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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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Hong Kong court extends Joshua Wong's jail time for 2019 pro-democracy pro
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 14 (ANI): Joshua Wong, one of Hong Kong's democracy activists and among 47 people charged under the draconian national security law, was sentenced to four months in jail on Tuesday for unauthorized assembly and violating an anti-mask law.
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China defends its atrocities in Xinjiang
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 12 (ANI): The horrors of Chinese atrocities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), in China's northwest, are inexorably emerging on an almost daily basis. In response, China has continually changed its narrative about its mass internment of Uyghurs.
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Rating on Azure Power Solar's notes unaffected by sale of rooftop projects
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Apr 12 (ANI): The rating on Azure Power Solar Energy Pvt Ltd's (APSEPL')s 350.1 million dollar 5.65 per cent senior notes due 2024 is not affected by the sale of Azure Power Global Ltd's (APGL's) rooftop solar portfolio, Fitch Ratings said on Monday.
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Covid-19 still a drag on Asia Pacific issuers: S&P
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 12 (ANI): The damage from Covid-19 crisis continues to weigh on issuer financials in Asia Pacific with S&P Global Ratings showing negative outlooks or on credit watch with negative implications on a net 16 per cent of issuers.
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Canada 'must do more' to help people in Hong Kong amid draconian law: Advo
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], April 12 (ANI): Amid the crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong, an advocacy group has said that while Canada has unveiled new work, study and residency permit programmes for Hong Kongers but more support is definitely needed.
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Bad debt of China's banks mounts by 22 pc
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 11 (ANI): As China has recorded the lowest economic growth in four decades in the year 2020, the non-performing debt at its four biggest banks swells 22 per cent last year, with the balance set to skyrocket this year if state-mandated loan extensions expire.
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