
8 drivers intercepted in Hong Kong crackdown on illegal ride-hailing services
[South China Morning Post] - 02/19/2025
Undercover officers posed as passengers, police reveal, hours after taxi union called off strike planned for next month.
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Hong Kong Children Hospital’s suspended ENT department to resume after June
Hospital Authority chief sees ‘light in the tunnel’ over manpower shortages, hopes operations can resume as soon as (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 23/02/2025
Beauty in chaos: Japanese hail Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City film exhibition
Exhibition a hit for fans enthralled by aesthetics, martial arts moves and nostalgia of Twilight of the Warriors: (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 23/02/2025
Taobao’s first physical store in Hong Kong
PapaHome has over 10,000 furniture and home decoration items on display, allowing customers to get an up-close look (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 23/02/2025
Cancelled taxi strike in Hong Kong highlights the need for government action
Pattern of threat and backdown circles back to the length of time it is taking to put the point-to-point transport (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/02/2025
Monthly cap on Hong Kong’s HK$2 fare scheme unfair to elderly, experts say
Professor Nelson Chow also suggests reconsidering plan as projected savings will account for ‘tiny percentage’ of (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/02/2025
Budget 2025: Well-off Hong Kong daunted by record deficits
Hong Kong is facing its toughest fiscal test in three decades following a painful run of mammoth deficits, with (…)
[HKFP] - 23/02/2025
An ‘escape’ from the world: As Hong Kong bans ‘space oil’ drug, social workers urge care for teen mental health
Chloe knew she was in the wrong place at the wrong time when four police officers approached her last November in (…)
[HKFP] - 23/02/2025
Hong Kong’s civil service expected to cut contract staff amid deficit
Sources say civil servants will ‘shoulder all the work’ of axed contract staff, as some experts single out roles (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 23/02/2025
Hong Kong and Singapore lead Asia’s drive to cash in on crypto boom
Hong Kong and Singapore are the front-runners in a push by Asian governments to become cryptocurrency hubs as they (…)
[HKFP] - 23/02/2025
Taobao’s first physical store in Hong Kong draws crowds
PapaHome’s 2,322 square metre store in Tsim Sha Tsui boasts more than 10,000 products, allows shoppers to test (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/02/2025
AI-driven blood analysis may spur cancer detection, Hong Kong prenatal test pioneer says
AI helps researchers recognise patterns in the gene fragments they find in blood plasma, sparking a revolution in (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 23/02/2025