The lost revenue, equivalent to 11.1 per cent of the government’s 2020-2021 income from rates, comes as Hong Kong’s economy was driven into its worst recession on record by the US-China trade war, ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Security Law Gives Beijing Broad New Powers
Hours after China’s legislature passed a new national-security law for Hong Kong, the city’s government published the complete document for the first time, revealing the full scope of legislation that ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Activists Disband With Passage of China’s National Security Law
Fears over the fallout from Beijing’s new national-security law for Hong Kong swept through the city after its passage, with opposition activist groups dissolving their local presence and Western ... ( read original story ...)
Business Embraces Hong Kong’s Security Law. The Money Helps.
A flood of investment from China has tempered worries that Beijing’s tightening grip on the Asian financial capital would end its status as a lucrative place to do business. ( read original story ...)
U.S., allies deplore China’s new Hong Kong security law
China's passage of a national security law for Hong Kong drew international condemnation on Tuesday, with the United States and its Asian and Western allies criticising a move that heralds a more ... ( read original story ...)
The Mainstream Wakes Up To The Prospect Of A Banking Collapse
Frank Partnoy, an architect of the collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis, now believes another systemic banking col ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Publishes China’s Security Law Aimed at Crushing Protests
Hours after China’s legislature passed a new national-security law for Hong Kong, the city’s government published the complete document for the first time, revealing the full scope of legislation that ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s sweeping security law paves way for more authoritarian era
Beijing unveiled the national security law it is imposing on Hong Kong on Tuesday, punishing crimes of secession and sedition with up to life in prison and stoking concern it heralds a more ... ( read original story ...)
China passes sweeping HK security law, heralding new authoritarian era
Beijing unveiled its national security law for Hong Kong on Tuesday, punishing crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces with up to life in prison, heralding a more ... ( read original story ...)
Beijing tightens screws on Hong Kong as contentious new law goes into effect on handover anniversary
A contentious new national security law Beijing unilaterally drafted for Hong Kong has passed through China’s top lawmaking body Tuesday morning by unanimous decision. ( read original story ...)
China Warns Hong Kong Security Law Is ‘Sword Hanging Over Heads’ of Lawbreakers
Since the law was first introduced in May, it has received widespread criticism from human rights activists, lawmakers in Hong Kong and politicians across the globe. ( read original story ...)
Market analysts react to China’s new Hong Kong law
Beijing unveiled national security legislation tailor-made for Hong Kong on Tuesday, setting the stage for the most radical changes to the former British colony's way of life since it returned to ... ( read original story ...)
Twitter Accounts Deleted. Social Media Scrubbed. Spooked Hong Kong Braces for New Security Law
The Chinese Communist Party’s controls the mainland population partly by creating situations where people self-censor. Already there are signs of that in Hong Kong. Many signs. ( read original story ...)
US suspends export of sensitive tech to Hong Kong as China passes new national security law
The United States government began measures today to end its special status with Hong Kong, one month after Secretary of State Michael Pompeo told Congress that Hong Kong should no longer be ... ( read original story ...)