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Hong Kong court bans protest anthem, saying it can be used as a weapon
FILE - Local residents sing a theme song written by protesters "Glory to Hong Kong" at a shopping mall in Hong Kong on Sept. 11, 2019. An appeals court Wednesday, May 8, 2024 granted the Hong Kong government's request to ban a popular protest song, overturning an earlier ruling and deepening concerns over the erosion of freedoms in the once-freewheeling global financial hub. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
opinion
Rosenberg Research: It’s time to buy into this undervalued major global stock market
Bhawana Chhabra
report on business
China sanctions 2 US defense companies and says they support arms sales to Taiwan
US tanks M1-A1 Abrams block a path at a training range in Paju, near Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), 50 kilometer north of Seoul, on June 9, 2003. China on Thursday, April 11, 2024 announced sanctions against two U.S. defense companies, one of which produces the M1 tank, over what it says is their support for arms sales to Taiwan, the self-governing island democracy Beijing claims as its own territory to be recovered by force if necessary. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara, File)
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Vietnam tycoon sentenced to death in US$12-billion fraud case, state media reports
Business woman Truong My Lan, front center, attends a trial in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Thursday, April 11, 2024. The real estate tycoon may face the death penalty if convicted of allegations that she siphoned off an amount of $12.5 billion, nearly 3 percent of Vietnam's 2022 GDP, in its largest financial fraud case. (Thanh Tung/VnExpress via AP)
seafood
Strong demand, weak catch: Lobster prices reach historic highs in Nova Scotia
Stewart Lamont, Managing Director at Tangier Lobster Company Ltd., poses at the company's facility in Tangier, N.S. on Thursday, April 4, 2024. Darren Calabrese/The Globe and Mail
world
27 people charged in ‘Panama Papers’ trial as worldwide money laundering case begins
People enter the courthouse where the "Panama Papers" trial is being held in Panama City on April 8, 2024. 27 people will be tried starting on June 8, 2024, for the "Panama Papers" case, eight years after this scandal broke out, revealing how personalities from around the world would have hidden money through the defunct Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP) (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images)
world
Foreign media in China face growing harassment and restrictions on reporting
Plainclothes police officers gesture to signify photographs should not be taken in front of the number 2 intermediate people's court in Tianjin on December 26, 2018, where the trial of human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang is set to begin. - Two rights activists were taken away on December 26 after protesting outside the courthouse where the trial of Wang, a prominent human rights lawyer, is set to begin amid tight security, according to an AFP reporter and a witness. (Photo by Nicolas ASFOURI / AFP)NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images
sports
Canadian women win three straight to finish first in their group at Hong Kong Sevens
Canada's Olivia Apps (L) carries the ball during the France vs Canada match in the 2024 HSBC Rugby Sevens LA women's tournament at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California on March 3, 2024. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
asia-pacific business
HSBC chairman says spinoff of bank’s Asian business ‘will not happen’
<p>RBC opened HSBC Canada branches under its own brand on Monday after closing its takeover of the bank last week. An HSBC bank sign is pictured in Ottawa on Monday, July 11, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick</p>
politics
MP Han Dong says he can’t recall telling Chinese diplomat two Michaels release would affirm hardline approach to China
Han Dong, right, walks with lawyer Mark Polley as he arrives to appear as a witness at the Public Inquiry Into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
canada
Morning Update: Israelis rally in the largest anti-government protest since the war in Gaza began
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - MARCH 30: Protesters hold flame torches and set a fire as they are taking part in a demonstration calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, and against Israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government on March 30, 2024 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israelis' frustrations with the government led by Benjamin Netanyahu have persisted as over 100 hostages remain captive in Gaza, after nearly six months of war between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
world
U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia closes its Hong Kong bureau over safety concerns under new security law
FILE - Surveillance cameras are seen as a visitor looks at Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong, Monday, March 11, 2024. The president of U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia said its Hong Kong bureau has been closed because of safety concerns under a new national security law, deepening concerns about the city’s media freedoms. Bay Fang, the president of RFA, said in a statement Friday March 29, 2024 that it will no longer have full-time staff in Hong Kong, although it would retain its official media registration. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte, File)
international business
Alibaba to buy Cainiao stake for up to $3.75-billion as it drops IPO plan
FILE - The logo of Chinese technology firm Alibaba is seen at its office in Beijing on Aug. 10, 2021. Alibaba Group Holding on Tuesday said it had scrapped plans to list its logistics unit Cainiao in Hong Kong, as it looks to prioritize growing its e-commerce business while facing challenging IPO market conditions. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
opinion
Chinese investors are loading up on bitcoin, which may help explain the cryptocurrency’s dazzling rise
Eric Reguly
real estate
Bedrooms without a view could be Toronto’s new normal
A one bedroom unit at 68 Abell St. in Toronto's Little Portugal neighbourhood. The bedroom in the middle of the apartment has a sliding opaque glass door.
opinion
Will Hong Kong’s financial-hub identity survive its new national security laws?
