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HONG KONG - Asian stock benchmarks skidded lower Thursday following Wall Street's worst day in months as Washington's political chaos made investors more nervous about risky assets and the outlook for U.S. President Donald Trump's business-friendly proposals. ( read original story ...)

With its decayed walls, grotty floors and haunting corridors, Central Market is a far cry from the glitzy skyscrapers in Hong Kong's financial district. Despite being abandoned for more than a decade, the massive compound was the original landmark of ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong authorities have rejected asylum requests from refugees who harbored whistleblower and former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden in 2013. Applications from four adults and three children from Sri Lanka and the Philippines ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong authorities have rejected asylum requests from a group of refugees who sheltered Edward Snowden four years ago, in what their lawyer said is retaliation for helping the former NSA contractor. Immigration officials in the southern Chinese city ... ( read original story ...)

The families who sheltered U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden in Hong Kong need to be brought to Canada immediately while the country processes their asylum claims, their lawyers said Monday. Hong Kong-based attorney Robert Tibbo said Canada needs to take this ... ( read original story ...)

Finally Lam was released and ordered return to Hong Kong to retrieve an electronic database of customers who had purchased banned books from his shop, he said. Lam did not comply. Instead, two days after his release, he held an explosive news conference ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong businesses should team up with their mainland counterparts to invest in “non-traditional” markets under China’s go-global trade scheme, Yvonne Choi Ying-pik, Hong Kong’s commissioner for the “Belt and Road Initiative”, said on Monday. ( read original story ...)

Ciobo told Sky News that Canberra would "look and try to negotiate as comprehensive an FTA as possible over the next 12 months or thereabouts. If we can do it a little more quickly than that, that would be fantastic." Hong Kong is Australia's eighth ... ( read original story ...)

Nearly half of first-time parents in Hong Kong whose mother tongue is Cantonese spend only 15 minutes or less a day speaking in English to their children, a study has found. About two-thirds cited concerns about their command of the language as a reason ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong and mainland China are launching a long-awaited cross-border bond trading platform that further widens access to China's financial markets for global investors. Central bank officials in Hong Kong and the mainland said Tuesday ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong authorities have rejected asylum requests from a group of refugees who sheltered Edward Snowden four years ago, in what their lawyer said is retaliation for helping the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor. Immigration officials in ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong authorities have rejected asylum requests from a group of refugees who sheltered Edward Snowden four years ago, in what their lawyer said is retaliation for helping the former NSA contractor. Immigration officials in the southern Chinese city ... ( read original story ...)

When the families took Snowden into their apartments, they didn't know who he was, only finding out when they saw his face on news stands. What next? The families could now be split up and detained by the immigration authorities in Hong Kong, or face ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has rejected the asylum claims of a group who helped shelter US whistleblower Edward Snowden, their lawyers say. The asylum-seekers, from Sri Lanka and the Philippines, housed Mr Snowden for two weeks when he fled the US after leaking thousands ... ( read original story ...)