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      Regulators accuse trading platform JPEX of misleading investors

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      Trend is fuelled by cash reserves swollen by high pandemic-era earnings

      Containers are loaded onto a ship at a port in Hai Phong, Vietnam
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Fukushima nuclear accident
      China retaliates after Japan starts release of Fukushima water

      Beijing suspends aquatic imports after Tokyo makes first discharges into Pacific from damaged nuclear site

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    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
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      Planned discharge from stricken nuclear plant has sparked international controversy, but most experts say it is safe

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    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Fukushima nuclear accident
      Japan’s release of radioactive water from Fukushima angers China

      Beijing attacks Tokyo’s plans and says ocean is ‘not a sewer’ for nuclear-contaminated water

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      News in-depthCountry Garden Holdings Co Ltd
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      The chair and majority shareholder of China’s biggest property developer was once Asia’s richest woman

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    • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
      News in-depthHong Kong politics
      Hong Kong’s corporate lawyers test boundaries as Beijing’s influence grows

      Chinese territory’s long-cherished reputation as a global legal hub is now in question

      Pedestrians on a footbridge in Hong Kong
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd
      Cathay Pacific on track to end three-year streak of annual losses

      Hong Kong’s flagship carrier posts $550mn profit for first half of year

      A sign and passengers in Cathay Pacific’s first-class lounge at Hong Kong International Airport
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      News in-depthChinese business & finance
      The factories on the front line of China’s economic slowdown

      Manufacturers reel from falling demand, rising geopolitical tensions and sluggish post-Covid recovery

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    • Saturday, 29 July, 2023
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      Cinemas increase showings of Greta Gerwig blockbuster in market dominated by action films and patriotic tales

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    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
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      Beijing pushes for Hong Kong’s leader to attend Apec summit in US

      China says John Lee should get invite to economic gathering after report suggests he would be barred entry

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    • Monday, 24 July, 2023
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      Chinese property stocks fall despite Dalian Wanda avoiding default

      Last-minute repayment of $400mn bond fails to boost sector

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      John Lee’s tough-guy stance on self-exiled activists at odds with the jovial face of a campaign to attract foreign visitors

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      Commodity trader’s scant knowledge of some of its counterparties raises questions over due diligence

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      The city has tightened online regulation but physical stores have less oversight

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      US and UK condemn Hong Kong bounties for exiled political dissidents

      Chinese territory offered a combined $1mn for information leading to activists’ arrests

      Former Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker Dennis Kwok listens to a legislative debate
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      UK and US politicians express ‘deep concern’ over bank curbing withdrawals from clients trying to emigrate

      Pedestrians walk past the logo for HSBC outside a local branch in Hong Kong
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      Technology predicted to offer personal touch in place of parents once costs fall and privacy issues are dealt with

      VTech’s Allan Wong displays some of the companies toys
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      Regulators are pushing for banks to accept more exchanges as clients in quest to develop digital assets industry

      Logos of HSBC and Standard Chartered at their headquarters in Hong Kong
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      Companies must convince regulators that deal to create country’s largest operator will not hurt consumers

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      Residents rush to download ‘Glory to Hong Kong’, which was taken up by 2019 pro-democracy movement

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      Reshoring index shows inbound Chinese goods fell to lowest level in 10 years amid geopolitical tensions

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      Hongkongers struggle to have voice heard on Tiananmen Square anniversary

      Once home to massacre’s largest commemoration in China, city finds space for dissent has narrowed

      Chan Po-ying, chair of Hong Kong’s League of Social Democrats, hands out leaflets in April
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