Nelson Mandela famously said that sport has the power to change the world, and here in the local community the HKRU Community Foundation has been busy over the past 7 years using sport as a medium to tackle social issues and positively impact on ...

Back in 2014 with the generous support of Ageas the HKRU Community Foundation started an apprenticeship programme with their partners at Operation Breakthrough, offering 4 youngsters from at-risk backgrounds the opportunity of 12 months of paid emplo...

Kim Lam The Union AGM always brings with it mixed emotions, with the excitement of “new blood” joining the Board twinged with the sadness of great servants stepping down, and on this occasion we said goodbye to three stalwarts of the local rugb...

The Hong Kong Rugby Union (HKRU) held its Annual General Meeting on the evening of 30 July at the South China Athletic Association in Causeway Bay.  It was a hotly contested affair with five of the ten Board of Director positions up for elec...

Lea Choy first met our Senior Manager of Player Welfare & Medical, Lucy Clarke, and the rest of the HKRU medical team almost ten years ago, as a student at Renaissance College. Since then Lea has developed her medical skills across a number of HKRU p...

BRAVO! For the first time, our #LocalHero goes to a collection of people—Valley RFC! On Saturday 27th June, members of Valley RFC climbed the Ladder Street stairs between 6am-6pm, a.k.a the equivalent of summiting Mt Everest 8.5 times in 12...

We have another recent historic Hong Kong Colony “capping” with a Welch Regiment connection to report, following on from those awarded to Bob Richardson-Aitken and Bill Carling over the past year.   Some fifty five years ago the 1st Ba...

Here comes the last week of our “We’re All in This Together” local hero nomination campaign! We are delighted to announce that the last local hero goes to Manoj Dhar, the founder of Integrated Brilliant EducaTion (IBET) who provides academic inpu...

The first objective of the HKRU’s new Strategic Plan, which was launched in November last year, was to commission a market research report into the state of the game, and the resulting KPMG survey was submitted to the Board in February 2020 – wit...

Here at the Hong Kong Rugby Union, we’re strong believers in the need for continuous learning, questioning and progression. Whether it be querying tactics on the pitch or in the office, there’s no room in the Union for complacency, which is why w...