Tag: business

Beijing has announced it will essentially take control of Hong Kong by directly imposing a sweeping national-security law, bypassing the territory’s elected Legislative Council. Despite repeated ... ( read original story ...)

China’s plan to tighten control over Hong Kong presents the U.S. with tough choices between tolerating Beijing’s incursion on the territory’s semiautonomy and retaliating without hurting its largely ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said late on Friday the Chinese proposal to impose national security laws on Hong Kong will improve business confidence in the city and will not damage the interests of ... ( read original story ...)

New Chinese national security restrictions imposed on Hong Kong could draw a U.S. revocation of the former British colony's "special status" under U.S. law, a move that would have far-reaching trade ... ( read original story ...)

A sweeping security law signals Beijing's determination to crush pro-democracy protests at the risk of deepening its rift with the U.S. It is a bold strategy from Chinese leader Xi Jinping. ( read original story ...)

Over the course of April and throughout May, while much of the world’s attention was trained on the coronavirus’s spiraling death toll, hardly a day passed in Hong Kong without news of arrested ... ( read original story ...)

Beijing said Friday it would forego gross domestic product targets as it tries to revive its economy from the damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and that it would consider a national security bill ... ( read original story ...)

The territory’s stock market plunged amid expectations that money would soon be leaving the Asian financial hub, which faces tough new measures from Beijing and retaliation from the United States. ( read original story ...)

A new proposal would increase China's national security presence in Hong Kong and give more power to law enforcement. ( read original story ...)

Taiwan urged China on Friday to "sincerely start a dialogue" with people in Hong Kong after China proposed new national security legislation for the former British colony. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index dropped more than 3% Friday after news broke that Beijing would move to pass a hugely controversial national security law for the Asian financial hub. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong stocks fell by more than 4 percent in early Friday trading after Chinese leaders announced their plans to tighten their grip over the territory and to boost government spending to battle the ... ( read original story ...)

Shares slipped in Asia on Friday as tensions flared between the U.S. and China and as more job losses compounded the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is "very anxious, angry and frightened" about Beijing's plans for a new security law, says Emily Lau, former Hong Kong lawmaker from the Democratic Party. She calls on the international ... ( read original story ...)