Hong Kong has no tariffs on imported goods, and it levies excise duties on only four commodities, whether imported or produced locally: hard alcohol, tobacco, oil, and methyl alcohol. There are no ...

Two Hong Kong firms are under investigation for supplying industrial lard oil to the Taiwanese company at the heart of the gutter oil scandal. It emerged yesterday that trading company Globalway ...

One way in which Hong Kong is unique is in the vast number of cultures and nationalities that are represented in the city. Even on Lamma Island, with a population of only about 7,000 people ...

A Hong Kong lawmaker has suggested that authorities should set up a reporting mechanism to flag “space oil” sellers amid the drug’s rising popularity among the city’s youth in recent years.

Police in Hong Kong have arrested a 13-year-old girl for allegedly possessing "space oil" after a video of her smoking the ...

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The city’s chief executive said a deal between the Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison and BlackRock, a major American investment firm, requires “serious attention.” By Alexandra Stevenson ...

Several countries mark their new year based on the Chinese lunisolar calendar involving movement of the Sun and Moon.

WASHINGTON/HONG KONG, March 31 (Reuters) - The U.S. sanctioned six senior Chinese and Hong Kong officials on Monday, citing "transnational repression" and further erosion of Hong Kong's autonomy ...

Hong Kong’s stock exchange is discussing options to lower the threshold for investors to buy some of the city’s most expensive stocks to stoke trading, according to people familiar with the ...

In addition to the e-cigarette, she carried a bottle with "space oil", a new trendy drug among youth in Hong Kong, mainland China, and Taiwan. Last month, Hong Kong banned the substance ...