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Shares in China Evergrande, the real estate developer whose downfall led a collapse in the country’s property market, have been delisted from Hong Kong's stock exchange as creditors work to wind up debts that totaled over $300 billion

COMMENT: After the Vietnam war, hundreds of thousands of refugees arrived on the shores of Hong Kong – but what initially seemed like an existential crisis for the then British territory ended up being resolved rather swiftly, writes Mary Dejevsky

Once the country’s biggest real estate firm, Evergrande was worth more than $50bn at its peak and helped propel China’s rapid economic growth

China Evergrande’s delisting closes a chapter in country’s unprecedented property crisis

A viral manga-fuelled rumour predicts a July 2025 Japan earthquake, but experts confirm it has no scientific basis, though travel from Hong Kong and South Korea is affected.

It’s been five years since Beijing imposed a harsh new national security law on Hong Kong. During this time, the law has fundamentally altered the city-state, prompting scores of pro-democracy leaders to flee overseas and instilling a climate of fear and repression that has quashed any opposition to the communist…

China launched its own digital yuan, the e-CNY issued by its central bank, on a trial basis in 2019.

British media tycoon’s marathon sedition trial in Hong Kong is drawing to a close

China has been expanding use of digital currencies as it promotes wider use of its yuan, or renminbi, to reflect its status as the world's second-largest economy

Available for hire, professional persuaders deceive their way into the lives of cheating men – and see off the extra lover. We meet the maker of a jaw-dropping documentary about a growing phenomenon

A lawyer for Hong Kong democracy activist Jimmy Lai argues it’s not wrong to support freedom of expression and human rights