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CityU joins ranks of schools snapping up Hong Kong offices with Festival Walk buy

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City University of Hong Kong has bought an office property in Kowloon for HK$1.96 billion (US$252 million), joining a growing list of educational institutions buying office assets amid depressed prices as the city’s office market shows early signs of stabilising. CityU Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the university, acquired the low-rise office block at

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Hong Kong’s IPO dominance in 2025 set to carry on into new year

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Hong Kong’s momentum as an initial public offering (IPO) venue is set to hurtle onwards in 2026 after funds raised from share sales more than tripled in 2025, placing the city’s exchange atop the global rankings for the first time since 2019. A total of 114 companies raised US$37.22 billion on the Hong Kong stock

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Hong Kong’s new legal aid chief pledges full support for Tai Po fire victims

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The new head of Hong Kong’s Legal Aid Department has pledged full support to residents affected by the deadly Tai Po fire while vowing to answer society’s needs with “professional, efficient and empathetic” services. Chan Chak-ming, who assumed the post as director of legal aid on Thursday, also revealed that his department would launch a

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Hong Kong receives twice as many mainland Chinese visitors on New Year’s Day

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Twice as many mainland Chinese visitors arrived in Hong Kong on New Year’s Day compared with the same day in 2025, with one lawmaker attributing the surge to a three-day holiday across the border this year. Alan Chan Chung-yee, a legislator and chief operating officer of Miramar Group, also said on Friday that deteriorating relations

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21 held in Hong Kong over renovation bid-rigging, including HK$33 million deal

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Twenty-one people have been arrested in a crackdown by Hong Kong’s anti-graft agency on a triad-linked corruption syndicate accused of manipulating renovation projects at two residential estates in Kwun Tong, with one contract valued at HK$33 million (US$4.2 million). The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said on Friday that the 15 men and six women,

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Exhibition on classic Hong Kong police films opens at revitalised old station

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An exhibition on Hong Kong’s classic crime films opened at the old Yau Ma Tei police station on Friday, with an intricate replica of a detective’s office among the immersive displays captivating long-time fans of the genre. Curated by local filmmakers and titled “Yau Ma Tei Police Station: A Cinematic Journey”, the exhibition at the

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China’s record hypergravity machine, Nepal’s ‘bride buying’ probe: SCMP’s 7 highlights

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We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. China builds a record-breaking hypergravity machine to compress space and

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Yuen Cheung-yan, veteran Hong Kong actor and action choreographer, dies at 69

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Veteran Hong Kong actor and action choreographer Yuen Cheung-yan has died at the age of 69. Yuen, who was born in the city in 1957, died at noon on New Year’s Day at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, according to film director and actor Lee Lik-chi, who announced the news on his Weibo page on Thursday. “May

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Hong Kong Airlines integrates art and aviation with themed flight featuring renowned dance drama

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Hong Kong – Hong Kong Airlines has teamed up with China Oriental Performing Arts Group and Elite Fun Entertainment Limited to mark the return of the acclaimed dance drama “Poetic Dance: The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting” to Hong Kong with a specially themed flight. The dance drama will run at the Grand Theatre

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5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, January 2-4

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From an exhibition that evokes childhood memories to a dining experience starring an overlooked ingredient, here are five things to do in Hong Kong this weekend as we turn the page into 2026. 1. The Beginning of the Moomins Celebrating the 80th anniversary of the beloved Finnish-Swedish characters, “The Beginning of the Moomins” is an

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Could 2026 be the make-or-break year of CK Hutchison’s Panama ports deal?

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Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison’s US$22.8 billion global ports sale hung in the balance at the end of 2025, nearly 10 months after it was first announced, as a veteran political commentator said the most expensive terminal acquisition in history was unlikely to come to fruition amid geopolitical tensions. What began as a strategic exit

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Operation Santa Claus: elderly Hongkongers find new purpose on rooftop farms

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On a sunny weekday, Hongkonger Lai Yee-man, 70, pulled weeds from a plot of leafy vegetables, shielding her face from the sun with a large white hat. But Lai was not on a typical farm; she was on the rooftop of a shopping centre in the middle of an urban neighbourhood in the city. “When

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Hong Kong wakes up to coldest morning so far this winter at 12.9 degrees Celsius

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This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Get faster notifications on the latest updates by downloading our app. Hong Kong experienced its coldest morning so far this winter on Friday, with temperatures dropping to 12.9 degrees Celsius. The city’s first cold

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Opinion | How Hong Kong can take on a more frontier role in China’s development

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On December 16, Chinese President Xi Jinping, on receiving a work report from Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu, said the city should proactively align with the country’s 15th five-year plan and better integrate into, and serve, the national development agenda. In recent days, discussion of the coming plan across the Hong Kong government

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Hong Kong’s sex offence laws are to be overhauled. What needs to be updated?

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Jessie Ho recalls facing traumatic questions in court that focused on tiny details of her sexual assault case four years earlier, from whether the accused had used his left or right hand to why she had not kicked or bitten him to protect herself. As the grilling went on, Ho realised the defence lawyer was

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Hong Kong interbank rates forecast to drop on expected US monetary easing in 2026

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The US Federal Reserve under a new chairman in 2026 is expected to press ahead with interest rate cuts of up to 75 basis points, a move that would lower Hong Kong’s interbank-linked loan costs but leave prime lending rates stuck at their historical low, according to analysts. The Fed and the Hong Kong Monetary

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Profile | How actor-singer Jordan Chan went from Hong Kong bad boy to patriotic family man in China

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This is the 67th instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades. From growing up impoverished in a village in Huizhou, in east-central Guangdong province, to sending his son to an elite international school in Shanghai, the life of actor and singer Jordan Chan Siu-chun has been a

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Hong Kong interbank rates forecast to drop on expected US monetary easing in 2026

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Hong Kong girl, 13, arrested over fight with teen at ‘Lan Kwai Fong of Gen Z’

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Hong Kong police have arrested a 13-year-old girl who allegedly assaulted and injured a 15-year-old student during a countdown celebration at a promenade dubbed the “Lan Kwai Fong of Gen Z”. Police said that the incident involving the two girls – who knew each other – took place at around 1am on New Year’s Day

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