Chinese President Xi Jinping swore in Hong Kong's new leader on Saturday with a stark warning that Beijing won't tolerate any challenge to its authority in the divided city as it marked the 20th anniversary of its return from Britain to China. Police ... ( read original story ...)
China’s Xi: No tolerance for subversion in Hong Kong
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned Saturday that any activities in Hong Kong seen as threatening China's sovereignty and stability would be "absolutely impermissible," employing some of his harshest language yet against burgeoning separatist sentiment in ... ( read original story ...)
The Latest: Thousands on Hong Kong streets for annual march
An annual protest march has begun in Hong Kong, hours after Chinese President Xi Jinping wrapped up his visit to the city by warning against challenges to Beijing's sovereignty. Thousands of protesters joined the rally organized by a pro-democracy ... ( read original story ...)
Reinvention or regrets? Hong Kong faces a fork in the road
Number two in flows of goods, services, and finance, says the McKinsey Global Institute. Our students are among the highest performers in the world. Hong Kong students ranked second in mathematics and reading, and ninth in science, in the widely regarded ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong was supposed to be a world financial capital in a communist system. Contradiction?
From the beginning, the idea that capitalist Hong Kong could remain a thriving, prosperous city under Communist China may have been a tale doomed to an unhappy ending. But as this city marks the 20th anniversary of its return to China’s control after 156 ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong home prices hit record high as Xi praises government on housing
and technology and innovation," Xi told dozens of Hong Kong's senior officials on Thursday evening, in comments carried by local television. Making housing more affordable in the Asian financial hub, one of the most expensive property markets in the world ... ( read original story ...)
‘Vicious cycle’: Could Beijing’s heavy hand push Hong Kong protests too far?
He has filed stories from every continent for CBC News. Instagram: @sasapetricic Stroke by stroke, the white paint goes on thick against the black cloth spread on a Hong Kong rooftop. The Chinese characters are bold, and so are the accusations against the ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s ‘handover kids’ feel growing unease over China’s influence
Chung Yick is one of Hong Kong’s handover kids – he was born in 1997, the same year China took control of his home city from Britain, putting an end to more than 150 years of colonial rule. This Saturday marks 20 years from the day that handover was ... ( read original story ...)
TABLE-Hong Kong’s drawndown mortgage loans in May rise 33.5 pct m/m
June 30 New mortgage loans drawn down in Hong Kong totalled HK$28.3 billion ($3.63 billion) in May, up 33.5 percent from a month earlier, Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) data showed on Friday. Following is the breakdown of data from the authority: 2017 ... ( read original story ...)
Asia share sales on growth path, Hong Kong to reclaim top spot in IPO rankings
HONG KONG Share sales in Asia ex-Japan have picked up pace this year and are set to rise sharply in the coming months, with $10 billion listings from two Chinese firms expected to reinstate Hong Kong as the world's top IPO destination, bankers and analysts ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong activists released after handover protest
Hong Kong police have released several activists detained for staging ... They have not been charged, reported AFP news agency. Their protest was the second one this week at the monument - activists had earlier draped a large black flag over the sculpture ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong after the handover: 2 decades of Chinese rule
Hong Kong marks the 20th anniversary of the end of British rule this Saturday. The Asian financial hub was handed over to mainland China on July 1, 1997, after spending more than 150 years as a British colony. It has been a tumultuous two decades. ( read original story ...)
China flexes military muscle in Hong Kong during Xi’s visit
President Xi Jinping inspected troops based in Hong Kong on Friday as he asserts Chinese authority over the former British colony China took control of 20 years ago. Xi rode in an open-top jeep past rows of soldiers lined up on an airstrip on his visit to ... ( read original story ...)
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Hong Kong as protesters arrested
Huge security operation Much of Wan Chai, a bustling business district in the city center where Xi will stay, is on partial lockdown, with 300, 2-ton barricades erected on roads around the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. The venue will host ... ( read original story ...)