The Wall Street Journal will shift its Asia headquarters from Hong Kong to Singapore, it said on Thursday in a letter sent to staff and seen by AFP. The US newspaper said its decision comes after other foreign firms have reconsidered their operations in Chinese financial hub Hong Kong. WSJ editor-in-chief Emma Tucker said in […]
The Grammy-winning singer will be back to bewitch Hong Kong later this year.
Hong Kong’s stock exchange indicated the bourse is open to an expanded roster of crypto exchange-traded funds, as the city’s first spot-Bitcoin and Ether products go live.
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President Theatre in Hong Kong has announced it will shut down on Tuesday, after operating in the city for more than half a century. The announcement came less than a week after another local cinema went out of business. Newport Circuit announced on Facebook last Saturday that President Theatre, which opened in October 1966, will […]
HK Express will be flying to and from Clark International Airport on a regular basis starting June 6, 2024.
WILLIAM Haggas has had great success overseas, but he is yet to have a winner in Hong Kong. “That really irks me,” said the 63-year-old Newmarket-based trainer. “We’ve had a bit of luck abroad in other places but not in Hong Kong, so I’d like to get that monkey off my back so to speak.” []
The ban of "Glory to Hong Kong" is just the latest sign of an eroding democracy in the city.
Hong Kong’s tourism minister has slammed a political commentator’s “fallacious” assertion that the city’s tourism policy had driven out high-value establishments and yielded weak economic returns. Citing tourism figures, Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Kevin Yeung said more than 760,000 tourists from mainland China crossed the border in Hong Kong over the Labour Day […]
Hong Kong police arrested five men after thwarting their attempt to rob a jewellery shop in the shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui. No property was stolen. Five men aged between 23 and 35 were apprehended at a jewellery store on Hankow Road at around noon on Tuesday, police sad. Officers seized two knives, three […]
How did UK activists outfox 700 police? Why was Hong Kong traffic stopped by ‘mini Stonehenges’? And could an octagonal treehouse and a crow’s nest really have saved a German forest? Our writer enjoys a 200-year history of resistance architectureIn his 1868 street-fighting manual, Instructions for an Armed Uprising, the French revolutionary Auguste Blanqui sets out meticulous instructions for how to build a good barricade. Such defences, he wrote, must no longer be thrown together in “a confused...