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MAY 22 — Braving the rain, fans of Hello Kitty lined up in Hong Kong to eat in a Chinese-style restaurant dedicated to the Japanese cartoon. Though Hello Kitty-themed restaurants and cafes already exist around the world, and in Hong Kong, none are known to serve traditional Chinese cuisine. Man Kwong, the restaurant owner says his is a world f
A group of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Hong Kong will stage a protest against a comment of a Hong Kong lawmaker accusing Filipina maids of seducing their employers. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
China will limit the number of visits that residents of the southern city of Shenzhen can make to neighboring Hong Kong, state media said on Monday (April 13), to ease the flow of mainland visitors in the former British colony that has led to tensions. The Ministry of Public Security’s Exit-Entry Administration Bureau will restrict residents to one Hong Kong visit a week with immediate effect, compared with an unlimited number of daily trips previously, […]
A German teenager climbed a 700 ft. tall building in Hong Kong without safety equipment.
Nine years after she left the Philippines and stepped foot in Hong Kong as a domestic helper, Xyza Bacani’s life has taken a new turn. Bacani was recently named one of the recipients of the Magnum Foundation Fellowship for Human Rights with her latest, unpublished, images of the abuse suffered by domestic helpers in Hong Kong, and will be jetting off to New York in just a few months time to study at the prestigious […]
An extremely rare 77.77-carat yellow diamond is expected to fetch up to US$7.5 million when it goes up for auction in early April. The stone is one of the world’s rarest diamonds according to Sotheby’s Hong Kong Deputy Head of Jewelry, Terry Chu. “Only when a diamond, which has color and the color saturation is strong enough to call vivid, actually it’s always been rarer. And then don’t forget yellow diamond is rare, but when […]
Hong Kong (HK) business magnate and legislative council member stressed the importance of Chinese inland travelers on Thursday; days after Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said that the Individual Visit Scheme for tourists from the inland is to be tightened up. “Hong Kong’s biggest advantage is having inland as our supporter. If we don’t have the Individual Visit Scheme, I believe the stock would fall for over 1,000 point,” said Li Ka-Shing, a Hong Kong business […]
Indonesian Erwiana Sulistyaningsih called for equal rights for all migrant workers in Hong Kong at a news conference on Tuesday (February) after her former employer was found guilty of abusing her. Erwiana stood with migrant worker representatives at the news conference holding up signs that said “End Slavery”. The landmark case triggered outrage over mistreatment of maids and shed light on abuse that many women face in overseas jobs. Former beautician Law Wan-tung, 44, sobbed […]
Former Hong Kong chief secretary Rafael Hui was sentenced by Hong Kong’s High Court on Tuesday to seven-and-a-half years for corruption and misconduct. Hui was ordered to pay the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government a fine of 11.182 million H.K. dollars (about 1.437 million U.S. dollars). Hui was convicted on five counts of misconduct and corruption, which makes him the highest-ranking official in Hong Kong’s history to be found guilty of taking bribes. […]
Hong Kong police started clearing barricades in the main protest site in the Admiralty district when a court order was issued in favor of a bus company claiming that the protests disrupted its business.
Rallyists in Hong Kong were given until Thursday morning to leave the protest site following an injunction issued against them.
In Hong Kong, authorities arrested 80 protesters as they began clearing operations on major protest sites.
