in hong kong. beyond the names of those who should be called to task are those we must remember for their valiant defense of freedom. we are to remember the brave founder of apple daily. that beacon of free speech shut down in june of this year, assets frozen, and computers confiscated by the police. jimmy is now in jail brought to court in shackles while the court has yet to set a hearing date. jimmy is a man of deep faith, a fellow catholic, who could easily have fled to safety like the roughly 90,000 citizens who have left hong kong between june of 2020 and june 2021 because he was a rich man. he stayed in hong kong to stand with those who spoke for freedom. he has been stripped of his liberty, his home, traded for a jail cell. he stands unbroken. a testament to defiance in the face of tyranny. one of our distinguished witnesses today, a naturalized american citizen for nearly 25 years, has been accused of violating the national security law. which severely punishes types of activities. allies -

i also want to say that hong kong is a unique situation. for example, unlike many of the refugee situation crisis we see, it is not the case that hong kongers are not waiting, at least by and large at a third country at a refugee camp. they are still under the jurisdictions and the control and monitoring surveillance of hong kong. if they were to be undertaking a long refugee review process and then wait for that to come and be approved, the good thing about the refugee status, obviously, they come to support, but it might not actually help those who are in immediate danger. as the chair and the commission, i think knows, that i also worked the state department to provide humanitarian paroles for a number of individuals including those who fled to taiwan via a speed boat last year. we need to be using existing programs, like the significant public benefit the parole benefit program that allows them to leave as soon as possible. one of those applicants, without going into the details, in fact when we try to transfer out directly was arrested

in hong kong.itnesses discuss freedom of the press, religion, and opposing political views. they spoke before the bipartisan human rights commission for about two hours. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] civil and political [inaudible] >> 5, 4, 3, 2. >> hello, everybody. thank you for being here. this meeting know comes to order . we need to probe the state of civil rights in hong kong on this, the eve of house passage of my bipartisan legislation, the hong kong human rights and democracy act of 2019, exactly two years ago tomorrow. we also meet in search of pursuing the most effective ways to mitigate and end the crimes committed each and every day by the chinese communist party and we need to remind the brave democracy activists that we deeply respect, their courage and sacrifice, and that they are absolutely not forgotten. 70 years ago -- seven years ago, i first introduced the hong kong human rights democracy act of 2014. it was the time of the umbrella movement, which began in response to th

i was born in hong kong.en i started to work in greater china ago decade ago i decided to revoke my hong kong citizenship. even back then i was worried about my safety because i knew chinese authorities would not recognize my canadian citizenship if i were detained. but the sweeping national security law sent a chill through the city i used to call home. and then with that uncertainty psychologist including high stschool counselors are afraid to approach political topics even during private counseling sessions. and that's a commission knows with collusion the forces in those to be the most vulnerable and then the national security law applies to anyone in the world. hong kong police issued arrest warrants are arrested american citizens. it makes it possible for civil society without further endangering other people. chinese officials are concerned about support with the past and present politician to bear some responsibility and then nonfactual rhetoric. and it shows how ordinary people with us china relation

hong kong remains shut at a time when cities are opening per what would it take for hong kong to open chief executive lam: i have said in public that the parity now is to resume some normal travel with the mainland. this is the common aspiration of the hong kong people including international business and hong kong. if i ask them, your choice of having headquarter or in offices in hong kong was because of the assets to the mainland market. if i open up the border for the international arrivals but at the same time, you cannot travel into the mainland. that is not really the best arrangement for our business people. we have a good and positive meeting between the two sides. we have agreed a set of parameters based on which weekend move onto the next stage of discussing how we can resume -- haslinda: what are those parameters? is it 80% vaccinated rate? what are you looking for before you open up? investors are concerned. we have had some likes saying that its members may consider moving out of hong kong to places like singapore. chief executive lam: first of all, our latest company sur

