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Hong Kong shares slipped on Monday as weak overseas markets, profit-warnings from Chinese companies and concern over the euro zone debt crisis trumped the longer-term positive of continued steps towards liberalisation of China’s currency.

Qantas Airways Ltd has expanded its Asian network, setting up a new joint-venture low-cost carrier, Jetstar Hong Kong to take advantage of the huge market for cheap airfares in China.

Hong Kong shares reversed early losses to end higher on Monday, powered by a surge in China Mobile, but gains were capped by chart resistance ahead of a slew of corporate earnings this week.

With the election of Hong Kong’s next chief executive less than three weeks away, a string of scandals involving both the current leader and the front-runners campaigning to succeed him is raising concern that big business is tainting what...

An alleged illegal luxury basement, an affair and a race to be Hong Kong’s top official all have proved irresistible to Hong Kong satirists, who are taking aim at the political scandal rocking the city.

The international jewellery market will be looking to China to lift its fortunes in 2012 and gets its first chance to display all it has to offer in Hong Kong in February.

As hundreds of millions of Chinese counted down to the Year of the Dragon, the clock was also ticking for thousands of mainland women scrambling to deliver “lucky” babies in Hong Kong, putting pressure on medical facilities and stoking...

Macau casino operator Sands China Ltd. said Hong Kong’s securities regulator won’t take action against the company after completing an investigation of it, clearing one of several regulatory hurdles facing U.S. parent Las Vegas Sands Corp,...

Rory McIlroy boosted his hopes of finishing the year as Europe’s top golfer when he sensationally holed a 15-foot bunker shot for birdie at the last to capture the Hong Kong Open on Sunday.

Hong Kong’s yuan deposits grew at the slowest pace in three months as expectations for appreciation weakened and outflows from the mainland slowed.