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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 ...)

HONG KONG—A gadget maker. An online delivery service. And the electronic payment company owned by the tech giant Alibaba. These are among a spate of Chinese companies expected to open their doors to ordinary investors in Hong Kong over the next year ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — Global bank HSBC said Friday it’s launching its latest multibillion-dollar share buyback, as it released its first quarterly earnings report under its new chief executive, John Flint. The bank said that the buyback of up to $2 billion in ... ( read original story ...)

A Hong Kong man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend did not tell his later partner about the killing until she had given birth to his son, a court heard on Thursday. That revelation at the High Court, from the accused Oscar Mok Chun-yin, prompted ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s leader on Thursday dismissed a controversy over the use of Mandarin in public schools and whether Cantonese could be considered the city’s mother tongue as a “non-issue”, telling legislators her administration had no plan to change its ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi filed documents Thursday with Hong Kong’s stock exchange operator for an initial public offering that could be the world’s biggest share sale in years. Beijing-based Xiaomi is the world’s fourth biggest ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — Asian shares were mixed on Thursday as investors analyzed ... they’re overly concerned that inflation will overshoot that. “With much of the good news in the equity world currently factored in, investors are left mulling over the ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Smartphone and connected device maker Xiaomi [IPO-XMGP.HK] filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering on Thursday that could raise $10 billion and become the largest listing by a Chinese technology firm in almost four years. ( read original story ...)

A primary school girl arrested on suspicion of stealing HK$5 million (US$641,000) worth of jewellery from her father’s friend may have been a victim of child abuse, according to police sources. Police listed a case of suspected child abuse at 5am on ... ( read original story ...)

The appearance of an unusual audience member at detained former Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho Chi-ping’s bail hearing has raised further questions about his links to a Chinese energy conglomerate. Liu Yadong, an executive from CEFC China Energy’s ... ( read original story ...)

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has filed to list on Hong Kong stock market, in a move that is expected to raise up to $10bn (£7.5bn). The stock market flotation will be the world's biggest debut in 2018, and the largest since fellow China tech giant ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — Asian stock markets were mostly lower Thursday as ... QUICK TAKE: “With much of the good news in the equity world currently factored in, investors are left mulling over the paradoxical landscape of stellar earnings but higher interest ... ( read original story ...)

The first of three anti-riot vehicles equipped with water cannons will arrive in Hong Kong this month after a two-year wait, but the controversial police purchase will not be deployed during the annual July 1 pro-democracy rally. A senior police source ... ( read original story ...)