28 Dec 2012

An excited group of children pushed through the large revolving doors, filling the normally quiet lobby of the Central office building with laughter and turning the heads of sombre-looking office...

15 Oct 2012

A woman has been found guilty of child neglect for feeding her baby diluted formula, leaving the boy’s appearance at death “worse than the starving children in Africa”, the judge said.

11 Oct 2012

Members of Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents' Club enjoyed a night of rock 'n' roll when Australian rock band INXS took the stage at its annual ball.

Japanese child guitar prodigy Yuto...

15 Aug 2012

Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's ambitious plans to develop the city's traditional Chinese medicine industry took a step forward yesterday with the appointment of a task force to help bring the...

23 May 2012

Last week was an exciting one for young footballers in Hong Kong.

The row over illegal structures took a new twist after the powerful Heung Yee Kuk decided to call off a mass protest against a government crackdown. The kuk also urged villagers to register...

Leung Chun-ying has, at the very least, shown himself to have understood the most pressing issues confronting Hong Kong today.

When chief executive-designate Leung Chun-ying promised to exclude mainland mothers without Hong Kong husbands from private hospital maternity wards, he touched a sensitive public nerve.

Unity they call it. The Heung Yee Kuk is now demanding its pound of flesh from chief executive-elect Leung Chun-ying. It's payback time for its eleventh-hour switch from backing Henry Tang Ying-...

Leung Chun-ying faces the first test of his ability to unify the city. Rural kingpin Lau Wong-fat has called for an amnesty on illegal structures in the New Territories in order to achieve...

A dispute between the two leading contenders for chief executive over illegal structures on village houses has escalated.

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