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...Alameda Research, and FTX co-founder Gary Wang, are seen smiling for the camera at The Crown, an exclusive club started by a Hong Kong celebrity with a private elevator and a seat in the shape of US dollar bills...
...Katie Alice Fitz Gerald opened the Hong Kong branch of New York’s Denny Gallery in 2019, just as the city was hit by protests against a proposed extradition bill, then the pandemic....
...You are swimming against the currents,” said Michael O’Riordan, founding partner of consultancy Blackwater Search and Advisory....
...A bill to establish a statutory licensing regime for virtual asset providers is now going through Hong Kong’s rubber-stamp legislature and is expected to come into force in March next year....
...“A bill to establish a statutory licensing regime for virtual assets providers is now going through [Hong Kong’s rubber stamp legislature].”...
...While Standard Chartered and HSBC, which make the bulk of their income in Hong Kong, are sending their chief executives Bill Winters and Noel Quinn to the financial forum, other organisations are sending...
...Before Friday’s announcement, just two bank chiefs had publicly committed, Standard Chartered’s Bill Winters and HSBC’s Noel Quinn. Both lenders make the bulk of their income in Hong Kong....
...Lam was forced to withdraw the bill. The campaigners’ sense of relief was short-lived....
...“Because of the extradition bill saga, interference from foreign forces and the pandemic outbreak . . . I was under exceptionally huge pressure,” Lam said....
...primrose.riordan@ft.com, thomas.chan@ft.com, tom.mitchell@ft.com...
...The catastrophic collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire couldn’t have come at a worse time, the FT’s Primrose Riordan writes....
...My colleagues Mercedes Ruehl and Primrose Riordan have taken a fine look at what’s happening at Singaporean crypto trader Amber Group....
...“The cost will jump up substantially . . . because of invalidity of cargo flights,” said Bill Ip, from food importer Seafrigo. “It will be very bad, I can tell you.”...
...The Hong Kong government said the amended film censorship bill “only regulates [the] exhibition of films and does not apply to streaming services”....
...“The company seems to be a start-up without a viable business model,” one analyst told the FT’s Mercedes Ruehl and Primrose Riordan this week....
...Bill Hornbuckle, chief executive of casino group MGM Resorts, was confident last week that China’s regulatory crackdown on tech, education and online gaming would not extend to Macau, the world’s biggest...
...However, the bill’s supporters said normal news reporting was covered by existing exemptions....
Law passed in secret allows action against groups or individuals that comply with US measures
...However, Johannes Chan, a law professor at Hong Kong University, said: “While this clarification is welcome, this is not what the . . . law says as the bill now stands.”...
...The backlash over the hamster cull shows dissent is still simmering in Hong Kong, says Primrose Riordan....
...Activists and lawyers fear a new immigration bill — which comes into force on August 1 — could be used to ban the departure from the territory, or block the return, of anyone deemed to have breached national...
...brought her unique talents as a self-defined “master negotiator” to deliver for President Joe Biden his major legislative victories on the $1.9tn Covid relief package and, now, the $1tn infrastructure bill...
...The FT’s Primrose Riordan explores the city’s best brews....
...Riordan could fit that bill, the person suggested. DHSC declined to comment. Harding also declined to comment....
...While the extradition bill was withdrawn, the NPC trumped it last year with the national security law....
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