Month: June 2020

Increasing repression from Beijing has united two generations in Hong Kong, those whose lives pivoted in 1989 and those who weren't even born then. ( read original story ...)

Pegged to the U.S. dollar since 1983, the Hong Kong dollar is usually a dull currency. Except when it isn’t. Heightened tension between the U.S. and China over the city’s autonomy has focused ... ( read original story ...)

President Trump has compounded the tragedy of China’s undercutting the “one country, two systems” framework established in the 1997 handover of Hong Kong from Britain. His unilateral move to change ... ( read original story ...)

Thousands of people in Hong Kong defied a police ban Thursday evening, breaking through barricades to hold a candlelight vigil on the 31st anniversary of China's crushing of a democracy movement ... ( read original story ...)

Protesters also made reference to the recent struggles in Hong Kong, as thousands of people came together in Victoria Park and other locations across the territory. ( read original story ...)

Protesters defy police ban to mark anniversary of 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown ... ( read original story ...)

Today, this same regime is killing the freedom of 8 million people in Hong Kong. The survivors of the Tiananmen Square massacre are warning the world not to repeat the mistakes it made in 1989. On ... ( read original story ...)

Questions over territory’s pro-democracy movement and status as a global financial hub after China passes security laws ... ( read original story ...)

On the 31st anniversary of Beijing's Tiananmen crackdown on the student-led pro-democracy movement, Hong Kong legislature approved a law that makes it illegal to insult or abuse the Chinese national ... ( read original story ...)

Two large U.K.-based banking groups with extensive operations in east Asia have expressed their support for the controversial security laws that China will impose on Hong Kong. HSBC ( HSBC) and ... ( read original story ...)

Residents across the city gathered to commemorate the victims of China’s 1989 crackdown, despite a police ban. Hours earlier, the city made mocking China’s anthem a crime. ( read original story ...)

Protesters defy police ban as legislation prohibits mockery of Chinese anthem ... ( read original story ...)

HSBC and Standard Chartered have drawn the ire of politicians and investors in the UK for their public support of a controversial national security law China plans to impose on Hong Kong. On Wednesday ... ( read original story ...)