demonstrating tactical difference by each location’s governments and their sway over Disney's business decisions. Visitors at the Castle of Magical Dreams in Hong Kong Disneyland Resort on June 18, ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Disneyland Will Close Again Amid Coronavirus Spike
Hong Kong Disneyland will shutter again starting on July 15 due to a spike in cases of coronavirus, after about a month back in operation. It was the second of Disney’s 14 parks worldwide to ... ( read original story ...)
Property developers rush to attract Hong Kong residents amid uncertainty over new law
Amid economic recession and uncertainty over China's National Security Law, global real estate firms are trying to get Hong Kong residents to buy abroad. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong: 600,000 vote in opposition primary despite fears of new security law
Braving scorching conditions, a new wave of coronavirus infections and government warnings they could be breaking the law, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers took part in a primary election for the ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Gets Zero-Fee Trading in Blow to Brokers
Less than a year since Charles Schwab Corp. reshaped the U.S. discount broker industry with zero-fee trading, a Hong Kong firm is following suit in a move set to deepen the pain for the city’s many ... ( read original story ...)
Zero-Fee Trading in Hong Kong Marks New Front in Brokerage Wars
Less than a year since Charles Schwab Corp. reshaped the U.S. discount broker industry with zero-fee trading, a Hong Kong firm is following suit in a move set to deepen the pain for the city’s many ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Gets Zero Fee Trading in Blow to Struggling Brokers
Less than a year since Charles Schwab Corp. reshaped the U.S. discount broker industry with zero-fee trading, a Hong Kong firm is following suit in a move set to deepen the pain for the city’s many ... ( read original story ...)
Startups Weekly: The world is eating tech
Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7am PT). Subscribe here. You could almost hear the internet cracking apart this week as ... ( read original story ...)
The US is reportedly threatening to remove the dollar’s peg to the Hong Kong dollar. Here’s why that’s an empty threat from the Trump administration.
Bloomberg reported this week that the possibility to limit Hong Kong's bank buying US dollars was escalated to Secretary of the State Mike Pompeo. ( read original story ...)
Malaysia Sought Hong Kong’s Help in Hunt for 1MDB Fugitives
Malaysia’s police sought help from Hong Kong authorities in its 1MDB probe that includes the hunt for Jho Low, the alleged mastermind behind the billion-dollar scandal. ( read original story ...)
How to help Hong Kong and kick-start our economic recovery at the same time
Republicans and Democrats are largely united in horror at the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on freedom in Hong Kong, with the semi-autonomous state now facing increasing censorship from the ... ( read original story ...)
To cool off U.S.-China tensions, let’s start with a truce on media access
You gave an important speech in Beijing on Thursday in which you attempted to halt the slide in U.S.-China relations. You declared that China did not want to see its relationship ... ( read original story ...)
Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong is dangerous for the world
When China imposed a draconian new security law on Hong Kong last week, I grabbed my phone to call some young pro-democracy activists I’d met there in November. Then I put the phone down because I ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong to suspend schools again after spike in COVID-19 cases
Hong Kong will suspend all schools after the territory reported a spike in locally transmitted coronavirus infections, the city's ... ( read original story ...)