In a roller-coaster of events, Henry Tang Ying-yen, the former chief secretary who is widely tipped to be the favourite for the chief executive post, shocked the city earlier this month by...
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- May 24, 2013
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Marriage authorities have announced moves to create a national database in an attempt to clamp down on bigamy.
Are you having an extra-marital love affair? Are you the mistress of a married man? Do you have a 'Shenzhen wife' or two in addition to your 'dearly beloved'? Do you turn a blind eye to your...
I refer to 'Why Hong Kong never really bade farewell to its concubines' (Sunday Morning Post, June 29), by Jason Wordie.
I am afraid that Wordie confuses Chinese wives with concubines...
The controversial amendment draft of the Marriage Law which will outlaw baoernai - having 'second wives' - is expected to be passed on Saturday, according to Xinhua.
After more than 30 years of marriage, Mrs Leung still keeps a separate bank account from her husband and recommends that all women do the same, whether employed or not.
Marriage may be going out of fashion here, as it appears to be doing all over the developed world, but that does not signal the death of romance.
IT MAY BE DIFFICULT for many readers of this novel to appreciate that the world Mimi Chan describes did not end that long ago - a world of slavery, rampant adultery, opium smoking and bound feet...
A 32-year-old man spurned by his mistress threatened to jump from the roof of a 15-storey block of flats in Shekkipmei yesterday.
His wife, who was called to the scene to talk him...
A 91-year-old widow won a share in her late husband's fortune yesterday when a judge ruled in favour of legal rights for concubines.
We had all been thinking, hoping, that there was nothing more to know about Monica Lewinsky but E! apparently has dug up some extra detail about the poor woman in Monica Lewinsky: The Untold Story...
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