A Hong Kong court has thrown out a judicial challenge against the government’s approval of an environmental study of the San Tin Technopole project, after dismissing the applicant’s request to have another activist take over his case. The High Court on Friday allowed social worker Eddie Tse Sai-kit to withdraw the challenge, but found insufficient…
A decades-old concession giving Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings control of ports at either end of the Panama Canal carries deep constitutional consequences for the country’s sovereignty, two lawyers challenging the contract have told the Post. The action, filed by lawyers Norman Castro and Julio Macias with the country’s Supreme Court, targets the law that…
The arguments for allowing legal betting on basketball are much the same as those for legalising football betting in 2003. Then, expansion of legal gambling beyond horse racing and Mark Six was justified to combat thriving illegal operations, which is now the case with rogue betting on basketball. The latter now turns over up to…
It is hard to pick any winners out of the latest futile round in the battle between Hong Kong’s point-to-point transport services, or taxis and ride-hailing vehicles. Customers can claim to be winners from cancellation of ill-advised industrial action by some taxi drivers but, in the bigger picture, they remain losers from uneven standards of…
It is hard to pick any winners out of the latest futile round in the battle between Hong Kong’s point-to-point transport services, or taxis and ride-hailing vehicles. Customers can claim to be winners from cancellation of ill-advised industrial action by some taxi drivers but, in the bigger picture, they remain losers from uneven standards of…