Hong Kong police said on Wednesday they had arrested a suspected serial rapist who lured his victims to bogus job interviews through the Internet.

The 31-year-old man, whom police identified only as

Cathay Pacific on Wednesday said its 2011 net profit plunged 61 per cent as it struggled with high fuel prices as well as softening demand for its cargo business and warned of a challenging 2012.

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Banking giant HSBC said on Wednesday it has agreed to sell its general-insurance businesses in Hong Kong, Singapore, Argentina and Mexico for around $914 million.

The move is part of the bank's strat

Standard Chartered Plc reported a market-matching 10.7 per cent rise in 2011 pretax profit on Wednesday, a ninth consecutive year of record earnings as it continued to ride on the back of strong Asian

Standard Chartered Plc reported a market-matching 10.7 per cent rise in 2011 pretax profit on Wednesday, a ninth consecutive year of record earnings as it continued to ride on the back of strong Asian

A 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of the South Pacific island of Vanuatu on Sunday, the Hong Kong Observatory said, but there were no reports of a tsunami warning.

The quake struck at 221

A 100-year-old British Indian man who claims to be the world's oldest marathoner was all smiles after completing a 10-kilometre run at the Hong Kong marathon on Sunday.

Born in 1911 and affectionatel

Want to know what's in store for 2012? Who will win the US election? Will the eurozone implode? China's feng shui masters tackle the big issues with their predictions for the Year of the Dragon.

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It may not be everyone's idea of a dream home, but for bargain hunters in Hong Kong's turbocharged property market apartments that belonged to the recently deceased are proving irresistible - and the

Hong Kong officials said on Wednesday the discovery of a bacteria that cause Legionnaires' disease at the new government complex was ‘under control’, while it was probing the source of the deadly bug.