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.

Forty-five prominent activists in Hong Kong were sentenced to jail for up to 10 years on Tuesday, sparking criticism from foreign governments and rights groups. Beijing defended the decisions.

A 3 per cent tax on hotel guests on January 1 and looming troubles from the Trump presidency could undermine the city’s tourism sector.

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Jimmy Lai’s wife Teresa Lai, left, and retired Chinese cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun arrive at West Kowloon ...

More than 40 of Hong Kong’s best known pro-democracy figures have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years on subversion charges, in the biggest single blow to the city’s already ...

By David Pierson and Tiffany May Reporting from Hong Kong As the founder of Hong Kong’s leading pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai cut an unusual figure: a rebellious tycoon who was ...

Many had already been in jail for years. By Tiffany May Reporting from Hong Kong Anywhere else, it wouldn’t have been controversial: a public vote by pro-democracy activists trying to strengthen ...

Hong Kong CNN — Jimmy Lai, the pugnacious Hong Kong media tycoon whose now shuttered tabloid Apple Daily was a regular thorn in Beijing’s side, took the stand Wednesday in his own defense for ...

Less than 10% of the millions eligible for the so-called "King Kong of weight loss drugs" will be able to get it in the next three years, according to guidance by the National Institute for Health ...