TOKYO / NEW YORK (Reuters) – Asian stocks rose to a four-month high on Friday due to strong data from the US payrolls taking. FILE PHOTO: The Shanghai Stock Exchange Building in the Pudong Financial District in Shanghai, China, February 28, 2020. REUTERS / Aly Song MSCI’s broader Asia-Pacific index …
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China has vowed to take “all necessary countermeasures” if the United States follows through on legislation that penalizes banks doing business with Chinese officials who implement Hong Kong’s new draconian national security law. Friday’s warning came after the United States Senate unanimously passed the Hong Kong Autonomy Law, sending it …
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When Apple closed its retail stores worldwide amid the coronavirus pandemic, a handful of outlets were exempt, including its six Hong Kong locations. In fact, much of Hong Kong has felt relatively normal this year compared to its peers, who enacted strict blocking measures. Since its first confirmed Covid-19 case …
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission Head Ursula von der Leyen hold a joint press conference via video conference to mark Berlin taking over the rotating EU presidency from July 1 to the end of the year in Berlin, Germany, July 2, 2020. Kay Nietfeld / Pool via Reuters …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Hong Kong pro-democracy activists are discussing a plan to create an unofficial parliament in exile to keep the flame of democracy alive and send a message to China that freedom cannot be crushed, he told Reuters on activist Simon Cheng. Simon Cheng, a former British Consulate employee, …
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