14 Aug 2012

Two relatives of a candidate in last year's district council election were given two months in jail yesterday, after they provided false addresses and voted in the election.

4:15AM
1 Aug 2012

Villagers living near the route of the cross-border express railway want its construction halted. They say it has dried up their wells and damaged houses.

10:43PM
28 Jul 2012

A mother who left her four-year-old son alone at home to go gambling in Macau was put on 12 months' probation yesterday.

10:26PM
27 Jul 2012

Mong Kok's Bird Garden was open for business for the first time in three weeks yesterday following its closure amid a bird flu scare.

10:24PM
18 Jul 2012

A doctor accused of molesting three nurses exposed himself to one of them after asking her to help him secure his trousers because he did not know how to use a safety pin, a court heard yesterday...

9:38PM
7 Jul 2012

When glaucoma robbed Fu Tai-fun of her sight six years ago it took away her mobility, as she no longer dared to go to unfamiliar places because she was afraid of getting lost.

7:30PM

The annual handover rally plays a significant role in raising Hongkongers' political awareness and promoting discussion in the city, academics say, recalling the record turnout for the 2003 march...

7:04PM

Police have put aside initial reservations and agreed to let independent observers monitor their interactions with protesters for the first time during Sunday's handover march.

6:44PM

Police officers said yesterday they had no idea exactly when or why station sergeant Lau Chi-kin had climbed onto a footbridge roof from which he fell to his death last year.

5:25PM

For years, they banged the drum for justice, noisily protesting outside banks as they sought the return of money lost on minibonds when Lehman Brothers went to the wall in 2008.

4:54PM

A two-year-old picks up a toy, as his mother stops him from wandering out their door-less subdivided Sham Shui Po flat. The door was removed on Wednesday after she received two weeks' notice to...

4:22PM

Mr Chan always hoped he wouldn't have to live for long in his 40 sq ft room on the fifth floor of a converted factory in Tai Kok Tsui, accessible only by a dark flight of stairs. But he didn't...

4:05PM

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