A transsexual woman in Hong Kong won a groundbreaking court appeal allowing her to marry her boyfriend and forcing the government to re-write the city’s marriage laws.

Hong Kong’s top court has granted a transgender woman the right to marry her boyfriend in a watershed ruling which falls short of allowing same-sex marriage.

Hong Kong’s richest woman, Nina Wang, was formally charged today for allegedly forging her late husband’s will in an attempt to secure his multi-million dollar fortune, officials said.

More than 700 people marched on Hong Kong’s top appeals court today, as the territory prepared to begin forcibly deporting hundreds of mainland Chinese migrants.

Ending a long, tortuous legal battle, Hong Kong’s top court has ruled that all but 200 of the more than 5,000 mainland Chinese migrants suing for the right to stay in the city must leave.