Hong Kong police fired pepper spray and protesters threw bottles and road cones in clashes near China’s representative office on Sunday night where activists had gathered to demonstrate against Beijing’s attempts to stop a fledgling independence movement. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong police use pepper spray in China oath-taking protest
It added that it should deter advocates of Hong Kong independence, as their actions were a threat to national security, state news agency Xinhua reported. Some demonstrators scuffled with police in front of the office of China's representative in the ... ( read original story ...)
Thousands in Hong Kong Protest Beijing Intervention
The Standing Committee of China's rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress, said in a statement that Beijing could not afford to do nothing in the face of challenges in Hong Kong to China's authority, the official Xinhua News Agency ... ( read original story ...)
China Says It Must Act to Deter Hong Kong Separatism
The Standing Committee of China's rubberstamp legislature, the National People's Congress, said in a statement that Beijing could not afford to do nothing in the face of challenges in Hong Kong to China's authority, the official Xinhua News Agency reported ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Airlines the atest new airline to land in Auckland
which last week sold some return Auckland-Hong Kong fares for $750 return, will compete against established carriers Cathay Pacific and Air New Zealand on the route. Cathay has just introduced a new plane on the route and recently dropped business class ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong lawmakers-elect who called for independence threatened China's security: state TV
The parliamentary meeting in Beijing ends on Monday, the state news agency Xinhua said. Earlier in the day, the Communist Party's top newspaper, the People's Daily, ran an editorial that said anyone "who splits the nation or promotes 'Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong is trying to prick its housing bubble
Hong Kong’s top official has raised the property stamp duty for the second time in three years to dampen soaring real estate prices in the world’s least affordable city, ahead of an election campaign where housing affordability is likely to be a ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Monetary Authority issues licences to eight more stored-value service providers
A law came into effect last November to regulate the previously unsupervised electronic payment business. Providers were given one ... He said this would not pose a threat to Hong Kong’s payment or financial systems. Cheng said “several companies ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong stocks continue to slide amid US election uncertainty
Hong Kong stocks continued to decline, reaching a near three-month low at Friday’s close, after the US market logged its longest losing streak since the global financial crisis as fears lingered over the US election. The Hang Seng Index closed down 0.18 ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong officials meet crab traders to better understand business in wake of tainted product scare
Food safety authorities met hairy-crab traders on Friday for the first time after officials were accused of being ignorant of how the business operates. The Centre for Food Safety met some of the distributors after two hairy crab samples, which came from ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong firms urged to work harder as social and governance compliance deadline looms
As the first ever deadline draws closer for Hong Kong’s listed firms to comply with their obligation to make disclosures on their environment, social and governance (ESG) policies, a study showed that they need to work harder to ensure compliance. ( read original story ...)
Friday Flyday: Hong Kong to Tokyo-Narita on ANA
Welcome on board my trip from Hong Kong to Tokyo-Narita on ANA. The 767-300s flying the route offer the carrier’s regional business class product which is not especially modern (recliner seat, relatively small IFE screens), but it is also a reasonably ... ( read original story ...)
Women's trip to Hong Kong will explore Chinese business
Women's trip to Hong Kong will explore Chinese business GEM2016 Travelling Mastermind, a nusiness expedition to Hong Kong, will provide female executives considering of trade with China Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: http://mycj.co/2fnUZiv ( read original story ...)
British banker in HK "needed cocaine boost" for courage to torture, kill
He explained how Jutting was involved in a "battle of wills" with the auditor and was asked by his boss to "calm down, have a quiet year and was pushed to a different part of the business" before being sent to Hong Kong in 2013. "That kind of setback of ... ( read original story ...