Hong Kong customs has arrested two party room operators on suspicion of providing pirated karaoke songs to customers after raiding eight properties across the city. The Customs and Excise Department said on Friday that officers launched an operation between December 3 and 10 after analysing intelligence, with the help of copyright owners, and identifying party…
A power outage briefly left Hong Kong’s Kowloon City, a densely populated neighbourhood, in darkness on Thursday, with traffic lights malfunctioning, people trapped in lifts and about 5,000 households affected. Police said they received a report at 4.18pm that people were trapped in a lift at Kowloon City Plaza and that the shopping centre was…
Hong Kong housing authorities will sell more than 9,700 new subsidised flats sized at least 280 sq ft under two separate schemes next year at prices as low as HK$1.5 million (US$193,000), the Post has learned. Insiders said on Wednesday that the Housing Authority, the city’s main public housing provider, would offer 9,783 new subsidised…
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. Temperatures in Hong Kong are set to dip to as low as 14 degrees Celsius (57.2 Fahrenheit) on Sunday after a cold front…
Once every decade, villagers in Kam Tin build a nearly 30-metre (100-foot) tall bamboo structure – large enough to hold almost half the capacity of the Hong Kong Coliseum – to stage rituals and Cantonese opera performances for an audience of residents, deities and spirits alike. The colossal structure, adorned with vibrant plaques and a…
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. A cold front is expected to begin affecting Hong Kong on Saturday, bringing intensifying winds and pushing temperatures to around 15 degrees Celsius…
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng University has acquired office units in a commercial building in the New Territories for HK$90 million (US$11.6 million), making it the latest school to purchase real estate amid a government push to turn the city into a global education hub. The acquisition covers 16 office units measuring 19,139 sq ft on…
A man has drowned after jumping off a boat that had run aground and started to list during a fishing trip in the waters off Hong Kong’s eastern New Territories. The angler, 47, and his friend set off along Lam Tsuen River aboard a seven-metre-long (23-foot-long) sampan at around 10.30pm on Monday during the Mid-Autumn…
The average monthly salary offered to domestic helpers in Hong Kong has increased by 7.9 per cent to HK$5,722 (US$735) compared with the previous year, according to a survey by a local recruitment platform. HelperChoice, which released the survey findings on Monday, said that the upwards trend in wages reflected a growing willingness among employers…
Customers have lamented the “end of an era” as Hong Kong’s Metropol Restaurant marked its final day of operation after decades of serving handmade dim sum on trolleys, with the venue set to become a teaching facility under a local university. Dozens of diners stayed until the end of lunch service on Saturday afternoon to…