Hong Xiuquan (b. 1814), a schoolteacher from a small village in the Guangzhou province, led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, nearly toppling the government and establishing himself ...

Hong Kong has a free market economy, highly dependent on international trade and finance - the value of goods and services trade, including the sizable share of reexports, is about four times GDP.

HONG KONG, March 6 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's edge as a financial hub will erode further as the city becomes embroiled in China-U.S. tensions, with the flash sale of a Hong Kong-owned global ports ...

Hong Kong’s security chief has condemned an “unfounded and fact-twisting” article published by the BBC in which the city’s youngest fugitive wanted for alleged national security offences ...

Hong Kong will continue to be governed by the “one country, two systems” principle and retain its common law system indefinitely, well beyond 2047, justice minister Paul Lam Ting-kwok has said ...

HONG KONG, March 6 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's top court on Thursday dismissed a bid to overturn the 2022 conviction and sentence of jailed pro-democracy activist Tam Tak-chi under a colonial-era ...

Shares of China’s largest bubble tea and drinks chain Mixue Group jumped nearly 30% on their first day of trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Monday after the firm raised $444 million in ...

Hong Kong has unveiled the 2025 edition of the Technology Talent Admission Scheme (TechTAS), aiming to streamline the entry of international professionals in key technological fields. This ...

Chinese mainland investors bought HK$22.4 billion ($2.88 billion) worth of Hong Kong stocks on Tuesday, as they continued to drive a DeepSeek-spurred tech rally in the city. The inflow was the ...

Just over a year ago, Chloe Cheung was sitting her A-levels. Now she's on a Chinese government list of wanted dissidents. The choir girl-turned-democracy activist woke up to news in December that ...