- Tue
- Sep 16, 2014
- Updated: 9:58am
Rafael
Hui Si-yan lavished millions on a young Shanghai woman after the pair
started an "intimate" relationship in 2008, a court heard yesterday.
16 Sep 2014 - 3:07am
Hong
Kong woke this morning to the first T8 signal of the year, which closed
schools, halted ferry services and led to cancelled flights.
Updated 16 Sep 2014 - 9:19am
One
of Hong Kong' s richest people, Ronnie Chan Chichung, flew to Los
Angeles last night bearing a donation of undisclosed proportions for a
university and claiming to have trumped Bill Gates and...
16 Sep 2014 - 7:39am
Four
people were injured when a seemingly mentally unstable man grabbed a
policeman's gun and fired six shots in a public hospital in Sheung Shui
yesterday.
16 Sep 2014 - 3:18am
The
government's environment advisers have backed the plan to build a third
runway at the airport despite concerns over its impact on marine
ecology.
16 Sep 2014 - 4:36am
Some
shops were left to protest their innocence yesterday after finding
themselves on a Centre for Food Safety list which named 383 businesses
suspected of using tainted lard from the Taiwanese...
16 Sep 2014 - 8:06am
Free
meals and accommodation offered by the central government were not
enough for Rafael Hui Si-yan, who picked his own hotels and restaurants
for gatherings of the nation's top political...
16 Sep 2014 - 4:36am
Opinion
15 Sep 2014 - 4:20am
Today's Poll
- 46
- 54
Total number of votes recorded: 72
Industrial-sector
lawmaker Lam Tai-fai will consider ending his Legislative Council
career in 2016 if the government's political reform proposal is not
passed next year.
16 Sep 2014 - 4:40am
Parents
have been warned to choose baby wipes and child car seats carefully
after the consumer watchdog found that some products did not meet safety
standards, or contained harmful, even...
16 Sep 2014 - 3:25am
The
wife of the development minister yesterday claimed her daughter was so
worried about a rumour that her school's head boy was cheating that she
felt compelled to bring the accusation to the...
16 Sep 2014 - 4:36am
Terry
Tse Yuet-ming and three other contestants in the Hong Kong Cup Tasters
Championship were given eight minutes to pick out cups that tasted
different from the other two in each set.
16 Sep 2014 - 4:59am
Dust
and metal particles were seen covering the shaft and machine room of a
lift in a North Point building during inspections after seven people
were seriously injured when wires snapped and the...
16 Sep 2014 - 8:42am
A
teenager who cut wires in an airliner's communications system to take
revenge on his "rude" boss avoided a jail term yesterday after a judge
decided the young man was remorseful.
16 Sep 2014 - 4:36am
The
Chinachem Charitable Foundation can ask the Court of Final Appeal to
decide in what capacity it holds Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum's HK$83 billion
estate.
16 Sep 2014 - 4:36am
For
37 years, the city has had a two-tier system to treat police
complaints. One tier handles the complaint; the other has oversight of
the handling of the complaint.
16 Sep 2014 - 4:36am
Thousands
of black-clad Occupy Central supporters took to the streets yesterday
in a silent 'black cloth' protest, accusing Beijing of breaking its
promise to give Hong Kong democracy.
15 Sep 2014 - 9:47am
Some
48 per cent of Hongkongers say lawmakers should veto the reform
proposal on the 2017 chief executive election if it follows the
restrictive conditions laid down by Beijing.
15 Sep 2014 - 5:39pm
The
government banned the import, sale and supply of all lard and lard
products made after March 1 by the Taiwanese firm at the centre of the
"gutter oil" scandal.
15 Sep 2014 - 9:39am
Hundreds
of academics from more than 20 tertiary institutions across the city
have made a united stand against Beijing's "undemocratic" framework for
universal suffrage in 2017.
15 Sep 2014 - 9:40am
Singapore is set to be the third country to allow Hongkongers to use its airport automated immigration clearance systems.
15 Sep 2014 - 6:17pm
He
is most frequently referred to in newspapers as "Heung Yee Kuk chairman
Lau Wong-fat's son-in-law". Photos and reports on him appear from time
to time in the political celebrity section of a...
15 Sep 2014 - 6:29am
For
Albert Ho Chun-yan, who has spent three decades fighting for universal
suffrage, the tough ruling by Beijing on Hong Kong's next chief
executive election did not come as any surprise.
15 Sep 2014 - 8:01am
The
city's pan-democrats will have a case to answer if the government's
plan to let Hongkongers pick their next leader through "one man, one
vote" in 2017 is voted down in the legislature, the...
15 Sep 2014 - 6:02am
If
pan-democrats could run for the city's top job in the previous two
elections, there is no reason why they should be barred from the 2017
poll where a "one man, one vote" system is expected to...
15 Sep 2014 - 6:29am
After
educating a long list of political leaders in many different countries,
Oxford University now wants to produce its first Chinese president,
says the university's vice-chancellor.
15 Sep 2014 - 8:46am
Behind
the stained and cracked walls of the Shum Residence, a vanquished
warlord once lived in grand style with his seven wives and 19 children.
15 Sep 2014 - 6:33pm
It's a hot summer's day, and Lai Tai-sing is sitting on the deck of his fishing boat at the Cheung Chau typhoon shelter.
15 Sep 2014 - 6:29am
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20 Aug 2014
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04 Sep 2014
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05 Sep 2014
Degree from top school guarantees nothing
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22 Aug 2014
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09 Sep 2014
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22 Aug 2014
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27 Aug 2014
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26 Aug 2014
Tourists need manners reminder
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27 Aug 2014
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02 Sep 2014
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25 Aug 2014
Which one fits: Hongkonger or Chinese?
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