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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong and mainland China are launching a long-awaited cross-border bond trading platform that further widens access to China's financial markets for global investors. Central bank officials in Hong Kong and the mainland said Tuesday ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong authorities have rejected asylum requests from a group of refugees who sheltered Edward Snowden four years ago, in what their lawyer said is retaliation for helping the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor. Immigration officials in ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong authorities have rejected asylum requests from a group of refugees who sheltered Edward Snowden four years ago, in what their lawyer said is retaliation for helping the former NSA contractor. Immigration officials in the southern Chinese city ... ( read original story ...)

When the families took Snowden into their apartments, they didn't know who he was, only finding out when they saw his face on news stands. What next? The families could now be split up and detained by the immigration authorities in Hong Kong, or face ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has rejected the asylum claims of a group who helped shelter US whistleblower Edward Snowden, their lawyers say. The asylum-seekers, from Sri Lanka and the Philippines, housed Mr Snowden for two weeks when he fled the US after leaking thousands ... ( read original story ...)

Members of Hong Kong’s Muslim community hit out against a police report stating Islamic State-inspired lone wolves could carry out an attack in the city, claiming the force was adding to a stigma already felt by the community. Earlier this month ... ( read original story ...)

Leung, also Hong Kong’s former justice minister, said the terminus of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link had been specifically designed to accommodate the joint checkpoint. “[The project] had been approved for a long time and the West ... ( read original story ...)

A 30-strong Hong Kong delegation is among some 1,200 VIPs from 28 jurisdictions to attend the two-day high-profile “Belt and Road Initiative” summit in Beijing, as global heavyweights Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin ... ( read original story ...)

This looks like fresh evidence of Beijing's tightening grip on the city - and its belief that market prices are a tool to signal good news. Exporting that stance will dent Hong Kong's appeal. On the face of it, there is no need for any assistance. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s economy beat analyst expectations in the first quarter ... beating median estimate for 0.2 percent growth from analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News Economy expanded 4.3 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, stronger than the ... ( read original story ...)

The organisers of Hong Kong's biggest annual pro-democracy march say their application to begin their protest in the usual venue has been rejected. The Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) said the decision was taken by the government department which runs ... ( read original story ...)

For years, the last surviving memento of rifleman Ray Donald Jackson's life lay in the dirt in Stanley, Hong Kong, where he died. His family didn't even have a photo to remember him by. He was just a memory — a man who died serving with the Royal Rifles ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's authorities have not commented on the claim. Meanwhile, Hong Kong Free Press news portal reported that Victoria Park would be used by the Hong Kong Celebrations Association, which holds its own events to mark the handover on 1 July 1997. ( read original story ...)

The reality is a one-room "shoebox" cubicle, one of five partitioned out of a small apartment in an aging walkup in a working class Hong Kong neighborhood. Into the 120-square foot room are crammed a bunk bed, small couch, fridge, washing machine and tiny ... ( read original story ...)