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Hong Kong police arrest thirteen people on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the fire, while officials report that some scaffolding netting at the site failed to meet required fire-resistance standards.
2025-12-1

The Immigration Department of Hong Kong cancels Chinese scientist He Jiankui's work permit and initiates a criminal investigation into his failure to declare a three-year prison sentence over his unethical genome editing research conduct while applying for the permit.
2023-02-21

Hong Kong and Singapore postpone the start date of their air travel bubble agreement, which was initially scheduled to begin on May 26, due to an increase in the number of unlinked community cases of COVID-19 in Singapore.
2021-05-17

The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) announces that a "travel bubble" between Singapore and Hong Kong will begin on November 22 with 200 passengers per day. Passengers on these flights will not be subjected to a two-week quarantine.
2020-11-11

The United States Postal Service suspends time guarantees for all shipments to China and Hong Kong.
2020-02-12

The U.S. consulate in Hong Kong says that China denied a request for a port call to Hong Kong by the USS Wasp. China says that it handles approvals "case by case, in accordance with the principle of sovereignty".
2018-09-25

Police in China detain 75 people in connection with a service that determined the female gender of unborn babies for the purpose of abortion. Authorities say that at least 300 people were involved in the illegal service in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. Expectant parents wanting male children smuggled fetal blood samples to Hong Kong for gender testing. China ended its one-child policy last year.
2016-10-15

Jia Jia, a columnist for China's Tencent media company is reported missing after not being heard from since Tuesday, when he was on his way to Hong Kong. He was last heard from when he tried to warn a friend about publishing an anonymous letter calling for China's paramount leader Xi Jinping's resignation.
2016-03-18

A quadriplegic man leaves hospital in Hong Kong for his own home after 19 years, having written to the country's leader 6 years ago to ask that he be allowed to die.
2010-08-20