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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

South China Morning Post- Hong Kong

Two young boys and their mother were killed in a fire in their 20th floor public housing flat last night.
The brothers, aged two and five, died along with their 33-year-old mother when fire...
Updated 27 Aug 2014 - 10:04am
Doubts are hanging over the effectiveness of an Airport Authority incentive scheme to get airlines to open up new routes, as nearly half of the newly established routes are no longer in operation...
Updated 27 Aug 2014 - 9:58am
The nation's top legislative body should "make decisions on the core issues" concerning how Hong Kong elects its leader by universal suffrage in 2017, Xinhua said last night.
27 Aug 2014 - 7:16am
The Basic Law does not stipulate that the city's electoral system must meet international norms, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said yesterday.
Updated 27 Aug 2014 - 9:32am
The UK Supreme Court’s president, who also sits on Hong Kong’s top court, has dismissed worries over demands in Beijing’s white paper for local judges to be patriotic, saying the requirement is “...
27 Aug 2014 - 5:28am
The number of new HIV cases recorded in the city is set to hit a record high for the fourth year running and may pass 600 for the first time, a government consultant says.
27 Aug 2014 - 6:27am
Hong Kong is replete with mysteries, ancient and modern: when will the West Island Line open? Did Song dynasty rulers shelter here?
27 Aug 2014 - 6:05am

Opinion

A murder suspect on trial for killing his father and trying to kill his mother came up with a fresh excuse this month for the attack: a break-up with his girlfriend just before his father died, a...
27 Aug 2014 - 5:49am
The Equal Opportunities Commission will launch an internal investigation after Apple Daily revealed that Josiah Chok Kin-ming, its chief equal opportunities officer, spoke at a church forum and...
27 Aug 2014 - 5:29am
The Urban Renewal Authority (URA) succeeded in attracting more bidders for the latest phase of its biggest redevelopment project after it relaxed the terms for the sale of the land following an...
27 Aug 2014 - 5:10am
Property owners in Lantau's Tai Ho villages, where a conflict over conservation recently erupted, have sold up to 70 per cent of their land to developers for at least tens of million dollars,...
27 Aug 2014 - 6:22am
An elderly villager has spoken out against contractors who allegedly pulled down a workshop she had built beside her home without warning earlier this month.
27 Aug 2014 - 6:27am
About a dozen destinations were added to the airport's network in the last three years under the New Destination Incentive Arrangement (NDIA), which gives airlines a year's worth of landing fee...
27 Aug 2014 - 5:49am
Hongkongers expect that Beijing will restrict nominations for the next chief executive race. Can pan-democrats accept an electoral system that does not meet all of their wishes?
27 Aug 2014 - 6:15am
A compromise proposal for electoral reform pitched by 13 moderate, pro-establishment scholars could prevent a stand-off between Beijing and pan- democrats.
27 Aug 2014 - 5:56am
Students and staff of the Polytechnic University will not be penalised if they join Occupy Central or an expected boycott of classes next month, the university president says.
27 Aug 2014 - 6:18am
Hong Kong will observe two more memorial days from this year to commemorate landmarks in the Sino-Japanese conflict during the second world war.
27 Aug 2014 - 6:00am
Cathay Pacific's plan to please travellers with HK$100 business and premium economy tickets degenerated into a public relations disaster when it left tens of thousands of people disappointed...
27 Aug 2014 - 5:49am
A deputy police commissioner who said taking verbal abuse was part of an officer's job has expressed his regret to four staff unions and moved to clarify his controversial remark.
27 Aug 2014 - 6:25am
A celestial quirk will deny Mid-Autumn Festival revellers the chance to gaze at a full moon next month.
27 Aug 2014 - 6:02am
The Ebola epidemic has killed more than half of all infected people, but fear and stigma are helping to make the virus even more deadly, say two Hongkongers who have just returned from Liberia.
27 Aug 2014 - 5:49am
Ocean Park says its new haunted house is so scary it will require visitors to sign a disclaimer in case they fall ill or even die of fright after visiting it.
27 Aug 2014 - 5:49am
Hongkongers could help decide what the Kai Tak River will look like, courtesy of a design competition launched as part of efforts to revamp the neighbourhood.
27 Aug 2014 - 6:31am
The Catholic diocese has expressed its joy at having a celebrated Vatican choir perform in the city next month and hopes it will some day also get to sing for audiences on the mainland.
27 Aug 2014 - 6:28am
Beijing’s top legislative body should give preliminarily approval on Wednesday for Hong Kong to elect its next leader by “one man, one vote”, according to local deputies to the National People’s...
26 Aug 2014 - 5:56pm
Hong Kong's dental teaching hospital may have given patients 'heavily contaminated' water to rinse their mouths, despite staff knowing it had been tainted with bacteria, the South China Morning...
26 Aug 2014 - 9:22am
The more Hong Kong activists talk about using civil disobedience to press Beijing to heed demands for greater democracy, the more it will stand firm on electoral reform, Rita Fan warned yesterday...
26 Aug 2014 - 4:32pm

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