Canada on Wednesday denied a request from a controversial theme park to export 30 beluga whales to China, saying the refusal was necessary to protect the mammals from exploitation. Beluga whales in…

A 12-metre-tall lantern based on a fictional fairy character has been set up at Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) in celebration of China’s National Day. A huafu –…

President Donald Trump signaled Wednesday that he plans to push Chinese leader Xi Jinping on US soybean purchases when they meet, as American farmers grapple with fallout from his trade wars. US Pr…

Hong Kong authorities are ramping up efforts to handle trees felled by Super Typhoon Ragasa, with two temporary sites set up to process the debris. Workers remove a fallen banyan tree in Oi Man Est…

Bryan Lee and his Filipina wife, Cris, were busy welcoming a constant stream of people into their Cinta-J restaurant in Wan Chai on Tuesday night, as hundreds came to bid farewell to the 42-year-ol…

China’s top diplomat in Hong Kong has warned the new US consul general in Hong Kong, Julie Eadeh, not to “collude with anti-China forces” and interfere with national security case…

Hong Kong has shelved a HK$700 million exhibition hall in Wan Chai to showcase the Northern Metropolis, a massive infrastructure project along the city’s border with mainland China. Hong Kong&#8217…

The EU’s chief public prosecutor on Thursday warned that criminal gangs, notably Chinese, were committing widespread customs and VAT fraud across the European Union. The European Public Prose…

The Hong Kong government should implement measures to prevent environmental damage to local geoparks, a green group has said, after a remote island became “overcrowded” with visitors du…

India and China will resume direct flights between their two countries this month after a five-year suspension, officials said, with bookings opening on Friday. The national flags of India (left) a…

Hong Kong’s Social Workers Registration Board (SWRB) has moved to suspend activist Eddie Tse’s licence for three years, following his fraud conviction. The activist, who called the new …

Welcome back to HKFP Monitor. This week, Hong Kong turned red as 130,000 festive displays went up across the city to celebrate China’s National Day. The decorations cost taxpayers around HK$31.2 mi…

Inner Mongolian herder Dorj looked bitterly at the vast grasslands where his flock once grazed freely, before the practice was banned as part of a massive Chinese state greening project. This pictu…

Hong Kong plans to install tens of thousands of surveillance cameras that will make use of AI-powered facial recognition, the city’s security chief said on Friday, bringing it closer to China…

Goodness, a whole page in Monday’s Standard was devoted to Routes World, an international conference held in Hong Kong. Travellers at Hong Kong International Airport. Photo: GovHK. Routes World is …

Words by James Lee. As Hong Kong’s economic boom faded and manufacturing moved to China, some long-established, family-run companies preserved their traditions as others innovated to survive. …

Hong Kong started a countdown on Friday to eliminate “shoebox” flats, with a new law taking effect in March that will regulate cramped living quarters in one of the world’s least …

Hong Kong has seen the highest number of tropical cyclones in a year since records began, the Observatory (HKO) has said. Workers deployed to Lei Yue Mun to drain floodwaters as Super Typhoon Ragas…

An ocean of blue solar panels ripples across the ochre dunes of Inner Mongolia’s Kubuqi desert, a glittering example of China’s almost inconceivably mammoth energy transition. Solar pan…

On Friday, NGO Greenpeace published photos and videos showing visitors trampling on corals and digging up marine creatures including sea urchins and clams at Sharp Island in Sai Kung.