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After months of speculation, the Shanghai-based art fair operator Art021 is launching a Hong Kong fair, scheduled for this summer – provisionally July.Called Art021 Hong Kong, the inaugural edition is planned as an invitation-only event: all the galleries involved have been selected by the organisers.With dozens of exhibitors, it ...

A Hong Kong legislative committee on Tuesday approved more than HK$460 million (US$58.8 million) in funding for turning an old police station into the headquarters of an international mediation organisation, with the city’s justice minister warning failure to deliver by 2025 may lead to diplomatic issues.The government sought HK$466.6 ...

Beijing’s decision to appoint a former assistant foreign minister to help lead its office overseeing Hong Kong affairs is partly due to the geopolitical “hostilities” that the city is battling, according to analysts.China watchers said the central government could expect Nong Rong, a former assistant minister of foreign affairs, ...

After paying one full-time assistant and a part-timer, he said he was left with only HK$7,500 for everything else from utilities to producing publicity materials.“The government’s limited resources fall short in supporting a district councillor in an enlarged constituency,” the 38-year-old journalist turned full-time councillor said.Tuen Mun district councillor ...

Hong Kong and mainland Chinese authorities have arrested 78 suspects as part of a wider crackdown on illegal immigration into the city.The Immigration Department on Friday said its officers and police arrested 52 suspects in an operation that spanned Tuesday and Wednesday, with authorities raiding more than 60 locations ...

Hong Kong police arrested four men on suspicion of illegally entering the city on Monday after they boarded a bus in Shek O using a damp HK$100 (US$12.8) banknote.Four other suspected illegal immigrants who accompanied the Pakistani passport holders on the double-decker bus to Shau Kei Wan were being ...

Hong Kong police arrested two Indian nationals on suspicion of illegally entering the city after stopping the pair at a railway station in the New Territories on Tuesday.The two men, aged 18 and 29, were walking towards the concourse of Tin Shui Wai MTR station on Ping Ha Road ...

The recent increased number of flights from Pakistan and Bangladesh to China has triggered an influx of illegal immigrants into Hong Kong, according to the city’s security chief who also warns of the low rate of success in them securing the right to stay while seeking asylum.Secretary for Security ...

Hong Kong police have arrested four men on suspicion of illegal entry after intercepting a taxi on an outlying island in the latest operation amid a series of unauthorised arrivals from South Asian countries.Officers were called to Nam Chung Tsuen at the fishing village of Tai O on Lantau ...

“Intelligence suggests each individual was typically charged a five-figure amount of money for this air-land-sea journey,” one source said.A group of Bangladeshi men arrested in a recent operation said they had paid more than HK$55,000 each for their voyage from their homeland to Hong Kong.The source said they were ...