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Hong Kong ordered 120 schoolchildren into quarantine and recommended shutting an international school after two Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. pilots tested positive for Covid. People who visited ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s central bank chief would like Hong Kong and China to open up quicker and more decisively over the next year as their strict border restrictions may impact business ties between the key ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong government said people who visited Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd.’s headquarters in the last three weeks need to get tested for Covid-19 by Friday. Singapore reported an increase in daily ... ( read original story ...)

However, the government maintains that after adjusting for interventions it undertook amid the pandemic, the poverty rate actually fell slightly. ( read original story ...)

Prosecutors successfully claim criticism of Hong Kong crackdown by US and UK shows Cheung Kim-hung has links to foreign political groups ... ( read original story ...)

Three books look at the territory’s recent tussles with Beijing and offer differing levels of optimism on the outlook for freedom ... ( read original story ...)

After almost two years of near-isolation, Hong Kong travelers may finally be able to travel quarantine-free to mainland China — one of the few places on earth that is hanging on to a Covid zero policy ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s border with mainland China could reopen with limited capacity in January, according to a Chinese official in the city, a breakthrough that would be a boost to the Asian financial hub’s ... ( read original story ...)

It’s now a crime to memorialize the Tiananmen massacre. ( read original story ...)

Dozens of Hong Kong primary and secondary schools face closure as a result of falling enrolment, a situation made worse by the departure of about 40,000 families who emigrated over the past year, ... ( read original story ...)

A Hong Kong teenager who police suspect to have links with triad groups was recently arrested with 23 kilograms (50 pounds) of cocaine reportedly worth around 27 million Hong Kong dollars ... ( read original story ...)

Three people were arrested in Hong Kong on Tuesday for urging voters to cast blank ballots in upcoming polls, a corruption watchdog said, as the city cracks down on efforts to boycott the first race ... ( read original story ...)

No road races since January 2020 but organisers expect approval from authorities soon after agreeing to measures. ( read original story ...)

The pro-democracy activist fled Hong Kong, the city of her birth, for Canada last year as Beijing tightened its grip over the territory it acquired from Britain in 1997. She was part of an exodus that ... ( read original story ...)