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Customs in Hong Kong have intercepted a record rhino horn with a weight of 40 kilos. The party came from Johannesburg (South Africa) and was en route to Vietnam.

Employees of a potato chip factory in Hong Kong did not know what they saw when they discovered a hand grenade in a bag of potatoes this week. The police were immediately warned and made it...

Employees of a potato chip factory in Hong Kong did not know what they saw when they discovered a hand grenade in a bag of potatoes this week. The police were immediately warned and made it...

A bit of luck for customers of airline Cathay Pacific. Due to an error, they got a 90 percent discount on tickets for the first class on Sunday. Cathay has the sale right away...

It was not the first time that Chinese president Xi Jinping called on Taiwan to join the motherland again. However, his wording was more compelling this time. Xi said yesterday that Taiwan,...

China has built an antenna five times the size of the city of New York. It took thirteen years to build the antenna, which can emit extremely low-frequency radio waves.

Fans of a Korean pop group became so hysterical when they suddenly came face to face with their heroes aboard their plane, that the plane had to be evacuated.

After the worldwide harsh criticism, the Chinese scientist He Jiankui has defended his work, which allegedly led to the birth of the first genetically modified babies in the world. He said he was proud of his work. He also emphasized that science must do more to help people with diseases. He said that Wednesday at a genome research conference in Hong Kong, where he answered questions from international experts.

The American businessman Mario Segale died at the age of 85. In the eighties he rented a building to gamemaker Nintendo. The Japanese had a rent arrears, but managed to persuade Segale not to deport them. As a thank you, the company decided to name the protagonist from his next game to him.

Auction house Christie's thinks for a pink diamond from the Oppenheimer collection $ 50 million (€ 42 million) to get. The highest price in years at the auction house.

The authorities in Hong Kong have forbidden a political party for the first time. Minister John Lee (Security) did so on safety grounds. He argued that the separatist National Party (HKNP) clearly had the intention of transforming Hong Kong into a republic \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; outside China and was prepared ' all methods \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; to achieve that goal.

A Malaysian man was sentenced by a judge in Hong Kong to a life sentence for the murder in 2015 of his 47-year-old wife and 16-year-old daughter. The murder weapon was remarkable: a yoga ball filled with carbon monoxide.

The typhoon Mangkhut was pulled from Hong Kong to the mainland of China. There he slowly loses strength. Mangkhut reaches wind speeds of more than 200 kilometers and is the strongest typhoon this year.

The metropolis of Hong Kong has received the full layer of Hurricane Manghkut on Sunday. In the metropolis, skyscrapers swayed to and fro, streets ran, trees were uprooted and sometimes 12-meter-high waves crashed on the coast.

The death toll in the Philippines by the typhoon Mangkhut has risen to at least 25. That is what the disaster coordinator of the Philippine government has announced. The majority of the victims were killed by landslides in mountainous areas. Reports on possible victims still have to be received from various areas.

Hong Kong braces itself for the supertyphon Mangkhut, which probably lands in the area on Sunday. It could be the heaviest tropical storm ever to hit the metropolis, comparable to a category 5 hurricane on the Atlantic. The typhoon, which is still gaining momentum, is expected to cause a lot of trouble in the north of the Philippines and Taiwan on the way to the Chinese mainland with wind speeds of 240 kilometers per hour.

It is a tough world in Hong Kong where money is more important than tradition. And so the neon artworks disappear from the cityscape. LED light is cheaper and easier to place. A few mourn.

The episodes of Anthony's Bourdain show Parts Unknown in which his girlfriend Asia Argento was shown, have been taken offline by CNN. The actress, who turned out to be one of the voices of the MeToo movement, is accused of sexual abuse of a minor.

Crown princess Victoria of Sweden presented the Junior Water Prize 2018 at the annual World Water Week in Stockholm on Tuesday evening.

A cleaner has found a living baby in a plastic bag on Friday at Hong Kong airport. The cleaner found the child in the women's toilet. The child was rushed to the hospital, but died there.

Broadly grinning, Lei Jun hit the gong of the Hong Kong stock exchange on Monday. The founder of telephone manufacturer Xiaomi was perhaps the first visible victim of the trade war between China and the US.

Trafigura is the first large commodity trader to issue bonds on the Chinese debt market, on the mainland and not as usual in Hong Kong.

The Romanian model that last year claimed that a businessman from Hong Kong had bought her virginity for 2.3 million euros, has now revealed her real story. It was a big publicity stunt, according to the lady. She ended up in a depression. 'I got so many hate reactions.'

Prime Minister Rutte does not want to fully support the Chinese trade initiative of the New Silk Road. As far as the Prime Minister is concerned, there are still many questions, for example about how trade disputes are resolved.

A Chinese man and woman were mortally wounded because the elevator in which they stood shot up and banged against the roof of a flat.

A very rare bowl from the Qing dynasty was hammered at an auction in Hong Kong at an estimated 25 million euros, reports auction house Sotheby \u0026 # x27; s.

London shuddered, tens of thousands of jobs in the financial sector would disappear after the announcement of the brexit. The departure from the EU is much less bad for the City.

China is going to use modern technology to generate rain over the Tibetan plateau, the largest freshwater supply in Asia. In this way, the country wants to gain 10 billion cubic meters of water per year extra, about 7 percent of water consumption in China.

China is the biggest risk of a banking crisis for all countries. The Chinese debt measured in terms of GDP has passed the boundary that can lead to disruptions in the financial system.

A rowdy child got a nasty surprise when he decided to pee in a Chinese elevator. He caused a short circuit and got stuck, reports the South China Morning Post newspaper.