Hong Kong News Archives

The relationship at company level between France and China is very important, visiting French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said Friday.

The bar at Propaganda, a gay nightclub in Hong Kong. HONG KONG Propaganda isn't just the grandmother of the gay night-life scene in Hong Kong, it's something of a historic site.

Police, firefighters and medical officers on Tuesday morning tested their ability to cope with a biological attack at the upcoming East Asian Games.

Hong Kong-Guangdong Business Conference was held on Tuesday in Sydney with both Guangdong and New South Wales leaders calling for greater cooperation in business and trade.

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government is committed to developing e-learning which will enhance student learning and development, Secretary for Education Michael Suen said on Thursday.

If there was a single lesson from the subprime-inspired financial crash, it was that central bankers must watch asset prices and not just the heavily manipulated consumer price indexes.

It's not just in the United States that some are worrying about a potential market and ETF pullback.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong's government has announced measures aimed at cooling the property market as low interest rates have spurred a dramatic surge in prices and fears of a possible bubble.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority moved to slow a surge in luxury property prices driven by rich buyers from the mainland by limiting mortgages amid growing concern over a property bubble in the territory.

Hong Kong's overall consumer prices rose 0.5 percent in September over the same month last year, following a 1.6 percent drop in August, the Census and Statistics Department of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government said on Thursday.

A lack of suitable sites and the relatively high cost of land are frustrating efforts by some of the biggest names in the luxury hotel business to tap the lucrative business travel market in Hong Kong.

A Sotheby's wine auction in Hong Kong, held earlier this month. HONG KONG Hong Kong is mad about wine.

Hong Kong's wine culture is blossoming. Just a year ago, it was tough to get a good bottle of wine for a fair price due to the city's high wine import tax.

Hong Kong's labor market has begun to improve as the latest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate recorded its first drop since the outbreak of the global financial turmoil last year, said the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government on Monday.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong share prices are likely to decline next week on profit-taking and a weaker mainland Chinese stock market, a dealer said Friday.

A saga that broke out on Friday over possible conflict of interest in an energy-saving scheme showed little sign of cooling yesterday, with Secretary for the Environment Edward Yau Tang-wah denying the government refused to see the light in the first place.

Right after an announcement made by Hong Kong's Chief Executive Donald Tsang that a real estate bubble could possibly occur, a Hong Kong apartment was sold for a whopping HKD 439 million - that's $56.6 million USD! The particular Hong Kong apartment, located on the 68th floor of the 'Conduit Road 39' building, boasts five bedroom suites, a gorgeous ...

Technology is meant to be all about making our lives easier, right? The newly-opened Upper House Hotel in Hong Kong seems to have got this figured out just right.

Hong Kong is steadily gaining global recognition as an international arbitration centre for the Asia Pacific region, providing an ideal venue for speedy and reliable dispute solutions.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang said record prices for some apartments have generated concerns of a possible property bubble, so the government may revise its policy to speed up land supply.

Simply put, Hong Kong is a culinary Mecca. Local Hong Kongers are discerning eaters, so shoddy restaurants don't last for long.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang Wednesday said in his policy address that Hong Kong's new challenge is to maintain its status as a global financial center.

Chinese-speaking children with dyslexia have a disorder that is distinctly different, and perhaps more complicated and severe, than that of English speakers.

Family and lawyers of an exiled leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests pressed for his release Monday, nearly a year after he was sent to a mainland Chinese jail while trying to return to his homeland.

Mumbai/Kolkata, Oct 11 : Travelocity, one of the largest travel companies, have introduced special package for Hong Kong for the festive month of October.

The planned rail link between the Hong Kong and Shenzhen airports would cost Hong Kong more than HK$50 billion, according to a government-commissioned study.

Hong Kong: Hong Kong director Clara Law's 'Like A Dream' leads nominations for this year's Golden Horse Film Awards, the 'Oscars' of Chinese-language cinema, the organisers announced.

Clara Law's drama "Like a Dream" bagged nine nominations for the top Chinese-language film awards, as jurors shunned star-studded blockbusters for unheralded art-house fare when they announced their top candidates Wednesday.

Charles Kao Kuen, the retired vice chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong who is called "the father of fiber optics" for launching the infotech revolution, has been named co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for physics.

SIPPED: disclosure The FTC has promulgated new guidelines that include disclosure of "material connections" for bloggers as of December 1. Should this apply to magazines, newsletters, or online magazines? Why not? As discussed previously, enforcement will be an issue .

A 6-liter bottle of Chateau Petrus 1982, a vintage described by the seller as smelling of prunes and spices, fetched a record HK$726,000 at a sold-out auction of fine wines in Hong Kong, spurred by Chinese buying.

With the rest of China awash in red flags and cheering crowds for National Day, hundreds of Hong Kongers -- many wearing black -- protested Thursday, denouncing the country's human rights record during 60 years of Communist rule.

More than 1.23 million people - one in six of Hong Kong's population - are living in poverty and the widening wealth gap could lead to instability, the Hong Kong Council of Social Services warned yesterday.

The nature of the allegations The decision handed down on 6 April 2009 in the case of Moulin Global Eyecare Holdings Limited & Ors v Lee related to a strike out application brought by the sole defendant to the action, Olivia Lee.