HONG KONG : Over 60 people were injured when a two-car train derailed on Hong Kong’s light railway in the north of the city, throwing passengers onto the floor, police said Friday.Groups of passengers sat dazed on the pavement near where the train derailed, some bleeding and being treated by ...

HONG KONG: The giant inflatable rubber duck which has attracted tens of thousands of visitors since it sailed into Hong Kong two weeks ago was reduced to a sad deflated disc Wednesday in the city’s harbour.Duck mania has gripped Hong Kong since its arrival, with locals and tourists flocking ...

Hong Kong  - Hong Kong's economy saw modest year-on-year growth in the first quarter, with demand from mainland China offsetting a weak environment in the West, officials said Friday. Gross domestic product grew by 2.8 percent both in January-March and in the preceding quarter, a government ...

HONG KONG SN - A giant inflatable replica of Stonehenge by British artist Jeremy Deller is on display in Hong Kong as part of a new exhibition.Visitors are allowed to bounce on the exhibit, which is one of six inflatable installations by international artists at the Mobile M+: Inflation! show.The ...

HONG KONG  - Hong Kong billionaire brothers Thomas and Raymond Kwok, two of Asia's wealthiest men, pleaded not guilty to corruption charges on Friday in the southern Chinese city's biggest ever graft case.The brothers, who jointly chair developer giant Sun Hung Kai Properties, and Hong Kong's ...

HONG KONG (AFP) Hong Kong customs authorities investigating a shipment from Thailand marked as fruit were shocked to discover the consignment instead contained 2,600 live snakes, officials said Friday. Customs intercepted the air cargo shipment of 2,400 common rat snakes and 200 cobras on Tuesday ...

HONG KONG (AFP) - Hong Kong fathers will be given three days’ paternity leave for the first time despite objections from employers after officials agreed to start drafting new laws Monday. While mothers in the Asian financial hub are allowed 10 weeks away from work and fathers in the civil ...

HONG KONG (AFP) - Hong Kong customs officers seized almost four tonnes of ivory worth about $3.4 million, hidden in shipments from Kenya and Tanzania, officials said Saturday.The 1,209 pieces of raw ivory tusk and a small number of ivory ornaments were discovered in two containers marked ...

BUSAN (AFP) - A glittering line-up of top Asian cinema stars converged on the South Korean port city of Busan on Thursday for the opening of the region’s premier international film festival.Along with Korean heartthrobs Lee Byung-hun and Jun Ji-hyun, Chinese stars Tang Wei and Cecilia Cheung ...

A pleasure boat on a trip to watch holiday fireworks collided with a ferry and sank off Hong Kong, leaving 36 people dead and sparking a frantic rescue effort, officials said Tuesday.More than 120 passengers and crew were on the Hong Kong Electric company's vessel to watch the huge National Day ...

HONG KONG - Hong Kong on Thursday announced the first step in a policy aimed to restrict foreigners from buying property, in a move seen to be targeting mainland buyers who have been blamed for pushing up property prices.Chief executive Leung Chun-ying said only Hong Kong permanent residents will ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong dentist is wielding forceps to help reach for answers inside the last surviving example of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid of Giza.Pulling teeth by day and devising inventions by night, Ng Tze-chuen, 59, said he organised a team working ...

LAHORE :A Specialised High Performance Coaching and Training Programme of Hong Kong national team elite members will be conducted here at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) from January 29 to February 3. The programme has been designed on special request of the Hong Kong team officials since they ...

HONG KONG  - Space-starved Hong Kong has long been plagued by high rents and steep hotel rates, vexing university students and tourists alike. But help may be at hand, thanks to one Hong Kong firm: tiny pods stacked up in tiers to create capsule lodgings at low cost. Inspired by Japan’s ...

HONG KONG (AFP) - World number two Rory McIlroy sealed the US$2.75 million UBS Hong Kong Open Sunday by holing a birdie chip from a bunker on the last, keeping alive his slim hopes of denying Luke Donald an historic Order of Merit double. "I think that's the most excited I've ever been on a golf ...

HONG KONG (AFP) - Apple's iPhone 4S was on sale on Hong Kong's grey market at the weekend, attracting hundreds of fans paying up to six times official prices to get their hands on the latest model. The smartphone, released in seven countries on Friday, was not yet officially for sale in the ...

HONG KONG (AFP) - Over 1,000 demonstrators marched through downtown Hong Kong on Sunday demanding more public housing amid rising anger over the territory's sky-high property market. The noisy crowd snaked through the densely-packed city of seven million, with activists calling on government ...

HONG KONG (AFP) - Malaysias world number one Lee Chong Wei put his Asian Games disappointment behind him to smash his way to the Hong Kong Open Super Series title Sunday, while Saina Nehwal won the womens crown. Top seed Lee, beaten by Chinas Lin Dan in the final last month at the Games in ...

HONG KONG (AFP) Hong Kong take their biggest ever team to an Asian Games for the short trip north to Guangzhou, hoping to put on a sparkling performance as the territory eyes an ambitious bid to hold the event in 2023. Hong Kong, guaranteed warm support in China from the home crowd, will be hoping ...

KARACHI (PR) - Pakistan Hong Kong Business Forum (PHBF) was formerly launched at a local club on October 16, 2008, by His Excellency Chen Shanmin, Consul General of China and was graced by diplomats from Turkey, Korea, Indonesia, Thailand; Members of PHBF along with elite of Karachi PHBF is ...

The body of a US pilot has been found in wreckage of a plane which crashed in jungle-clad mountains in Indonesia's Papua province during a humanitarian flight, an aid worker said Sunday. "The pilot died when his plane crashed into a jungle" near Ndundu village, about 250 kilometres (155 ...

KARACHI (AFP) - India beat Hong Kong by 256 runs in their Group B match of the Asia Cup at National Stadium here on Wednesday. Scores: India 374-4 in 50 overs (MS Dhoni 109*, S K Raina 101,Najeeb Amar 2-40), Hong Kong 118 in 36.5 overs (Irfan Ahmad 25, JJ Atkinson 23,PP Chawla 4-23)

KARACHI - Hong Kong cricket team considered as the weakest combination in the six team Asia Cup starting here June 24 got the first feel of local weather and the National stadium when they held three hours hard training under a cloudy sky and cool breeze on Saturday late morning. The long ...

WEB sites of Hong Kong are more likely to fill your computer with unwanted ads, viruses and spam than those from anywhere else in the world. Sites using the ".hk" domain name pose the biggest security threat to visitors. Mainland Chinese sites were the second most risky with 11 percent, while ...

LAHORE - Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq has signed to play in the Hong Kong Sixes, making him yet another big name to figure in the tournament. According to reports on a wire agency, the Pakistan batting legend - who hammered 25 Test centuries in a stellar 15-year career - has ...

LAHORE - Hong Kong got its first win of the Pakistan tour when it completed a seven wickets rout of Punjab University team here at the New Campus Ground on Saturday. Deciding to bat first Punjab University was rattled harmless by Hong Kong attack restricting them at just 96 runs in 35 overs and ...