6 h. ago Hong Kong bomb that caused scare turns out to be British cannon barrel

Discovery sparks brief cordon and evacuation in Tsim Sha Tsu area

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9 h. ago Shein files to float in Hong Kong but hopes to keep London IPO alive – reports

The fast fashion retailer confidentially filed a draft prospectus last week with the Hong Kong exchange, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

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11 h. ago Shein files for Hong Kong IPO in hopes of salvaging London listing: FT report

Shein files for Hong Kong IPO in hopes of salvaging London listing: FT report  CNBC

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12 h. ago Shein files for Hong Kong IPO as London listing efforts stall

Shein files for Hong Kong IPO as London listing efforts stall- FT  Investing.com

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13 h. ago Shein files for Hong Kong IPO to save London listing, FT reports

Shein files for Hong Kong IPO to save London listing, FT reports  Reuters

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14 h. ago China fashion retailer Shein files for Hong Kong IPO to save London listing, FT reports

China fashion retailer Shein files for Hong Kong IPO to save London listing, FT reports  Reuters

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14 h. ago Shein files for Hong Kong IPO to pressure UK to save London listing

Fashion retailer hopes threat of losing flotation will spur British regulator to soften requirements

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5 d. ago Chinese aircraft carrier sails into Hong Kong to boost patriotism

The Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong has sailed into harbor on a port call as part of a drive to drum up patriotism and pride in China's military advancements

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6 d. ago Hong Kong teen dies on 5,276m peak in China’s Sichuan province

Rescue teams recovered 16-year-old boy’s body hours after he slipped during descent

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7 d. ago China sanctions former Filipino lawmaker over South China Sea claims

China has sanctioned a former Filipino lawmaker, Francis Tolentino, who sponsored legislation that marks out the Philippines’ territorial claims in the disputed South China Sea

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7 d. ago Five years on, Hong Kong’s national security law extinguishes last standing pro

League of Social Democrats disbands amid ‘the omnipresence of red lines and the draconian suppression of dissent’, days before anniversary of Beijing’s imposition of NSLIn a cramped, dark office, in front of a wall adorned by some misshapen shelves, faded photographs, and a single fan battling against the summer heat, Hong Kong’s last active pro-democracy party admitted defeat.Behind them, a sticky-taped banner declared: “We’d rather be ashes than dust.” Continue reading...

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8 d. ago ‘Joyous and uplifting’: why Chungking Express is my feelgood movie

The next in our series of writers on their go-to comfort watches looks back at Wong Kar-Wai’s unusual and profound romantic comedyChinese auteur Wong Kar-Wai is not a director you’d immediately seek out for a cosy feelgood experience. His films delve into loneliness, yearning and doomed love affairs, carried along by a melancholy undercurrent. Chungking Express, the story of two Hong Kong cops reeling from being dumped by their respective partners, doesn’t deviate from these obsessions of his but the quirky romantic comedy also manages to be his most joyous and uplifting offering.The film has a playful energy and is brimming with offbeat humour. Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Takeshi Kaneshiro play the heartbroken policemen, both deep in denial over the end of their relationships. We watch them cope in very different ways with their heartache. Kaneshiro’s Cop 223 pines outside his ex’s flat, buys cans of pineapple because they were her favorite food and goes on jogs so his body has no wate...

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8 d. ago Hong Kong's security net extends beyond arrests as small businesses pressured

It’s been years since Hong Kong’s mass arrests of activists devastated its pro-democracy activism

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1 week ago The top US diplomat in Hong Kong criticizes China and the city for curtailing freedoms

The top U.S. diplomat in Hong Kong has criticized policies by China and Hong Kong for eroding freedoms

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1 week ago Swarms of tiny nose robots could clear infected sinuses, researchers say

Chinese and Hong Kong scientists succeed in animal trials, but potential problems include risk of devices being left in body and public suspicionsSwarms of tiny robots, each no larger than a speck of dust, could be deployed to cure stubborn infected sinuses before being blown out through the nose into a tissue, researchers have claimed.The micro-robots are a fraction of the width of a human hair and have been inserted successfully into animal sinuses in pre-clinical trials by researchers at universities in China and Hong Kong. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Three jockeys rushed to hospital and one horse fatally injured in horror incident

Lyle Hewitson, Jerry Chau and Karis Teetan came down when the favourite suffered a fracture, bringing down two others, in a race at Happy Valley on Wednesday in Hong Kong

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1 week ago Hong Kong pop star rescued after falling into sea while out jogging

Keung To of boy band Mirror says he is doing okay

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2 w. ago US consulate condemns Hong Kong's government for 'repression' of Independence Day celebrations

The U.S. consulate in Hong Kong has condemned the city’s government for what it is calling the repression of U.S. Independence Day celebrations

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2 w. ago A popular comic’s ‘catastrophe warning’ sparks mass trip cancellations and tourism slump in Japan

Japan bookings have dropped 50 per cent after a manga artist ‘predicted’ a natural disaster, says Hong Kong travel agency

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2 w. ago Inside Hong Kong's terrifying 'coffin homes' with 200,000 crammed into cage

More than 200,000 people in Hong Kong, China, live in partitioned shoebox apartments that offer just a few feet of space. They can barely fit a double bed and have become notorious for high rents.

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