Government agents assigned at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport have seized a Hong Kong-bound shipment of cocaine worth more than ... ( read original story ...)
SCMP picks Catherine So as chief executive, tapping Hong Kong media and tech veteran to run one of Asia’s oldest English newspapers
Liu, who has led the newspaper for five and half years, fundamentally transformed one of Asia’s oldest newspapers into a 21st-century information product that reacted to news events and responded to ... ( read original story ...)
25 years on, Hong Kong SAR shines brighter with world-beating performance
On July 1, 1997, China resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was established. Since its return to the motherland, Hong Kong has been on a ... ( read original story ...)
New textbooks say Hong Kong wasn’t British colony
New textbooks for Hong Kong schools will state the territory was never a British colony, local media report.Instead, the books declare the British "only exercised colonial rule" in Hong Kong - a ... ( read original story ...)
Alibaba leads Hong Kong stocks to best gain in a week as China data shows traction in recovery before Fed rate decision
New reports on China’s economic pulse beat market consensus, helping calm the market roiled by concerns about the most aggressive Fed tightening since 1994. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Bars See Mass Cancellations Ahead of New Testing Rule
Hong Kong’s bar and nightclub owners were caught off-guard when government officials announced that their patrons would have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test in order to enter, starting in ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines to launch first scheduled commercial flight to Bangkok in July, fleet expansion plans on hold amid Covid border measures
Chief Algernon Yau tells Post carrier 'cannot wait too long' to get planes up in the sky Fledgling airline was set up in the middle of pandemic and has faced delays and hiring challenges, but 'remains ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong reports 1,047 new coronavirus infections
Hong Kong reported 1,047 new COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, the first time the daily tally has topped 1,000 since mid-April, as cases crept up ahead of celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the ... ( read original story ...)
Was Hong Kong a colony? Not according to new textbooks, a newspaper says
New textbooks approved by Beijing contend the territory was never a British colony. The reason: China never recognized the treaties that ceded it to Britain. ( read original story ...)
RMB treasury bonds worth 7.5 bln yuan issued in Hong Kong
China's Ministry of Finance issued this year's first batch of renminbi treasury bonds in Hong Kong on Wednesday, according to a statement on its website. The first batch worth 7.5 billion yuan (about ... ( read original story ...)
New Hong Kong textbooks ‘will claim city never was a British colony’
School books will reportedly say China never recognised the treaties that ceded it to colonial powers during opium wars ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong ranks 5th in list of world’s most competitive economies, climbing 2 spots over improved performance amid Covid
Hong Kong has climbed two places this year to reclaim the fifth spot in an annual global ranking of the world’s most competitive countries and regions, on the back of improved economic performance ... ( read original story ...)
Why rising interest rates are bad news for Hong Kong’s housing market
Hong Kong’s homebuyers should be mindful of the impact of the upward cycle of interest rates in the US as local banks are likely to follow suit, thus reducing the appeal of the city’s property assets, ... ( read original story ...)
HKMA Buys HK$9.255 Billion From Market as Currency Hits Weak End of Trading Band
Hong Kong's de-facto central bank bought HK$9.255 billion ($1.18 billion) from the market in New York trading hours to stop the local currency weakening and breaking its peg to the U.S. dollar. The ... ( read original story ...)