The global financial hub has already lost the crown as Asia’s ‘World City.’ Locking up 76-year old Lai for life will further tarnish its image.
30 Hong Kong tourists feel minor tremors in Japan’s Toyama as 7.6-scale quake strikes neighbouring Ishikawa
Travel agency EGL Tours says customers on its trip to Japan are all safe in Toyama prefecture, about 54km from the epicentre of the 7.6-preliminary magnitude quake.
Hong Kong parents pay me $40,000 to get their kids into top US colleges. Helping families cope with the stress of admissions is a big part of my job.
A private tutor in Hong Kong says his job helping kids abroad with US college admissions includes managing the family stress that comes with it.
Hong Kong welcomes New Year with city’s largest ever firework display
Hong Kong has welcomed in the New Year with the city’s largest firework display to date. Set against the iconic Hong Kong skyline, spectators were treated to a 12-minute firework musical, surpassing ...
Voltage dip spanning parts of Hong Kong’s New Territories traps at least 20 people in lifts, sets off fire alarms
Video circulating online shows huge cloud of smoke billowing from a facility owned by electricity company CLP.
Hong Kong won’t produce Olympic talent like Siobhan Haughey unless it builds world-class sport facilities, coach warns
Olympic medallist Haughey’s ex-coach warns of lack of facilities and international exposure for coaches, with sporting bodies in dark over new venues and Olympic committee telling government to ‘speed ...
The pyro master behind Hong Kong’s iconic fireworks display
Following in his father’s footsteps to become Hong Kong’s top fireworks master, pyrotechnics engineer Wilson Mao has designed and staged every major fireworks display in the city since 1997. Mao takes CNN’s Kristie Lu Stout into his studio and onto the fireworks barge to see how the centuries-old art form has evolved,
Three pays out £2bn to Hong Kong owners
Telecoms giant Three has paid out a record £2 billion dividend to the Hong Kong-listed conglomerate of billionaire Li Ka-shing, as it cashes in on the sale of mobile phone masts across Europe.
‘Life in danger’: Hong Kong independence advocate decries police pressure
A few days before Christmas, Hong Kong activist Tony Chung boarded a flight to Okinawa, Japan, carrying nothing but a backpack -- his casual appearance a ruse to hide plans to seek political asylum ...
Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific cancels flights as seasonal illnesses affect pilots, union says staff shortage impacts operations
Airline pledges to minimise disruptions caused by ‘exceptional period’, says overall operations remain ‘normal’Flight operations are under pressure as the carrier does not have enough pilots, says ...
‘I already miss Hong Kong’: Democracy activist Tony Chung flees to the UK
The 22-year-old said his probation conditions meant he was under constant surveillance and could not work ...
Investment in Hong Kong or wasted billions? Inside the city’s HK$7 billion publicly funded hunt for sporting gold
In the latest part of our examination of Hong Kong sport as another Olympic year dawns, we look at how taxpayers’ money is spent in pursuit of success.
Hong Kong Opposition party closes shop as ‘political reality’ catches up
Alan Leong, co-founder of the Civic Party, reflects on the party's closure and its legacy of promoting democracy in Hong Kong.
U.S. issues statement on second anniversary of Hong Kong’s Stand News raid
The U.S. State Department released a statement Friday condemning China's National Security Law on the anniversary of the police raid on the Stand News in Hong Kong.