A Hong Kong regulation came into force Friday barring people from crossing into mainland China with large quantities of baby formula following chronic shortages which have fuelled anti-Beijing sentiment.

Hong Kong's finance chief Wednesday unveiled a budget to kick-start growth in the city and temper property prices but warned the world economy could face headwinds from possible trade and currency battles.

Hong Kong's top court on Tuesday began a hearing to decide whether the hundreds of thousands of domestic workers who make a living in the Asian financial hub are eligible to seek residency.

A mainland Chinese mother who asked her son to relieve himself in a bottle in a crowded Hong Kong restaurant has sparked an outpouring of online anger in the latest bitter exchange over etiquette.

Hong Kong customs authorities investigating a shipment from Thailand marked as fruit were shocked to discover the consignment instead contained 2,600 live snakes, officials said Friday.

More than 12,500 people have petitioned U.S. President Barack Obama to help Hong Kong avoid a baby formula shortage, saying infants in the city are facing malnutrition due to mainland Chinese “smugglers.”

China's Chinalco Mining Corporation fell more than 11 percent on its Hong Kong trading debut Thursday after raising US$397 million in the city's first major initial public offering of the year.

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.