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Lawmakers have called on the Hong Kong government to offer more permits for online ride-hailing services like Uber, citing a need to ensure competition in the industry. Lawmakers on the legislature…

Hong Kong police will gradually replace US-made revolvers with mainland Chinese-made pistols as their service weapons, with the first batch expected as early as later this month. Mainland Chinese-m…

Over 60 per cent of Hong Kong’s elderly whose children had moved overseas were at “high risk” of social isolation, a survey has found amid an emigration wave. Elderly people in Ho…

By Sébastien Ricci and Luna Lin China’s exports rose sharply in June while imports declined unexpectedly, official figures showed Friday, in further evidence that the world’s second-lar…

Hong Kong had “no plans” to require social workers to swear allegiance to the government, the city’s labour and welfare minister has said after members of the industry’s licensing body took an oath…

By Cecil Morella The Philippines will “stand our ground” in a dispute with Beijing over the South China Sea, a top security official said Friday, eight years after an international ruli…

Hong Kong’s new law that mandates certain professionals to report suspected cases of child abuse was too lenient but it prompted “real debate” in the city’s opposition-free legislature, a lawmaker …

Hong Kong youth and culture magazine Breakazine has announced that it will stop publishing from early 2025, ending its 16-year history. In a statement published on Facebook on Thursday afternoon, t…

Hong Kong’s legislature has approved a bill requiring teachers, social workers, doctors and other specified professionals to report suspected serious child abuse cases. Those who fail to comply cou…

Hong Kong’s top court has said a former executive of indebted Chinese real estate giant Evergrande’s “invited suspicion on himself” over a rape allegation that was later dro…