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Asia-Pacific shares were higher on Tuesday ahead of Australia's central bank decision and the results of a private survey on Chinese factory activity. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Monetary Authority's chief executive Eddie Yu has defended Hong Kong's currency peg to the U.S. dollar, saying it helped the city through some of its toughest economic challenges previously. ( read original story ...)

The Chinese territory is considering a range of pro-crypto measures, in contrast to the mainland’s draconian approach to digital asset regulation. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong aims to restore its reputation as a global financial hub by playing host to a bevy of top Wall Street executives this week, defying critics who say a talent crunch and geopolitical tensions ... ( read original story ...)

To top matters off, Hong Kong's financial secretary, Paul Chan Mo-po, contracted Covid last week while on a trip to Saudi Arabia to drum up investment. He delivered a video addres ... ( read original story ...)

Sam Bankman-Fried, cofounder and CEO of FTX. Hong Kong said that it would adopt a welcoming approach to digital assets on Monday as it seeks to regain its status as a global cryptocurrency hub, but ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's economy shrank faster in the third quarter, contracting 4.5% from the same period a year earlier, the third straight quarter of downturn, advance government data showed on Monday, as ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong aims to restore its reputation as a global financial hub by playing host to a bevy of top Wall Street executives this week, defying critics who say a talent crunch and geopolitical tension ... ( read original story ...)

A sedition trial opened in Hong Kong on Monday for two former top editors of a shuttered online media outlet who have been detained without bail for 10 months . ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's government has proposed allowing retail investors to trade in cryptocurrencies and crypto exchange-traded funds - a move it hopes will help it rebuild its fintech hub status. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is "back in business" and exploring whether to legalise crypto trading by retail investors, the city’s finance chief announced Monday, kicking off a week of conferences aimed at ... ( read original story ...)

Large-scale study shows positive effects of two drugs given early to patients still in the community Pfizer drug also reduces risk of patients becoming severely ill, having to be admitted to hospital ... ( read original story ...)

A judge in Hong Kong sentenced a 59-year-old Protestant pastor to more than one year in prison for sedition, making him the first Christian clergy in the city to be convicted under the draconian ... ( read original story ...)

SYDNEY: Australian police said on Sunday (Oct 30) they had seized in Hong Kong about A$1.6 billion (US$1 billion) worth of liquid methamphetamines bound for Australia, in a joint operation with Hong ... ( read original story ...)