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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s economy shrank by 4% compared with a year earlier in the quarter ending in March after the Chinese territory shut restaurants and other businesses to fight a spike in ... ( read original story ...)

A number of journalists in Hong Kong have been jailed due to their reportage and that result in their drastic fall in the rankings published by media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF). ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) - Hong Kong's economy contracted last quarter for the first time in more than a year as local restrictions to curb Covid hit activity and China's own omicron outbreak disrupted ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG: Hong Kong's economy contracted in the first quarter of this year as the city imposed its most stringent restrictions to curb an outbreak of COVID-19 that has battered business, led to an ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG: Hong Kong recorded its coldest day in May for more than a century on Monday morning, according to the city's weather forecaster, with a veteran meteorologist saying it was a "good sign" ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong is accelerating its reopening plans as Covid cases drop, easing mask-wearing rules and allowing more leisure venues to reopen, despite continued circulation of the pathogen ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has plummeted down an international press freedom chart as authorities have wielded a draconian new security law to silence critical news outlets and jail journalists, a new report said on ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG, May 3 (Reuters) - Hong Kong will further ease COVID-19 restrictions, allowing bars to open until 2 a.m. and raising the number of diners permitted at a table to eight from four, as cases in ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) - Hong Kong will bring forward reopening plans as cases drop, easing mask-wearing rules and allowing more leisure venues to reopen from this week, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said ... ( read original story ...)

John Lee Lee has pledged to revive Hong Kong's economy and expand the city's 'international connectivity' [File: Lam Yik/Bloomberg] Hong Kong, China – Hong Kong’s leader-in-waiting, John Lee, has ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong stocks opened on the back foot on Tuesday morning as investors returned from a long weekend break to play catch-up with losses in Asia the previous day, and following a strong end to ... ( read original story ...)

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Australian debt fell and the local currency rose ahead of the decision. Japan and China are shut for holidays, but Hong Kong reopens from a break facing a range of crosscurrents, including a rally in ... ( read original story ...)

Up until 2020, Dennis Kwok was a popular Hong Kong politician, representing the region’s legal community on its Legislative Council, serving a second term in the body that he won with an overwhelming ... ( read original story ...)