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Bob Prince, the co-chief investment officer of the world’s largest hedge fund, has bought a luxury home in Hong Kong, joining an A-list of global financiers who have begun to put down roots in Asia’s third-biggest capital market. Prince, who oversees the US$100 billion of assets under management at Bridgewater Associates, paid HK$95 million (US$12.2 […]
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai took the stand for the first time in his national security trial on Wednesday, testifying that he had never tried to influence overseas governments’ foreign policy on Hong Kong or China. Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai. File photo: Kelly Ho/HKFP. The 76-year-old founder of the shuttered Apple Daily […]
The US has said it is taking steps to impose new visa restrictions on Hong Kong officials after 45 of the city’s most prominent pro-democracy advocates were sentenced to prison on Tuesday. A Correctional Services Vehicle leaves West Kowloon Law Courts Building on November 19, 2024, after 45 pro-democracy figures were sentenced to up to […]
Unjust Sentencing under Hong Kong’s National Security Law Press Statement Matthew Miller, Department Spokesperson November 19, 2024 The United States strongly condemns the sentences announced today in Hong Kong’s National Security Law (NSL) trial of pro-democracy advocates, known as the NSL 47. The 45 defendants sentenced today were aggressively prosecuted, and many now face […]
NewsFeed Hong Kong’s High Court has sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to up to 10 years in prison, over a move to challenge Beijing’s influence on Hong Kong elections. The trial has been criticised as political and unfair. Published On 19 Nov 202419 Nov 2024 Source link
The Hong Kong government will consider whether to appeal for longer sentences of certain democrats jailed on Tuesday in the city’s largest national security case. Convicted of conspiring to commit subversion, 45 former legislators, ex-district councillors, and activists received jail sentences ranging from four years and two months to 10 years, with prominent legal scholar […]
HONG KONG (AP) — Forty-five ex-lawmakers and activists were sentenced to four to 10 years in prison Tuesday in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case under a Beijing-imposed law that crushed a once-thriving pro-democracy movement. They were prosecuted under the 2020 national security law for their roles in an unofficial primary election. Prosecutors said their […]
The 45 defendants, including Joshua Wong, were at the forefront of the opposition movement crushed by Beijing. Many had already been in jail for years. Source link
China’s securities regulator has given his strongest endorsement yet to expand and add financial products to a transborder investment channel with Hong Kong, in a boost to the city’s role as the mainland’s offshore financial centre. Commodities may be added to the stocks, bonds, options and wealth management products that are currently tradeable in the […]
China should proactively engage with Donald Trump early in his second presidency, but must be prepared for a “hard bargain” and to “shoot back” if need be, a noted Chinese academic and policy adviser has said. “This is going to be a [US] government that only one person governs, and that is Donald Trump … […]