Hong Kong  - A wine school, a wine museum and even wine tourism are among the plans being considered by the government to make Hong Kong into a wine hub for the region, a media report said Friday.

Hong Kong - Twenty-one people have been arrested and 12,000 pirated discs seized in an operation against a DVD-making syndicate in Hong Kong, customs officers said Wednesday.
The syndicate smuggled pirated DVDs into Hong Kong from neighboring mainland China and then sold them through computer shops and other outlets, making more than
2,500 US dollars a day, investigators said.
In a two-day operation Monday and Tuesday, officers raided 17 locations, including apartments, shops and a restaurant, and arrested 14 men and seven women aged 16 to 70, a customms spokesman said.
Some 12,000 pirated DVDs, two cars, 14 computers, and cash and valuables worth more than 50,000 US dollars were seized in the operation. Some suspects were later released on bail.

Hong Kong - Schools were closed, ferries grounded and flights cancelled or delayed Wednesday as Hong Kong was sideswiped by its first severe tropical storm of the year.

Hong Kong - A brother and sister nicknamed "Spiderkids" after climbing down drainpipes from their 34th floor high-rise home in Hong Kong were Monday put into a care home by a court.

Hong Kong  - Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang is to lead a de

Hong Kong - More than one in three Hong Kong youngsters are dissatisfied with life and more than one in 10 would consider self-mutilation, a survey into young people's attitudes found Monday.