Five times this century Hong Kong has been chosen to host the Asian Marathon Championships in conjunction with the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, such is the regard in which the latter event is held. That puts it up there with the famous Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament in flying the city’s flag abroad. A…
Crime-themed attractions such as Hong Kong’s ICAC Cafe and Japan’s Prison Museum, designed to promote legal culture, are drawing growing numbers of tourists. Official data shows that Hong Kong received over 290,000 visitors during New Year’s Eve and the first day of the new year, more than 77 per cent of them came from the…
A woman in central China has astonished social media users by constructing a door in the external wall of a residential building and installing stairs to connect to the adjacent block as an emergency exit in the event of a fire. The modifications made by the resident surnamed Wang, who lives in Changde, Hunan province,…
Hong Kong’s biggest lawyer group has sent warning letters to some of its members for accepting fees from a now-defunct defence fund for protesters involved in the 2019 social unrest, after the organisation wrapped up an investigation into 16 complaints. The Law Society of Hong Kong did not reveal on Monday how many lawyers had…
A Chinese fashion design student hailed as a “genius” for her score in a national maths competition achieved the results with her teacher’s help, according to investigations by her school and the event organiser, who said she “did not win a prize”. The Lianshui Secondary Vocational School in eastern Jiangsu province said on Sunday that…