Tag: Hong Kong

From an enemy to a friend

I was mortally afraid of water as a child. I grew up in India and crossed numerous rivers in rickety steamers and puny, undulating boats. I heard cruel stories of helpless men and women gobbled up by giant waves. Water represented something immense and implacable, a merciless monster. My father sensed this and wanted me …

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September 17, 2018

How powerful is Typhoon Mangkhut? This video of floating table outside Hong Kong highrise will tell you

Authorities in Hong Kong have already placed the city under lockdown and raised the storm alert to its highest.

September 16, 2018

Alibaba’s Jack Ma not retiring for now: Report

Ali Baba co-founder and Executive Chairman Jack Ma is not retiring for now and will unveil a succession strategy on Monday when he turns 54, the South China Morning Post reported on Sunday.

September 9, 2018

Turkey’s currency crisis gets worse with fresh 11% plunge

The lira's drop has unsettled global markets, with shares of European banks coming under particular pressure.

August 13, 2018

Hong Kong can take decision on Nirav Modi’s arrest: China

China on Monday said that Hong Kong can accede to India’s request to arrest fugitive Indian diamond merchant Nirav Modi based on local laws and mutual judicial assistance agreements. India’s Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh told parliament last week that “the ministry has sought the provisional arrest of Nirav Deepak Modi …

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April 9, 2018

Won’t cede even an inch of land, ready for bloody battle: Xi

President Xi Jinping on Tuesday said China won’t cede even an inch of its land and was prepared to fight the bloody battle against its enemies. “Not a single inch of our land will be or can be ceded from China,” Xi said on the concluding day of the annual session of the National’s People’s …

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March 20, 2018

Punjab gangster held in Hong Kong, Police to seek his extradition

Notorious criminal Ramanjit Singh alias Romi – a mastermind of the sensational November 2016 Nabha jailbreak case – has been arrested in Hong Kong and the Punjab Police will seek his extradition, official sources said on Friday. Romi – against whom Interpol issued a red-corner notice earlier – was arrested in connection with a robbery …

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February 24, 2018

PNB fallout: FM asks Indian banks in Hong Kong to monitor loans

The Union Finance Ministry has asked four Indian banks in Hong Kong to tighten loan sanction conditions and monitor all loans above Rs.250 crore, reports said on Friday. Putting several regulatory measures in place, the banks have been asked to reconcile all Letters Of Undertaking (LOUs) that they have issued so far. While, Public Sector …

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February 23, 2018

18 killed, 62 injured after bus overturns in Hong Kong

At least 18 people were killed and 62 injured on Saturday after a double-decker bus overturned in Hong Kong. Authorities said 10 of the injured were in critical condition and 15 were seriously wounded, Xinhua reported. Police said the driver was arrested. The accident happened at around 6.15 p.m. when a bus on its way …

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February 11, 2018

Freedom on a string

It has been a victory for democracy in Hong Kong, and the signal emitted by the island nation’s highest court on Tuesday must be particularly resounding for China. Not that the verdict is an oblique endorsement of the “umbrella movement” for democracy in 2014; what matters more immediately is that three prominent activists of democracy …

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February 9, 2018

Designer Sanjay Garg to showcase in Hong Kong

Sanjay Garg of the label Raw Mango will showcase in Hong Kong on February 3 and 4.

January 30, 2018

Varun Dhawan gets his wax statue at Madame Tussauds Hong Kong

Bollywood star Varun Dhawan is excited for the day as his wax statue is all set to be unveiled at the Madame Tussauds wax museum, Hong Kong. According to reports, Varun Dhawan is the only Indian actor after Amitabh Bachchan to have a wax statue in this museum. His wax statue will be placed among …

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January 30, 2018

Students protest in Hong Kong over compulsory Mandarin

Hundreds of Hong Kong students protested on Friday as tensions escalate on campuses over compulsory testing of Mandarin — the dominant language of mainland China. The first language of Hong Kong is Cantonese and proposals from education chiefs to put more emphasis on learning Mandarin have tapped into fears about the “mainlandisation” of the semi-autonomous …

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January 26, 2018

Indian woman in Hong Kong scammed by fake ‘consulate official’

An Indian woman based in Hong Kong became the city’s latest phone scam victim after a fraudster posing as a consulate official asked her to transfer $2,300 as part of her visa application. The 27-year-old woman studying for a PhD reported the case to police on Friday after the Indian consulate here told her its office had …

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January 21, 2018

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist jailed

A Hong Kong court on Wednesday sentenced an activist to three months in prison for obstruction of justice during pro-democracy protests in 2014. Joshua Wong, the youngest and best-known leader of the so-called “Umbrella Revolution”, would be going back to prison for failing to clear an area in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district that had …

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January 17, 2018

Hong Kong democracy activists appeal jail terms

Hong Kong’s leading democracy activists were in court today to appeal against their jail terms in a case seen as a litmus test for the independence of the city’s judiciary, which some fear is under pressure from Beijing. Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow were jailed in August last year for their role in …

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January 16, 2018

S.Korea seizes ship that transferred oil to N. Korean vessel

South Korea has seized a Hong Kong-registered ship that allegedly transferred oil to a North Korean vessel in violation of UN sanctions, the Foreign Ministry announced here on Friday. A ministry official told CNN that the Lighthouse Winmore deported from the port of Yeosu in South Korea carrying refined oil which was then transferred to …

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December 29, 2017