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Casino tycoon Ho buys stake in HK budget airline

Asian casino tycoon Stanley Ho's transport company is buying a stake in a budget airline that Qantas and China Eastern Airlines are setting up in Hong Kong, the companies said Thursday.

HK holds June 4 vigil as it bristles at Beijing

A spate of corruption scandals has raised worries about the integrity of public officials in Hong Kong, an Asian financial center that likes to boast of clean government and strong rule of law.

HK investigates ex-chief of anticorruption agency

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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.

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.

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Getting by cheaply in Asian capital of commerce

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