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Turnout high in Hong Kong vote seen as referendum on protest
A record number of Hong Kongers cast ballots in district council elections yesterday, seizing the first opportunity to vote after months of increasingly violent ... -
Trump claims he’s behind China restraint
President Donald Trump on Friday wouldn’t commit to signing bipartisan legislation supporting pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong as he tries to work out a ... -
Massive turnout in Hong Kong vote seen as protest referendum
Voters in Hong Kong turned out in droves today (Sunday) in district council elections seen as a barometer of public support for pro-democracy protests ... -
HK holdout protester | ‘No surrender, no regrets’
Pale and thin, a teenager wandered the nearly deserted campus of Hong Kong Polytechnic University at about 1 a.m. Wednesday. He wrapped his arms ... -
HK’s rich open more offshore accounts as backup plan, bankers say
Top bankers say Hong Kong’s wealthy are opening more offshore accounts to ensure they have an emergency escape route for their cash if the ... -
Even HK’s homegrown bankers are considering moving away
A senior banker born in Hong Kong plans to try getting a U.S. green card, just in case the city’s social unrest worsens. Two ... -
Senate passes bill to support human rights in Hong Kong
The Senate on Tuesday easily approved a bill to support human rights in Hong Kong following months of often-violent unrest in the semi-autonomous Chinese ... -
Hong Kong’s next flashpoint: the first vote since unrest began
Even as Hong Kong grapples with a violent university siege that has captivated the world, things could potentially get even worse this weekend if ... -
Masks ruling | China seen flexing legal muscles on Hong Kong
Criticism from China’s rubber-stamp parliament of a Hong Kong court decision is raising concerns that Beijing may move to flex its legal muscles and ... -
Hong Kong | Police surround last holdouts at university
About 100 anti-government protesters remained holed up at a Hong Kong university yesterday, their choices dwindling along with their food supplies as they braced ... -
Hong Kong | Police battle protesters in university siege
As night fell in Hong Kong, police tightened a siege yesterday at a university campus as hundreds of anti-government protesters trapped inside sought to ... -
Chinese troops join HK cleanup as protesters retreat
Chinese troops came out of the barracks in Hong Kong on Saturday — not to quell protests but to help clean up. It was ... -
Hong Kong protests | Officer hit by arrow; police fire water cannons
A Hong Kong police officer was hit in the leg by an arrow yesterday as authorities used tear gas and water cannons to try ... -
Hong Kong | SAR police deny curfew rumor, Xi urges end to violence
Hong Kong police warned protesters yesterday that they were moving “one step closer to terrorism” by sinking the city into chaos, as riot squads ... -
Xiamen | Chinese sea goddess Mazu ‘flies’ to Thailand for cultural exchanges
An airplane departed from Xiamen, a coastal city of Fujian Province yesterday morning, carrying a special passenger – the Chinese sea goddess Mazu (A-Ma). ... -
Residents remind gov’t of harmonious urban planning and renewal
Will the project of urban renewal follow the overall plan of the city’s urban planning?” some participants questioned the government at the last public ... -
Hong Kong mayhem | Chinese, other students flee as violence worsens
University students from mainland China and Taiwan are fleeing Hong Kong, while those from three Scandinavian countries have been moved or urged to leave ... -
Hong Kong | Police, protesters face off in renewed clashes
Police and protesters battled outside university campuses and several thousand demonstrators blocked roads as they took over a central business district at lunchtime yesterday ... -
Freedom | Is not Free Tsai support group to hold concert supporting Hong Kong
A concert supporting Hongkongers’ fight for freedom will be held in Taipei’s Liberty Square by a new political coalition backing the re-election bid of ... -
Hong Kong | Portraits of masked protesters
For many protesters in Hong Kong, identity is entwined with surveillance. Their signature masks, umbrellas and top-to-bottom black outfits shield them not only from ... -
Hong Kong under siege Police shoot protester, man set on fire
Hong Kong’s leader pledged yesterday to “spare no effort” in bringing an end to anti-government protests that have wracked the city for more than ... -
Hong Kong banks send some staff home as tear gas wafts outside
Major Hong Kong banks spent their morning telling employees to commute carefully, and by afternoon yesterday began urging them to consider going home as ... -
Bay area construction strengthened by Chinese government measures
The preferential policies and measures accorded to Macau by the Central Government of China will boost the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay, ... -
Six new HK, Macau projects accepted at Zhongshan incubator
A total of six youth innovation and entrepreneurship projects from Macau and Hong Kong have been submitted at the Nanqu International Youth Technology and ... -
Hong Kong | Court convicts teen for carrying laser pointer
A Hong Kong court ruling yesterday that a laser pointer carried by a teenager was an offensive weapon marked a tougher stance by the ... -
Hong Kong | Pro-Beijing lawmaker stabbed while campaigning
An anti-government assailant stabbed and wounded a pro-Beijing Hong Kong lawmaker who was election campaigning yesterday, police said, in another escalation of violence surrounding ... -
Companies around the world get hit by Hong Kong protests
Whether they sell luxury watches from Switzerland or farm hens from Mississippi, a surprising concern is occupying a number of corporate executives this earnings ... -
Guangdong | Carbon market closes higher
Carbon emissions allowances closed at 26.36 yuan (about 3.75 U.S. dollars) per tonne yesterday, 1.35% up from Friday, at the China Emissions Exchange (Guangzhou), ... -
Hong Kong | Police say knife-wielding attacker detained
Hong Kong police said yesterday that a 48-year-old knife-wielding man who slashed two people and bit off part of the ear of a local ... -
China vows bolstered legal measures over protests
China vowed to prevent foreign powers from interfering in Hong Kong’s affairs and carrying out acts of “separatism, subversion, infiltration and sabotage.” The latest ... -
Hong Kong | Riot police storm malls to thwart more protests
Riot police stormed several malls in Hong Kong yesterday in a move to thwart more pro-democracy protests, as the city’s leader prepares for talks ... -
Hong Kong banking giants defy dire predictions amid protests
There may be protests, wafts of tear gas and the occasional burning Starbucks along the street, but inside Hong Kong’s biggest financial firms the ... -
Stock exchange chief says China’s lack of trust hurt Hong Kong experiment
China’s plan to allow Hong Kong autonomy had “fundamental flaws” from the start because Beijing never trusted the former British colony to uphold its ... -
Hong Kong crashes into recession as protests hit economy
Hong Kong’s economy contracted sharply in the third quarter as it entered a recession, exceeding economists’ worst estimates of the damage from nearly five ... -
Hong Kong | China backs decision to exclude candidate Joshua Wong
China yesterday strongly backed Hong Kong’s move to exclude pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong from elections for local councilors, a decision seen as likely to ...
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