Hong Kong

HK investigates ex-chief of anticorruption agency

4 days ago

Hong Kong's corruption watchdog is launching a criminal investigation of its former chief who spent tens of thousands of dollars on gifts for mainland Chinese officials.

HK dockworkers accept pay offer, end 40-day strike

12 days ago

Hong Kong dockworkers have accepted a 9.8 percent pay increase, ending a 40-day strike that slowed traffic at one of the world's busiest ports.

HK tycoon brothers plead not guilty in graft case

72 days ago

Two billionaire property tycoon brothers at the center of a Hong Kong graft probe have pleaded not guilty to corruption charges.

HK expects modest economic recovery in 2013

81 days ago

"Tsang forecast a "modest improvement" for Hong Kong's economy in 2013 with growth between 1.5 percent and 3.5 percent, after it scraped out a 1.4 percent expansion last year.

HK Disney turns first profit since 2005 opening

90 days ago

Disneyland in the southern Chinese city of Hong Kong has turned a profit for the first time since it opened in 2005.

Asia stocks rise on positive start to US earnings

129 days ago

Hong Kong-listed Aluminum Corp. of China surged 8.1 percent a day after U.S. aluminum giant Alcoa forecast demand would grow 7 percent in 2013, up from a 6 percent gain in 2012.

HK lawmakers try to impeach Beijing-backed leader

130 days ago

But it's the latest sign of the widening gulf between semiautonomous Hong Kong and its political masters in Beijing.

Hong Kong makes $1.4M ivory bust, 3rd since Oct.

135 days ago

Hong Kong authorities have made their third big seizure of illegal ivory in three months, confiscating more than a ton of elephant tusks worth $1.4 million, customs officials said Friday.

HK traders use roof to dry thousands of shark fins

135 days ago

Shark fin traders in Hong Kong have laid out thousands of fins on rooftops in what appears to be a move to escape public scrutiny of their industry.