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By Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam rejected a Bar Association nominee to a discreet panel that selects the city's judges...

For decades Russia has, more than any other country, aided Chinas dramatic military modernisation with weapons and technology - and now Beijing has plenty that Moscow needs as its Ukraine... | March 17, 2022

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong health authorities reported 32,430 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, as the city's leader said her government was trying b...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong health authorities reported 32,430 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, as the city's leader said her government was trying b...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is likely to threaten one of China’s most discreet but important strategic relationships in the past few years: its use of Ukraine as a source of technology for the expanding Chinese military. Military analysts and diplomats have said that although the Ukraine-China link has come under increased pressure from the US, the conflict could largely scupper a trade that has helped China’s military modernize over the past two decades. Ukrainian frustration over Beijin...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Two of Hong Kong's largest consumer retail chains started rationing some food and drug items on Friday to curb panic buying that...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Two of Hong Kong's largest consumer retail chains started rationing some food and drug items on Friday to curb panic buying that...

As COVID-19 rages across Hong Kong at the start of a sensitive political year for China and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平), Beijing is determined not to be embarrassed and undermined as it was by the protests that rocked the territory in 2019. In the past week, since Xi told Hong Kong that its “overriding mission” was to control the worsening COVID-19 crisis, the territory has stepped up disease prevention measures, including plans for mass testing buttressed by equipment, testing ...

By James Pomfret and Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) - As COVID-19 rages across Hong Kong at the start of a sensitive political year for China and Pre...

By James Pomfret and Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) - As COVID-19 rages across Hong Kong at the start of a sensitive political year for China and Pre...