New legislation in Hong Kong has banned Styrofoam products and single-use plastic cutlery. Under the new law, single-use cutlery like forks, spoons, straws and plates cannot be sold or distributed ...

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.

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 ...

In Hong Kong, the OTC market is particularly popular. As a jurisdiction without capital controls, easy taxation rules and a wide availability of foreign currency accounts, Bitcoin users from all ...

The law, which covers treason, insurrection, theft of state secrets and espionage, sabotage, and external interference, follows a crackdown on dissent On 19 March 2024, the Hong Kong government ...

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 ...

On September 24, 1983, after months of investor and consumer unease over the depreciation of the Hong Kong dollar and negotiations about the city’s return to mainland rule, panic selling of the ...

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 ...

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.