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Self-professed ‘fangirls’ defend China from HK protesters and the world
For Li Mo, the footage of black-clad people clashing with police and vandalizing storefronts proved the final straw. The images of Hong Kong protesters ... -
Hong Kong | Carrie Lam unbowed after massive weekend protest
Hong Kong’s leader yesterday again ruled out further concessions to protesters who marched peacefully in their hundreds of thousands this past weekend, days before ... -
Guangzhou | Former senior provincial official sentenced for graft
Qian Yin’an, a former senior official in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, was sentenced to 14 years in prison yesterday by a Guangzhou court for ... -
Guangzhou | Belt and Road bar association founded to improve legal services
The Belt and Road International Lawyers Association was launched by the All China Lawyers Association (ACLA) in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province. The association ... -
Briefs | Special inspection for delta bridge ahead of Xi’s arrival
Zhuhai’s security department has started a special security inspection at the eastern artificial island of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HKZMB), according to an announcement ... -
Hong Kong | Injured journalist seeks answers from police
More than two months after being blinded in one eye by what she believes was a projectile fired by riot police, Indonesian video journalist ... -
Hong Kong | Police sound alarm over homemade explosives
Hong Kong’s much-maligned police force provided a rare behind-the-scenes look last week at its bomb disposal squad to show the potentially deadly destructive force ... -
Biggest HK protest in months signals more unrest in 2020
Hong Kong saw its biggest pro-democracy protest in months Sunday, signaling more unrest to come in 2020 as the movement that began in June ... -
HK residents living with tear gas worry of effects
By day, the small commercial kitchen in a Hong Kong industrial building produces snacks. At night, it turns into a secret laboratory assembling a ... -
Hong Kong | Embattled airline plans injection, will pay staff today
Embattled Hong Kong Airlines said it has drawn up an initial plan for a cash injection and will pay staff who had their salaries ... -
IMF advises Hong Kong should boost spending to save economy
The International Monetary Fund urged Hong Kong’s government to boost spending to support the territory’s convulsing economy, citing a range of risks from trade ... -
Survey shows HK economy on course for weakest quarter in 21 years
A private survey showed Hong Kong economy is on course for the weakest quarter in 21 years in the fourth quarter of 2019. The ... -
Hong Kong | Carrie Lam promises new round of economic relief measures
Hong Kong’s leader pledged more relief measures in the wake of data showing that the city’s unrest drove a record decline in retail sales. ... -
Censorship | HK economist says his views on China cost him his job
A local Hong Kong economist said he was asked to leave his job at a mainland Chinese-owned bank, in the latest example of political ... -
Briefs | Three remain missing in Guangzhou ground collapse accident
Three people who were trapped in a sudden ground collapse accident in Guangzhou remain missing, according to local authorities. The cave-in occurred on ... -
Chinese yuan planned to flow freely in GBA by 2022
The Chinese yuan is planned to flow freely in the entire Greater Bay Area by 2022, according to Carol Lao, deputy director of ... -
Macau-Zhuhai joint fireworks show promises tech innovation
The Macau SAR government and the Zhuhai Municipal People’s Government will stage their first joint fireworks show together above the sea area in front ... -
HK awaits ‘enormous’ retail hit as chaos cripples economy
Hong Kong is counting the economic cost of almost six months of political unrest, with the city expected to post its first budget deficit ... -
Hong Kong Airlines given one week to save its license
Hong Kong Airlines Ltd., the city’s only other competitor to Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd., is fighting for survival just as the busy Christmas ... -
Silver-haired elders join youth in fight
Hundreds of silver-haired activists joined young Hong Kong protesters for a unity rally Saturday, vowing that their months-long movement will not fade away until ... -
Hong Kong | New wave of pro-democracy rallies cut short by police
Thousands of people took to Hong Kong’s streets yesterday in a new wave of pro-democracy protests, but police fired tear gas after some demonstrators ... -
Furious, China summons US ambassador over HK bills
China reacted furiously yesterday to President Donald Trump’s signing of bills on Hong Kong human rights, summoning the U.S. ambassador to strongly protest and ... -
Former Hong Kong leader says protests won’t force China’s hand
Hong Kong’s controversial former leader said it was “senseless” to think mass protests could force Beijing’s hand, amid months of increasingly violent rallies against ... -
Markets | HK stock’s 78% collapse adds to wave of sudden crashes
A third Hong Kong stock in less than a week lost most of its value in a sudden one-day plunge, underscoring concern that the ... -
Goldman says time to buy shares in beleaguered MTR
MTR Corp. is poised to recover quickly when Hong Kong’s situation eventually settles, after months of protests in the city saw its passenger numbers ... -
Hong Kong | Cross-Harbour Tunnel reopens as campus siege nears end
A major tunnel in Hong Kong reopened yesterday as a weeklong police siege of a nearby university appeared to be winding down, closing ... -
Zhuhai-Shenzhen link plan revealed
The Zhuhai government has announced plans for a Shenzhen-Zhuhai bridge, suggesting that a bridge crossing the Lingding Channel will be built to connect the ... -
Macau signs pact with HK on avoidance of double taxation
China’s special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau have signed a comprehensive avoidance of double taxation arrangement, it was announced this week. Under ... -
Over 700 tonnes of smuggled frozen meat seized in Guangdong
More than 700 tonnes of smuggled frozen meat was seized in several cases by customs in Guangdong Province, local authorities said late last week. ... -
Hong Kong leader offers no new concessions, risking more violence
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam didn’t make any new concessions to protesters after pro- democracy forces won a landslide in local elections, a move ... -
Besieged HK university finds only one person in search
A Hong Kong university team looking for protesters still hiding after a 10-day siege by police only found one person after six hours. Alexander Wai, ... -
Hong Kong | Stocks rally on election calm
Hong Kong stocks climbed after pro-democracy candidates swept the board in district council elections, putting pressure on the city’s government to address issues that ... -
Hong Kong pro-democracy forces bolstered by landslide election win
Hong Kong residents handed an overwhelming victory to pro-democracy candidates in a vote for local district councils on Sunday, a stunning repudiation of the ... -
HK families protest police use of tear gas
Chanting “No more tear gas,” dozens of Hong Kong families with young children marched Saturday to oppose the government’s handling of pro-democracy protests on ... -
Seige of Polyu | Once a protest fortress, HK campus quiet
Overturned chairs. Empty plastic bottles scattered around. Food leftovers rotting in the canteen. Most of the protesters who took over the Hong Kong Polytechnic ...
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