Hong Kong stocks slumped as investors assessed results in the U.S. presidential election, with Republican Donald Trump holding a slim lead in Florida. The offshore yuan traded near a record low. The Hang Seng Index slid 1.3 percent as of 10:11 a.m. local ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Marches Continue Against Chinese 'Intervention'
The protests are the latest in a growing division between China and Hong Kong over the city state's "one country, two systems” laws. More than a thousand lawyers staged a silent protest Hong Kong Tuesday after China intervened against two pro ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong: lawyers and activists march against Beijing 'meddling'
More than 2,000 join silent protest after China intervened in supposedly independent legal system to stop activists joining parliament More than 2,000 lawyers and activists have paraded through Hong Kong in silence and dressed in black to protest against ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong lawyers prepare protest march after China inflames political crisis
Photograph: The Asahi Shimbun/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Imag Beijing’s unprecedented eviction of two pro-independence activists from Hong Kong’s parliament has dealt a severe blow to “political extremists”, a Communist party-controlled newspaper ... ( read original story ...)
After StanChart and UBS, Hong Kong regulator warns of more IPO sponsor probes
Speaking at the Thomson Reuters Pan-Asian Regulatory Summit on Wednesday, Thomas Atkinson, recently appointed to head up enforcement at Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), said the regulator had created a temporary team dedicated to ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong jury convicts British banker of murdering two women
... convicted of murder Tuesday for killing two Indonesian women in Hong Kong, torturing one of them over three days while using cocaine in a gruesome case that shocked the Chinese financial hub. The nine-person jury returned unanimous verdicts against ... ( read original story ...)
British banker Rurik Jutting guilty of 2 grisly Hong Kong murders
A Hong Kong jury has convicted a British banker on two counts of murder in the 2014 killings of two Indonesian women in a gruesome case that shocked the Chinese financial hub. The nine-person jury returned their unanimous verdicts in the High Court on Tuesday. ( read original story ...)
Risky business for Hong Kong sex workers after killings
The killing of two young Indonesian women by British banker Rurik Jutting sent chills through Hong Kong's sex worker community -- but two years on, many say harsh economic realities leave them with no choice but to take the same risks. Renowned as a safe ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong's faith in rule of law shaken by China ruling
Hong Kong has regarded China with apprehension since its 1997 handover, but Beijing's latest intervention has shaken faith in the city's cherished rule of law, and its status as a place to do business in Asia. Its move to block two pro-independence ... ( read original story ...)
BREAKING NEWS – British banker Rurik Jutting is GUILTY of murder: £350,000-year trader faces life without parole for torturing two sex workers to death in his luxury Hong Kong …
British banker Rurik Jutting was today found guilty of the sadistic murder of two prostitutes at his Hong Kong flat. The 31-year-old faces a mandatory life sentence after being convicted at a trial that featured horrific video evidence of rape and torture. ( read original story ...)
China bars two Hong Kong lawmakers from office
BEIJING - China's top legislature effectively barred two democratically elected separatist lawmakers from taking office in Hong Kong with a ruling Monday on the city's constitution, an intervention into a local political dispute that's likely to spark ... ( read original story ...)
Anger over China Hong Kong ruling
A ruling by China's parliament that effectively bars two Hong Kong pro-independence politicians from taking office sparks outrage. Paul Chapman reports. The Chinese parliament's passing of its own interpretation of Hong Kong's Basic Law is Beijing's most ... ( read original story ...)
In rare step, China bars 2 Hong Kong lawmakers from office
BEIJING, China - China's top legislature took the rare step Monday of intervening directly in a local Hong Kong political dispute by effectively barring two legally elected separatist lawmakers from taking office, setting the stage for further turmoil in ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong faces constitutional crisis after China bans pro-democracy politicians from city council
Sixtus Leung and Yau Wai-ching, who were elected to Hong Kong’s legislative council in September, were told they had been blocked from their new roles after refusing to swear allegiance to Beijing, leaving Hong Kong to grapple with a severe legislative ... ( read original story ...)