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Former soccer boss Alex Ferguson waved goodbye to another set of famous reds yesterday, a year after retiring from Manchester United, as wines from his famous cellar went on sale in Hong Kong. ...

Hong Kong will review its security threat level because of the deadly wave of terrorist attacks on the mainland, the city's police chief revealed yesterday. ...

Hong Kong passengers could have their summer holiday flights disrupted after protracted pay talks between Cathay Pacific and its pilots broke down. ...

It may be oppressively hot and humid outside, but inside City University's school of creative media, icebergs loom and 3-D patterns inspired by the Aurora Australis, or the Southern Lights, play across the walls of a 360-degree theatre. ...

A woman suffering from chronic pain has had to ask a friend to help her insert a urinary catheter after government-subsidised help provided by an NGO abruptly stopped. ...

A HK$1 million reward is being offered for the return of an autistic boy who vanished 14 years ago when he was separated from his mother and managed to cross the border. ...

Windows are still falling from multimillion-dollar flats at a luxury development in Ap Lei Chau, more than 18 months after the first cases were reported. ...

The police chief has rejected claims of "political interference" over the force's attitude to Occupy Central's planned civil disobedience protest. ...

A green activist is accusing a government body of failing to follow the law when it chose not to incorporate six enclaves into the surrounding country parks. ...

Jadeite, coloured diamonds and other gemstones are being brought in by auction houses to test the market. ...

Hong Kong is bordering on xenophobia and its "local consciousness is moving towards narrow nativism", a local government think tank said in a paper for advisers to the chief executive. ...

A third railway project of the embattled MTR Corporation has been hit by delays but the rail operator says the Kwun Tong Line extension will still open next year as planned. ...

Price-fixing by trade associations is unacceptable and could be an early focus of Hong Kong's new competition law, a senior member of the watchdog team said yesterday. ...

The minimum working hours to qualify for a low-income family subsidy are to be lowered by 16 hours a month to an "absolute baseline" for the government. ...

One of the unions representing high-income civil servants refused to endorse an annual government study despite a proposed higher pay increase than lower-earning employees. ...

An international school in Aberdeen has issued its first batch of corporate debentures to raise money to expand its campus. ...

Organisers of the annual June 4 vigil had their e-mail accounts swamped yesterday in a hacking attack which appeared to come from the mainland. ...

Three out of four pro-government district chiefs say they will not lend support to its ambitious housing plans, after Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying tried to lobby them during a lunch meeting yesterday. ...

A proposed system to allow public and private doctors to share information on their patients has loopholes that pose a threat to personal privacy. ...

Beijing will not give in to "extremist acts" such as those planned by Occupy Central, a mainland official in charge of Hong Kong affairs has declared. ...