The Financial Times said Friday that Hong Kong's government has refused to renew the work visa of its Asia news editor, in what human rights activists say is the latest sign of a deteriorating ... ( read original story ...)
Short Sellers Feast on Hong Kong Stocks as China Investors Brace
(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong’s stock market has barely ever been this bearish. Short-selling turnover soared to almost 18 percent of the total value of shares traded in the city Thursday, exchange data co... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong woman, 97, escapes unscathed after driving into HK$1.78 million Maserati then hitting Marriott Hotel wall
A 97-year-old motorist was lucky to escape unscathed after her car hit a stationary Maserati before slamming into a wall at the Marriott Hotel in Hong Kong. The incident took place at the hotel’s main ... ( read original story ...)
Should Hong Kong workers get the day off after a typhoon? Calls grow to give leader power to declare state of disaster
Hong Kong’s two rival political camps put aside their differences on Thursday to lobby the government for a law empowering the city’s leader to give workers the day off after extreme weather such as r... ( read original story ...)
Judge grants temporary ban on busking at Times Square shopping centre in Hong Kong
A Hong Kong court on Friday granted a temporary ban on street performers busking at a shopping centre in Causeway Bay. High Court judge Mr Justice Godfrey Lam Wan-ho approved the request by Times Squa... ( read original story ...)
Judge: No bail for Hong Kong man in UN-linked bribery case
NEW YORK — A United Nations-linked bribery case against a Hong Kong businessman seems stronger after a prosecutor revealed that a former co-defendant will testify at trial that Chad's president reject... ( read original story ...)
Commentary: The invisibility of the poor in Crazy Rich Hong Kong
SINGAPORE: Singapore may be the setting of the movie Crazy Rich Asians, but the Asian city that has overtaken New York as the city with the largest population of the “ultra-rich” is Hong Kong. A resea... ( read original story ...)
In Hong Kong, an early warning sign for the world’s priciest homes is flashing sell
Losses in the Hang Seng Properties Index on Thursday left the gauge of Hong Kong real estate stocks trading as much as 20 percent below its peak in January. Declines of that magnitude from major highs ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Economy Gets Stuck Between U.S.-China Trade War
Hong Kong has long marketed itself as the gateway into China for foreign businesses, especially the U.S. With a trade war now raging between the world’s two largest economies, that’s precisely the pro... ( read original story ...)
Sleeping SAA passengers targeted by Hong Kong crime syndicate during flights
Johannesburg - The notorious Hong Kong in-flight “organised criminals”, who apparently rob sleeping passengers, are believed to have been behind thefts allegedly perpetrated aboard an SAA flight this ... ( read original story ...)
Give Hong Kong chief executive power to grant workers post-typhoon day off, lawmakers urge
Hong Kong’s two rival political camps put aside their differences on Thursday to lobby the government for a law empowering the city’s leader to give workers the day off after extreme weather such as r... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Dollar Could Get All Shook Up as Cash Pool Shrinks
Prepare for even greater swings in the Hong Kong dollar and funding costs in the city, as a shrinking pool of liquidity amplifies moves in interest rates. Hong Kong’s one-week interbank borrowing cost ... ( read original story ...)
Online scammers bet it pays to be a Hong Kong politician as more fake Facebook profiles uncovered impersonating high-profile names
Hong Kong politicians are seemingly in high demand, at least among online scammers. The city’s former commerce minister Greg So Kam-leung has joined ex-lawmaker James Tien Pei-chun by becoming the sec... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong star Andy Lau voices support for land reclamation in promotional video
Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau Tak-wah has thrown his support behind an idea to reclaim 2,200 hectares of land for housing to the east of Lantau Island, in a new video by the think tank that proposed th... ( read original story ...)