Most of Hong Kong and other parts of southern China ground to a near standstill Friday with classes and flights canceled as powerful Typhoon Saola passed along the coast.
Typhoon Saola leaves debris as it batters Hong Kong
STORY: Typhoon Saola left a trail of destruction in Hong Kong, as it battered the financial hub Friday into Saturday.A glass panel fell from an office building, water gushed from broken pipes, and ...
Trees fall, scaffolding collapses as Typhoon Saola hits Hong Kong
Schools closed and flights were canceled as Hong Kong hoisted its third highest storm warning early Friday morning in anticipation of Typhoon Saola, which is expected to brush the city later in the ...
Country Garden wins bond extension in relief for China’s property sector
Country Garden has won approval from its creditors to extend payments for an onshore private bond, according to sources and a document seen by Reuters, in a major relief for the embattled Chinese ...
Explainer-Country Garden: How bad are the Chinese property developer’s debt problems?
China is grappling with a slowdown that has rattled global markets, with the spotlight now focused on troubled developer Country Garden's debt crisis in the property sector, which accounts for roughly ...
Typhoon Saola makes landfall in Guangdong after slamming Hong Kong, Macau
Typhoon Saola made landfall in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong early on Saturday as violent winds lashed nearby Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macau, leaving at least one dead and a trail of ...
Hong Kong Reopens With Flights Resuming as Typhoon Saola Departs
Hong Kong started gradually reopening Saturday after a typhoon forecast to be the strongest to hit the territory in about five years departed, leaving minimal reported damage.
Typhoon Saola leaves uprooted trees in Hong Kong
STORY: The strong winds also blew off business signs in the bustling streets of the Asian financial hub.As of 6 a.m. local time (2200 GMT Friday) Saturday, 76 fallen trees were reported, and 12 cases ...
Hong Kong should respect procedural justice, talk less about national security, says political veteran Abraham Razack in call for focus on economy
Razack questions repeated highlighting of national security threats, saying: ‘Why do we need to fear a ghost at 9pm in the middle of the day?’ ...
Hong Kong closes schools and cancels hundreds of flights as Typhoon Saola arrives
Schools and businesses closed while hundreds of flights were canceled in Hong Kong and other parts of southern China on Friday as Typhoon Saola swept close to the coast, bringing strong winds and ...
How Evergrande’s downfall signaled China’s property crisis
Hitting up employees for funds was just one of a number of unusual practices employed by the real-estate empire before it came to the brink of collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of ...
Hong Kong’s ZA Bank Becomes HashKey Exchange’s Settlement Bank to Provide Fiat Deposit, Withdrawal Services
ZA Bank has reportedly become the first settlement bank for HashKey Exchange, Hong Kong’s first licensed retail virtual asset exchange.
See the scene in Hong Kong after powerful storm sweeps close to the coast
Schools and businesses closed while hundreds of flights were canceled in Hong Kong and other parts of southern China as Typhoon Saola swept close to the coast, bringing strong winds and heavy rain in what could be the region's strongest storm in five years.
The Book Banners of Hong Kong
The Communist-leaning Ming Pao newspaper tracked 468 works with political themes and reported in May that some 40% of them had disappeared from public library shelves. Among those gone are histories of the Tiananmen Square massacre and books by Hong Kong’s pro-democracy leaders.