Hong Kong protests

(Dec 24): Residents of Hong Kong are hunting for homes all over the world as tense anti-government protests look set to drag into the new year.

(Dec 23): Hong Kong’s streets returned to relative normalcy going into the Christmas holiday after a tense weekend in which a police officer drew and pointed his revolver at a protesting crowd but no shots were fired.

(Dec 20): The past 12 months have been turbulent, marked by political and economic stresses as well as climate change-related disruptions. The next 12 months are likely to be just as eventful, going by the three sets of forces that we see shaping the regi

MACAU/HONG KONG (Dec 12): Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Macau next week to announce a raft of new policies aimed at diversifying the city’s casino-dependent economy into a financial centre, according to over a dozen interviews with officials a

(Dec 12): Months of protests and a struggling local economy have hammered Hong Kong’s property stocks. Analysts are starting to see a silver lining in valuations.

(Dec 9): Hong Kong saw its biggest pro-democracy protest in months on Sunday, signaling more unrest to come in 2020 as the movement that began in June to fight China’s increasing grip on the city shows its staying power.

(Nov 20): The US Senate unanimously passed a bill Tuesday aimed at supporting protesters in Hong Kong and warning China against a violent suppression of the demonstrations – drawing a rebuke from Beijing.

(Nov 15): The US Congress should enact legislation that would suspend the special economic status Hong Kong enjoys under US law should China deploy forces to crush protests in the territory, a congressional advisory body said on Thursday.

SINGAPORE (Nov 18): “I think, from their perspectives, things only get serious when their kids can’t go to school, and they can’t get their lattes and go to yoga.” — Unnamed foreign executive, to the Financial Times, referring to the expatriate

(Nov 18): A decade of playing vigorous sports, coupled with poor sleeping and working habits, slowly resulted in a slip-disc problem for Howie Lee that required surgery.