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...A nearly 5 per cent rise for Hong Kong’s Hang Seng China Enterprises Index over the past week has stoked expectations for a catch-up rally when mainland stock exchanges return from their 10-day Lunar New...
...Si Horne, a British army doctor and author of the recent Rusi paper, argues that the next change in international humanitarian law should be to “preclude the use of explosive weapons on hospitals”....
...I helped to hang the show and remember the anxiety of having just one shot to get the posters perfectly straight and wrinkle-free on the wall. Mess it up and they went in the bin....
...A life-size portrait of a nobleman by Tintoretto hangs in the main dining room; across from it is another, by Rubens (“That was in the family, actually”)....
...“If you’re a long-only fund manager with a global tech mandate, how can you not be looking at that Hang Seng Tech index rally of 60 per cent?” he said....
...+ bonus Nikou Asgari A fun story about a weird place: A crypto micronation’s future hangs on a border dispute (Wired) Marc Filippino, FT News briefing host I absolutely loved Marianna Giusti’s look...
...“We expect part of it should be included in the total liabilities . . . however, there was no detailed disclosure in its financial statement, so it is difficult to verify,” said Cedric Lai, a senior credit...
...Thursday’s ruling against Lai, who is currently serving a jail term for other charges, also involved two other activists — barrister Chow Hang-tung and former journalist Gwyneth Ho — who were also found...
...The 74-year-old founder of the now-defunct pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily was handed his sentence on Monday along with two other activists, barrister Chow Hang-tung and former journalist Gwyneth Ho....
...It was 2am in Hong Kong when Lennix Lai’s phone buzzed. A top executive at rival crypto exchange OKX, Lai picked up to find Bankman-Fried on the other end of the line....
...Lai, 74, had pleaded not guilty to the unauthorised assembly charges along with pro-democracy activist Gwyneth Ho and Chow Hang-tung, vice-chair of the group that organised the annual Tiananmen mass memorial...
...A French butcher’s chalkboard hangs in the Carters’ kitchen, listing pork prices. A wooden refrigerator has been repurposed as a cabinet for board games....
...Today, its heritage buildings combine with street art, co-working spaces and hip hang-outs such as Pasta Bar, Potato Head and Papa Doble....
...Hong Kong-listed Hang Seng Bank said women will comprise 70 per cent of its board by the summer — up from 50 per cent — while Chinese shopping platform Meituan, which has an all-male board, told Nikkei Asia...
...But a cloud now hangs over commerce in the territory following the imposition of the national security law, with companies unclear how to enforce the rules....
...Once one of the largest constituents in the Hang Seng index, it is now the smallest....
...“This year the school may say that they won’t follow [the security curriculum],” said Lai, an accountant with two children at an international school. “But what about next year?”...
...Hong Kong’s police requested that HSBC, the bank’s subsidiary Hang Seng and Bank of China freeze accounts owned by Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker Ted Hui and his family....
...This article has been modified to identify Hang Seng Indexes as the creator of the Hang Seng Tech Index, not the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as previously stated....
...tycoon Jimmy Lai for allegedly breaching the city’s new national security law....
...Mr Lai is awaiting trial for participating in a peaceful but unauthorised protest last year....
...Renewed opposition Hong Kong’s benchmark Hang Seng index has fallen almost five per cent since the NPC’s announcement....
...Frederick Ma Si-Hang has joined the international advisory board of Investcorp, the $27bn Bahrain-listed asset manager....
...Things might improve in the second half but given many shareholders own Morrison for cash returns, they’ll need confidence in more than just Morrison’s management to hang around in hope....
...The benchmark Hang Seng stock index is up about 5 per cent this month and 12 per cent for the year, while the Hong Kong dollar has held reasonably steady, suggesting that finance and geopolitics are not...
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