Category: Hong Kong
HK mega bridge launch announcement sparks backlash
China has finally announced the opening ceremony for the world’s longest sea bridge, which will connect Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland, but critics hit back Thursday [...]
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S. Korea’s last polar bear dies ahead of British retirement
The last polar bear kept in South Korea has died of old age only weeks before his planned departure to better living conditions in Britain, zoo officials said Thursday. [...]
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Software glitch may have disrupted HK train services: MTR
It was not the testing of a new signalling system that brought down four key arteries of Hong Kong’s mass transit network on Tuesday, the rail operator said yesterday [...]
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HK journalist group urges local media chiefs to explain why reports carrying controversial remarks were removed
The Hong Kong Journalists Association has urged three news outlets as well as a group of local media chiefs visiting Beijing to explain the “highly unusual” [...]
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IndiGo to launch Bengaluru-HK flights from December
Budget carrier IndiGoNSE -3.69 percent Wednesday announced the launch of its services to Hong Kong form Bengaluru, starting December. The bookings for the new flights have [...]
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Law Society may plug loophole that allows foreign lawyers to work in HK, prompting fears of an exodus
Hong Kong’s professional body of solicitors is seeking to plug a loophole that allows foreign and mainland Chinese lawyers to work “back door” on local [...]
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How changes to Schengen Area entry policy will affect Hongkongers
Travel to Europe is about to get more complicated for Hongkongers. From 2021, holders of Hong Kong passports will no longer be able to simply hop on a plane and arrive in [...]
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China propaganda chief warns HK media over interference: Reports
China’s propaganda chief has reportedly warned Hong Kong’s senior media executives not to allow the city’s newsrooms to “become a base for interfering [...]
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HK takes 7th place for global competitiveness but lags Singapore in 2018 World Economic Forum study
Hong Kong has outperformed Singapore in entrepreneurship but fallen short in innovation by taking seventh place in a study of global competitiveness by the World Economic [...]
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Will Tesla lose its cool in HK? Axa triples insurance premiums
When Jardine Matheson’s former Hong Kong executive Geoffrey Jones was shopping for a new car two years ago, a special package by Axa on Tesla’s four-door sedan [...]
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Why the World Should Be Alarmed at HK’s Expulsion of a Foreign Journalist
Shortly after Mao Zedong’s Communists triumphed over the Chinese Nationalist government in 1949, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC), established six years [...]
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HK train network suffers its worst ever delay a six-hour signal failure
Experts to investigate delays that were so unprecedented the network’s handbook has no guidance on the scenario Hong Kong is investigating its worst train delay in the [...]
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HK MTR suffers signalling glitch on 3 lines, delaying trains for up to 40 mins
Hong Kong’s metro trains suffered delays on Tuesday (October 16) due to an unprecedented simultaneous signaling glitch on four of its major lines, causing chaos at [...]
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We never build what we can’t afford, HK leader says amid criticism of 1,700 hectare artificial islands plan
Hong Kong’s leader on Tuesday insisted the city was not committing to unaffordable infrastructure projects amid criticism of her proposal to create artificial islands [...]
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Pro-Independence Student Activists in HK Call on US to Protect the City’s Freedoms
Members of a student group that advocates for Hong Kong’s independence from China camped out in front of the city’s US Consulate Sunday night to demonstrate [...]
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