Hong Kong's personal bankruptcy filings fell in October to a one-year low as the city emerges from its worst slump since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis.

Hong Kong will invite the public to comment on democratic reforms being proposed by the government, an official said Wednesday, in one of the few places on Chinese soil that enjoys Western-style elections.

Dozens of undocumented migrants have been arrested in Hong Kong in a crackdown on asylum seekers in the wealthy former British colony, officials said Sunday.

Following the lead of the University of Hong Kong, another Hong Kong university is offering attractive scholarships to lure elite Taiwanese senior high school students to China's special administrative zone.

A Hong Kong firm has launched a series of television commercials offering personal loans in exchange for ladies' luxury handbags, a report said Monday.

Hong Kong police have arrested 10 foreigners — including Britons, Australians and Filipinos — in a drug bust on a sleepy outlying island favored by expatriates.

Hong Kong marine police seized a boatload of illegal Afghan migrants over the weekend, the first time asylum seekers from the war-torn country have been caught entering the city, police said Sunday.

Hong Kong shoppers have paid more than 3.2 million Hong Kong dollars (US$400,000) for plastic bags since a levy was introduced in July to cut the city's daily mountain of waste, the government said Thursday.

Leaders from China and Australia discussed on Saturday the issue of an Australian detained in China on suspicion of corporate espionage, but there was no resolution in a case that has strained their relations.

A mainland Chinese buyer who paid a record 56 million Hong Kong dollars (US$7.2 million) last week for a “lucky” flat Hong Kong may be regretting his purchase, a media report said Tuesday.