books to be circulated on the mainland, where the government exercised censorship of published materials. “Truly there are things that we need the liaison office to bridge with ... ( read original story ...)

A Hong Kong man caught with more than 300 kilograms of methylamphetamine — the largest seizure of the drug in Western Australia — will have to spend at least 18 years behind bars. Yik To Ng, 21, was arrested at a house in suburban Canning Vale in ... ( read original story ...)

Bed occupancy rates at Tuen Mun Hospital have topped 100 per cent in both medical and paediatric wards as the public health sector struggles to cope during the peak flu season. Secretary for Food and Health Dr Ko Wing-man told lawmakers in a written reply ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong and Guangzhou musicians will celebrate their common musical source over political differences in an experimental fusion concert aimed at forging a new style of Cantonese music. The “Guangdong Music Assembly”, four young local and four ... ( read original story ...)

Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, the only candidate in Hong Kong’s leadership race without any support from pan-democrats, has expressed confidence that she will attract some votes from the camp in the secret ballot. She also appeared unruffled about the ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG: Four rebel Hong Kong lawmakers were in court on Wednesday (Mar 1) to fight a government bid to disqualify them from parliament, a move criticised as an attack on democracy under pressure from Beijing. Hong Kong's unpopular leader Leung Chun-ying ... ( read original story ...)

Elite police officers from the VIP Protection Unit – previously known as G4 – will provide protection for chief executive hopefuls Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and John Tsang Chun-wah throughout the leadership race, the Post has learned. But their rival ... ( read original story ...)

The BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) may be off the agenda for Tony Cruz-trained California Whip, but jockey Neil Callan believes the four-year-old has the ability to still prove one of the best horses of his generation – albeit in shorter races. He will ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was voted in as a delegate to Beijing’s top political advisory body on Tuesday. Of the 280 delegates from the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference’s standing committee who took part in a vote to ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s stock exchange is vying for a position as an advisor to the Saudi Arabian team preparing for the initial public offering of Saudi Aramco, paving the Chinese financial center’s road to become the host of the largest financial event of its ... ( read original story ...)