By James Pomfret and Anne Kauranen HONG KONG, Jan 20 (Reuters) - A lawyer for a Chinese captain of a Hong Kong-registered ship alleged to have damaged undersea cables in the Baltic Sea said on Tuesday 18 witnesses would be called to testify in the case.

Hong Kong expands its high-speed rail network with 16 new routes, enhancing its role as a stopover city for China travel. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Health authorities earlier named 2 Hong Kong-based companies linked to alleged smuggling of blood samples for gender testing A business claiming to offer fetal gender testing is advertising for delivering blood samples from mainland China to Hong Kong as of Thursday,

As travel retailer, DFS, sheds more of its global retail operations and pulls back in Hainan, China’s largest duty-free operator stands to gain strategic ground.

Man disqualified from Hong Kong marathon for running with baby strapped to his chest - The runner has also been banned from taking part in future events

Two of the defendants pleaded not guilty before the Hong Kong court, while the other pleaded guilty but pledged to keep working to end one-party rule in China. They're accused of "inciting subversion of state power.

A trial against two pro-democracy activists behind a group that for decades organized a vigil that commemorated people killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 opened on Thursday