HONG KONG, Mar 24: Hong Kong suspended use of the Pfizer vaccine Wednesday after its Chinese distributor informed the city that one batch had defective bottle lids.

HONG KONG, Mar 24: Hong Kong suspended use of the Pfizer vaccine Wednesday after its Chinese distributor informed the city that one batch had defective bottle lids.
Hong Kong’s coronavirus caseload appears to be tapering off, but the port city’s enhanced testing has revealed a new cluster among its dock workers.
HONG KONG – Books written by prominent Hong Kong democracy activists have started to disappear from the city’s libraries, online records show, days after Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the finance hub.
The US House of Representatives has approved new Hong Kong-related sanctions after Beijing imposed a security law that was condemned by countries around the world. The measure, which was passed unanimously, penalises banks that do business with Chinese officials.
HONG KONG, July 1 (Xinhua) — China’s Hong Kong celebrated Wednesday the 23rd anniversary of its return to the motherland, after a law on safeguarding national security in Hong Kong came into force Tuesday night.
Beijing, Xinhua/UNB, July 01 – China’s legislative body has adopted the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
Pro-democracy figures have described the security law as a “death knell” for Hong Kong. They worry that the law will “utterly change” the lives of millions in a newly created “puppet city” for mainland authorities.
Taiwan’s president Tsai ing-wen promised to provide the people of Hong Kong with the “necessary assistance” as tension in the city rises over China’s new national security law.
Bangladesh’s economy will surpass that of Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore with its presence as the 30th largest economy in the world by 2024, says a global report released by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR).
The crash of a double-decker bus in Hong Kong killed at least four people and injured more than 20, emergency services said.
WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 28, 2019 –AP/UNB – President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed two bills aimed at supporting human rights and pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong.
Beirut, Oct 27 (AP/UNB) — In Hong Kong, it was a complicated extradition dispute involving a murder suspect. In Beirut, it was a proposed tax on the popular WhatsApp messenger service. In Chile, it was a 4-cent hike in subway…
Hong Kong, Oct 2 (AP/UNB) — Heads bowed and dressed in black, schoolmates of a teenage demonstrator shot at close range in the chest by a Hong Kong riot officer condemned police tactics and demanded accountability Wednesday.
Hong Kong, Aug 30 (UNB/AP) — A pro-democracy group in Hong Kong said one of its leaders, well-known activist Joshua Wong, was arrested Friday morning. Wong was pushed into a private car as he was heading to a subway station…
Hong Kong, Aug 16 (AP/UNB) — Hong Kong’s government announced tax cuts and higher social spending Thursday to reverse a deepening economic slump aggravated by anti-government protests and the U.S.-Chinese tariff war. The territory’s financial secretary, Paul Chan, cut this…
A French climber known as “Spiderman” has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper and put up a banner urging peace in the city rocked by political unrest. Alain Robert unfurled a banner showing a handshake and the flags of Hong Kong…
Indonesia has returned seven shipping containers of illegally imported waste to France and Hong Kong, an official said Tuesday, marking the latest move by a Southeast Asian nation to send back rubbish to their wealthy places of origin. The containers…
Hong Kong, Jun 15 (AP/UNB) -Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has said she will suspend a proposed extradition bill indefinitely. Lam told media Saturday she took the move in response to widespread public unhappiness over the measure, which would…
China on Tuesday opened the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge linking Hong Kong to the mainland, a feat of engineering carrying immense economic and political significance.
A range of speakers will showcase innovative solutions to the global crisis of plastics in our oceans at a landmark Ocean Summit in Hong Kong later this month. As part of the territory’s first ever involvement with the Volvo Ocean…
Hong Kong and Shanghai stocks opened higher on Tuesday on hopes the Chinese government will soon announce a date to link trading between the Shenzhen and Hong Kong bourses, and after a strong lead from Wall Street. The Hang Seng…