Incoming Hong Kong lawmaker Vivian Kong to transition to Jockey Club consultant role
Former Hong Kong star fencer Vivian Kong Man-wai will transition to a consultant role at the Jockey Club after she is sworn in as a tourism lawmaker, her former boss has said.
The retired Olympic fencing gold medallist joined the club in August 2024 as an assistant external affairs manager, but suspended her duties last month to run for the election in the tourism sector.
The 31-year-old secured 131 votes, beating Kwun Tong district councillor Ma Yat-chiu, raising questions over her role at the…
Yacht engulfed in flames off Man Nin Street in Sai Kung as firefighters battle blaze from shore
28th December 2025 – (Hong Kong) A yacht moored close to the shoreline off Man Nin Street in Sai Kung was engulfed in flames on Saturday evening. The alarm was raised at around 8.16pm, after which fire crews arrived at the scene and deployed two jets to tackle the blaze. By approximately 8.44pm, firefighters had […]
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HK laboratory finds one in five scaffolding nets fail fire tests after Wang Fuk Court blaze
28th December 2025 – (Hong Kong) In the aftermath of the catastrophic fire at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po on 26th November, concern has intensified over the fire resistance of scaffolding nets used on building exteriors. In response, the government now requires all scaffolding nets to undergo flammability testing at designated laboratories before they […]
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Former Coinbase support agent arrested in India over major data breach as legal and security pressures mount
29th December 2025 – (Hyderabad) Indian law enforcement has arrested a former Coinbase customer support agent in Hyderabad in connection with a major data breach at the cryptocurrency exchange that was disclosed earlier this year, Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong has confirmed. Armstrong, writing on X on Thursday, said the company would continue to pursue […]
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Avi Loeb’s analysis of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS challenges conventional planetary defence models
29th December 2025 – (Cambridge) Astronomers are grappling with puzzling new data on the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, whose motion and changing brightness appear to defy standard explanations based solely on gravity and solar radiation. The findings are emerging just as asteroid 99942 Apophis prepares for a historically close pass by Earth in 2029, intensifying global […]
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Man accused of secretly filming women at MTR Central Station as bystander intervenes and finds 350 clips on phone
29th December 2025 – (Hong Kong) A male social media user has described how he confronted a man allegedly covertly filming female passengers on the platform at MTR Central Station, after noticing suspicious behaviour reflected in a train door. In a post on Threads, the witness said he saw a man standing extremely close to […]
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Five-year-old boy dies after arm trapped in conveyor lift at Hokkaido ski resort
29th December 2025 – (Otaru) A five-year-old boy in Japan has died after his arm became trapped in an outdoor motorised conveyor lift at a ski resort in Hokkaido on Saturday, 28th December. He was unconscious when rescuers freed him and later succumbed to his injuries in hospital. According to reports by Japan’s public broadcaster […]
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Hong Kong must tackle long-term problem of building maintenance
There are matters we need to sort out quickly arising from the Tai Po fire tragedy but also systemic issues that need to be tackled if we are to avoid a repeat of the disaster. The fact is that Hong Kong faces two sorts of ageing problems: old buildings and the old people who live in them. Sometimes they overlap.
Hong Kong is inevitably a high-rise city, because so many people are crammed into a relatively limited land area. If you can’t build out, you build up. Since we have been developing…
Hong Kong primary home sales poised for decade high in 2026 as small flats energise market
Hong Kong’s primary residential home sales in 2026 are forecast to again reach decade-high numbers, as developers continue to clear inventory and homebuyers focus more on small, low-cost flats.
Transactions next year were projected to reach about 21,000, while total home sales were expected to climb to around 71,000, up 8 per cent from this year’s forecast, according to Midland Realty.
A total of 26,479 new flats were expected to be rolled out next year, spread across Kai Tak, the North…
