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...The investigation has captured global attention, “not just due to its size and links to Chinese money”, says Chong Ja Ian, associate professor of political science at the National University of Singapore...
...Posing and performance are very much the forte of debonair chancer Ching, who becomes the kingpin of a vast business empire — and the target of Lau Kai-yuen (Andy Lau), the anti-corruption investigator determined...
...Additional reporting by Chan Ho-him in Hong Kong...
...Grace Chong, Singapore-based counsel and head of the Singapore financial regulatory practice at Gibson Dunn, said fund firms also had to think about the increasing risks of not complying....
...Johannes Chan, a legal scholar at the University of Hong Kong, said the Yuen affair was a “very bad and worrying development for judicial independence”....
...Pictured top: Self-Portrait founder Han Chong with (from left, all wearing the label) musician and multimedia artist Rosey Chan in lace maxi dress, £380, actress Sabrina Elba in mesh midi dress, £360, and...
...Yuen Yuen Ang, from the University of Michigan, said that while China had always experienced sporadic protests, Beijing feared a “nationwide” movement....
...Betty Yuen, the new chair of the conservative Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, said last month that the city was becoming a “sequestered island” and that the government needed to offer a road map to...
...“Dozens of accountants I know, most of them working at big firms, have left Hong Kong over the past months,” Chong said....
...“The best time for [elderly people to get vaccinated] has already passed . . . elderly people will now have to pay the price,” Yuen said....
...Two advisers, including top Covid expert Yuen Kwok-yung had said they received death threats over the matter....
...The candidate, Tik Chi-yuen, chair of the “Third Side” party and a former member of the opposition Democratic party, was one of only about 10 people who had touted themselves as representing the opposition...
...Thus far, however, the MAS has not announced any upcoming regulations specific to ESG fund labelling, according to Grace Chong, Singapore-based counsel for Hong Kong and Singapore at Simmons & Simmons....
...They could be buying because their friends told them about the stocks,” Ms Chong said....
...Seung Chong, Benjamin Lam Hong Kong...
...But Ben Chan, a pro-establishment lawmaker, on his Facebook page called for Mr Lam to make clear why he went to Yuen Long that day with a group of people....
...That is dangerous and worrying,” said Johannes Chan, a legal scholar and former law school dean at the University of Hong Kong....
...“This bill forms part of ELD’s [the Elections Department] contingency planning for the next GE [general election],” said Chan Chun Sing, minister for trade and investment, who presented the bill in parliament...
...Earlier, Paul Chan, Hong Kong’s finance secretary, wrote in a blog post: “Many retail and catering operators have said that their recent business volume has dropped sharply....
...Thai authorities have cited Singapore as a model for an Anti-Fake News Centre set up by Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha’s government last year....
...Responding to criticism of alleged police inaction in Yuen Long, a top adviser of Ms Lam, Bernard Chan, argued the authorities were stretched and needed more resources....
...Derek Yuen, a political scientist at the University of Hong Kong, said the comments from Mr Chan and other advisers showed they were trying to “distance or detach themselves from Carrie Lam and other supporters...
...“Never in Hong Kong’s history have you seen so many different professional groups or identities and social roles coming out to protest,” said Samson Yuen, a political scientist at Lingnan University in Hong...
...Paul Chan, finance secretary, said in a blog post that foreign companies and tourists were beginning to view Hong Kong as “turbulent and insecure”....
...“If China wants to mix with the outside world, it needs Hong Kong to do that because capital cannot move freely outside of China,” says Terence Chong, the executive director of the Lau Chor Tak Institute...
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