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The Hong Kong dollar is bumping against the top end of its narrow 7.75-7.85 band against the U.S. dollar and is among the best-performing currencies this year even as the city's economy struggles to ... ( read original story ...)

The publisher had waited nearly five years to reopen Causeway Bay Books, an independent store in Hong Kong that was forced to close in 2015 when Lam was detained in China for selling books critical of ... ( read original story ...)

A team of researchers from a Hong Kong university claim to have developed an antiviral coating they say can provide 90 days of "significant" protection against bacteria and viruses such as the novel ... ( read original story ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

Beauty Generation denied a third straight Champions Mile at Sha Tin, while Geelong-bred sprinter Mr Stunning caused a boilover in the group 1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize. ( read original story ...)

Before the pandemic, Lum Chai used to go to the park and drink beers with friends to escape his tiny living quarters. Now the 45-year-old walks the city's streets alone to kill time and keep away from ... ( read original story ...)

Before the pandemic, Lum Chai used to go to the park and drink beers with friends to escape his tiny living quarters. Now the 45-year-old walks the city's streets alone to kill time and keep away from ... ( read original story ...)

For the past month, I've been at my childhood home in New Zealand on coronavirus lockdown -- and it appears I'll be living with my parents for the foreseeable future. Until recently, I lived in my own ... ( read original story ...)

Beijing has drawn accusations it is using the distraction of the coronavirus pandemic to advance regional interests. Here are some examples ... ( read original story ...)