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Life and death for firms: Can Hong Kong's plummeting economy rebound?

The Hong Kong government has announced relief packages this year, but for most struggling businesses the best cure would be an end to the protests

Hong Kong likely to record negative economic growth in 2019: Carrie Lam

Lam was speaking two days after Financial Secretary Paul Chan said Hong Kong has fallen into recession and was unlikely to achieve any growth this year.

Hong Kong stocks hit 1-week low amid economic headwinds, political unrest

Massive violent anti-government protests over the past five months have shaken Hong Kong's reputation and damaged its all important tourism and retail sectors

Hong police fire tear gas and water cannon as crowds defy rally ban

Authorities had forbidden the march in Tsim Sha Tsui, a densely-packed shopping district filled with luxury boutiques and hotels, citing public safety and previous violence from hardcore protesters

Hong Kong protest leaders urge turnout, despite risk of arrest

Police declared the march illegal, citing concerns over public safety, and a court said the destination of the march - the main railway interchange with mainland China - could be attacked, vandalised

Hong Kong protest leaders urge turnout, despite risk of arrest

Police declared the march illegal, citing concerns over public safety, and a court said the destination of the march - the main railway interchange with mainland China - could be attacked, vandalised

Violent protests push Hong Kong into a recession with no recovery in sight

The economy in Hong Kong contracted in the second quarter, almost certainly in the third quarter and the data are still deteriorating

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam may reach out to China as economic crisis looms

Lam said protests were severely damaging Hong Kong's economy. "Hong Kong's various sectors will enter a severe winter season," she said.

Hong Kong bourse fails to win over LSE management, scraps $39-billion bid

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd (HKEX), said it still believed the combination of the two exchanges would be "strategically compelling"

Face mask ban in Hong Kong sparks violent clashes, rail shutdown

The ban was aimed at quelling nearly four months of unrest but instead sparked widespread clashes and vows of defiance, with a 14-year-old boy reportedly shot and wounded

Hong Kong to ban face masks at protests in bid to quell months of unrest

The government will enact the Emergency Regulations Ordinance after a special meeting of the city's Executive Council on Friday

Hong Kong's retail woes deepen as violent protests deter Chinese shoppers

Retail sales forecast for Hong Kong have fallen 14 per cent in August from a year ago and hotel occupancy rates have slid to 66 per cent from 94 per cent in August 2018

Hong Kong protesters mark five years since 'Umbrella' street movement

A series of protests for and against Communist Party rulers in Beijing is planned for the Chinese-ruled city ahead of the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic on Tuesday, including at the consula

No umbrellas, please: Hong Kong tells protesters not what to carry in talks

Lam promised to hold the talks to try to end the disruptions in the Asian financial hub

UK bourse could reject Hong Kong's offer to buy London Stock Exchange

LSE and its advisers have wide-ranging concerns, including the possible influence of China on the HKEX

UNHRC disturbed about violent protests in Hong Kong, calls for restraint

She also urged embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to hold a dialogue with the people of Hong Kong, who should take an opportunity in an effort to end to the crisis "peacefully and constructively"

Hong Kong inseparable from China, secessionism will be crushed: State media

China has accused foreign forces of trying to hurt Beijing by creating chaos in Hong Kong over an extradition bill that would have allowed suspects to be tried in Communist Party-controlled courts

HK police fire tear gas as clashes erupt after thousands appeal to Trump

Riot police dispersed demonstrators in parts of of Central only for them to regather in other districts.

Positive cues from Hong Kong a boost to market sentiment, indices rebound

The Sensex rise was driven by metal, banking, telecom and IT stocks amid some positive news coming from Hong Kong

Extradition bill that triggered Hong Kong protests to be withdrawn

Millions of people have taken to Hong Kong's streets since June in the biggest challenge to China's rule of semi-autonomous Hong Kong since its handover from the British in 1997