Archive for November 16th, 2019
HK’s cash pool tightens as Alibaba primes for $13 billion listing
Alibaba Group’s $13.4 billion Hong Kong listing is shrinking cash levels in the protest-wracked financial hub, with short-term borrowing costs shooting back towards a [...] » More
HK protests: traffic returns to Tolo Highway but partial reopening comes with conditions as activists issue election ultimatum
Protesters offered a “friendly gesture” on Friday, partially reopening the blocked Tolo Highway, but other major roads and tunnels remained impassable as the [...] » More
Catapults, flaming arrows: HK protesters’ medieval tech
With wooden catapults to launch petrol bombs and bows and arrows pilfered from sports departments, Hong Kong’s democracy protesters are combining new tactics with [...] » More
HK court extends online messaging ban aimed at those inciting violence, which authorities say has had ‘very real and meaningful effect’
A Hong Kong court has extended a temporary ban on publishing messages online that incite violence previously granted to the city’s embattled government, as the civil [...] » More
UK ministers threaten sanctions on HK officials
Foreign Office ministers have for the first time threatened to use new sanctions laws against individuals in Hong Kong found guilty of human rights abuses during the [...] » More
HK celebrity Cecilia Cheung praised after reposting Chinese president’s quote calling for calm amidst unrest
Hong Kong celebrity Cecilia Cheung has won praises after she reposted a quote by Chinese president Xi Jinping about the situation in Hong Kong. The quote by Xi: [...] » More
HK: protesters lift highway blockade on proviso elections proceed
Protesters in Hong Kong have cleared a highway that they have blocked since Monday as a gesture of goodwill, as political unrest paralysed the city for a fifth day in a row. [...] » More
Thousands in HK defy Xi with pro-democracy rallies
Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters defied a warning by China’s President Xi Jinping and again took to the city’s streets on Friday, as the political turmoil [...] » More
High Court denies injunction sought by Chinese University student leader to bar HK police from campus after days of clashes with protesters
A Hong Kong court has dismissed an urgent injunction application by a Chinese University student leader to bar unauthorised police from campus after the school became a [...] » More
Former UN ambassador says Taiwan will fall after HK
As violence continues to escalate in Hong Kong, former American representative to the United Nations (UN), Nikki Haley on Tuesday (November 12) urged US citizens to stand [...] » More
Is Beijing ready to step in to stop HK protests?
As this week’s major escalation of violence shows no sign of abating, a question that has hung over Hong Kong from the start of the protest movement is again weighing [...] » More
HK protests: lunchtime demonstrations extend across city with hundreds of people blocking roads
Hong Kong’s lunchtime protests expanded on Friday from the Central and Tai Koo business districts to more locations such as Causeway Bay and Wong Chuk Hang, with [...] » More
Chinese embassy backs students tearing down ‘pro-HK protest’ banners in Korea
The Chinese embassy in South Korea on Thursday defended the actions of two people, thought to be Chinese nationals, who were filmed on a university campus in Seoul taking [...] » More
Former UN ambassador says Taiwan will fall after HK
As violence continues to escalate in Hong Kong, former American representative to the United Nations (UN), Nikki Haley on Tuesday (November 12) urged US citizens to stand [...] » More
Taiwan opposition candidate calls for return to one China formula
Taiwan’s opposition presidential candidate Han Kuo-yu on Thursday (November 14) called for a return to a consensus with the mainland that there is only one China, but [...] » More
