When Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced in her policy speech on Wednesday that enough land had been found to tackle the public housing shortage for the next decade, she lauded it as an achievement, saying the government’s efforts had started to pay off.Elaborating on the plan on Thursday, development minister Michael Wong Wai-lun sounded equally optimistic.“Coming up will be land administration procedures, of which we have a lot of experience, and construction itself. We are… [...]

Cheung Kie-chung was a popular math whizz known for being nice, and in his school days, would help classmates with homework, let others copy his answers, and tip off friends about test topics.Yet, he probably never calculated that he would one day end up behind bars – at Hong Kong’s maximum-security Stanley Prison following his arrest for a shocking crime two years ago.On Thursday night, the University of Hong Kong professor was found guilty of murdering his wife.A High Court jury of four men… [...]

Fourteen proposed directorate-level jobs costing HK$29 million a year in wages have been dropped for now after the Hong Kong government withdrew the funding requests from the legislature to save public coffers, official records show.Positions with responsibility for railway safety, waste reduction and recycling initiatives, and boosting land supply were among the jobs withdrawn from the agenda ahead of the Legislative Council Finance Committee’s meeting on Friday.The withdrawals mean the next… [...]

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has expressed hope that the opposition-controlled Southern District Council will support her newly announced “Invigorating Island South” initiative, even as she admitted that she had never sought their opinion before publicly announcing the measure.Lam told a radio phone-in programme on Thursday that she hoped that the Southern District Council’s 17 members, 15 of whom are pan-democrats, would support her “non-political” initiative, which was unveiled… [...]

A domestic helper who set up a group for colleagues in need, and a playwright who casts people with intellectual disabilities in theatre performances are among inspiring individuals who have won this year’s Spirit of Hong Kong Awards.Organised by the South China Morning Post and property developer Sino Group, the awards honour community achievers whose remarkable accomplishments may otherwise go unnoticed.Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said she had seen benevolence and… [...]