Mainland

33 banned for life for fixing soccer matches on mainland

19 Feb 2013

Thirty-three people, including two former Chinese soccer chiefs, have been banned for life from future soccer-related activities in the latest development in the mainland's biggest sports...

Retirees on mainland will get allowance

16 Feb 2013

The old-age living allowance to be introduced in April is expected to cover Hongkongers in Guangdong by the end of next year. Welfare secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung said the government would...

Taiwanese officer gets 12 life terms for spying for mainland

7 Feb 2013

A former Taiwanese air force officer has been given 12 life sentences for spying for the mainland, adding to a long list of espionage cases that have rocked the island.

Third of children moving to Hong Kong from mainland face hardship, survey shows

14 Dec 2012

Poverty afflicts more than a third of the children in mainland families that move to Hong Kong, a study released yesterday shows.

Hong Kong-mainland integration is 'inevitable and essential', Leung says

2 Oct 2012

Increasing integration with the mainland could boost Hong Kong's economy and help solve the city's social problems, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said yesterday in a speech marking the National...

Opinion

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

Alice Wu

John Tsang's confused middle-class claim

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

New mainland mandatory food labels will improve health

It is alarming that one-fifth of the world's population cannot be sure about what it is eating because it lacks a single law to ensure that people can easily find out what they are consuming and...

We're not that simple

Many mainlanders come to Hong Kong to buy genuine things. From jewellery to designer clothes, food and even baby formula; Hong Kong is trusted to deliver the real deal.

MAINLANDERS RETREAT

Credit tightening in China has led to fewer mainlanders buying real estate in Hong Kong. In the first quarter, 10.6 per cent of individual homebuyers were from the mainland, down 3.8 per cent...

Don't be unfair or unkind to mainlanders

In the past 12 months, many incidents involving mainlanders have been given wide publicity in Hong Kong.

This has created a negative view of mainlanders who are unjustly criticised...

An unwelcome reminder of the past for Hongkongers?

In recent weeks, some Hong Kong people's complaints about mainland property buyers, mainland mothers and mainland tourists on the MTR have become unpleasant, even vicious.

We are all part of the same country

There were more than 8,000 reports of minor infractions such as eating on the MTR last year. My guess is that most were committed by Hongkongers.