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's Basic Law enshrines a principle of ‘one country, two systems' designed to afford the city a high degree of autonomy -- including its own government structure and judiciary -- until 2047.

By Tiffany May Reporting from Hong Kong On a recent eight-hour shift at a McDonald’s in Hong Kong, Luke Ching, 52, wiped tables, cleared trays of half-eaten fries, emptied cups of soda and milk ...

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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 ...

Once Hong Kong's largest opposition party, the Democratic Party has suffered since China's crackdown. Huge crowds gathered in Hong Kong to get a glimpse of Elder Sister and Little Brother Chloe ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Francis Lui, 69, eldest son of the late Hong Kong tycoon, gained control of $1.6 billion of shares that were previously held by his father and family foundations, according to exchange filings on ...