KOWLOON Top Stories

After decades touting openness, Singapore sees foreign meddling threat
Illustration photo - The Gardens by the Bay in Singapore
European Community / Danial Hakim
2024-02-27, Al Jazeera
Singapore – For decades, Singapore marketed itself as one of the world’s most open and globalised economies to compensate for its diminutive territory and lack of natural...
Hong Kong tycoon pleads ‘not guilty’ to 3 national security charges
A prison van carrying activist publisher Jimmy Lai arrives at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts, where Lai's trial takes place, in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024
AP / Billy H.C. Kwok
2024-01-02, La Prensa Latina
Hong Kong, Jan 2 (EFE).- The trial against Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and media magnate Jimmy Lai resumed Tuesday with a hearing in which he officially pleaded “not...
Hong Kong media tycoon’s plea to dismiss sedition charge rejected
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, founder of Giordano International Limited and Next Media Limited
Public Domain
2023-12-22, Anadolu Agency
A court on Friday rejected the plea of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying to dismiss charges of sedition against him. JusticeEsther Toh Lye-ping at the West...
HK hopes to achieve more glory in Paris2024-07-27
ECNS: Hong Kong residents cheer and support athletes from the Hong Kong delegation participating in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games at Olympian City, a mall in Kowloon, on Friday. （LI ZHIHUA/CHINANEWS SERVICE） Hong Kong people are rallying in full force to support...
Annual Report 2024 (China Tangshang Holdings Ltd)2024-07-26
Public Technologies: ) 2024 AnnualReport 目錄 CONTENTS Pages 頁次 CorporateInformation 公司資料 2 Five Years Financial Summary 五年財務摘要 4 Management Discussion and Analysis 管理層討論及分析 5 Directors' Report 董事會報告書 10 Corporate Governance Report 企業管治報告 47 Independent Auditor's Report 獨立核數師報告 72...
HK composers serenade the city in violin album2024-07-26
China Daily: Four Hong Kong-born composers — Angel Lam, Austin Yip, Chan Kai-young and Fung Lam — contributed to New Waves, a collection of solo string pieces performed by Patrick Yim and released by Albany Records. Hong Kong also figures thematically in the album. Certain...
Music-makers of the roaring2024-07-26
China Daily: Some of the exhibits in Soundtrack of Our Lives: Joseph Koo x James Wong x the Rise of Cantopop, now showing at Tai Kwun, were found in a garden shed in Vancouver. These include sheet music for eight commercial jingles composed by Joseph Koo (1931-2023). Koo...
Hong Kong Palace Museum is raising admission prices to HK$702024-07-26
Hong Kong Standard: The Hong KongPalace Museum on Friday announced it will raise adult general admission prices from HK$60 to HK$70 starting August 15. Concession tickets will also go up from HK$30 to HK$35. The museum said earlier that an admission price hike will...
Paddlers Wong and Doo avoid early showdown with top pair2024-07-25
Hong Kong Standard: MichaelShumHong Kong paddlers Wong Chun-ting and Doo Hoi-kem have been dealt a favorable draw in the Olympic mixed doubles event. They will not have to face the top-seeded Chinese pair of Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha until the final. But Wong, 32, and Doo,...
大陆学生涌入香港 宿舍投资增加2024-07-25
Lianhe Zaobao: 中国大陆学生涌入香港求学，导致当地租金上涨和学生宿舍的投资增加。 彭博社星期三（7月24日）报道，随着香港的大学允许更多非居民的学生入学，这使得学生宿舍在长期低迷的香港房地产市场中，成为为数不多的亮点。...
Financial Reporting Document (Chuang's Consortium International Ltd)2024-07-25
Public Technologies: ) Contents 2 Chairman's Statement 36 CorporateInformation 40 Biographical Details of Honorary Chairman, Directors and SeniorManagement 47 Corporate GovernanceReport 70 Environmental, Social and Governance Report 96 Report of the Directors 110Independent...
Hong Kong Olympians granted bus naming rights and free year passes for KMB and LWB2024-07-25
Hong Kong Standard: The Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) announced on Thursday that they will be giving out a free year pass to local athletes for KMB and LWB routes, along with giving them a chance to name one of their buses. The...
Trial of Jimmy Lai ‘exposes weaponisation’ of Hong Kong justice2024-07-24
The Times/The Sunday Times: In outward appearance, courtroom No 3 at West Kowloon court in Hong Kong is a corner of China that is forever England. The judges and barristers, many of them educated at British universities and Inns of Court, wear the white wigs...