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Global chip shortage now hitting more tech players: S&P
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 20 (ANI): The heavy toll that chip shortages have inflicted on global auto industry is now broadening to other sectors, S&P Global Ratings said in a report released on Tuesday.
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Chinese Navy seeks to be more 'port'able
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 19 (ANI): One of China's strengths - as an authoritarian communist state - is its ability to wield a whole-of-nation approach to security, diplomatic and economic affairs around the globe. This is seen clearly in its efforts to develop port infrastructure and to carve out
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COVID-19: Hong Kong suspends flights connecting India from April 20 to May
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 19 (ANI): Hong Kong has announced the suspension of all flights connecting with India for 14 days starting Tuesday amid the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the region. The authorities have also suspended flights from Pakistan and the Philippines.
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Hong Kong 'prohibits' landing of two flights carrying COVID-19 patients
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 19 (ANI): Hong Kong's Department of Health on Sunday announced it invoked a flight-specific suspension mechanism to prohibit the landing of flights operated by two airlines.
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China's actions in Hong Kong rise to new levels of 'viciousness': Report
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 18 (ANI): As China continues to suppress the will of the people in Hong Kong under the draconian National Security Law, media outlets worldwide have called Beijing's actions in the city "a new level of viciousness".
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UK, EU condemn sentencing of Jimmy Lai, other Hong Kong pro-democracy acti
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], April 18 (ANI): The United Kingdom and the European Union condemned the decision to sentence publishing tycoon Jimmy Lai and multiple pro-democracy figures to prison for their roles in the 2019 mass protests that rocked the city for a year.
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Hong Kong: 17-year-old sent to rehabilitation centre for trashing Chinese
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 17 (ANI): A Hong Kong student has been sent to a rehabilitation centre for damaging properties of a local branch of a Chinese teahouse chain last year.
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US condemns sentencing of seven Hong Kong pro-democracy activists: Blinken
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], April 17 (ANI): The United States condemned the sentencing of seven pro-democracy activists who took part in a peaceful assembly of 1.7 million people in Hong Kong, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday.
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EU mulls ending extradition treaties with China over overhaul of Hong Kong
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], April 16 (ANI): The European Union is preparing new measures to punish Beijing for overhauling Hong Kong's electoral system that will further clamp down on opposition voices in the region.
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Currency frictions pose limited macro risk for Asian sovereigns: Fitch
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 16 (ANI): Fitch Ratings has said it expects the Biden administration to downplay tensions over exchange-rate policies with trade partners in Asia due in part to geopolitical considerations even though some are on or at risk of being placed on the US Treasury's currency ma
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai sentenced to 1 year in jail
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 16 (ANI): Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced by a Hong Kong court to one year in prison on Friday over illegal assembly in August 2019, reported Xinhua.
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Amid fresh attacks from pro-Beijing institutions, Hong Kong cultural distr
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 15 (ANI): Amid fresh attacks from a pro-Beijing camp, Alison Friedman, the artistic director of performing arts at the West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) in Hong Kong, has resigned from her post to return to her home country, the United States.
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