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Fitch Ratings Ltd. cut its assessment of Hong Kong banks’ operating environment due to the territory’s tighter links to the mainland economy. “We believe that Hong Kong’s growing connectivity with China’s economy and financial system creates ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese telecommunications company ZTE has halted its main operations after U.S. authorities cut off its access to American suppliers as President Donald Trump steps up pressure over trade and technology issues with Beijing. ( read original story ...)

A Hong Kong taxi driver has been arrested on suspicion of stealing HK$1.1 million (US$140,000) that a passenger left in his cab. The owner of a currency exchange left the bag full of cash in the taxi on her way home Sunday night, according to local ... ( read original story ...)

Frequent bouts of bad weather and a huge demand for live satellite television have placed Hong Kong behind other developed economies in the race towards implementing next generation 5G mobile broadband services, a senior telecommunication official said on ... ( read original story ...)

The Chinese National Anthem Law was imposed on Hong Kong last November Expert say the law will definitely pass at Hong Kong's local legislative council Student activists plan to deliberately break the law to show resistance "I want to vomit whenever I hear ... ( read original story ...)

Three Hong Kong tourists were given two-year suspended jail terms in Bangkok and then deported on Tuesday for making a false robbery report to police in an attempt to get a HK$60,000 (US$7,644) insurance payout. Cheuk Kai-hay, 26, Wu Ching-bor, 23 ... ( read original story ...)

With billions of dollars in corporate memberships at stake, the elite 129-year-old Hong Kong Golf Club, one of Asia’s oldest, told the Pos t it would stand firm against any plan that would see part or all of the historic site razed for building homes to ... ( read original story ...)

Companies at two major Hong Kong technology parks will be able to hire IT experts from outside the city and have them working within four weeks under a new government fast-track immigration initiative to attract talent. More than 700 tenants and incubatees ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (AP) — China’s exports rebounded last month from a brief downturn while its politically sensitive trade surplus with the United States expanded, according to official data released Tuesday. Customs data showed that exports jumped 21.5 percent ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has some of the busiest air routes in the world, a report has found – just don’t expect to get a budget flight to or from the city, unlike elsewhere in the region where low-cost travel is booming. Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA ... ( read original story ...)

A surgeon who left a patient open on an operating table last year while he worked at a different hospital will reportedly take up a job at a mainland Chinese hospital affiliated with a Hong Kong university, despite the school’s medical faculty not ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — Chinese technology company ZTE says it has applied to the U.S. Commerce Department asking it to suspend a seven-year ban on it doing business with U.S. technology exporters. The company said in a statement late Sunday that it had “formally ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (AP) — Most Asian stock markets started the week higher on Monday following strong gains on Wall Street after the U.S. jobless rate hit an 18-year low, helping investors overlook unresolved trade tensions between Washington and Beijing. ( read original story ...)

A surgeon who left a patient open on an operating table last year while he worked at a different hospital will reportedly take up a job at a mainland Chinese hospital affiliated with a Hong Kong university, despite the school’s medical faculty not ... ( read original story ...)