Wall Street Journal: World: Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Market Rally Rolls On
Thursday - 04/09/2015 - 06:40 AMHong Kong stocks extended gains into a sixth day as investors snapped up cheap shares of mainland Chinese firms.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Year of the Ram Batters Hong Kong Luxury Retailers
Friday - 03/06/2015 - 02:14 AMHong Kong’s retailers are getting pinched by weak consumer demand from mainland China, with some companies reporting steep sales declines over the Lunar New Year period, driving their share prices lower.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hong Kong Shares Edge Toward Seven-Year High
Tuesday - 03/03/2015 - 06:32 AMAfter spending months in the shadow of mainland Chinese stocks, Hong Kong shares are shining again.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hong Kong Unveils Tax Relief
Wednesday - 02/25/2015 - 12:06 PMHong Kong’s government announced deeper tax cuts and handouts aimed at easing the financial burden on residents. The measures come after pro-democracy protests gripped the city late last year.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Li Ka-shing's Possible O2 Deal Would Mark New Milestone
Friday - 01/23/2015 - 08:04 PMThe potential $15 billion purchase of one of Britain’s biggest cellphone operators would be the Hong Kong billionaire’s biggest deal overseas yet, and would cement his telecommunications and infrastructure company as one of Europe’s top wireless firms.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Stakes Are High as Xi Jinping Visits Macau
Thursday - 12/18/2014 - 02:16 AM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Police to Clear Last Hong Kong Protest Site
Saturday - 12/13/2014 - 06:33 AMPolice said they would clear the last-remaining pro-democracy protest site on Monday, a largely symbolic move to reopen an area that saw few protesters throughout the occupation.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Political Generation Rises in Hong Kong
Thursday - 12/11/2014 - 12:09 AMThe legacy of Hong Kong’s 10-week-long occupation may be the awakening of a younger generation that has shrugged off apathy to fight for democracy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trial of Hong Kong Billionaire Brothers Headed for Jury
Monday - 12/08/2014 - 08:31 PMThe bribery trial of brothers Thomas and Raymond Kwok, Hong Kong billionaires, and the city’s former No. 2 official will soon go to the jury, in a case that would have transfixed this city in more normal times.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hong Kong Protests Divide Along Generations
Thursday - 12/04/2014 - 03:37 AMA day after urging Hong Kong student protesters to abandon their street occupation, the older founders of the pro-democracy group Occupy Central With Love and Peace attempted to surrender to police, who declined to arrest them.
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- Singapore Air Seeks Stake in Hong Kong Airlines
Tuesday - 03/31/2015 - 10:39 AMSingapore Airlines is in talks to buy a minority stake in short-haul carrier Hong Kong Airlines, as part of an effort to tap into China’s booming travel market.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Can Hong Kong Become Asia's Arts Hub?
Thursday - 03/05/2015 - 10:16 PMThe People’s Money: Once ridiculed as a cultural desert, Hong Kong is becoming a major destination on the global art circuit.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hong Kong Woman Jailed for 6 Years in Maid Abuse Case
Friday - 02/27/2015 - 06:45 AMA Hong Kong woman convicted of assaulting her Indonesian maid was sentenced to six years in prison, in a case that provoked protests over the treatment of migrant workers in the city.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hong Kong Civics Class Puts Beijing on Edge
Thursday - 02/12/2015 - 10:31 PMSome Chinese officials fear Hong Kong’s mandatory liberal studies class—tackling such hot-button issues as press freedom and civil disobedience—is breeding a generation of unruly and unpatriotic youths.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Piles of Cash Pour Onto Hong Kong Road
Wednesday - 12/24/2014 - 06:59 AMAn armored van spilled nearly $2 million in cash onto one of Hong Kong’s busiest roads, bringing traffic to a halt as people got out of cars and scooped up money.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hong Kong Finds No Evidence of Forex Collusion by Banks
Friday - 12/19/2014 - 10:45 AMHong Kong’s de facto central bank said it found no evidence of collusion among banks in rigging benchmarks in the $5.3-trillion-a-day foreign-exchange market.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Arrests Made as Hong Kong Police Clear Protest Site
Thursday - 12/11/2014 - 11:59 PMPolice peacefully arrested 209 pro-democracy demonstrators while clearing the city’s main protest site, effectively ending an occupation that has stretched out over more than 10 weeks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Clearance of Hong Kong Protest Site Begins
Thursday - 12/11/2014 - 12:28 AMAuthorities met little resistance as they began clearing the main Hong Kong protest site, effectively ending an occupation that has stretched out over more than 10 weeks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Occupy Central Founders to Surrender
Tuesday - 12/02/2014 - 09:58 PMThree founders of the pro-democracy protest group Occupy Central with Love and Peace called on students to end their occupation of city streets, even as student leaders vowed to continue their protests.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hong Kong Protesters Weigh Retreat
Thursday - 12/04/2014 - 12:01 PMStudent protesters demanding greater democracy for Hong Kong said they are more seriously weighing a retreat from the roads they have occupied for over two months.
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- Hong Kong Feels Drop in China Shoppers
Wednesday - 04/01/2015 - 12:01 AMA drop in mainland Chinese visitors has put a dampener on store rents in Causeway Bay, one of Hong Kong’s prime shopping districts, potentially changing up a retail mix that had catered heavily to mainland customers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - HKEx Posts Improved Results
Thursday - 03/05/2015 - 09:26 PMHong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. reported a rise in trading activity and profit in 2014 as the launch of a mutual market-access program with Shanghai proved a draw for mainland investors.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Crackdown Deals Macau a Rough Hand
Wednesday - 03/04/2015 - 12:22 AMMacau gambling revenue remained in a free fall in February, sinking 49% from a year earlier amid China’s crackdown on corruption.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hutchison Whampoa in O2 Talks
Friday - 01/23/2015 - 05:02 PMLi Ka-shing’s Hutchison Whampoa has entered exclusive talks to buy U.K. mobile-phone operator O2 from Spain’s Telefónica for potentially more than $15 billion.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hong Kong Chief Warns: Don't Test Beijing
Thursday - 01/15/2015 - 12:27 AMHong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying issued stern warnings against attempts by people, particularly students, to challenge Beijing’s authority in the city.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Thomas Kwok Found Guilty of Corruption
Friday - 12/19/2014 - 07:56 PMA jury in Hong Kong found Thomas Kwok, the co-chairman of one of Hong Kong’s biggest property developers, guilty in a corruption trial involving the city’s former No. 2 official, but found his brother, Raymond, not guilty.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - End of Hong Kong Protest Opens New Phase in Conflict
Friday - 12/12/2014 - 12:23 AMWhile the end of Hong Kong’s standoff between student democracy activists and the government raised hopes for further negotiations on election reform, both sides remained entrenched in their positions.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Macau Junket Figure Investigated
Wednesday - 12/10/2014 - 08:32 PMHong Kong has launched a money-laundering investigation into one of Macau’s top gambling-junket figures and has frozen his assets, in the latest setback for the Chinese enclave’s once-booming casino industry.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hong Kong Protest Leader Ends Hunger Strike
Saturday - 12/06/2014 - 07:48 AMJoshua Wong, one of the leaders of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests, said he had ended a hunger strike on advice from his doctor.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cathay Pacific Pilots Union Plans Work Action
Wednesday - 12/03/2014 - 09:05 AMThe pilots union at Cathay Pacific Airways has instructed its members to refuse overtime work beginning Thursday after it failed to reach a salary agreement with the Hong Kong-based airline.
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