US President Donald Trump leaves on Friday for Asia and high-stakes talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping — as Washington played down speculation that he could meet North Korea’s Kim Jon…

Hong Kong police have busted a local prostitution syndicate which exploited underage girls. Two anti-vice operations were held between October 13 and 17, police said last Saturday, resulting in 58 …

Welcome back to HKFP Monitor. This week, with Ocean Park announcing that its water park is still in the red, we look at why it might pull the plug on Water World. Meanwhile, news related to the &#8…

If you glance at Steven Tang’s Instagram account, you may think he is a food influencer. His posts mostly feature signature local dishes: roasted meat rice, egg tarts, instant noodles with lu…

The black box flight recorders from an aircraft involved in a crash that killed two people at Hong Kong airport earlier this week have been recovered, authorities said Saturday. A Boeing 747-4…

A new Hong Kong police plan to expand it’s AI-enabled SmartView CCTV system to places managed by other departments – including at 10 public housing estates – has provoked privacy …

Salvage work for a cargo plane involved in a crash that killed two at Hong Kong International Airport last week is expected to be completed on Monday evening. The main fuselage of the cargo plane i…

A Hong Kong man has been jailed for 18 years over a conspiracy to carry out three bomb attacks in early 2020, while two other defendants in the case have each been sentenced to nearly 17 years in p…

Force sale of Nexperia’s Stockport factory or leave UK vulnerable, ministers urged

Hong Kong has recorded its first locally acquired case of chikungunya fever, involving an 82-year-old woman who did not have any travel history within the incubation period. The Food and Environmen…

China’s foreign minister warned on Monday that a “multipolar world is coming”, a veiled jab at Washington ahead of key talks between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. Chinese Foreign M…

Grief and confusion gripped East Java last week after foundational failures caused the Al Khoziny Islamic school to collapse during afternoon prayers

Beijing’s foreign ministry in Hong Kong has slammed US politicians for urging President Donald Trump to push for the release of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai ahead of a meeting with Chinese leader …

The Hong Kong runway involved in a fatal plane crash has restarted operations, authorities said Tuesday, after two men were killed in one of the deadliest such incidents since the airport opened in…

Three people have been injured after a minibus mounted a pavement and crashed into a convenience store on Smithfield, Kennedy Town on Tuesday. A minibus smashed into a 7-Eleven convenience store in…

A Hong Kong court has issued an arrest warrant for a mainland Chinese woman who failed to attend a court hearing after she was accused of lying on her application for a talent visa. Sha Tin Magistr…

China has opened a probe into Puma Shen, a prominent Taiwanese lawmaker it has previously sanctioned, for alleged criminal “separatist activities”, authorities said Tuesday. Taiwanese l…

Hong Kong’s Social Workers Registration Board (SWRB) has rejected a challenge by activist Eddie Tse and upheld an order suspending his licence for three years, following his fraud conviction in Jul…

Happily, I retired from the university teaching scene before ChatGPT and its mates came along, because it has apparently made life rather difficult. Generally, the most subtle assessment method, at…

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he expected a “lot of problems” to be solved with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in their talks on dialling down their hugely damaging trade war. …