Evergrande shares fell 10% on Thursday morning in Hong Kong as it resumed trading after a 17-day halt. The hugely indebted Chinese property giant had stopped its shares from trading ahead of an ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong stocks open lower as Evergrande plunges
Hong Kong shares fell at the opening on Thursday with China Evergrande plunging more than 10 percent as trading in the firm resumed following a ... ( read original story ...)
Three men charged after 295kg of meth is found hidden inside digger sent from Hong Kong to Australia
Police raided four properties around Sydney on Tuesday and three men are facing possible life sentences after being charged over their alleged role in the importation. ( read original story ...)
Five-year Prison Terms for Hong Kong Students Deepen Fears of Retroactive Use of National Security Law
On Tuesday, five former students of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) were each sentenced to almost five years in prison for their involvement in protests against the National Security Law in ... ( read original story ...)
Lucrative deals keep UK law firms in Hong Kong
Critics argue that the nine British judges who sit on Hong Kong’s top court are providing legitimacy to a regime in Beijing that has no respect for western principles of the rule of law. Yet so far ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s reputation takes hit after national security law imposed but foreign forces to blame, Carrie Lam says
The city leader insists that foreign forces are to blame for the development, and that her government needs to do a better job of explaining the law. ( read original story ...)
How Hong Kong’s Elite Turned on Democracy
Beijing’s bludgeoning of the prodemocracy movement in Hong Kong would not have been possible without the enthusiastic help of willing collaborators. ( read original story ...)
Covid plea fails to halt Hong Kong share freeze
A Hong Kong court has granted an injunction in aid of a CIETAC claim over a share transfer that was terminated on the grounds of covid-19 and “deteriorating Sino-US relations”. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Democratic Turncoats
Beijing’s bludgeoning of the prodemocracy movement would not have been possible without the enthusiastic help of Hong Kong’s ruling class. ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: scramble for Hong Kong quarantine rooms leaves several hotels fully booked for first two weeks of December
Several of Hong Kong's designated hotels for coronavirus quarantine were on Wednesday already fully booked for the first two weeks of December, even with the government boosting capacity by 1,500 ... ( read original story ...)
$1.03b earmarked to safeguard national security in Hong Kong
The Hong Kong government has earmarked an HK$8 billion ($1.03 billion) special fund for safeguarding national security in the coming few years, according to a government report submitted to the ... ( read original story ...)
Mother of Taiwan slay victim blasts Hong Kong authorities
The Hong Kong mother whose daughter was killed in Taiwan in 2018 has lambasted authorities in the Chinese city for letting the man who confessed to the crime walk free ... ( read original story ...)
Mother urges Hong Kong to send daughter’s killer to Taiwan
The mother of a murdered Hong Kong woman blasted the authorities on Wednesday for allowing her daughter's killer to live as a free man, a case that has festered because China does not recognise Taiwan ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong minister says it could take 20 years before government meets its public housing target
It could take 20 years to substantially reduce the time Hongkongers have to wait for public housing, the minister responsible has said. By the end of June, about 153,600 Hong Kong families were ... ( read original story ...)