Hong Kong securities watchdog will propose a subset of tokens it would allow for retail investors' trading, its chief executive said on Wednesday, as it presses on with a new regulatory regime that…
Hong Kong will scrap its controversial COVID-19 hotel quarantine policy for all arrivals from early October, more than 2-1/2 years after it was first adopted, news portal HK01 said on Thursday,…
As Senate Republicans were blocking a bill to expand voting rights for Americans, the Chinese government was destroying Apple Daily, the pro-democracy tabloid that campaigned for greater voting…
At the end of June, theChinese Communist Partypassed a new national security law bringingHong Kongmore fully underChina'scontrol than at any time since the Qing dynasty, more than a century and a…
Hong Kong’s semiautonomous status is due to run out in 2047, 50 years after the UK transferred its powers over the city-state to Beijing. Because Hong Kong enjoyed a great degree of democratic rights…
In the months after large-scale protests first broke out inHong Konglast June,U.S.policy circles remained relatively quiet. Yet as demonstrations turned violent and rumors of aBeijing-directed…
China has been busy rising, and an alarmedUnited Stateshas been busy repositioning itself. Neither shows much interest in what is arguably the most important test now confronting China’s leadership,…
Few countries commemorate historical milestones with the zeal of the People’sRepublic of China(PRC), and 2019 offers a bonanza of celebratory opportunities: 40 years sinceDeng Xiaopinglaunched…
Massive and sometimes violent protests have rockedHong Kongfor over 100 days. Demonstrators have put forward five demands, of which the most radical is a call for free, direct elections of Hong…
For five months,Hong Konghas seen waves of massive protests and violence in the streets. And for five months, the local authorities, with the backing ofBeijing, have responded in increasingly…
Beijing would like the week to mark a historic turning point in which a unipolar world finally gave way to multipolarity. To others, it was just tub-thumping bravura. In reality, it was a bit of both.
The country now sits at an energy crossroads: will its recovery be anchored in oil and gas, or will it seize the chance to lean into renewables and build something more resilient?
After Israel dealt Iran and its regional axis a string of crippling blows last year, Lebanon now finds itself better-positioned to reclaim its eroded state sovereignty. Will it grab the chance?
Recent books from Yemen, Egypt, and Syria take a new look at the 10th-century philosopher's famed letter 'The Epistle of Forgiveness', which is said to have inspired Dante's 'Divine Comedy'
An earthquake in Afghanistan earlier this week levelled entire villages and left people trapped under rubble for days, but in the shadow of the Hindu Kush, saviours were thin on the ground