Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying on Thursday rejected the US government accusation that the city's officials had feigned confusion over Edward Snowden’s name as a pretext for not...
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A Hong Kong man who brought his Filipino maid with his family when they moved to Vancouver has been convicted of human trafficking in a landmark verdict. A jury in the British Columbia Supreme...
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Hong Kong's refusal to detain Edward Snowden may yet have consequences for the city. A State Department official in Washington warned that the row could prevent progress on plans for visa-free...
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It’s not every day that someone in Hong Kong finds a bag of diamonds worth HK$250 million lying around. Even more rare is someone who would willingly return it.
But mainland tourist Fu...
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As the Hong Kong government asks the US to clarify Edward Snowden's claims of hacking in the city, an internet security expert says it's tough to trace when hackers attack, where they operate from...
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Hong Kong is on the verge of a deeper waste crisis after the environment minster bowed to political pressure and temporarily withdrew a plan to expand the Tseung Kwan O landfill, which the...
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“That Hong Kong would ask for more information about his identity demonstrates that it was simply trying to create a pretext for not acting on the provisional arrest request,” a US Justice...
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A rapidly rising pro-government group has vowed to rally 10,000 people in July 2014 to counter plans by the Occupy Central group to bring 10,000 pro-democracy protesters to central Hong Kong to...
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There's no sign on the door of the Hong Kong Internet Exchange. The grey, bunker-like structure could easily pass for any other building on the bland-looking Sha Tin campus of Chinese University...
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Elderly people waiting years for a government-subsidised place in the city's care homes may be given the choice of joining a fast-track queue for places in two Guangdong facilities run by Hong...
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The world knows about Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and action choreographer Yuen Wo-ping, but Lau was the genuine grandmaster of all, says Hong Kong International Film Festival executive director Roger...
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"Get lost or I'll chop you", two masked men told a pair of workers before they torched copies of the Chinese-language Apple Daily on board a delivery truck in Hung Hom just after midnight...
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The ticking bomb of subdivided flats should be tackled by way of a licensing system that will try to minimise their fire and hygiene risks, officials say.
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