Category: Hong Kong
Hong Kong on edge before National Anthem Bill: Live updates
Hong Kong riot police fired pepper pellets to disperse protesters in the heart of the global financial centre on Wednesday, as new national security laws proposed by Beijing [...]
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Hong Kong police fire pepper pellets to disperse protests over security bill
Hong Kong riot police fired pepper pellets to disperse protesters in the heart of the global financial centre on Wednesday, as new national security laws proposed by Beijing [...]
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Coronavirus: HK’s trade declines in April, but drop-off eases slightly
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on Hong Kong’s trade, although the damage eased in April, according to latest government figures. Exports fell by 3.7 per [...]
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HK customs officers find nearly $32 million worth of cocaine packed in jet engine shipped from South America
Hong Kong customs found cocaine worth HK$246 million (US$31.7 million) hidden in an aircraft engine shipped from South America, in its biggest seizure of the drug so far this [...]
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HK’s justice chief Teresa Cheng and Law Society condemn protesters’ attack on lawyer
Hong Kong’s justice minister has expressed shock over an attack by protesters on a lawyer during Sunday’s demonstration against Beijing’s proposed national [...]
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Exclusive: Cathay Pacific’s brand merger hits roadblock from China’s aviation regulator, sources say
China’s aviation regulator may make it difficult for Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd to merge regional arm Cathay Dragon into its main brand because of [...]
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Coronavirus: HK customs arrests second core member of Demosisto party over sale of ‘Not made in China’ masks
Hong Kong customs have arrested a second core member of the localist party Demosisto for alleged violations of trade description laws over the sale of “Not made in [...]
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Beijing’s new national security law will not harm HK’s economy, infringe on residents freedoms, Lam assures
Hong Kong’s leader has rejected criticisms that Beijing’s proposed national security legislation will have significant negative consequences for the city’s [...]
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HK leader tries to reassure investors rattled by China law
China’s plans to impose a new security law on Hong Kong will not erode freedoms, the city’s leader said Tuesday, as she tried to reassure international businesses [...]
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HK teen who confessed to tossing petrol bombs over anger at government handling of protests gets 18 months’ probation
A 15-year-old boy who confessed to throwing two petrol bombs to vent his frustration with the handling of last year’s protests by the government and police was given 18 [...]
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China is moving in with national security law as HK legislature ‘has failed to deliver,’ official says
China’s central government is introducing a national security law in Hong Kong because the territory’s authorities have not been able to do it locally for over 20 [...]
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HKEAA finds 38 per cent of candidates possibly ‘misled’ into answering Japan did ‘more good than harm’ to China in scrapped history exam question
Hong Kong’s exam authority has concluded that 38 per cent of candidates were possibly “misled” into answering that Japan had done “more good than harm [...]
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Coronavirus: no new cases of Covid-19 in HK as government gives entertainment venues go-ahead to reopen
Hong Kong recorded another day without new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, while the government has announced that more entertainment venues can reopen this week and transit [...]
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HK homebuyers spooked by recession, talk of national security law forfeit $1.5 million in deposits, walk away from purchases
Nineteen Hong Kong homebuyers who put down deposits for flats at the height of a market rally around June 2018 have walked away from their purchases, forfeiting as much as [...]
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HK Bar Association questions Beijing’s legal power to enact national security law, identifies ‘problematic’ features
Beijing appears to have no legal authority to enact its proposed national security law for Hong Kong by promulgation, according to the city’s professional body of [...]
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