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AP PHOTOS: Move over peanuts, pistachio is the latest trend for Hong Kong New Year treats
HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong culinary institution is acknowledging that changing times bring changing tastes and has found a hit in adding American pistachios to the range of flavors in its famed dumplings. The Kwan Hong Bakery last year began offering the new flavor alongside the...
China's factory activity contracts in January for the first time in 4 months
HONG KONG (AP) — Manufacturing slowed in China in January for the first time in four months as workers began leaving assembly lines to travel to their hometowns for Lunar New Year holidays. The National Bureau of Statistics said its purchasing managers index, based on a survey of...
AP PHOTOS: Hong Kong's snake soup is slithering away but still simmers in a decades-old kitchen
HONG KONG (AP) — As Hong Kong prepares to welcome the Year of the Snake on Wednesday, Chau Ka-ling displays a moving serpent with practiced ease, holding it like a pet in her decades-old restaurant in the city. As one of the last keepers of the city’s traditional snake soup...
China moves to boost languishing markets by ordering funds to invest more in shares
BANGKOK (AP) — The Chinese government is trying to encourage people to spend more by ensuring that share prices will rise, ordering pensions and mutual funds to invest more in domestic stocks to help jolt its languid markets out of the doldrums. Officials told reporters in Beijing...
Chinese property developer Country Garden plans deal with creditors, as industry languishes
HONG KONG (AP) — Embattled Chinese property developer Country Garden expects to reach a deal with its creditors in February to restructure billions of dollars in debt, the company’s lawyer told a Hong Kong court Monday. One of the largest Chinese real estate companies, Country...
Stock market today: Asian shares gain and bitcoin hits a record high ahead of U.S. inauguration
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares advanced early Monday and bitcoin surged to a record high ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. U.S. markets will be closed Monday for a holiday. The price of bitcoin surged as high as $109,134 early Monday, up from...
How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threat
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that's probably because it has, at least if you're measuring via internet time. What's now in question is whether it will be around much longer and, if so, in what form? Starting in 2017, when the Chinese social...
How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threat
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that's probably because it has, at least if you're measuring via internet time. What's now in question is whether it will be around much longer and, if so, in what form? Starting in 2017, when the Chinese social...
How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threat
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that's probably because it has, at least if you're measuring via internet time. What's now in question is whether it will be around much longer and, if so, in what form? Starting in 2017, when the Chinese social...
Asian singers and actors who relocated to Asia see global crossover opportunity
Twenty years after he was a young, struggling actor in Toronto, Thomas Lo is now the one giving young Asian actors their big breaks. He just had to go to Hong Kong to do it. The Chinese Canadian has been the creative director of one of the island city's biggest TV broadcasting...