Frank Ching
report on business
Alimentation Couche-Tard CEO says lower income customers are cutting back on store visits
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. says it is suspending its operations in Russia, effectively immediately. A man passes by a Couche Tard convenience store in Montreal, Friday, October 5, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes.
world
Hong Kong unanimously passes new national security law
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Hong Kong passes draconian new national security law
Lawmakers vote for Article 23 in the chamber of the Legislative Council after the conclusion of the readings of the Article 23 National Security Law, in Hong Kong on March 19, 2024. Hong Kong's legislature unanimously passed a new national security law on March 19, introducing penalties such as life imprisonment for crimes related to treason and insurrection, and up to 20 years' jail for the theft of state secrets. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP) (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)
world
Twelve sentenced to jail for storming Hong Kong legislature in 2019
Hong Kong actor Gregory Wong (R) enters the West Kowloon court in Hong Kong on February 1, 2024. Four Hong Kong men were convicted of rioting on February 1 over the storming and ransacking of the city's legislature in 2019, part of a pro-democracy movement that posed an unprecedented challenge to the Beijing-backed government. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP) (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)
world
U.S.-funded broadcaster Radio Free Asia to exit Hong Kong ahead of new security law
Chinese and Hong Kong flags are seen at the waterfront during a foggy day in Hong Kong, China, March 6, 2024. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
world
Three Hong Kong activists behind Tiananmen vigil lose bid to overturn conviction
FILE - In this May 6, 2021, file photo, Chow Hang Tung, the vice chair of The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, speaks to media outside a court in Hong Kong. Hong Kong police on Friday, June 4, arrested the committee member that organizes the city’s annual June 4 museum and candlelight vigil, on the 32nd anniversary of a bloody military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, according to local media reports. (AP Photo/Rafael Wober, File)
world
Prosecution’s star witness takes the stand in Jimmy Lai trial
Armed police stand guard as a prison van carrying Andy Li, one of the 12 activists intercepted by mainland authorities in August 2020 on a boat allegedly en route to Taiwan, arrives at the high court, in Hong Kong, China August 19, 2021. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
world
As Jimmy Lai trial continues, owning copies of Apple Daily newspaper could become illegal under new Hong Kong law
FILE - Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai pauses next to a copy of Apple Daily's July 1, 2020, edition during an interview Hong Kong Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Lai said in an interview Wednesday that Hong Kong is dead under the new national security law. Lai, who owns popular newspaper Apple Daily, is a prominent advocate for democracy in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
world
Hong Kong races to pass tough new security law with powers to crush dissent
FILE PHOTO: A man checks his phone at the waterfront, with a tourist junk boat in the backdrop, on a foggy day in Hong Kong, China, March 6, 2024. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo
world
Hong Kong proposes life terms for treason and insurrection in new national security bill
(FILES) Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee (C), Secretary for Justice Paul Lam (L) and Secretary for Security Chris Tang (R) hold a press conference on Article 23 Legislation at government headquarters in Hong Kong on January 30, 2024. Hong Kong's proposed national security law has the city's business, human rights, and diplomacy communities troubled about government overreach in the international finance hub. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP) / TO GO WITH: Hong Kong-China-politics-law, by Xinqi SU and Holmes CHAN (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)
international business
JPMorgan picks HSBC, StanChart to run $500-billion custody business in Hong Kong, Taiwan
FILE PHOTO: A customer walks out of a branch of the JPMorgan Chase & Co bank in New York, March 15, 2013. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo
international business
Evergrande chairman’s second seized Hong Kong mansion put up for sale
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: The China Evergrande Centre building sign is seen in Hong Kong, China December 7, 2021. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo/File Photo
politics
Second diaspora group won’t take part in foreign-interference inquiry
Commissioner Justice Marie-Josee Hogue listens to a lawyer speak at the Public Inquiry Into Foreign Interference in Federal Election Processes and Democratic Institutions, Friday, February 2, 2024 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
politics
Ottawa must warn Canadian business about risks of operating in Hong Kong, MPs told
HONG KONG, CHINA - AUGUST 10: A handout photo from Apple Daily showing police officers during a search at the headquarters of Apple Daily after media mogul, Hong Kong business tycoon Jimmy Lai, was arrested at his home on August 10, 2020 in Hong Kong, China. Hong Kong police arrested seven people, including business tycoon Jimmy Lai on Monday on charges of violating the territory's new national security law. Police officers raided the pro-democracy newspapers headquarter while leading Mr. Lai and the company's chief executive, Cheung Kim-hung, through the offices in handcuffs. (Photo by Handout/Getty Images)
sports
Fury over Messi situation deepens in China after he plays in Japan
Soccer Football - Friendly - Vissel Kobe v Inter Miami - Japan National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan - February 7, 2024 Inter Miami's Lionel Messi in action with Vissel Kobe's Shota Arai REUTERS/Issei Kato
asia-pacific business
Chinese shares jump as state investment fund pledges to expand stock holdings to aid sagging markets
People stand in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, in Tokyo. Asian shares were mixed on Tuesday, with Hong Kong and Shanghai leading declines, ahead of a decision by the Federal Reserve this week on interest rates. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
world
Messi business: Inter Miami booed by furious Hong Kong fans as Argentine spends exhibition match benched
Inter Miami's Argentine forward Lionel Messi (L) sits on the bench during the friendly football match between Hong Kong XI and US Inter Miami CF in Hong Kong on February 4, 2024. Inter Miami were booed off the pitch after their injured superstar Lionel Messi failed to take the field in a pre-season friendly in Hong Kong. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP) (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hong Kong court convicts four people of rioting over the storming of legislature in 2019 protests
Hong Kong actor Gregory Wong (R) enters the West Kowloon court in Hong Kong on February 1, 2024. Four Hong Kong men were convicted of rioting on February 1 over the storming and ransacking of the city's legislature in 2019, part of a pro-democracy movement that posed an unprecedented challenge to the Beijing-backed government. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP) (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Activist publisher Jimmy Lai pleads not guilty in Hong Kong national-security trial
(FILES) In this picture taken on June 16, 2020, media tycoon Jimmy Lai poses during an interview with AFP at the Next Digital offices in Hong Kong. Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai pleaded not guilty on January 2, 2024 to "sedition" and "collusion" charges in a high-profile national security trial that could see him jailed for life. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)