On July 1, 1997, Tung Chee- Hwa, the first chief executive of Hong Kong, declared, “For the first time in history, we, the people of Hong
Protesters flooding downtown Hong Kong to stop the government’s proposed extradition law effectively presented the city’s leaders with an ultimatum: back down, or risk violent clashes that
On June 9, the march against the government sponsored extradition bill felt like a recast of the protest held on July 1 2003 against the enactment of
Hong Kong’s controversial extradition bill has at least one stock-market analyst considering a move out of the city. Gillem Tulloch, whose GMT Research Ltd.
Hong Kong-based Steve Vickers & Associates (SVA) advised businesses yesterday to evaluate their risk profiles amid growing unrest in the HKSAR and the possibility of counter protests
Goldin Financial Holdings Ltd. is dropping its successful HKD11.1 billion (USD1.42 billion) bid for a land parcel located in the Kai Tak area in Kowloon, Hong Kong, the
A local journalist from All About Macau said he was attacked by a Hong Kong police officer yesterday while interviewing demonstrators in the neighboring SAR.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill Tuesday that he and others said is the nation’s first requiring most hotels to provide their workers with wearable
A Chinese woman charged with illegally entering President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort will be allowed to act as her own attorney, a judge ruled yesterday (local
Opening statements are set today in the death-penalty trial of a former University of Illinois graduate student charged with kidnapping, torturing and killing a visiting Chinese
The meeting between acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan and his Chinese counterpart began with all the hallmarks of a routine staged and scripted session between two uneasy
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe landed yesterday in Tehran on a mission to ease tensions between the U.S. and Iran, just hours after Iranian-backed rebels
Australia’s opposition yesterday called for a parliamentary inquiry into press freedom after police raids on a media organization’s Sydney headquarters and a journalist’s Canberra home seeking
Indian authorities evacuated tens of thousands of people yesterday as a severe cyclone in the Arabian Sea approached the western state of Gujarat, lashing the coast with
House Democrats angling to spotlight damning allegations from special counsel Robert Mueller’s report are focusing today on contacts between the Trump 2016 presidential campaign and Russia.
Sheriff’s deputies in Louisiana say an alligator took a bite out of one of their patrol cars. WBRZ-TV reports deputies were called Monday to Louisiana Highway 1
Boris Yeltsin is celebrating victory as Russia’s first popularly-elected president. The 60-year-old reformer and leader of the group Democratic Russia has inflicted a heavy defeat on the
Thailand was never a real threat to the U.S. national team. Even so, the three-time Women’s World Cup champions had no desire to go easy on
CHINA Albanian police say they have arrested a Chinese man wanted in his country for illegal earnings as part of an organized crime group.
Comedian Jon Stewart scolded Congress yesterday for failing to ensure that a victims’ compensation fund set up after the 9/11 attacks never runs out of money.
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