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China retaliates to UK's citizenship offer for Hong Kong residents

China is expected to step up retaliation in March against the UK's scheme to offer citizenship to millions of Hong Kong people through British National (Overseas) (BNO) passport, reported Asia Times.Hong Kong residents will now be required to declare if they hold British citizenship under the BNO passport scheme, according to Asia Times.Since last July, analysts suggested that Beijing may strip the Chinese citizenship and Hong Kong permanent residency of BNO passport holders.On January 29, China said that it will de-recognise BNO as a travel and identity document for Hong Kong people from January 31 and reserved the right to take further measures against the UK citizenship scheme.The UK offered a pathway to eventual citizenship for Hong Kong residents. London unveiled its plan in July last year to take eligible Hong Kongers after Beijing's imposition of the draconian National Security Law.Tian Feilong, an associate professor at Beijing's Beihang University Law School and director of ..

Tencent Music Entertainment taps banks for $5 billion Hong Kong listing

More banks could be added to the share sale and details including size and timeline could still change

Blinken says US should accept refugees fleeing Hong Kong amid draconian law

The top US diplomat reiterated his predecessor Mike Pompeo's statement of China being a threat to the United States adding that Washington has strong alliances as compared to Beijing

UK opens special visa route for Hong Kong residents to become citizens

The UK government forecasts the new visa could attract more than 300,000 people and their dependants to Britain

From Pony Ma to Jack Ma, the rich win big with wild Hong Kong stocks

Tencent and Alibaba Group Holding, along with food-delivery giant Meituan and carmaker Geely Automobile Holdings, were among the stocks helping propel the rally.

Hong Kong plans to lift lockdown on densely populated area on Monday

Hong Kong plans to lift the Covid-19 lockdown that was imposed on one of its most densely populated districts on Monday, Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung informed on Sunday

Thousands of Hong Kong residents locked down to contain coronavirus

Thousands of Hong Kong residents were locked down in their homes Saturday in an unprecedented move to contain a worsening coronavirus outbreak in the city

Thousands of Hong Kong residents locked down to contain coronavirus

Coronavirus cases in Hong Kong's Yau Tsim Mong district - a working-class neighborhood with old buildings and subdivided flats - made up about half of the infections in the past week

Hong Kong's 'law and order' important for int'l businesses: Official

Hong Kong's 'law and order' was important for international businesses, a government official said on Monday

US banks including JPMorgan to delist some Hong Kong products after US ban

US banks Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley will delist 500 Hong Kong-listed structured products, following a US ban on investments in companies Washington deems linked to China's military

World Coronavirus Dispatch: Hong Kong comes up with medical staycations

Deadly Covid wave in California, Japan likely to go into month-long emergency, Singapore cops to get 19 contact tracing data and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Hong Kong rights group stage protest for release of 'political prisoners'

A prominent rights group staged an act of defiance on New Year's Day for the first time in 12 months calling for release of "political prisoners"

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai ordered to return to jail

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has had his bail revoked after prosecutors succeeded in asking the city's highest court to send him back to detention

World Coronavirus Dispatch: How Wuhan remembers its outbreak one year on

US falls short on vaccination goals, Vienna's classic New Year concert plays on despite curbs, China sets up infection prevention squad and other-pandemic related news across the globe

Hang Seng proposes sweeping overhaul of Hong Kong stock index: Report

The proposal comes as a wave of Chinese megacaps choose the financial hub as a preferred venue to sell shares

India may ease rules for non-Chinese investments from Hong Kong: Report

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration is formalising investment rules for neighbouring countries amid a bloody border standoff with China earlier this year

World Coronavirus Dispatch: Hong Kong clinics ban fathers during childbirth

Chaos in New South Wales as travelers rush to get out of the state, Big businesses showed resilience in a daunting year and other pandemic-related news around the globe

Detergent maker Blue Moon raises $1.27 billion in Hong Kong IPO: Reports

Chinese detergent maker Blue Moon Group Holdings has become the latest in a record number of companies to raise at least $1 billion in a Hong Kong IPO in 2020 after pricing its shares at HK$13.16

US poised to sanction more China officials for Hong Kong crackdown

At least a dozen officials to be targeted

Hong Kong ex-lawmaker Ted Hui says his bank accounts have been frozen

Five accounts belonging to Hui, his wife and parents have been inaccessible since Saturday, he said in an interview with the newspaper