Hong Kong’s ageing buildings are posing safety risks and have become a public concern. In the first of a two-part series, Edith Lin looks at the major problem of building decay and ways to ...

How Hong Kong preserves its heritage through the smart use of old buildings. Against the tide of modernity and capitalism, the territory has enhanced its efforts to conserve and revitalise its ...

Hayson Chan, business development director of rental company Rent to Rent Innovation, expects about a quarter of his ...

In 2010, an old building collapsed in Ma Tau Wai, killing four people. Many of these older buildings in Hong Kong are “three-nil” buildings, meaning that they do not have owners ...

He said old buildings in the district fetched HK$7,000 ... the lowest figure on Hong Kong Island since 2002. Au said he hoped a review of the URA’s compensation rate would be carried out and ...

Kwun Tong used to be a centre of salt production – hence its original name ‘gwun tong’ (官塘), literally meaning government ponds. There’s nothing left to show for these ancient saltpans now, but Kwun ...

Court hands down judgment in case believed to involve man, 93, suspected to have been murdered with son, while grandson leapt ...

“Hong Kong is what I would call an ultra-extreme, high-density city. We have about 42,000 buildings,” she says. “Because we are a service economy, we don’t have a lot of industry – 60% ...

But it gets worse. To maximize income from the rent in central Hong Kong, landlords build "coffin homes," nicknamed because of their resemblance to real coffins. Twenty-four people live here ...