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A Hong Kong-based executive of a subsidiary of the nation’s top aerospace company, who was facing an investigation on the mainland, has leaped to his death in Kwun Tong, police said. ...

A lawmaker who yesterday took part in a protest that disrupted Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s question-and-answer session said his eviction from Legco was unfair. ...

A police patrol dog that ran away from its handler in Quarry Bay was found dead in Victoria Harbour on Friday morning. The body of Dax was spotted floating in the sea off North Point. ...

Italian luxury supercar maker Lamborghini has converted a ground-floor shop inside a Causeway Bay mall into one of the most expensive garages around town. ...

A tourist from Tunisia lost a bag with US$60,000 in it after leaving it on a chair while he went to the counter to buy a cup of coffee at a Starbucks outlet in Central today. ...

People Power lawmaker Albert Chan Wai-yip gave a speech to an empty Legislative Council chamber yesterday during the final hours of the marathon debate on the budget bill. ...

Hong Kong has the basic wiring but needs to make better connections if it wants to be a global technology centre, industry experts said yesterday at the South China Morning Post's Redefining Hong Kong panel discussion. ...

Local travel agencies will decide on Friday morning whether to halt tours to Thailand following a red travel alert issued by the Hong Kong government. ...

Executive councillors are supposed to offer insightful advice to the chief executive on crucial policy issues. Their words can shape the future of Hong Kong. ...

A sleepy train passenger whose audacious antics caught the unfriendly gaze of MTR staff has revealed he is eyeing up the city's rooftops for his next stunt. ...

An Italian journalist who mounted an undercover operation to expose a suspected eastern European gangster told the District Court how easy it was to set up a money-laundering operation in Hong Kong. ...

One-fifth of female workers say they have been sexually harassed at work, but almost a third of these did nothing about it. ...

The Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association has been dragged into a row over gay rights amid accusations it is "siding with sexual minorities" and "brainwashing" children by offering counselling to young people struggling with their sexuality. ...

There are books that you read and there are books that hit the nail on the head so hard that you want to get your teeth into them. Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century clearly belongs to the second category. ...

A disagreement has arisen over the future of relics unearthed at a railway construction site in Kowloon City between conservationists who want them preserved as they are and archaeologists who want to pull them to pieces for study. ...

Mark O'Leary and Aisling McDonnell, both Irish teachers aged 27, decided to take a light-hearted photographic look at 83 stations in the city's burgeoning MTR network. ...

Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has stepped up his rhetoric against radical lawmakers' filibustering, saying the delaying tactics have hurt Hong Kong's competitiveness and "deeply disgusted" the public. ...

Triplets who are accusing their elder brother of sexually abusing them during their childhood decided to reveal his behaviour when they became adults because their mother did not believe them when they were children, the Court of First Instance heard. ...

The Alliance for True Democracy will ask Hongkongers how they think the city's chief executive should be chosen, its convenor says, amid concern that a "referendum" run by campaign group Occupy Central forces will present only limited options. ...

Financial and professional companies plan to sue the organisers of Occupy Central for any loss or damage they suffer from the movement's planned blockade of the business district, the chief executive said. ...