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.

By Mike Ives Hong Kong passed national security legislation on Tuesday, giving officials in the Chinese territory more power to curb dissent, 21 years after mass protests forced the government to ...

Images: Reuters Composite: Mark Kelly The Chinese Communist Party has already crushed freedom in Hong Kong. Now it’s beating a dead horse. As directors of Next Digital, we saw three years ago ...

Critics say national security law cracking down on offences such as insurrection will further erode civil liberties Hong Kong’s parliament has passed a controversial national security law ...

No charge. Hong Kong’s government, which has become an arm of the Chinese Communist Party, just turbocharged its program of authoritarian repression with the passage of a new security law.

After nearly three decades in Hong Kong, VOA's sister outlet Radio Free Asia has closed its physical bureau in the city and no longer has full-time staff there due to the declining press freedom ...

As Hong Kong’s leaders embrace China’s top-down political culture, many believe the city’s dynamism and vitality are slipping away. By David Pierson and Tiffany May Reporting from Hong Kong ...

In 2022, LSE welcomed 366 students from Hong Kong, 253 at undergraduate level and 113 at graduate level. If you would like to receive further information about studying at LSE, please register your ...

The Group of Seven was unambiguous about the West's differences with Beijing, such as the quashing of democratic freedoms in Hong Kong and its failure to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Hong Kong has introduced a law called Article 23 - raising fears about civil liberties. A tough new security law comes at a time when businesses were already wary of the city. Beijing and Hong ...