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The day before the dismembered bodies of an elderly couple were found in a Tai Kok Tsui flat, their son confessed to murdering them, the Court of First Instance heard.
26 Feb 2015 - 5:08am
Hong Kong furriers welcomed the opening of the world's largest fur fashion event as local animal rights activists upped their fight against the trade and sales to largest market Russia looked set...
26 Feb 2015 - 5:07am
The city's budget for the next fiscal year includes a HK$34 billion economic relief package, in an attempt by the government to heal a society disrupted by political squabbles.
Updated 26 Feb 2015 - 10:03am
After coffee and French movies, John Tsang Chun-wah has now moved on to his next bourgeois preference: food trucks.
Updated 26 Feb 2015 - 10:26am
Health and social welfare get some of the biggest increases in spending this year under the budget plans, with education and the environment also benefiting in the government’s push to make Hong...
Updated 26 Feb 2015 - 9:46am
There’s more to the budget than announcements about how much you can save on taxes next year. Here are four graphs to help you understand how the budget works and what’s in it.
Updated 26 Feb 2015 - 10:00am
Hong Kong is to set up a savings fund for a rainy day, the finance secretary announced - despite the fact the city's massive fiscal reserves are predicted to reach HK$950 billion in five years.
Updated 26 Feb 2015 - 9:55am
Student leaders behind the "umbrella movement" told a human rights summit in Geneva on Tuesday that the world must stay focused on the human rights situation in China and keep up the pressure on...
26 Feb 2015 - 5:19am
The Liberal Party is set to recruit top lawyer and Basic Law Institute chairman Alan Hoo, helping fill a gap left after former leader James Tien Pei-chun was stripped of his seat on the nation's...
26 Feb 2015 - 5:13am
The city's "best peacemaker" Tung Chee-hwa should talk to Beijing on Hong Kong's behalf, according to a local eye doctor who was an arts adviser to the administration of former US president George...
26 Feb 2015 - 5:15am
A 29-year-old British banker accused of killing two women in his Wan Chai flat was brought to court to have a date set for his committal hearing.
26 Feb 2015 - 5:18am
Seven journalists resigned from TVB around the Lunar New Year, in an apparent move to express their discontent about how their bosses handled politically sensitive stories.
26 Feb 2015 - 5:21am
Older people who have bought a subsidised flat but have not yet finished paying for it are to be offered loans to buy their homes outright in a bid to boost the housing supply, under a proposal...
Updated 26 Feb 2015 - 9:45am
The city's economy faces a "challenging" year ahead amid global economic uncertainty, Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah warned as he unleashed a host of measures intended to electrify...
26 Feb 2015 - 5:28am
The package of relief measures aimed at helping the poor may have increased by almost 80 per cent from last year to HK$6.6 billion - but not a cent is going to mother-of-two Chen Yiping.
26 Feb 2015 - 5:28am
The future of the 173-year-old Hongkong Post has been called into question in John Tsang Chun-wah's latest budget.
26 Feb 2015 - 5:28am
Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-Wah announced a revised budget surplus of HK$63.8 billion for the 2014-15 financial year, compared with the original estimate of HK$9.1 billion.
26 Feb 2015 - 5:28am
Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah's latest budget announcement gained him not only rare praise from pan-democrats but buzz that he might be a dark horse candidate in the 2017 chief executive...
26 Feb 2015 - 5:28am
Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah continued his unbroken streak of being wrong, revealing for the eighth year in a row that he had inaccurately predicted the city's budget.
26 Feb 2015 - 5:28am
A film produced jointly by Hong Kong and mainland companies has been nominated for five awards at the prestigious Asian Film Awards next month, but the production was not in the running for best...
26 Feb 2015 - 5:12am
Rarely told tales from the so-called "City of Sadness" will hit the stage when 13 Tin Shui Wai residents tell the stories of their lives in a new production by a local drama troupe.
26 Feb 2015 - 5:20am
A bounty of one-off goodies, greater financial commitment to the needs of an ageing population and measures to improve social stability – that in a nutshell was the budget that Financial Secretary...
26 Feb 2015 - 1:00am
The police force is set to see its manpower boosted by 841 in the coming financial year in addition to new equipment that includes three “crowd management vehicles” at a cost of HK$27 million.
25 Feb 2015 - 9:46pm
A unicorn dancer who became an overnight “hero” after he almost knocked over Executive Councillor Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee has finally broken his silence.
25 Feb 2015 - 7:30pm
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said that he would raise the possibility of limiting the number of mainlanders visiting Hong Kong when he meets 8 central government officials in Beijing next month...
25 Feb 2015 - 7:58am
The electoral college for the 2022 chief executive election could be expanded from 1,200 members to 1,600 and new sectors such as women and young people could be added.
25 Feb 2015 - 6:22pm
Plans for an innovation and technology bureau will be resubmitted to the Legislative Council next month, as a worldwide study ranked Hong Kong third for a third consecutive year in how well...
25 Feb 2015 - 4:02am
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