Archive for June 18th, 2019
China earthquake kills 12, injures 134
The toll from a strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake in southwest China rose to 12 dead and 134 injured on Tuesday as rescuers pulled bodies and survivors from wrecked buildings. [...] » More
Business Briefs 18 Jun 2019
* Vietnam Vegetable Oils Industry CorporationJoint Stock Company (VOC) has announced its business plan for 2019 targeting net revenue of VND4 trillion and pre-tax profit of [...] » More
Asian shares mostly higher as investors look ahead to Fed
Asian shares were mostly higher Monday amid a wait-and-see attitude about the direction of interest rates and the trade dispute between the US and China. Japan’s [...] » More
HK leader fights for political life after bill fiasco
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam steadily climbed her way up bureaucratic ranks to capture the top position in the former British colony, relying on sheer intelligence, [...] » More
HK extradition bill: Financial Secretary Paul Chan says city economy is ‘stable and orderly’ despite protests
Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po has said the recent tense social atmosphere had inevitably affected some aspects of the economy and livelihood, even though Hong [...] » More
Hundreds Of Thousands Of HK Protesters Demand Leader’s Resignation
Hong Kong’s top official, Carrie Lam, apologised to the city’s residents on Sunday night, saying in a statement that the government’s [...] » More
HK democracy activist Joshua Wong freed from jail, vows to join mass protests
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong walked free from prison on Monday after serving nearly five weeks for contempt of court, pledging to join a mass protest movement [...] » More
HK police ‘threatened, bullied and snubbed’ in public backlash against force’s handling of extradition bill protests
Hong Kong police have been publicly scolded, rejected by other departments and given the cold shoulder in restaurants, as well as subjected to bullying and intimidation [...] » More
HK police begin to clear streets of protesters
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
Protest against controversial extradition bill casts shadow on HK’s largest property sales since early May
Property sales were disappointing on Sunday in Hong Kong’s biggest offering since early May, as buyers stayed away amid huge protests in the city against a proposed [...] » More
Trump to raise HK protests with Xi at G20: Pompeo
US President Donald Trump will discuss the mass protests in Hong Kong with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the upcoming G20 summit, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said [...] » More
When it’s hard to be humble: Carrie Lam’s harsh style even when backing down on HK extradition bill fuels public anger
In announcing her decision to suspend the much-despised extradition bill, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor promised to be “humble” but insisted she was [...] » More
HK is not China yet, but that feared day is coming ever nearer
Hong Kong has become a place whose present is unresolved and whose future is unimaginable. After the unexpected violence of the last week, no one can predict how the events [...] » More
HK police clear streets as protesters move to park
Protesters in Hong Kong left the streets, averting possible clashes Monday after haggling for hours with police by moving to areas near the city’s government [...] » More
HK makes history as black sea of protesters denounce city’s leader and Beijing
In Hong Kong’s biggest protests since Britain handed this former colony back to China in 1997, organisers said nearly 2 million people took to the streets Sunday to [...] » More
