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Hong Kong signed long-awaited free trade agreements on Sunday with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which means the city’s businesses will enjoy lower tariffs, less restrictions and better protection in 10 countries in the region in the years ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has signed a free-trade agreement and an investment deal with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in pacts that it says are a vote against protectionism elsewhere. ASEAN officials say the free-trade agreement they signed with Hong Kong on ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Several hundred football fans in Hong Kong defied a Chinese law against disrespecting the national anthem, by jeering it at a friendly international against Bahrain on Thursday. At the Mong Kok stadium, a small segment of the crowd ... ( read original story ...)

Lam emphasised that the move did not target Hong Kong, but was aimed at other parts of the world. Local employment agencies expressed surprise over the news. Liu Tsui-lan, managing director of the local agency Technic Employment Service Centre, estimated ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong police have broken up a crack cocaine factory at a luxury flat in Yuen Long, seizing the largest haul of raw drug materials in 10 years and arresting four men, one of them Peruvian. The ingredients – thought to have been flown into the city ... ( read original story ...)

E-commerce has been slow to catch on in Hong Kong compared to other developed Asian markets such as South Korea and Taiwan, but Alibaba Group’s giant Singles’ Day online shopping event is helping change that mindset. Surveys show that Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong soccer fans loudly booed China's national anthem at a match Thursday in the Chinese-controlled city, defying Beijing days after Communist leaders tightened penalties for disrespecting the song. Fans dressed in red in one section of the stadium ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong soccer fans have loudly booed China's national anthem at a match in the Chinese-controlled city. The jeering Thursday night defied Beijing days after Communist leaders tightened penalties for disrespecting the song. The long-simmering anthem ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has been ranked 68th in a global smart city index – way behind its main rival Singapore, which came in second, and trailing its neighbours in the region like Taipei, Tokyo and Seoul. Despite recent efforts by the government to make the city ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court on Tuesday allowed three jailed young activists, who spearheaded pro-democracy protests that brought much of the Chinese-ruled city to a halt in 2014, a final chance to appeal against their sentences. Hong Kong's ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's top court on Tuesday gave three young democracy activists ... for their roles in an unlawful assembly that sparked the protests. "It's really good news for us," Wong told reporters after the hearing, though he noted the "three of us still ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - An appeal against the controversial jailing of three young democracy activists will be heard in Hong Kong's highest court in January, after the Court of Final Appeal decided on Tuesday to allow it. Hong Kong's appeals court jailed ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's top court on Tuesday granted a bid by three young democracy activists including Joshua Wong to appeal a prison sentence related to their involvement in huge 2014 pro-democracy protests in the Chinese-controlled city. The decision gives Wong and ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s competition watchdog should seek jail sentences against offenders whenever possible in the long run, according to the new chief executive of the antitrust regulator, who is pursuing a hardline stance. Competition Commission head Brent Snyder ... ( read original story ...)