Police
acting as protesters blocked a road on the grounds of the Police
College in Aberdeen yesterday in what force insiders described as a
'major exercise' to prepare for Occupy Central.
Updated 26 Jun 2014 - 9:04am
Acting
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor urged lawmakers to approve
preliminary funding for controversial new-town projects in the
northeastern New Territories.
26 Jun 2014 - 7:28am
Questions
have arisen over the Airport Authority's dividend policy after it paid a
record HK$5.3 billion to its sole shareholder, the Hong Kong
government.
Updated 26 Jun 2014 - 8:47am
Washington
and Beijing have crossed swords again over political reform in Hong
Kong after a Communist Party mouthpiece accused the United States of
taking advantage of the issue to push for the...
26 Jun 2014 - 7:53am
A
leading mainland academic on Hong Kong affairs today called on the Hong
Kong and central governments to take seriously the huge turnout for the
unofficial referendum on political reform.
26 Jun 2014 - 8:02am
There
is no international standard of democracy as different countries
function in countless ways, a former president of the UN General
Assembly says.
26 Jun 2014 - 4:05am
Calls
are intensifying for lawyers to join a march tomorrow to defend
judicial independence and oppose Beijing's white paper asserting its
"comprehensive jurisdiction" over Hong Kong.
26 Jun 2014 - 5:22am
Updated 26 Jun 2014 - 8:40am
25 Jun 2014 - 10:06pm
Today's Poll
- 74
- 26
Total number of votes recorded: 31
Chief
Executive Leung Chun-ying's daughter posted a photograph on Facebook at
3am yesterday that appeared to show her lying in a bathtub with a
slashed wrist and the water tinged with red.
Updated 26 Jun 2014 - 9:21am
A
50-metre mainland cargo vessel ran aground at Butterfly Beach in Tuen
Mun yesterday after it suffered engine problems and drifted into shore,
damaging the shark net.
Updated 26 Jun 2014 - 9:21am
Beijing's
top foreign ministry representative in Hong Kong has dismissed as
"purely fictitious" claims that the Chinese embassy in Myanmar invited
Next Media chairman Jimmy Lai Chee-ying to dinner...
26 Jun 2014 - 4:05am
The
Legislative Council will launch a lower-level investigation of the
two-year delay to the high-speed cross-border railway after a call to
invoke its powers was vetoed.
Updated 26 Jun 2014 - 9:11am
Eighty
dogs given stay of execution as kennel granted lease extension - but
cash needed to pay for rent and new premises in Ma On Shan.
Updated 26 Jun 2014 - 9:24am
Dragonair
cabin crew members are backing industrial action by their union if
their complaints about "chaotic rostering" and perceived threats to
their income and promotion prospects from the...
Updated 26 Jun 2014 - 9:28am
Heritage and innovation are two central themes of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra's concert season 2014-15.
26 Jun 2014 - 4:05am
Opponents
of a planned boutique hotel on a narrow, winding lane up to The Peak
are not appeased by a government proposal to extend traffic
restrictions.
26 Jun 2014 - 4:05am
A motion condemning the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown was defeated in the Legislative Council last night.
26 Jun 2014 - 5:28am
Boy,
who had been protesting the handing over of harbourfront land for a
military berth, is banned from leaving his family home at night for a
year.
26 Jun 2014 - 3:32am
The
number of sleeping pills that a radiologist told the late
philanthropist Anita Chan Lai-ling she could take was well over the
maximum daily dosages, Eastern Court heard yesterday.
26 Jun 2014 - 5:42am
Politicians
are notorious for taking credit for achievements they had little to do
with but we wonder how Leung Chun-ying justified listing the efforts of
Hong Kong athletes among his personal...
26 Jun 2014 - 5:08am
"Significant
progress" has been achieved on tackling the city's housing shortage and
fighting poverty, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said yesterday.
25 Jun 2014 - 9:33am
With
a recent scandal over Cathay Pacific’s stewardess uniforms allegedly
provoking in-flight sexual harassment, and Hong Kong's crackdown on
in-flight sex pests, one man’s massive collection of...
25 Jun 2014 - 9:09am
The
cyberattack against the digital voting system for Occupy Central’s
unofficial referendum is the most sophisticated ever seen, says the head
of a US-based firm which has been battling to repel...
25 Jun 2014 - 3:23am
Lawmakers
have urged the government to give more financial support to the Urban
Renewal Authority, which may have to forgo small redevelopment projects
that generate larger losses.
25 Jun 2014 - 4:49am
The
MTR Corporation will today begin erecting a wall of steel pilings to
protect relics found on the construction site for the future To Kwa Wan
station - meaning work on the Sha Tin-Central rail...
25 Jun 2014 - 8:36am
A
government proposal to import a third of power from the mainland grid
could prove a step backwards for Hong Kong's free-market economy, the
city's business sector has warned.
25 Jun 2014 - 5:14am
Hong
Kong police will carry out what sources have described as a "major
exercise" today to prepare for possible chaos caused by Occupy Central.
25 Jun 2014 - 3:41pm
Dominic
Rivers spotted an opportunity to make money last month from low bitcoin
prices. Now he's wondering if he will see his investment again. The
Briton, 34, says he saw the bitcoin as a "novel...
25 Jun 2014 - 8:00am
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