There are four or five flights a day from Vancouver to Hong Kong during the summer season. When they land this weekend, passengers will be met by a sea of protesters staging a three-day occupation ... ( read original story ...)
For Hong Kong’s youth, there’s no hope at home – and so they pour out into the streets
Hong Kong’s geography squeezes people into living on narrow strips of flat land around the coasts. Simple supply and demand exacerbates these topographical facts, driving up property prices that are ... ( read original story ...)
Downturn to hit Hong Kong like a ‘tsunami’, as China slaps warning on Cathay
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's protests are hitting its economy, the city's leader Carrie Lam said on Friday, echoing warnings from business leaders including powerful local property developers, as ... ( read original story ...)
Economic downturn to hit Hong Kong like a ‘tsunami’, city’s leader warns
Hong Kong’s powerful property developers spoke out for the first time on Friday, urging calm in a statement signed by 17 companies, including CK Asset Holdings Ltd (1113.HK), founded by property ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong braces for another weekend of protests
Lam’s warning about the economy and the China’s targeting of a key Hong Kong business mark a toughening stance by authorities as they grapple with Hong Kong’s deepest crisis in decades. ... ( read original story ...)
Former US ambassador to China warns Beijing intervention in Hong Kong will provoke Taiwan
As Hong Kong demonstrators enter their 10th consecutive weekend of protests, the former U.S. ambassador to China warned Beijing against interference, saying that could escalate tensions across the ... ( read original story ...)
HK banks group urges end of violence
Founded in 1981, the HKAB has many members such as Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC Bank, Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited, Hang Seng Bank and Citibank, according to its website. Enditem ... ( read original story ...)
Evening Update: The latest on the Hong Kong protests; Ottawa details changes to drug-pricing rules
Good evening, let’s start with our top stories: Hong Kong is bearing the economic brunt of protests, local leaders say, as activists ready for another weekend in the streets Hong Kong leaders warned ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of China Has a Message for Hong Kong: ‘Stop Violence, Contain Chaos’
Photographer: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg Photographer: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg “Stop violence, contain chaos, restore order.” The terse message in a full-page advertisement from Bank of China Ltd.’s units in ... ( read original story ...)
McKinsey’s Gautam Kumra on how India can become a long-term outperformer
Let me refer to a very significant piece of research that our McKinsey Global Institute has done over the ... There are another seven countries that have been long-term outperformers including Hong ... ( read original story ...)
Canada upgrades travel warning as Hong Kong protests take over airport
We continue to closely monitor the situation in Hong Kong in light of the recent demonstrations and violence,” the federal government said in a statement to Global News. “This situation is of ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says protests have hit business like a ‘tsunami’
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Friday the business community was very worried about the long-term consequences of protests in the Asian financial hub. ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Protesters Descend on Airport, With Plans to Stay for Days
“Yet for this Hong Kong, we fight. We shall never surrender.” Sam Yang, 45, a Taiwanese businessman, waded through the crowd after arriving on a flight from the mainland Chinese city of Chengdu. He ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong bearing economic brunt of protests, local businesses say, as activists ready for another weekend in the streets
Protesters have brought “huge damage to the economy and to the daily life of the people,” Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam said, as business representatives reported that the majority of the ... ( read original story ...)