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HONG KONG

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 5, 2019
Hong Kong students reject meeting Chief Executive Carrie Lam to discuss recent protests
Hong Kong students refused a meeting with the Chief Executive Carrie Lam, dealing her China-backed government another setback to its efforts to avert further mass protests.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Jul 4, 2019
After latest protests, Beijing sends message to Hong Kong: Fall in line or face irrelevance
After a week of turbulence in Hong Kong, Beijing appears to have settled on its message to the city: Continued protests risk throwing away everything that makes it special.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 3, 2019
Hong Kong protests and Beijing's tightening grip rattle business community
Chaotic scenes of protesters rampaging through Hong Kong's legislature, trashing furniture and daubing graffiti over walls have sent jitters through the business community, which worries about the impact on the city's status as a financial hub.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 2, 2019
Chinese newspaper calls for 'zero tolerance' following violent Hong Kong protests
A Chinese state paper Tuesday called for "zero tolerance" after protesters in Hong Kong stormed and ransacked the city's legislature following a day of protests against a controversial extradition bill.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 30, 2019
Hong Kong immigrants who have moved to Taiwan despair about the future back home
Kitty Wong and Adolf Lim are tightening the screws on their future in Taiwan as they make the final touches to a hostel in the southern city of Tainan, that they hope will open its doors to vacationers next month.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2019
Hong Kong extradition opponents in Osaka protest legislation ahead of G20, asking for U.K. and U.S. help
About 40 Hong Kong residents and Japanese gathered Thursday evening in central Osaka to protest extradition legislation that would allow Hong Kong residents to be sent to mainland China to face trial.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 27, 2019
Fresh protests rock Hong Kong as activists seek a voice at G20 Osaka summit
Hong Kong was plunged into chaos again on Thursday as protesters rallied outside the justice secretary's offices, blocking roads and forcing workers to leave in the latest unrest to rock the city over an extradition bill that has now been suspended.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 21, 2019
Green-tech megacity taking shape in China
Entrepreneur Tony Verb is on a mission to promote technology that can help make cities greener and smarter in China's Greater Bay Area, now being shaped as a low-carbon megalopolis.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 21, 2019
Hong Kong protesters demand total withdrawal of contentious extradition bill
Thousands of people dressed in black marched in Hong Kong on Friday to press for the total withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill that has triggered violent protests and plunged the financial hub into political crisis.
EDITORIALS
Jun 20, 2019
Hong Kong boils over
The people of Hong Kong have prevailed but this is only a skirmish in a much longer struggle.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 18, 2019
Hong Kongers fearful of China's grasp look longingly toward 'democratic beacon' Taiwan
For Hong Kong resident Yung Xiu Kwan, 67, a proposed extradition law that would allow people in the former British colony to be sent to mainland China for trial was the final straw.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 18, 2019
'Sing Hallelujah to the Lord': The unlikely anthem of Hong Kong protests
The Christian hymn "Sing Hallelujah to the Lord" has emerged as the unlikely anthem of Hong Kong's protests against an extradition bill that have drawn millions of people onto the streets.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 18, 2019
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam apologizes for extradition bill but says she won't withdraw it
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam personally apologized for backing a bill that would allow extraditions to China for the first time, her latest move to try and defuse protests that have rocked the city.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 17, 2019
Why this time turned out different for Hong Kong
Support from business and the potential financial damage to China help explain how protesters prevailed in their battle against the extradition bill.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jun 17, 2019
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong vows to join protest movement after release from prison
Activist Joshua Wong, who has become the face of Hong Kong's push for full democracy, walked free from prison on Monday and vowed to join a mass protest movement demanding that the city's Beijing-backed leader, Carrie Lam, steps down.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jun 16, 2019
How Hong Kong protests and Beijing pressure forced Carrie Lam to cave on extradition bill
With an escalating U.S. trade war, a faltering economy and tensions in the South China Sea vexing her bosses in Beijing, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam appeared in no mood to compromise on a planned extradition law at recent meetings, according to foreign envoys and business people who met with...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 15, 2019
Calls mount for Hong Kong extradition bill to be suspended
Hong Kong girded for another mass march against a China-backed extradition bill Sunday as the city's leader, Carrie Lam, faced new calls to withdraw the legislation after clashes between protesters and police.
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2019
Former chemistry teacher Zhong Huijuan becomes richest self-made woman in Asia
Two days ago, Zhong Huijuan wasn't even the richest person in her family.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 15, 2019
Hong Kong tycoons start moving assets offshore as fears rise over new extradition law
Some Hong Kong tycoons have started moving personal wealth offshore as concern deepens over a local government plan to allow extraditions of suspects to face trial in China for the first time, according to financial advisers, bankers and lawyers familiar with such transactions.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Pope Francis, radical leader who broke the papal mold, dies at 88
Pope Francis blesses the faithful during the weekly general audience at the Vatican in August 2023.
Japan mulls reviewing car safety rules to strike deal with Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister and top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday.
Japan tariff negotiator rules out quick U.S. deal despite push by Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to reporters upon his arrival at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday, a day after talks in Washington.
Shohei Ohtani announces birth of daughter
Shohei Ohtani and his wife Mamiko Tanaka attend a Lakers game in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2024.
The floor is art: Takuro Tamayama transforms mundanity
Takuro Tamayama’s sculpture “Models (Pair, 6 sets, 12 rings)” comes with a mathematical formation that scales it for different spaces.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Calling all Potterheads: ‘The Goblet of Fire’ comes to Tokyo
The Tokyo version of the globe-trotting exhibition features a Ministry of Magic set, which includes an imposing replica of the Magic Is Might monument representing magical fascism.
Tokyo stock picker advises Trump-proofing portfolios with Godzilla creator Toho
The head of Godzilla, a Japanese monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo. Toho is one tariff-defensive stock being recommended by brokers.
LDP and CDP lawmaker groups propose 0% consumption tax on food
A vegetable stand displays prices at a supermarket in Tokyo in 2023. Some lawmakers are proposing lowering the consumption tax on food to 0%, which is expected to result in a loss of up to ¥5 trillion in tax revenue annually.

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