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The territory’s recession is getting deeper and the US is threatening its special trading status, bringing serious consequences for Beijing Almost six months after the protest movement that has upended life in Hong Kong began, the region is now facing …
The Westpac bank scandal has brought the role of financial institutions in enabling child sexual abuse into sharp reliefOn 25 October plainclothes police barged through the red door of a family home in a dense neighbourhood in Rizal, a province two hou…
Capacity rose by 42.9GW in 18 months, far outpacing global efforts to cut use of fossil fuelChina’s growing appetite for new coal-fired power stations has outstripped plant closures in the rest of the world since the start of last year, data shows.Else…
‘Kiwishare’ model is mooted to protect journalism and jobs by keeping the NZME and Nine Entertainment titles separateWe are expanding our coverage of New Zealand. Please help us by supporting our independent journalismThe merger between the owners of t…
Event founded in 2009 is world’s biggest online shopping festAlibaba plans to sell $15bn of shares in Hong Kong this monthThe Chinese retailer Alibaba Group said on Monday that sales for its annual Singles’ Day shopping blitz have crossed the $30bn mar…
Scott Morrison says 15-country Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership would be ‘bigger and better’ with India in itAustralia will sign on to a major free-trade deal involving 15 countries from the Asia-Pacific region, albeit one diminished by Indi…
Sixteen-nation Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership will cover half the planet’s peopleThe world’s largest trade deal is unlikely to be signed this year, with a draft statement from south-east Asian leaders suggesting it will be delayed until 20…
3.2% quarterly fall rivals the worst three-month slide during the 2008 financial crisis Hong Kong has plunged into deep recession after its economy was hit by a double whammy of violent street protests and the US-China trade war.Activity contracted by …
Financial secretary calls fall in tourism an ‘emergency’ and says it will be extremely difficult for city to achieve any annual growthHong Kong’s financial secretary has said the region is in recession after more than five months of anti-government pro…
Forced labour in China’s internment camps taints the supply chains of many western companies. We need to take actionAny western company doing business in Xinjiang should consider their supply chains tainted by forced labour drawn from internment camps….
World’s second-largest economy expanded by 6% in three months ending in SeptemberThe Chinese economy is growing at its slowest pace in nearly 30 years as Beijing struggles to manage the impact of a punishing trade war with the US, raising concerns abou…
Xinjiang Police College and video surveillance company Hikvision among those blacklisted for implications in human rights violationsThe US Commerce Department said on Monday it was putting 28 Chinese public security bureaus and companies – including vi…
US officials banned from supporting pro-democracy protestsCNN reports Trump gave Xi pledge in personal phone callUS officials have been banned from supporting pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, after Donald Trump reportedly promised the US would stay…
Release of food staple comes amid soaring prices and African swine flu epidemicChina will auction 10,000 tonnes of pork from its state reserves as surging prices threaten to mar an important political holiday.The sale on Thursday will be limited to 300…
Almost 12% of firm’s shares are held by Curaçao-registered entity linked to Kathmandu founder Jan Cameron More than $176m will find its way to a mysterious entity in the Caribbean tax haven Curaçao linked to Kathmandu founder Jan Cameron if a proposed …