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3 weeks ago | scmp.com | Edith Lin |Willa Wu |William Zheng

Beijing’s point man overseeing Hong Kong affairs is set to visit the city later this month as it marks the fifth anniversary of the imposition of the national security law and he will speak on the occasion, the Post has learned. Sources told the Post that Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO), was planning a visit to the city and was likely to attend a national security legal forum organised by the Department of Justice and scheduled for June 21.

1 month ago | scmp.com | Natalie Wong |Willa Wu

Top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi will arrive in Hong Kong on Thursday afternoon and meet the city’s leader ahead of a ceremony for the establishment of an intergovernmental mediation organisation in the financial hub, the Post has learned. A source familiar with the itinerary said on Wednesday that Wang would be greeted by Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu on Thursday afternoon, followed by a dinner hosted by the city’s leader that evening.

1 month ago | scmp.com | Natalie Wong |Willa Wu

Hong Kong electoral authorities have planned to include the Hetao cooperation zone, a new innovation hub near the border, in an existing constituency in the New Territories for the coming legislative election, despite no one living there. The Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) revealed on Friday its proposal to integrate the Hetao area, which is located on both sides of the Shenzhen River and co-developed with mainland Chinese authorities, into Hong Kong’s electoral map.

2 months ago | scmp.com | Ng Kang-chung |Willa Wu

United States President Donald Trump has unleashed a trade war by imposing “reciprocal tariffs” on about 90 countries across the globe. After temporarily dropping the new tariffs to 10 per cent for 90 days on April 9 to allow trade negotiations with those countries, he hit China harder and raised the levy on Chinese imports to a whopping 145 per cent. Beijing vowed to “fight to the end” and slapped tit-for-tat tariffs on American goods in retaliation.

2 months ago | scmp.com | Willa Wu |Elizabeth Cheung

The number of deals involving non-local homebuyers in Hong Kong has more than tripled over the past two years, official data shows, a jump that experts have attributed in part to the government’s scrapping of property market cooling measures. But the number of transactions by local buyers increased by only 14 per cent between 2023-24 and 2024-25, with the latest level down by 34 per cent over the figure for 2020-21, when the Covid-19 pandemic started to hit the city.