Star banker Bao Fan’s boutique investment bank China Renaissance Holdings has drawn interest from a Hong Kong-based financial group and a couple of small Chinese brokerages.

Readers discuss the need to make goods, services and facilities accessible to all, regardless of age, ability or status in life, and suggestions that the city ditch its US dollar peg.

Liu Pak-wai, an economics professor and former government adviser, says city’s 6 per cent debt-to-GDP ratio could easily go up to 10 per cent without problems.

Thermal cameras and artificial intelligence to be used to more accurately measure rodent infestations than old sweet potato bait method.

Examination authority to set up two assessment centres to let 110 candidates sit university entrance exams in mainland China.

Justice minister reveals lack of opposition to Article 23 legislation as security chief says top concerns among public are state secrets, foreign interference definitions.

Facebook and X users prove rather livelier than Lionel Messi had been at the match as they rip into the Argentina star over his no-show.

Jerry Liu, 46, appears in Eastern Court for sentencing on two drug possession charges.

The change will put the city’s protection level in line with the UK and Germany and higher than mainland China and Singapore, but still lower than the United States.

Readers discuss what the city should focus on after Lionel Messi’s failure to play in a much-publicised match, the need for accountability from event organisers, and the silver lining to the game.

Argentinian says it was ‘bad luck’ that he couldn’t play in Hong Kong, after he felt discomfort with thigh muscle following match in Saudi Arabia last week.

Chief Executive John Lee says authorities will continue to follow up on the incident even after organiser Tatler Asia withdrew an application for HK$16 million in funds.

Following the furore over the United States Postal Service’s 2024 Year of the Dragon commemorative stamp, we look at rival stamp designs from Hong Kong, mainland China, Japan, Thailand and the Isle of Man.

Readers discuss the Shenzhen government’s intiatives to improve the city, and the effect of an influx of tourists on ordinary people’s lives.

Lawmaker Elizabeth Quat says events that leave fans disappointed risk reputational damage as well as public cash.

Having paid a high price for their property, some homeowners have every incentive to build unauthorised additions for their houses knowing enforcement can be lax.

Education University of Hong Kong logs highest jump in departure of academics, doubling to 36 in 2022-23 from 18 in 2021-22.

Arrestees allegedly rented other couriers’ accounts on apps and took orders to deliver meals to earn commission, insider says.

Hong Kong and mainland Chinese banks are preparing for a new cross-border payment regime that will make it easier for Hong Kong and Macau homebuyers to transfer the funds they need to purchase property in the Greater Bay Area.

The SFC issued a notice on Monday reminding investors that a number of new licence applicants are not yet approved and pose risks.

Prosecutors presented WhatsApp messages between Lai and Chan Pui-man, former associate publisher of the tabloid, showing the tycoon asking her to follow up with UK-based Hong Kong Watch.

K-drama star Han So-hee turned heads at the launch of watchmaker Omega’s two new Hong Kong addresses, and Winona Ryder unveiled her first coffee table book

Man, 26, faced three charges of possessing CBD and neglecting daughters, aged two and four, after duo accidentally ate sweets containing prohibited substance last June.

But Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Kevin Yeung says Tatler Asia’s decision to withdraw application for funding has not entirely resolved matter.

A new exhibition at Hong Kong’s M+ museum aims to expand the notion of shanshui – East Asian ink landscape paintings – and bring it to ‘the level of our contemporary world’.