Around 80% of Hong Kong-based investment banking staff at Credit Suisse will be made redundant starting this week, two people with knowledge of the matter said, as part of the bank's integration with ...
Students on Chinese University of Hong Kong council should have limited decision-making powers, lawmakers say
Student delegates to the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s (CUHK) council should only be allowed to participate in discussions on certain matters, lawmakers and the university council’s chair have ...
Hua Hong Semiconductor, world’s second-largest IPO this year, makes strong start on Shanghai’s Nasdaq-style Star Market
Hua Hong Semiconductor, the world's second-largest initial public (IPO) this year, made a stellar debut on mainland China's Star Market despite being issued at twice the price of its Hong Kong-listed ...
Top HSBC boss calls the U.K. ‘weak’ for taking sides with the U.S. against China
Cowper-Coles, who is also the chair at China British Business Council and a former British ambassador to Hong Kong before its handover to China in the late 1990s, made his comments following a China ...
HSBC senior official apologises for saying UK ‘weak’ over China
HSBC was accused by two influential U.S. and British lawmakers in June of contributing to the oppression of people in Hong Kong by thwarting their attempts to access pension funds in order to emigrate ...
HSBC executive apologises for saying Britain ‘weak’ for bowing to US demands
It also follows a dispute between HSBC and its biggest shareholder, Ping An Asset Management, over calls to split the company in two and have a Hong Kong-listed Asia spin-off. HSBC pushed back on the ...
Hong Kong government to appeal against court’s refusal to ban popular protest song
against the court’s refusal to ban a popular protest song at its request, renewing worries over further erosion of freedom of expression in the city HONG KONG -- Hong Kong government said Monday it ...
Gov’t launches bid to appeal court’s rejection of ban on pro-democracy protest song ‘Glory to Hong Kong’
Hong Kong has launched a bid to appeal against the court’s rejection of its attempt to ban pro-democracy protest song Glory to Hong Kong, the government has said. In a statement published on Monday ...
Survey of Hong Kong student reading habits urges schools to provide more diverse books
Inaugural study reveals that science fiction and comics are among secondary pupils’ favourite genres of books.
Hong Kong Makes New Bid to Ban Protest Song After Legal Setback
Hong Kong High Court judge Anthony Chan on July 28 had dismissed an application by the government to ban the protest song "Glory to Hong Kong", saying such a prohibition on the playing and ...
Hong Kong To Appeal Against Court Decision Not To Ban Protest Song
The Hong Kong government said on Monday it will appeal against a senior court's decision not to impose an unprecedented ban on a defiant pro-democracy anthem that emerged from the city's huge protests ...
Fukushima row: Japan ‘dumping trash on neighbours’ doorsteps’ with discharge plan, Hong Kong minister says
Environment minister Tse Chin-wan issues warning as Japanese media report dumping of waste water could start ‘between late August and early September’ Tokyo’s decision to press ahead with plan would ...
Hong Kong authorities prepare to bury whale’s carcass at decomposition site as lack of materials, workforce cause delay
"After natural decay, the whale carcass will be sent to the Ocean Park Hong Kong for research purposes," he added. Taison Chang Kai-tai, chairman of the Hong Kong Dolphin Conservation Society, said ...
Hong Kong repairman, 69, dies after elevating work platform topples over as he was fixing lights in sports centre
Police said man was conducting repairs on lighting on a elevating work platform that toppled and he fell from a height of about three metres.