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Birmingham International Holdings, the investment firm of convicted businessman Carson Yeung Ka-sing, halted the trading of its shares on HKEx early on Monday ...

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A 54-year-old woman escaped serious injuries in an explosion sparked by a gas leak at her apartment in Tuen Mun early today. Wong Mei-yi, 54, a taxi driver, suffered minor burns to her face and hands in the blast and is in stable condition in Tuen Mun Hospital. ...

Tanya Hart was surprised to learn that her seven-year-old son, Sam, was never asked about his culture and background by teachers at his local school. ...

The 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown forever changed Martin Lee Chu-ming's political career and his ties with the mainland. ...

Is it me or has the month of May been really depressing? It's partly because of the filibuster season that we in Hong Kong have come to expect to live with. Perhaps it's the perpetual rain. Or maybe it's this fixation by some to keep raining on someone's parade. ...

Government adviser Cheung Chi-kong is not one to back down. But over the weekend he was forced to apologise for claiming a record number of workers, not mainland visitors, was to blame for railway overcrowding. ...

Hongkongers should cast a vote in Occupy Central's "referendum" next month even if they don't agree with any of the proposals on the shortlist, according to a group of pan-democratic lawmakers. ...

Hong Kong's mandatory provident fund scheme should not be hastily done away with, the financial secretary says, although he concedes the system has failed to give low-paid workers and the unemployed enough retirement protection. ...

Sitting in his home on the campus of Sichuan Normal University at Chengdu, Gao Ertai wondered when he would be free from fear. It was 1992, three years after China's bloody crackdown on Tiananmen Square marchers. ...

With the budget filibuster dragging on in Legco, the government under pressure to avoid a looming fiscal cliff, and public opinion split, one person has been conspicuously absent amid all the drama - Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying. ...

A decade of advocating for women's rights has taught Linda To Kit-lai that rhetorical appeals to bureaucratic policymakers go only so far. To really make an impact you need a good lawyer. The problem is, they do not come cheap, or at least not until recently. ...

Australia is encouraging its university students to cultivate ties with Asia under a plan that supports their studies or work placements in Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia and Japan. ...

Commerce undersecretary Godfrey Leung King-kwok has vowed to do more to boost ties with lawmakers, after the Legislative Council chief was left red-faced when he failed to identify Leung at a meeting last week. ...

North Korea's total purchase of 5kg of boneless dried shark fin last year represented a negligible amount of the total premium-quality fin re-exported from Hong Kong. But the HK$3,200 per kilogram it paid stood out as one of the highest prices paid by any country in the world. ...

It still seems an impossible feat: a group of courageous Hongkongers helping to spirit hundreds of dissidents out of the mainland after the June 4 crackdown under the nose of the authorities. ...

About 200 protesters staged an anti-China protest in Hong Kong over a sovereignty dispute involving Vietnam in the South China Sea - the first of its kind so close to the mainland. ...

The doctor who delivered a former actress' baby who died a day later was convicted of professional misconduct and had her name removed from the medical register for two years. ...

A dead newborn baby wrapped in a plastic bag was discovered by a cleaner when she emptied a bin in a Chai Wan shopping mall at around 7am on Sunday morning. ...

Government officials need to raise their profiles, lawmakers said, after the Legislative Council president was left stumped by the identity of the administration's representative at a meeting. ...