It's going to be a short trading week for Hong Kong -- only three days. And the mainland will be closed on Friday as well. The Stock Connect is closed on Thursday and Friday. Your bloggers will be ... ( read original story ...)
Asian markets gain after Japan central bank boosts aid
BEIJING — Asian stock markets gained Monday after Japan’s central bank promised more asset purchases to shore up financial markets as investors look to central bankers to support the struggling global ... ( read original story ...)
China’s Bank Bailouts Are Even Scarier Than They Look
Acknowledging the growing balance sheet problems among small and medium lenders, China’s banking and insurance regulator says it’s working on a reform plan and will become more vigilant about ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese stocks jump as Bank of Japan enhances monetary policy easing; oil prices drop
The Bank of Japan of Monday announced on Monday an enhancement of its monetary policy easing measures to combat the hit on Japan's economy as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. ( read original story ...)
Stock Markets in Asia Rise As Investors Eye Reopenings: Live Business Updates
The loan program was meant for companies that could no longer finance themselves through traditional means, like raising money in the markets or borrowing from banks under existin ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Shares May See Renewed Support On Monday
The Hong Kong stock market on Friday ended the two-day winning streak in which it had gathered more than 185 points or 0.8 percent. The Hang Seng Index now sits just above the 23,830-point plateau ... ( read original story ...)
The Forgotten Hong Kong Flu Pandemic of 1968 Has Lessons for Today
We’re not just living through an earth-shaking pandemic.We’re living through a new crisis in which a highly virulent virus arrives at the very moment when ubiquitous media coverage, global ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s hidebound brokers face coronavirus reckoning
For more than a century, Hong Kong’s legion of stock brokerages have traded through world wars, epic market busts and the former British colony’s handover back to China. But the coronavirus pandemic ... ( read original story ...)
Dissident Hong Kong bookseller moves banned shop to Taiwan
A Hong Kong bookshop that was closed down by the Chinese authorities more than four years ago and became a symbol of the city’s disappearing freedoms has reopened in Taiwan.Lam Wing-kee was one of the ... ( read original story ...)
Hundreds in Hong Kong defy social distancing measures for pro-democracy protest
Demonstrators gathered in a Hong Kong mall on Sunday chanting pro-democracy slogans, even as Hong Kong's social distancing measures banned gatherings of more than four in public. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong police break up first large pro-democracy protest since March
Riot police in Hong Kong on Sunday forcibly dispersed a protest of about 300 people assembled in a shopping mall, the first protest to hit the city since officials imposed a four-person limit on ... ( read original story ...)
China Has a Post-Pandemic Dream for Hong Kong
Zheng Lian Mr. Lian is a former chief editor of the Hong Kong Economic Journal. Credit...Anthony Wallace/Agence France-Presse — The coronavirus epidemic may have momentarily dampened the ... ( read original story ...)
Week In Review: Akeso Stages $335 Million HK IPO For Mono-/Bi-Specific Antibodies
AkesoBio staged a $335 million Hong Kong IPO and climbed 50% higher in its first trading session. CStone Pharma announced that China's NMPA has accepted its NDA ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong police break up pro-democracy singing protest at mall
Hong Kong riot police armed with shields dispersed a crowd of 300 pro-democracy activists holding a singing protest in an upmarket shopping mall on Sunday, despite a ban on public gatherings of more ... ( read original story ...)