The founder of Chinese property giant Evergrande has pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and bribery, a court said on Tuesday, in the latest blow for what was once the country’s leading developer.

Chinese property giant Evergrande’s founder Xu Jiayin. File photo: Evergrande.

Evergrande’s rise was propelled by decades of rapid urbanisation and rising living standa...

Hong Kong has suspended plans to legalise basketball betting, citing concerns about the rapid growth of prediction markets in the gambling sector.

A basketball. Photo: Bogdan Krupin/Pexels.

The Home and Youth Affairs Bureau said in a email statement on Tuesday that legally introducing basketball betting at this time might fuel participation in prediction markets...

Hong Kong star Keung To, a member of the popular Cantopop boyband Mirror, has been fined HK$2,200 after pleading guilty to careless driving and two other traffic offences involving two different vehicles last year.

Hong Kong star Keung To from Cantopop boyband Mirror. Photo:...

A mainland Chinese woman has been acquitted of fraud over allegedly using a fake academic degree to obtain Hong Kong’s Top Talent visa, after a magistrate accepted the possibility that her agent made the false application.

Shatin Magistrates’ Courts. Photo: Kelly Ho/HKFP.

Magistrate Raymond Wong found Xu Lina, 36, not guilty of conspiracy to defraud at the Shat...

A fire station officer deployed to the fatal Wang Fuk Court fire has told an independent committee that the Fire Services Department (FSD) has no standard operating procedures to deal with non-functioning alarm systems during a blaze.

A fire at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po on the morning of November 27, 2025. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.

Tai Po Fire Station’s Senior Statio...