On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Hong Kong police reportedly arrested the father and brother of pro-democracy activist Anna Kwok for allegedly attempting to handle her finances. This is the first time the city’s national…
Hong Kong police have arrested a man for allegedly striking a woman at a hotel, leaving her unconscious, before fleeing the scene. The force said on Friday that hotel staff had reported the case at around 6.30am that day after discovering the woman unconscious in one of the venue’s rooms. The victim, a 46-year-old surnamed…
Hong Kong police have launched an investigation into suspected animal abuse after five newborn kittens were discovered in tightly knotted plastic bags inside a garbage bin. The force was alerted at around 10.11am on Saturday that several kittens were found in the bin in front of Tin Hau Temple on Yee Kuk Street in Sham…
A doctor who worked full time at the Alliance Medical Group in Hong Kong has said the company’s sudden apparent closure followed months of financial instability, leaving him with unpaid wages of up to HK$800,000 (US$103,190) and causing anxiety for patients over ongoing treatment. The doctor, who spoke to the Post on Saturday on condition…
Hong Kong rail giant the MTR Corporation has pledged to upgrade its internet capacity after scores of travellers, many of whom were mainland Chinese, were stuck at a border station struggling to generate their QR code tickets with an overloaded network during the Labour Day “golden week” holiday. Passengers at Lok Ma Chau station spent…
The expansion of the loophole for tariff-free shipments of goods nearly a decade ago gave rise to Temu, Shein and other low-cost online retailers offering items straight from Chinese factories at unfathomable discounts. It also unleashed something else — a cascade of billions of dollars of digital advertising that provided a windfall for Meta, Alphabet…
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has stepped into the financial market again to rein back the local currency, which had been pushed above its trading band against the US dollar amid the recent influx of capital in the city’s bourse. In its first market intervention in two years, the city’s de facto central bank…
Hong Kong rail giant the MTR Corporation has pledged to upgrade its internet capacity after scores of travellers, many of whom were mainland Chinese, were stuck at a border station struggling to generate their QR code tickets with an overloaded network during the Labour Day “golden week” holiday. Passengers at Lok Ma Chau station spent…
Temu, the Chinese e-commerce platform, has stopped shipping products from China directly to customers in the United States, a spokesperson for the company said on Friday. Instead, all of its U.S. orders will be shipped from local warehouses in America. The change comes as the Trump administration closed a loophole that allowed products made in…
To investors worried about the direction of volatile markets over the next few weeks, fear not. I have some good news for you. The impact of US President Donald Trump’s tariff tantrum is abating. The markets are back to normal – at least for now. But to understand why markets have somewhat recovered, albeit temporarily,…