Hong Kong

Thai Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij in Hong Kong to reassure investors

Published

11 years ago

March 22, 2010

Thailand’s Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij is leading a road show in Hong Kong during the weekend to help relieve investor concerns in reaction to current political and economic developments. Leaving Friday for the March 19-21 promotional event, Mr Korn traveled in a bid to explain to investors the current economic and political development in Thailand for better understanding.

Speaking before his departure, he said the mass rally by anti-government Red Shirt demonstrators during the past several days had not caused any anxieties among the public as the government remained able to control the situation.

Foreign investors are still confident in the government’s ability to manage the rallies and prevent them from escalating, he said, adding that there is no reason for the government to dissolve the House of Representatives now.

via Thai Finance Minister Korn begins road show in Hong Kong.

China

Hong Kong’s US-Bound Exports to be Labeled ‘Made in China’

Goods produced in Hong Kong and exported to the US must be “marked to indicate that their origin is China”, according to a notice put out by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on August 11, 2020.

Published

5 months ago

September 11, 2020

Headline Editor

This ‘Made in China’ labeling requirement on Hong Kong products was originally to take effect on September 25. To give Hong Kong exporters more breathing room to switch the labels, the US CBP has extended the enforcement date by 45 days, to November 9.

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China

Hong Kong : no journalist in the world is free from China’s violent retribution

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Published

7 months ago

July 3, 2020

Boris Sullivan

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges democracies to do everything in their power to compel Beijing to withdraw the law that allows it to charge any journalist writing on Hong Kong of endangering national security, an accusation that could result in life imprisonment or even the death penalty if tried in China.

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Hong Kong

National security law for Hong Kong risks turning city into police state

China’s national security law for Hong Kong will put everybody in the city at risk of arbitrary detention and unfair trial unless underpinned by measures to guarantee protection of human rights, Amnesty International said today