If you were following last week's Budget debate, you might have noticed several People's Action Party (PAP) MPs mentioning Hong Kong. Timing might have played a part. Hong Kong's financial secretary, Paul Chan, delivered Hong Kong's 2025-2026 budget speech on Feb. 26, 2025, thus coinciding with our budget debates.

Despite an influx of Chinese-operated ships onto Hong Kong’s registry, the number of oceangoing vessels flagged in the city fell more than 8 per cent to 2,366 in January from 2,580 four years earlier, according to independent analysis by VesselsValue. Government data show a similar drop.

Hong Kong government says imposition of additional 10 per cent tariff is ‘grossly inconsistent’ with WTO rules.

The United States imposed sanctions on six entities based in Hong Kong and China on Wednesday that it accused of being involved in an Iranian drone procurement network, as the Trump administration implements its "maximum pressure" campaign against Tehran.

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A Hong Kong court on Thursday sentenced veteran democrat Lam Cheuk-ting and six other men to jail terms of several years for rioting after being attacked by a white-shirted mob in the summer of 2019 as pro-democracy protests raged.

The Treasury claimed that the Hong Kong entities procured components for Iranian firm Pishtazan Kavosh Gostar Boshra and its subsidiary, Narin Sepehr Mobin Isatis, which were known for supplying Iran’s drone and ballistic missile programmes and remained under US sanctions.

A historic global trade war, a proposed $1.2-trillion European fiscal bazooka, and the emergence of China as tech race leader are upending global flows of money, marking a potential turning point for investor capital away from the United States.

Well-known figures from the party include Martin Lee -- hailed by some as Hong Kong's "Father of Democracy" -- as well as Albert Ho, who organised annual vigils to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Western nations including the United States have ...

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