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'Lucky' car number plate with letter 'R' sells for HK$25 million at auction in Hong Kong

A personalised car number plate featuring just the letter "R" has fetched more than HK$25 million (US$3.18 million) at a government auction, the second highest paid in Hong Kong.

Bangkok Post

‘Please don’t forget us’: Manchester's newest residents bringing their uncomfortable new reality to the masses

'A Bouffon Play About Hong Kong' touches on the stories of the new Manchester community and the lives they've left behind

Manchester Evening News

MSCI Adds 17 and Drops 13 China Stocks From Two Indexes

Haichang Ocean Park falls 10% in Hong Kong on news it will fall out; additions include Hainan Airlines, Hainan Airport and Offcn Education Tech

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Indonesian domestic worker wins compensation for abuse in Hong Kong

Hong Kong (AFP) - An Indonesian woman who was beaten and burned by her former Hong Kong employers was awarded more than $110,000 in damages on Friday.

AFP

India drops Covid test requirement

NEW DELHI: India will drop the pre-departure Covid test requirement for travellers coming from or via Thailand, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand and Japan from Monday, the health ministry said, as Covid-19 infections have fallen sharply globally.

Bangkok Post

India to drop pre-departure COVID tests for travellers from China, other countries

India will drop the pre-departure COVID test requirement for travellers coming from or via China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand and Japan from Monday, the health ministry said, as COVID-19 infections have fallen sharply globally.

Reuters

Hong Kong's Lee faces stern test over $3.4 billion bid to ease housing shortage

A flagship $3.4 billion plan by Hong Kong to build temporary housing to ease a massive shortage is facing fierce criticism over its high cost and the absence of a longer-term solution in one of the world's most unaffordable property markets.

Reuters

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Asian markets follow Wall St down as rate hike fears persist

Hong Kong (AFP) - Asian markets fell Friday, tracking another loss in New York as interest rate hike fears course through trading floors after last week's blockbuster jobs report.

AFP

FWD subsidiary introduces customisable health package

FWD Life Insurance, a Thai unit of the Hong Kong-based insurance group, is launching a new customised insurance model that offers Thais joint coverage with their family members that can also include treatment for mental health conditions.

Bangkok Post

China Offers More Flexible Visas for Professionals in the Greater Bay Area

Under new system starting Feb. 20, those who qualify can stay four times as long on multiple visits to Hong Kong and Macao

Caixin Global

Two Hong Kongers given five years for inciting subversion

Hong Kong (AFP) - A Hong Kong judge sentenced two members of a pro-independence group to five years in prison on Thursday, insisting there would be zero tolerance for advocating violent resistance to China.

AFP

Markets fall as Fed officials flag rates to go higher for longer

Hong Kong (AFP) - Markets mostly fell Thursday on the prospect of US interest rates going higher, and for longer, as officials try to cool the economy and bring decades-high inflation under control.

AFP

Markets fall as Fed warns rates to go higher for longer

Hong Kong (AFP) - Markets mostly fell Thursday on the prospect of US interest rates going higher, and for longer, as officials try to cool the economy and bring decades-high inflation under control.

AFP

Thai economic prospects far from rosy

Logically, one would imagine that 2023 would be a much better year than 2022. Covid is over in every corner of the earth and economic activities resume. The world oil price is below US$80 (2,677 baht) per barrel and inflation is coming down. At the first meeting of 2023, the…

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Landmark Trial Opens for Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists

Thirty-one of the 47 pleaded guilty before the case came to trial. According to the prosecutor, four of the 47 defendants are set to testify against the 16 who did not plead guilty.

Al Jazeera

Disney cuts Simpsons China ‘forced labour’ episode in Hong Kong

Removal marks the second time Disney has dropped a Simpsons episode from its service in Hong Kong.

AFP

Markets mostly rise but rate worries keep optimism in check

Hong Kong (AFP) - Most markets rose Wednesday but traders remained on edge after Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell reiterated that inflation was coming down but interest rates might need to go higher than expected to get it under control.

The Independent UK

Disney cuts Simpsons 'forced labor' episode in Hong Kong

Walt Disney Co. has removed from its streaming service in Hong Kong an episode from its cartoon series The Simpsons that includes a reference to “forced labor camps” in China

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The Guardian - UK

UK MPs and peers find HSBC complicit in Hong Kong human rights abuses

Bank sided with China in denying pension payouts to people who fled crackdown, says all-party group

AFP

Asian markets mostly up but rate worries keep optimism in check

Hong Kong (AFP) - Most Asian markets rose Wednesday but traders remained on edge after Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell reiterated that inflation was coming down but interest rates might need to go higher than expected to get it under control.

The New Daily

The Simpsons run foul in Hong Kong over ‘forced labour’ joke

Disney appears to have dumped an episode of The Simpsons from its streaming platform in Hong Kong over an anti-China joke.

The Independent UK

Protest laws would be denounced if done by China, says ex-Hong Kong Governor

Tory peer Lord Patten of Barnes said he found it ‘astonishing’ that the Public Order Bill was being proposed.

ABC News

Hong Kong pulls Simpsons episode that mentions forced labour camps and bitcoin mines

First it was a reference to Tiananmen Square that saw an episode pulled two years ago, now it's one that mentions forced labour camps as The Simpsons gets political again.

Radio France Internationale

Hong Kong starts largest ever trial against pro-democracy activists

Some of Hong Kong’s best-known pro-democracy activists went on trial Monday in the biggest prosecution yet under a law imposed by China’s ruling Communist Party to crush dissent.

Tribune News Service

Jay Ambrose: China, a major US threat, resorts to a balloon

On top of genocide of Chinese Muslims, crushing Hong Kong’s democracy and plans to take over enterprising and happily independent Taiwan, the super-ambitious, totalitarian, morally misinformed Chinese Communist Party has been coming after the United States in every way imaginable. Intellectual property? They steal it. Trade deals? They cheat. Now…

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