Executive Council member Professor Arthur Li Kwok-cheung said he would have joined the Occupy Central campaign if it could actually force Beijing to allow open elections in the 2017 chief executive race.
As hundreds of revellers gathered at Victoria Park to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival last night, traders voiced fears that inflatable lanterns and 'snowy' mooncakes are eroding tradition.
A group of colleagues yesterday came together to take part in the city's biggest Ice Bucket Challenge yet, as 200 people doused themselves in iced water to help take donations for local motor neurone disease patients to HK$23 million.
A hospital group has called for a ban on the sale of alcohol on campuses after its study showed that a fifth of university students had engaged in binge drinking but only 1 per cent admitted they had a drinking problem.
So-called helicopter parents are known to put pressure on students, but a new study shows that pressure is mounting on parents, too, ahead of Monday's start of the school year.
Ocean Park says its new haunted house is so scary it will require visitors to sign a disclaimer in case they fall ill or even die of fright after visiting it.
A breast cancer drug is the only possible remedy Hong Kong has for an Ebola outbreak after the city was denied supplies of other drugs being tested against the deadly virus.
Analysts are taking a less-optimistic view of Hong Kong's economic prospects in the second half of this year after the government lowered its forecasts.