The chapter on China and East Asia makes this particularly clear. Hong Xiuquan (1814-64), leader of the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing dynasty, converted to Christianity when he read a tract that ...

Glance up while strolling through parts of downtown Hong Kong and, chances are, you’ll notice the glassy black lens of a surveillance camera trained on the city’s crowded streets. And that ...

Hong Kong has a free market economy, highly dependent on international trade and finance - the value of goods and services trade, including the sizable share of reexports, is about four times GDP.

Chu Kai-pong was arrested at a train station wearing a T-shirt with the slogan 'Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times' [File: Tyrone Siu/Reuters] Published On 16 Sep 202416 Sep 2024 A Hong ...

Chinese brokerages expand bank-securities transfer window in line with Shanghai Stock Exchange’s extension to streamline post-holiday trading.

Hong Kong stocks surged for the fourth day amid record trading volume, reclaiming the 20,000 floor and registering the best week in 26 years as a buying spree went into overdrive after Beijing ...

By Tiffany May Reporting from Hong Kong A judge in Hong Kong on Thursday handed down sentences to two editors in a landmark case that showed how a crackdown by China has curtailed press freedoms ...

By David Pierson and Tiffany May Reporting from Hong Kong Wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan. Scrawling pro-democracy graffiti on public bus seats. Criticizing Xi Jinping on social media.

SYDNEY, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Midea Group rose as much as 9.5% on its Hong Kong trading debut after the Chinese home appliances maker raised nearly $4 billion in the city's largest share offering in ...

Hong Kong’s beleaguered real estate market is set for some relief after the city cut its base interest rate for the first time in four years, mirroring the Federal Reserve’s policy easing. The ...