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What the World’s Governments Are Saying About Cryptocurrencies The SFC’s move is good news for the Hong Kong crypto industry though this will not be a light touch regime, said Urszula McCormack, Hong ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) will propose a regulatory regime known as a “sandbox” for crypto exchanges, its chief Ashley Alder said on Thursday. ( read original story ...)

Tributes poured in from Hong Kong society and around the world following the news of Cha’s death. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor issued a statement while on a trip in Japan expressing her ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong National Party’s leader Andy Chan Ho-tin has applied to ask Lam and eight of her Executive Council members to refrain from taking part in the review of the party’s ban because they had comme... ( read original story ...)

The video titled “Treasures of the Heart” was directed by Chan Chi-fat and shared to Hong Kong’s official Twitter account earlier this month, Fox News reported. In it, a young woman is seen franticall... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong police have arrested an elderly man for allegedly setting his home on fire with a cigarette lighter, after about 60 residents had to be evacuated from the burning public housing block in the ... ( read original story ...)

The University of Science and Technology plans to build a campus in Guangzhou, making it the fourth Hong Kong higher learning institution to expand onto the Chinese mainland. The new facility will be ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong newspaper founded by Cha, Ming Pao Daily News, said he passed away Tuesday at a Hong Kong hospital. Cha’s novels about ancient Chinese swordsmen have sold millions and are among the most ... ( read original story ...)

In this June 18, 2007, photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Louis Cha smiles during a speech at Peking University in Beijing. Cha, a Hong Kong journalist and best-selling Chinese martial arts ... ( read original story ...)

Education sector lawmaker Ip Kin-yuen welcomed the news, saying it would give a “boost” to the development of higher education in Hong Kong. “It adds diversity to the education system,” Ip said, notin... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong private home prices fell for the second straight month in September, as a global stock market rout and an intensifying Sino-U.S. trade war soured sentiment in the ... ( read original story ...)

But dark clouds soon gathered over his candidacy as he found himself having to recant his position on independence for Hong Kong. Facing a sea of cameras, the poster boy for Hong Kong independence tol... ( read original story ...)

Only about half of Hong Kong’s hepatitis C sufferers have been formally diagnosed and just 12 per cent have received treatment, according to estimates derived from a study of 11,000 city residents. Th... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong martial arts novelist Louis Cha Leung-yung, the world’s most famous Chinese writer, has died at the age of 94. His son-in-law, Dr Ng Wai-cheong, confirmed the news Cha had died on Tuesday af... ( read original story ...)