Hong Kong recorded a billion-dollar home sale this week, another sign that ultra-wealthy customers are continuing to find choice assets even amid the city’s property slump. A mansion at 1 Gough Hill Road on The Peak on Hong Kong Island, refurbished from an old guest house used in the 1990s by the Bank of China,…
A 69-year-old hiker has died after collapsing on Hong Kong’s Wilson Trail in Tsz Wan Shan. The man, surnamed Ho, was found lying unconscious by hikers at around 9.13am on Wednesday on Section 5 of the trail. According to police, paramedics found Ho unresponsive. The Government Flying Service then dispatched a helicopter to airlift him…
Hong Kong authorities will use drones under a pilot project to create a catalogue of hundreds of thousands of natural slopes in the city for safety, following the identification of three large-scale, high-risk sites. Lawrence Shum Ka-wah, the deputy head of the Geotechnical Engineering Office (GEO) on Hong Kong Island, said on Monday his team…