Earlier this month, divers took to the polluted waters of Hong Kong's Rambler Channel, searching for the body of a drowned 7-year-old boy. A week...

Do you like your caprese salad (yum!) served with a side of nostalgia? After a move to Hong Kong forced city planner and cooking enthusiast Cherry Chaicharn to leave her beloved San Francisco, inspi

FlumesDay China’s notorious one-child policy has been in the hot seat recently, as some officials argue that the decades old law has served its purpose and is inappropriate for today’s economic and social environment. But perha...

Sold At The Top submits: There has been much speculation recently about an ongoing price bubble occurring in the Hong Kong residential property market.In fact, the concern has been so great that Hong Kong Financial Secretary Joh...

"China’s property prices won’t plunge this year, two of Hong Kong’s biggest developers with operations on the mainland said yesterday, as the World Bank joined economists and hedge fund managers warning of a bubble."

(This post appeared on the author's blog. It is one in a series of profiles on the "nine nations" of China.) THE BACK DOOR (Hong Kong, Macau, Guangdong, Hainan) Territory: 231,963 km2 (2% of total) Population: 112 million (8% of t...

(This post appeared on the author's blog. It is one in a series of profiles on the "nine nations" of China.) THE BACK DOOR (Hong Kong, Macau, Guangdong, Hainan) Territory: 231,963 km2 (2% of total) Population: 112 million (8% of t...

A consortium led by the Blackstone Group has agreed to invest about $600 million in a Chinese agricultural company ahead of its planned Hong Kong listing, Reuters reported.

Patrick Chovanec submits: THE BACK DOOR (Hong Kong, Macau, Guangdong, Hainan) Territory: 231,963 km2 (2% of total) Population: 112 million (8% of total) Per Capita GDP: $6,910 (#2 of 9) Exports as % of GDP: 82% Net Trade Balance (e...

This is new.The Customs & Excise Department in Hong Kong has banned the "Flying Places" chess set apparently for the danger it poses to children. It seems that the offending set contains an unsafe amount of lead!HK's Information Ser...

When we were on Lantau Island near Hong Kong one of my traveling companions was trying to take a shot of the crowd in the fishing village we visited. My presence (and another companion on my right) in the crowd “ruined” the shot for...

I have a brief visit to Hong Kong soon (my first!) and would like to bring back some material for our Freakonomics Radio podcast. Suggestions? ...

If you are a shopper and you are visiting Hong Kong then you have to visit the Temple Street Night Market. The market is about 4 blocks long on Temple Street near the Jordan MTR station. The night market is a place to buy clothing (...

In response to regulations enacted on March 1, 2010 on the Prevention and Control of Vessel-Induced Marine Environment Pollution, a Hong Kong based firm –

Legendary investor and billionaire George Soros recently sat down at Hong Kong University to speak with students on investing and life in general. The panel was moderated by Professor Richard Wong, who speaks for about 10 minutes in...

" The Hong Kong government will propose selling more than 4,000 subsidized apartments to increase home supply and slow price increases."

Legendary investor and billionaire George Soros recently sat down at Hong Kong University to speak with students on investing and life in general. The panel was moderated by Professor Richard Wong, who speaks for about 10 minutes in...

Market Folly submits:Recently, noted investor George Soros gave a series of lectures at the Central European University in Budapest. He then followed up that talk with a conversation at The University of Hong Kong and you can hear h...

ESWN translated mainland blogger Yang Hengjun's eye witness report on the protest outside the China liaison office in March 13, 2010. Yang criticized the excessive police force and the self-censored practice of local media in Hong K...

Hong Kong is well known for its seafood and for its fish markets but there is one market where you are not expected to fillet the fish you buy and that is the goldfish market. This market has a large variety of fish for aquariums th...