Hong Kong-listed shares of HSBC and Standard Chartered rose on Thursday after the banks backed China's imposition of a national security law on the city, even as a pro-democracy and newly formed ... ( read original story ...)
On Tiananmen Anniversary, Hong Kong Protesters Brace for Their Chinese Crackdown
China has gobbled up the territory's freedom, undeterred by protests and international condemnation. Who's next? ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Marks Tiananmen Crackdown Despite Virus Vigil Ban
Hong Kong marked China's deadly Tiananmen crackdown on Thursday, with candle-light ceremonies set for the evening across the city after authorities banned a mass vigil at a time of seething anger over ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong-Beijing security law tensions are a ‘slow-speed train wreck in action,’ says CEO
Businesses in Hong Kong need to brace themselves for the turbulence ahead as Beijing moves to reassert its control over the city with its planned national security law, says Steve Vickers, CEO of ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong marks Tiananmen massacre for what many fear will be the last time
When protests broke out in Beijing and other cities across China in early 1989, many in Hong Kong were exhilarated. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong to light candles across the city to mark Tiananmen anniversary
The anniversary strikes an especially sensitive nerve in the semi-autonomous city this year after Beijing's move last month to impose national security legislation in Hong Kong, which critics fear ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Confident Dollar Peg Will Survive U.S.-China Tension
Hong Kong wants to send a clear message to its residents and the world: its currency peg isn’t in doubt, despite the city being increasingly caught up in tensions between Beijing and Washington.Focus ... ( read original story ...)
Australia will ‘continue to welcome’ Hong Kong residents as calls mount to match UK’s offer of safe haven
MPs urge the government to help people fearing China’s planned security laws ... ( read original story ...)
Expect Hong Kong business sentiment to improve as the ‘worst’ period is over: Link REIT CEO
George Hongchoy, CEO of Link Asset Management, which manages Asia's largest real estate trust based in Hong Kong, bolsters expectations of a pick-up in business activity as he predicts the worst times ... ( read original story ...)
HSBC’s Top Asia Executive Backs China’s Hong Kong Security Law
HSBC Holdings Plc’s top executive in Asia has come out in support of a controversial national security law drafted by China’s central government for Hong Kong. Stephen Engle reports on "Bloomberg ... ( read original story ...)
For Hong Kong, Tiananmen Looms Over the Future
In early 1989, change seemed unstoppable in Beijing. That it wasn’t, that China would push back with fury, casts a large shadow over Hong Kong today. ( read original story ...)
Trump says not mulling sanctions on China’s Xi over Hong Kong
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was not considering placing sanctions on Chinese President Xi Jinping personally over China's push to impose national security legislation in Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)
British banks back Beijing’s Hong Kong security law
HSBC and Standard Chartered have backed China’s controversial imposition of a national security law on Hong Kong in a move likely to infuriate ministers in London.Peter Wong, HSBC’s senior executive ... ( read original story ...)
China’s crackdown on Hong Kong spooks western law firms
Among the large number of lawyers working for western law firms based in China, two anniversaries will be on their minds: 31 years ago today the Chinese government brutally quashed student protests in ... ( read original story ...)