- Wed
- Aug 27, 2014
- Updated: 10:04am
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...
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
Today's Poll
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Total number of votes recorded: 70
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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