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BREAKING: Hong Kong postpones legislative election citing Covid-19
Hong Kong is to postpone September’s legislative election by one year owing to a resurgence in untraceable coronavirus cases, Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on Friday. The leader will invoke the Emergency Regulations Ordinance to hold off the vote – a decision she said was supported by Beijing. “The announcement I have to make today …
New York Times moving some staff out of Hong Kong as security law brings media chill
In announcing that it would move its Asia digital news operation — roughly one third of its staff in Hong Kong — to Seoul, the Times said the security law meant it was “prudent to make contingency plans and begin to diversify our editing staff around the region.” The new legislation, which came into force …
Hong Kong security law: China says says 600,000 people may have broken it
More than 600,000 people took part in the vote over the weekend, designed to narrow down the number of pro-democracy candidates in September elections to the city’s legislature. Similar efforts have been tried in previous years, but this was the most organized yet, as the opposition aims to seize a historic majority in spite of …
BREAKING: Hong Kong police raid office of pro-democracy camp primary election co-organisers PORI; seize PCs
Hong Kong police have reportedly raided the Public Opinion Research Institute (PORI) office in Wong Chuk Hang. The polling organisation is a co-organiser of this weekend’s primary legislative election for the pro-democracy camp. Officers entered the premises on Friday evening and took away PCs, according to StandNews. The officers said they had a warrant, accusing …
Traders Skeptical That Trump Will Break Hong Kong’s Dollar Peg
(Bloomberg) — A proposal by some of Donald Trump’s advisers to undermine Hong Kong’s currency peg was met with skepticism by traders and analysts, who said such a move would be difficult to implement and risk hurting U.S. interests as much as it would punish China. Doubts that the idea would gain traction within the …
Following controversial national security law, TikTok is leaving Hong Kong
“In light of recent events, we’ve decided to stop operations of the TikTok app in Hong Kong,” a TikTok spokesperson confirmed to CNN Business. The news was first reported by Reuters. It is unclear when TikTok — which is owned by Beijing-based startup ByteDance — will exit Hong Kong, and what that will mean for …
New security law starts to break down Hong Kong’s pro-democracy economy
HONG KONG (Reuters) – As soon as Hong Kong’s new national security law came into force last week, Ivan Ng removed all the protest-themed paintings, posters and flags from the list of items for sale at his Onestep Printing shop. FILE PHOTO: Memo papers with protest slogans are seen outside a “yellow” restaurant, a business …
Hong Kong officials ‘very disappointed’ at Canada’s move to suspend extradition pact
Pedestrians walks past a government-sponsored advertisement promoting a new national security law on June 30, 2020 in Hong Kong, China. Billy H.C. Kwok | Getty Images Senior officials in Hong Kong said on Saturday they were “very disappointed” at Canada’s decision to suspend its extradition treaty with the Chinese-ruled city and again slammed Washington for “interfering” in its affairs. …
Details of China’s national security law for Hong Kong unveiled | Hong Kong protests News
A controversial national security law imposed by China on Hong Kong has come into force, punishing crimes of secession, sedition and collusion with foreign forces with terms of up to life in prison. Beijing says the law is necessary to deal with separatism and foreign interference, but critics fear the legislation, which was approved in …