Nearly 50,000 fans packed into Kai Tak Stadium on Saturday for the first game of the inaugural Hong Kong Football Festival, providing a raucous atmosphere and highlighting what the city’s leader had earlier called an energised tourism industry. And after days of community events, fan visits and anticipation, the real business got under way, with…
A senior Liverpool executive said on Friday that Kai Tak Sports Park had been the “game changer” that brought the English giants back to Hong Kong. The Premier League champions, who last visited the city in 2017, will play AC Milan in front of a 50,000 sell-out Kai Tak Stadium crowd on Saturday night, two…
After more than 27,000 fans turned out to watch Liverpool and new signing Hugo Ekitike train at Kai Tak Stadium on Thursday, it’s the turn of AC Milan on Friday. And while the Italian giants have the dubious honour of entertaining their fans at Hong Kong Stadium, they have been pretty busy at Kai Tak…
Four of the world’s biggest football clubs are taking over Hong Kong this and next week. The English Premier League trio of Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur will be joined by Italian giants AC Milan for the Hong Kong Football Festival. Saturday sees a repeat of the epic 2005 Champions League final when Liverpool and…
Francis Yuen Tin-fan, former CEO of Hong Kong’s stock exchange operator, and his wife spent HK$46.5 million (US$5.92 million) on a luxury flat in Kai Tak, adding to a string of transactions that they have made in the city over the past decade. Yuen and Rose Lee Wai-mun bought a 1,298 sq ft four-bedroom unit…
An unused Covid-19 isolation facility at a prime sea-view site in the heart of Hong Kong will be transformed into a youth hostel and cultural hub, offering 2,900 units at affordable rates and expected to debut in September. The project, renamed “Runway 1331” and located at the former Kai Tak airport, is expected to provide…
An unused Covid-19 isolation facility at a prime sea-view site in the heart of Hong Kong will be transformed into a youth hostel and cultural hub, offering 2,900 units at affordable rates and expected to debut in September. The project, renamed “Runway 1331” and located at the former Kai Tak airport, is expected to provide…
The other day, I had the pleasure of sitting down in a small local restaurant in Tai Wai to enjoy some dim sum with my wife and my son. It was a rather large table, and after a few minutes, another nice elderly couple came and sat across from us and ordered their meals. As…
A 25-year-old Hong Kong man was scammed out of HK$4,900 (US$624) when trying to buy two tickets for Blackpink’s pair of concerts in the city next year, as police received 200 reports related to online shopping scams in the past week. The victims in those cases were cheated out of HK$5.5 million in total, according…
Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Sports Park has been notching up firsts since its main stadium was officially opened in March, and the milestones are set to continue during 2025. More than 42,000 spectators shared the euphoria of watching the city’s footballers beat India at Kai Tak Stadium on Tuesday, in the first outing at the…