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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has announced she will not seek second term. Lam made the announcement Monday at a news conference. Her successor will be picked in May. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Monday she will not run for a second term as chief executive of the global financial hub in a leadership election due to take place on May 8. (Reporting by Anne ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s reputation as an international financial centre has been damaged by the resignation of two UK judges from the city’s top court, senior businesspeople and lawyers h ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's chief secretary John Lee, the No. 2 official in the global financial hub, is set to resign in order to join a race in May to become its new leader, broadcaster TVB said, citing an ... ( read original story ...)

Thousands of secondary school pupils are scheduled to take examinations at the end of the month, but many worry about what will happen if they get sick. ( read original story ...)

Stocks may get a boost Monday from Beijing’s move to ease an audit dispute that imperils the U.S. listings of Chinese firms. Pressure on bonds and the risk of stiffer sanctions on Russia are also ... ( read original story ...)

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Hong Kong’s freedoms have been extinguished in the last two years according to a March 31 report by the British. Since Britain handed Hong Kong back to Ch ... ( read original story ...)

Two senior British judges have decided that Hong Kong’s increasingly repressive regime has tipped the balance in favour of their resignation from the territory’s highest court. Lord Robert Reed, UK ... ( read original story ...)

Mall owners come up with promotions to compete for more than 6.2 million shoppers who will receive e-vouchers worth US$638 each from Thursday. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong will distribute oral Covid-19 drugs to doctors and expand the use of traditional Chinese medicine to treat the disease as a deadly wave of omicron infections continues to recede. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong health authorities reported 3,706 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, down from 4,475 the previous day, and 111 deaths as infections in the global financial hub continue to drop. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong authorities on Saturday asked the entire population of more than 7.4 million people to voluntarily test themselves for covid-19 at home for three days in a row this week. ( read original story ...)

Many homeless aren’t vaccinated because they lack access to information or medical consultation, while others have simply ‘given up on themselves’. ( read original story ...)