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Saturday, July 5, 2014

South China Morning Post- Hong Kong


Occupy Central leaders could face conspiracy charges if and when they announce detailed plans for the sit-in they have threatened, one criminal law expert says.
6 Jul 2014 - 8:28am
Leading pan-democrats protested about arrests linked to the July 1 march - by handing themselves in to the police. They offered to "confess their crimes" and called on others to follow their...
6 Jul 2014 - 3:35am
Two torture victims from Africa who have been seeking asylum in Hong Kong for the past nine years have been granted refugee status in Canada within a year of applying.
6 Jul 2014 - 8:38am
From moon cakes to fishermen's ballads, the recently issued list of Hong Kong intangible cultural heritage covers myriad facets of culture and history. But one is absent: the East-meets-West...
6 Jul 2014 - 8:47am
A key witness in the international money laundering trial of an Eastern European businessman in Hong Kong was attacked early on Friday in the Thai holiday destination of Phuket.
6 Jul 2014 - 5:02am
A team at City University has developed a self-cleaning cashmere that uses energy from the sun.
6 Jul 2014 - 8:35am
Dozens of people are expected to picket the Hong Kong Museum of Art in protest at an exhibition featuring artefacts dating to the Qing and Ming dynasties made with rhinoceros and elephant ivory....
6 Jul 2014 - 5:02am

Opinion

Hong Kong and Macau authorities are considering whether proposed laws that would require each city to surrender fugitives wanted by the other should apply retroactively, Hong Kong's justice...
5 Jul 2014 - 2:41am
The chief executive's wife has criticised the media for its coverage of an online post by her daughter that depicted a slashed wrist, and urged it to stop reporting on her situation.
6 Jul 2014 - 8:31am
Five pan-democratic lawmakers were thrown out of a Legislative Council Finance Committee meeting yesterday as discussion over the government's funding requests continued amid chaos.
5 Jul 2014 - 3:35am
Five members of July 1 march organiser the Civil Human Rights Front arrested yesterday for leading the democracy rally at a snail's pace denounced the police action as "political persecution".
5 Jul 2014 - 4:17am
Authorities are seeking a crackdown on illegal guest houses through granting the government more power, making it easier to haul offenders to court.
5 Jul 2014 - 3:14am
Walter Kwok Ping-sheung became "suspicious" and made several "false accusations" against family members and company executives after being freed by abductors in 1997, the Court of First Instance...
5 Jul 2014 - 3:27am
Former British governor Chris Patten hit out at Beijing's white paper on Hong Kong, saying it was "wholly reasonable" for Hongkongers to protest.
5 Jul 2014 - 4:01am
There is a "disconnect" between the government and the people and the administration needs to be seen to be listening more to public views, former Ocean Park chairman Allan Zeman said yesterday....
5 Jul 2014 - 2:50am
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has become the latest mainland agency to attack Occupy Central.
5 Jul 2014 - 3:33am
The image of non-government organisations on the mainland has been taking a battering lately. Corruption, misuse of funds and opacity have led the number of donors to dwindle to drastically low...
5 Jul 2014 - 3:14am
An Iranian who built a zipline to carry nomadic tribesmen and their livestock across a river and an unemployed person who grows vegetables in the centre of Detroit may seem to have little in...
5 Jul 2014 - 3:43am
The Town Planning Board has approved cuts of up to 59 per cent to land reserved for small houses in three country park enclaves.
5 Jul 2014 - 3:44am
A dramatic rise in the number of Hong Kong veterinarians has pushed the time it takes to resolve a complaint against the profession to about five years.
5 Jul 2014 - 3:14am
Two former Happy Valley players and a former team official allegedly involved in match-fixing all pleaded not guilty in Eastern Court yesterday.
5 Jul 2014 - 3:01am
Town planners have zoned the land on which Tai O's stilt houses stand as residential - despite an ongoing review into whether the buildings should have heritage protection.
5 Jul 2014 - 3:14am
Jailed Birmingham City Football Club owner Carson Yeung Ka-sing can keep his luxury home on The Peak after a bank agreed not to execute a possession order to take back the property, a court heard...
5 Jul 2014 - 3:43am
A cargo ship captain was sentenced to 16 months in jail yesterday for his involvement in a collision which caused six deaths off the shores of Stanley.
5 Jul 2014 - 3:45am
A study commissioned by the South China Morning Post estimates 140,000 people took part in the July 1 march. The result is similar to estimates by two HKU academics but falls way below the...
4 Jul 2014 - 11:22am
As excitement over the World Cup reaches fever pitch, nearly one in four Hong Kong teenagers under 18 polled in a recent survey admitted to having been involved in gambling.
4 Jul 2014 - 7:02pm
For the first time since the handover, the Chief Executive's Office called the police into the Legislative Council chamber yesterday after independent Wong Yuk-man hurled a glass in the direction...
4 Jul 2014 - 7:53am

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