Archive for June 17th, 2019
Activists push Sunday protest despite HK bill delay
Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong are planning a mass protest Sunday even after the territory’s embattled leader Carrie Lam sought to quell public anger by shelving [...] » More
Massive protests draw apology from HK leadership
Hong Kong citizens marched for hours Sunday in a massive protest that drew a late-in-the-day apology from the city’s top leader for her handling of legislation that has [...] » More
HK leader apologises as rally chokes city
About two million protesters choked Hong Kong’s streets in a powerful rebuke of a reviled extradition law, organisers said Sunday, piling pressure on the city’s [...] » More
HK leader apologises to public after massive protests over extradition bill
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam apologised to the public on Sunday with “utmost sincerity and humility” after the second massive protest in a week over a proposed [...] » More
Flowers pile up for dead HK protester
Bouquets of white flowers, written tributes and origami cranes piled up Sunday outside a high-end Hong Kong shopping mall, where a young man plunged to his death protesting [...] » More
The Latest: HK police say want to clear protesters
The Latest on protests in Hong Kong against an extradition bill (all times local): 7 a.m. Hong Kong police say they want to clear the streets of protesters Monday morning. [...] » More
Flowers and tears for ‘first martyr’ of HK protests
Many among the vast crowds that marched through Hong Kong on Sunday carried white flowers tributes to an anonymous man who had fallen to his death the previous evening after [...] » More
Business Briefs 17 Jun 2019
* The board of directors of Hung Vuong Joint Stock Corporation (HVG) has decided to sell its entire 90% stake in Hung Vuong Ben Tre Seafood Processing Co., Ltd and part of [...] » More
Taiwanese companies hit by US-China trade war lured back home by Taipei
One of Taiwan’s biggest paper manufacturers, which for the past 22 years has done most of its business on the Chinese mainland, is planning to shift the bulk of its [...] » More
HK tycoons start moving assets to Singapore as fears rise over new extradition law
Some Hong Kong tycoons have started moving personal wealth offshore as concern deepens over a local government plan to allow extraditions of suspects to face trial in China [...] » More
HK leader Carrie Lam suspends controversial China extradition bill after mass protests and violence
Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam has announced the postponement of a proposed law on extradition to mainland China that sparked widespread anger and protests. The [...] » More
The US must stand with the people of HK
As the United States engages in an increasingly heated debate over policy towards China the fight against Huawei, the trade war, talk of a new cold war the protests in Hong [...] » More
Mothers stage sit-in in HK park calling on government to withdraw extradition bill and for Chief Executive Carrie Lam to step down
At least 6,000 people, mostly mothers, according to organisers, staged a sit-in at a public park in the heart of Hong Kong’s business district on Friday night against [...] » More
Trump administration unlikely to move on HK barring dramatic escalation: US official
The Trump administration is unlikely to move to revise a 1992 act that gives Hong Kong special trade and business privileges unless there is a dramatic escalation by China in [...] » More
High points of HK’s huge protests
The embattled Hong Kong government was forced to drop plans for a bill to allow extraditions to mainland China, a divisive proposal which sparked the biggest demonstrations [...] » More
