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CHINA has instructed state-owned firms to pause new deals with businesses linked to Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing and his family after his plan to sell two ports in Panama to a BlackRock-led consortium, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.
HONG KONG: A pro-Beijing newspaper has called on CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd to pull out from an agreement to sell its ports on the Panama Canal to a group led by BlackRock Inc, marking an escalation of a pressure campaign on billionaire Li Ka-shing over the deal.
BEIJING: Chinese authorities have increased pressure on CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd over its plan to sell its Panama ports stake by sharing a second newspaper commentary attacking the deal.
HONG KONG: A Hong Kong court rejected jailed publisher Jimmy Lai’s request to have a jury trial for his libel case against a pro-Beijing newspaper on Thursday (Oct 10), the latest setback for the activist who suffered multiple blows in other legal battles.
Over three days in January, the pro-Beijing Hong Kong newspaper Ta Kung Pao ran a series of full-page articles on the state of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism in the city.
Over three days in January, the pro-Beijing Hong Kong newspaper Ta Kung Pao ran a series of full-page articles on the state of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism in the city.
BEIJING (Bloomberg): President Xi Jinping called for Hong Kong officials to take "all necessary measures” in getting the city’s virus outbreak under control, an unusually direct intervention that could pave the way for stricter measures and possibly a broader lockdown in the Asian financial hub.
KUALA LUMPUR (The Star/ANN): Beijing will be releasing the name list of "stubborn Taiwan secessionists" for severe punitive actions amid rising Beijing-Taipei tensions, according to a report by Ta Kung Pao on Sunday (Nov 15).
China may drop quarantine for Hong Kong residents traveling into the mainland next month, according to local media reports, as the country speeds up its shift away from strict Covid control.
BEIJING: The mainland’s strategy of pooling medical resources to fight the Covid-19 epidemic has been adopted by Hong Kong’s medical system and has proved effective in reducing the number of seriously ill patients and fatalities, according to the chief executive of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority.
HONG KONG: The country is in an “all-out combat” to contain a surge in coronavirus cases, the city’s number two official said, with the ramping up of community isolation and treatment units helped by mainland Chinese construction teams.
Hong Kong is in "all-out combat" to contain a surge in coronavirus cases, the city's number two official said on Sunday, with the ramping up of community isolation and treatment units helped by mainland Chinese construction teams.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed to the Hong Kong government it must take the “main responsibility” in tackling the coronavirus pandemic, urging it to stabilise the situation as soon as possible, local pro-Beijing media has reported.
The Hong Kong Arts Centre cited a public safety clause in cancelling Ho's venue reservations for her concerts.
HONG KONG, Oct 3 (SCMP): Government inspector investigated over ‘suspected serious violation of laws and party rules’Dong Hong worked with Wang from 1998 until the latter stepped down as anti-graft tsar three years ago
HONG KONG (China Daily/ANN): The government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, civic groups and educators blasted some opposition activists and organisations over the weekend for using young students as pawns for their political gain while jeopardising the SAR’s interests.
HONG KONG: Hong Kong leader Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Monday (May 11) vowed to overhaul the city's education system, arguing its liberal studies curriculum helped fuel last year's violent pro-democracy protests.
The words had appeared next to each other on a sculpture made to resemble an origami boat made of newsprintOfficials say the changes were made to freshen up the 18-year-old sculpture, but some accuse the government of censorship
Six suspects charged in connection with Hong Kong socialite and model Abby Choi’s gruesome murder appeared in court on Monday afternoon, according to local media.
Post checks with 29 stores and finds books about Tiananmen Square crackdown are mostly goneLibraries’ action to pull titles that may flout national security law sends chill through book scene
