HKMA fears use of the Exchange Fund to help combat economic crisis will hurt its ability to defend the peg, but it will work with banks to offer help to firms and individuals, CEO Eddie Yue says. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai to wait for bail verdict in national security case
Hong Kong media tycoon and Beijing critic Jimmy Lai, the most high-profile person charged under the national security law, will remain in custody after the city's top court said it would announce its ... ( read original story ...)
Kuaishou Trades at Twice IPO Price in Gray Market
Institutional investors are buying Kuaishou Technology’s Hong Kong shares before its Friday debut at a premium to the listing price. ( read original story ...)
The fearless Hong Kong that made me an overnight popstar? That city has vanished
It’s hard to believe just how quickly the vibrant city has changed since I first arrived in 2013 to perform a song at a protest. A blanket of fear covers it now ... ( read original story ...)
Chinese healthcare trio premarket Hong Kong lisitngs
Mainland-based healthcare sector issuers SciClone Phamaceuticals (Holdings), New Horizon Health and Joinn Laboratories (China) kicked off pre-deal investor education for their Hong Kong IPOs on Monday ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong is ‘being eviscerated’
Sky News host Chris Kenny says Hong Kong is “being eviscerated” before the world’s eyes as China continues to take full control of the city. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong acquits former JPMorgan banker over ‘princeling’ hire
A senior Asia investment banker who previously worked at JPMorgan Chase has been acquitted of bribery charges connected to the bank’s hiring of well-connected Chinese “princelings” to win business in ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong court finds former JPMorgan top banker not guilty of bribery
A Hong Kong judge found JPMorgan's former vice chairman of Asia investment banking, Catherine Leung, not guilty on Monday, following her trial held late last year. ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus latest: Another Hong Kong lockdown yields no new cases as China infections fall to 3-week low
Tom Moore, the 100-year-old veteran who raised more than £33m for Britain’s NHS, tests positive for Covid-19. Malaysia breaches 5,000 confirmed cases for a third successive day. The Australian city of ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Government Critic Jimmy Lai Returns to Court
Prominent Hong Kong democracy advocate and newspaper founder Jimmy Lai has returned to court to contest an attempt by the government to keep him in jail while facing charges under a sweeping new ... ( read original story ...)
Pro-democracy Tycoon In Landmark Challenge To Hong Kong Security Law
Detained Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was in court Monday trying to win bail in the first major legal challenge to a sweeping national security law Beijing imposed on the city last year. Lai, 73, ... ( read original story ...)