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After combining for glory last week, Hong Kong’s Doo Hoi-kem and Wong Chun-ting went back to ploughing lone furrows towards success at the WTT Contender Muscat tournament in Oman on Thursday. Doo and Wong claimed the WTT Star Contender Doha mixed doubles title on Sunday, but were left to go their own ways in the Omani capital following a shock 3-2 first-round defeat by French pair Thibault Poret and Charlotte Lutz on Wednesday. The 34-year-old Wong convincingly bounced back 24 hours later,...

Relatives of the 39 victims in one of Hong Kong’s deadliest maritime disasters expressed anger after the coroner at the inquest rejected their expectation that marine inspectors could have spotted the missing watertight door by examining the ship’s structural drawings, calling it “impractical and unrealistic”. Coroner Monica Chow Wai-choo said on Thursday, the second day of the verdict, that Marine Department’s officers would not have detected the missing watertight door on the underdeck of the...

Israeli forces on Wednesday killed at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza, including two 13-year-old boys, three journalists and a woman, hospitals said, on one of the war-battered enclave’s deadliest days since the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel took effect in October. The United States is trying to push the deal forward and implement its challenging second phase. Among the dead were three Palestinian journalists who were killed while filming near a displacement camp in central Gaza, a camp...

A wild boar carcass found outside the luxury Deep Water Bay residence of Hong Kong’s richest man Li Ka-shing triggered a brief scare over possible human remains before authorities confirmed on Thursday that it was an animal. A 61‑year‑old security guard at Li’s home at 79 Deep Water Bay Road called police shortly before noon on Thursday after detecting a strong odour. Officers arrived and discovered the carcass of a wild boar at the bottom of a 20-metre (66-foot) slope. The Food and...