Hong Kong's Beijing-backed leader Wednesday unveiled a raft of populist policies with an emphasis on tackling the city's housing crisis, as he aimed to hush critics' repeated calls to step down.

Hong Kong's lawyers were Tuesday embroiled in a legal wrangle with a difference — over whether solicitors should be allowed to don horse-hair wigs traditionally worn by barristers in court.

The young girl who survived 2011's deadly high-speed train crash will only suffer from a lesser degree of disability than expected, according to a medical appraisal of her injuries.

Journalists in Hong Kong Thursday slammed a government bid to restrict access to information about company directors, after a series of investigative reports into the hidden wealth of Chinese officials.

Lawmakers in Hong Kong were making a symbolic attempt Wednesday to impeach the Beijing-backed leader, the latest sign of the widening gulf between the semiautonomous southern Chinese city and its political masters in Beijing.

Hong Kong said Friday it had seized more than a ton of ivory worth about US$1.4 million in a shipment from Kenya, the city's third big seizure in less than three months.

Hong Kong conservationists expressed outrage Thursday after images emerged of a factory rooftop covered in thousands of freshly sliced shark fins, as they called for curbs on the “barbaric” trade.

Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong Tuesday, calling for the city's embattled leader to quit and demanding greater democracy 15 years after it returned to Chinese rule.

A Hong Kong pro-democracy activist appeared in court on Monday and could face jail after he allegedly threw a T-shirt at Chinese President Hu Jintao's motorcade earlier this year.

A member of a radical Hong Kong political opposition party Sunday said he had been arrested six months after throwing a t-shirt at Chinese President Hu Jintao's motorcade.