On Tuesday, five former students of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) were each sentenced to almost five years in prison for their involvement in protests against the National Security Law in ... ( read original story ...)
Lucrative deals keep UK law firms in Hong Kong
Critics argue that the nine British judges who sit on Hong Kong’s top court are providing legitimacy to a regime in Beijing that has no respect for western principles of the rule of law. Yet so far ... ( read original story ...)
How This Bank’s Hong Kong Office Is Repurposing Food Waste For Urban Farms
One of DBS Bank's offices in Hong Kong is taking action on food waste, turning it into compost to grow fresh produce at its urban farm. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s reputation takes hit after national security law imposed but foreign forces to blame, Carrie Lam says
The city leader insists that foreign forces are to blame for the development, and that her government needs to do a better job of explaining the law. ( read original story ...)
How Hong Kong’s Elite Turned on Democracy
Beijing’s bludgeoning of the prodemocracy movement in Hong Kong would not have been possible without the enthusiastic help of willing collaborators. ( read original story ...)
Covid plea fails to halt Hong Kong share freeze
A Hong Kong court has granted an injunction in aid of a CIETAC claim over a share transfer that was terminated on the grounds of covid-19 and “deteriorating Sino-US relations”. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Internet Rally Gets Legs As Jack Ma Enjoys Spain
Jack Ma’s vacation in Spain is being cited as a sign regulation is loosening, though the company’s new chip for its cloud computing business is a more realistic sign. We also have Alibaba’s Singles ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong police arrest 4 on suspicion of extorting money from restaurant owner, assaulting him after he refused to pay
Men suspected to be triad members demanded victim pay protection fee while he was delivering lunchboxes to construction site in Kai Tak. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong: Govt backs HK business expansion
Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development Edward Yau today said the Government strives to support Hong Kong enterprises in developing the domestic sales market and meeting the Mainland market's ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong government keen on public to take part in US$22.5 billion green bond issuance programme
Some of the HK$175.5 billion (US$22.5 billion) bond issuances will be open to the general public to allow them ‘to reap the benefits’ of sustainable development. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Democratic Turncoats
Beijing’s bludgeoning of the prodemocracy movement would not have been possible without the enthusiastic help of Hong Kong’s ruling class. ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: scramble for Hong Kong quarantine rooms leaves several hotels fully booked for first two weeks of December
Several of Hong Kong's designated hotels for coronavirus quarantine were on Wednesday already fully booked for the first two weeks of December, even with the government boosting capacity by 1,500 ... ( read original story ...)
$1.03b earmarked to safeguard national security in Hong Kong
The Hong Kong government has earmarked an HK$8 billion ($1.03 billion) special fund for safeguarding national security in the coming few years, according to a government report submitted to the ... ( read original story ...)
Jack Ma’s Terrible Year Ends With Ant Group IPO Stuck in Limbo
A year later, with the registration for Ant’s $35 billion IPO set to officially expire Wednesday, the optimism from that gathering has faded away. Bankers say they’ve stopped ... ( read original story ...)