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'Worst is over', Citi official says as bank looks to increase staff in Hong Kong

Citigroup, the biggest foreign lender in Hong Kong, will increase staff at its commercial banking unit in the city by 100 to tap growing opportunities in the Greater Bay Area, according to a senior executive.

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Visitors to Commons forced to hand over leaflets on press freedom in Hong Kong

Officials claim material on Jimmy Lai constituted political slogans but David Davis calls heavy-handed approach ‘completely daft’

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‘Not enough’: Hong Kong’s low-paid get $0.32 minimum wage bump

Increase of 6.25 percent after four-year freeze draws criticism from social welfare groups.

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‘Tools more than humans’: HK domestic workers fight for rights

After years of exploitation and abuse, Hong Kong’s 340,000 migrant domestic workers are fighting back in the courts.

Al Jazeera

Shaun Ryder left scared 'he was dying' after suffering horror medical incident

Shaun Ryder has opened up on the terrifying moment he suffered a panic attack on the way to Hong Kong and thought he was going to die

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Pro-Beijing Politicians Urge Hong Kong to Scrap the Gay Games 2023

Conservatives are urging national security authorities to step in and cancel the Games. But even if the event goes ahead as planned, participants will have to abide by new rally rules.

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Hong Kong's economy is recovering, but its freedoms are not

It's a city of two tales: After years of protest, crackdown and pandemic restrictions, Hong Kong is returning to normal — or is it

The Independent UK

Evergrande debt plan put to the test

HONG KONG: Embattled property developer China Evergrande Group expected a signal on Thursday of the level of creditor backing for its offshore debt restructuring proposal, with investors to be given an incentive for early support.

Bangkok Post

Tory backlash at 'outrageous' decision to invite Chinese official to King's Coronation

Han Zheng, who was recently appointed as president Xi Jinping's deputy, will represent China at King Charles's Coronation on May 6 - provoking anger from top Tories over his role in a crackdown of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong

Daily Mirror

Senior Tories blast Chinese official’s attendance at King’s coronation as ‘outrageous’

Chinese vice-president expected to attend coronation oversaw Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong’s liberties

The Independent UK

Chinese official’s attendance at coronation would be outrageous, Tory MPs say

The Chinese vice-president expected to attend oversaw Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong’s liberties.

The Independent UK

Stella Prize shortlist 2023: your guide to 6 gripping, courageous books

The Stella Prize has shown that feminist activism in the literary sector can work. At its outset, in 2013, it drew attention to the lack of women on prize shortlists.

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Dems see Hat Yai as next Hong Kong

The Democrat Party wants to woo investors by dusting off its plan to transform the commercial district of Hat Yai in Songkhla into an economic powerhouse.

Bangkok Post

Thai and two Lao accused of smuggling

One Thai national and two Lao citizens have been accused of involvement in the shipment of a consignment of heroin that was seized at Hong Kong International Airport last week, according to the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB).

LiveScience

Newly discovered jellyfish is a 24-eyed weirdo related to the world's most venomous marine creature

Researchers named the newfound species Tripedalia maipoensis, after Mai Po Nature Reserve in Hong Kong, where they discovered the transparent critter.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Joe Biden announces 2024 re-election campaign

Announcement sets the stage for an extraordinary rematch with Donald Trump

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Hong Kong: some schools face closure as birthrate and exodus take toll

Five schools preparing to close, according to local report, with others made to merge amid falling school enrolment numbers

The Guardian - UK

Crack-Up Capitalism by Quinn Slobodian review – the economic anarchy of Liz Truss’s dreams

This timely and important study of investment zones exposes the limitations of the experiments favoured by free-market fanatics

The Independent UK

Hong Kong plans electoral overhaul for district councils

Hong Kong's leader says the city is planning to overhaul its last major political representative body that is mostly comprised of popularly elected seats

The Guardian - AU

Fears grow for Taiwan book publisher believed held in China

Reported detention of Li Yanhe has echoes of 2015 disappearances of five Hong Kong booksellers

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Is Taiwan still a ‘beacon of democracy’ in the Chinese world?

Taiwan is celebrated as a vibrant democracy in the shadow of a repressive China, but the complicated reality reveals an opportunity that is yet to be taken.

The New Daily

Police raids and seizures dismantle NSW pot farm and meth shipment

Law enforcement agencies have chalked up two massive coups in the war on drugs, busting a huge pot farm and seizing meth in Hong Kong

The Independent UK

Hong Kong bishop invites head of China's state-backed church

Hong Kong’s Roman Catholic bishop has invited a leader of the Communist Party-controlled group for Catholics in mainland China to visit his city

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