Hong Kong property investors are seeking higher returns by purchasing apartments in cities around Shenzhen where homes prices have gone through the roof, particularly in the past year.
Albert Chen Hung-yee, a member of the HKSAR Basic Law Committee, says Hong Kong and the mainland may have to enact laws to implement co-location of immigration facilities at the West Kowloon Terminus of the high-speed rail link.
Beijing believes the Hong Kong government has the ability and Hong Kong people have the wisdom to deal with all kinds of complicated problems and situations, Premier Li Keqiang said Wednesday.
Beijing's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, will offer special visits to youth groups from Hong Kong to help the city's young people learn more about Chinese culture, museum director Shan Jixiang says.
A star-studded welcome dinner was held last night at Conrad Macau, Cotai Central, as a prelude to the Asian Film Awards (AFA) Ceremony to be held tonight at the Venetian Macao.
Hong Kong's Financial Secretary John Tsang Wednesday said emerging markets are a big driver of the new economic order, hoping Hong Kong can grasp the chance to expand trading ties, especially with new markets along the Belt and Road Initiative.
The State Council has proposed a “9+2” strategy that will create an enlarged Greater Pearl River Delta zone with coverage of Hong Kong, Macau and nine southern mainland provinces in a vision that will deepen economic, social, technological and infrastructure integration, according to a guidance document it released on Tuesday.
China securities watchdog said Tuesday it hopes to launch a stock connect scheme between the Shenzhen and Hong Kong bourses in 2016.
Hong Kong is a part of China and the fact would never change, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said on Tuesday.
Hong Kong stocks rallied on Monday on the back of sharp gains on the Chinese mainland as investors took heart from remarks by the securities regulator’s chief that government bailout funds would not be withdrawn for the time being.
The plight of domestic workers in Hong Kong has made headlines in recent years after several high-profile cases in which employers had beat and tortured their helpers.
LONDON - One in six migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong is a victim of forced labour and a significant proportion have been trafficked, rights campaigners said on Tuesday as they called for stronger protections for the city's maids.
The city saw another student committed suicide, making it the seventh such case in the past nine days.
A Beijing legal expert on Sunday floated a controversial proposal that mainland officers could be posted at the high-speed rail link’s West Kowloon terminus without adding to the Basic Law’s list of mainland laws applying to the city.
Rao Geping, a Basic Law adviser to the country's legislature, said Hong Kong alone cannot withdraw from the UN Convention against Torture.
Hong Kong's total port cargo throughput slumped 13.8 percent in 2015, the biggest year-on-year drop in the past 10 years.
The two missing booksellers who were allowed by mainland authorities to return to Hong Kong on separate days last week both quietly crossed the border back to the mainland hours later, sources have told the Post.
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