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Scuffles broke out at Hong Kong’s Legislative Council on Friday, as lawmakers from opposing camps competed to preside over a meeting held to determine who has authority over a key committee which scru ... ( read original story ...)

Rival Hong Kong lawmakers clashed Friday inside the city's legislature which has been paralysed for seven months as pro-democracy politicians attempt to scupper a controversial law that bans insulting ... ( read original story ...)

League is the first competition of any standing to come back to life, watched by sport-starved fans in a swathe of foreign countries. Hong Kong began to ease major social distancing measures with bars ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong on Friday began to ease major social distancing measures with bars, gyms, beauty parlours and cinemas reopening their doors after the financial hub largely halted local transmissions of the ... ( read original story ...)

Following a two-day streak without any new cases, Hong Kong has recorded four new COVID-19 infections among a group of residents who returned from Pakistan yesterday. The total number of COVID-19 ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has seized a record-breaking 26 metric tons of illegally smuggled shark fins severed from about 38,500 endangered predators, officials announced. The semi-autonomous Chinese city revealed ... ( read original story ...)

In a statement on Thursday, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing said Charles Li “would not seek” reappointment as chief executive when his current contract expires in October 2021. HKEX has put a ... ( read original story ...)

Delay comes after Beijing’s highest office in Hong Kong referred to city’s protesters as ‘virus’ that must be eradicated ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has seized 26 tonnes of smuggled shark fins, sliced from some 38,500 endangered animals, in the largest bust of its kind in the southern Chinese city. The record haul was discovered in two ... ( read original story ...)

Battered by the one-two punch of protests and a pandemic, Hong Kong’s music venues have mostly gone silent. No one has felt the pinch more than singers, drummers and guitarists from the Philippines. ( read original story ...)

An outspoken former oil-rigger, Charles Li moved to internationalise Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing in his decade as chief executive by encouraging more global companies to list and building ties with ... ( read original story ...)

The operator of Hong Kong’s stock exchange said its longtime chief executive plans to step down by October 2021, or earlier if a successor is found before then. ( read original story ...)

On Tuesday, the financial hub announced plans to relax social distancing measures, including the reopening of venues such as cinemas, bars, beauty parlors, and schools with effect from May 8. ( read original story ...)

This residential property market refuses to follow the economy into crisis. When asking why, start with the Fed. ( read original story ...)