sophie is in hong kong.with the energy seeing, keeping an eye on shares related to china suppliers of: power. i report that key does that three key provinces that produce call have pledged to boost supply. watching companies along the supply chain for cotton have neared a fresh cade hi. futures have jumps 26% in the past three weeks. we are watching chinese property stocks after we got more data showing slowing sales with 90% of china's top developers reporting an average drop of 36% on a yearly basis in september. chinese tech names in focus after the bounds we saw in hong kong. jeffrey's believing we go toward are produced in for tencent and the broker is maintaining calls on the stock with tencent expected to further unlocked potential in gaming and satisfy unmet demand. we are keeping an eye own chinese by joe makers. shery: take a look at the broader markets. we are seeing broad upside across asian markets with the nikkei up 1.8%. we had seen household spending a while ago come in slightly better than e

we talk more about hong kong and what is happening. kathleen hays will join us to talk about new zealand and why the kiwi dollar is slightly weaker. that is the risk, it might be to the downside, as far as the kiwi dollar is concerned. commodity markets in focus, oil holding steady. here you go, as far as some of the sovereigns and futures. but hong kong very much in focus, especially as we hit the new lows on benchmarks. yvonne: h-shares, a five year low we are approaching. taking a look at the property developers. still the key focus after yesterday night we saw a series of downgrades from the likes of when it came to fantasia. so we see when it comes to the hang seng, down 233 points. hardware seems to be dragging the benchmark lower. property, as well. we are watching the hong kong property developers ahead of the policy address from carrie lam. david: we will see what happens. it goes into the whole property conversation. it is a different story, but the same theme. yvonne: common prosperity. david: how you get property prices dow

hong kong is a free economy.prosper on being an international financial center, where a lot of investment wants to come in. haslinda: are you looking at 2.5 million in the northern metropolis from one million? you expect one in five hong kong verse from outside the area to be gravitating towards the northern metropolis. is that a fair assumption, or are you looking at a population growth to meet two point 5 million people there -- 2.5 million people there? carrie: it's difficult to project population growth. we will hit 8.5 million in 20 years time. we don't need all these one million for the increase in population. the people are living in very congested living spaces. i'm sure you have heard about it. so i have an aspiration to provide more spacious living environment for my people. david: that was hong kong's chief executive carrie lam speaking exclusively with haslinda almond a short time ago. let's get more on the housing issue. the head of asia property research joins us to discuss these policy initiatives

hong kong time. kathleen: hong kong is prioritizing opening travel to the chinese mainland, officials are expecting a new covid outbreak to worsen. our global business managing editor emma o'brien joins us now. how do you put all these latest developments together? >> in the global scheme of things, china's outlook is pretty minimal. we are talking 26 new cases in the world's most populous nation. burford china, a place with strategy when it comes to covid reliance as soon as they emerge to prevent any spread is pretty worrying. it has gone from a handful of places to 11 provinces in basically a week. we are talking in a month to the north to beijing, which is always very sensitive, then further south. there's even a case in the province, which is home to wuhan where covid-19 first emerged. the fact that you have health officials warning about an increase shows they know delta is the much tougher one. it's definitely proving that way to china, with these resurgence is of local transmission outbreaks.

hong kong markets are going through a rough patch.al potential billion-dollar ideas have let their applications lapse amid regulatory scrutiny. supermarket owner and health care start off we dr., -- we doctor, behind south korea for the first time in four years. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am vonnie quinn. this is bloomberg. >> indonesia is the second southeast asian country after singapore to impose a carbon tax. there was criticism that the raises too low. there finance minister told bloomberg the country must employ those in his tax -- must impose taxes cautiously. >> our general revenue increase from this tax refund is definitely of the -- proposal. during this covid situation, the extra spending for -- is significant. we have to scale under the social safety net as well as support the business in order for them to afford to recover. also, new building infrastructure. we just acquired -- to stay productive. it all c

might hong kong lose its competitiveness? ms.ourse i am concerned and we are working very hard to resume normal travel in a gradual and orderly manner with mainland china and overseas places, but as the chief executive in hong kong, i am duty-bound to protect my people, so any fatality or increasing in fatalities will cause a major concern in society. in dealing with the public health crisis, we have a lot of factors to take into account. it cannot be just a single factor of a financial center. coming back to financial center, i think bloomberg knows better than everybody the we are doing very well. haslinda: the worries for international investors, lots of speculations about whether this is on the back burner or debt. talk to us about what is happening with the law. ms. lam: first of all, the anti-sanctions law is a piece of national legislation. there is a mechanism of four national legislation to be applied to hong kong by an act of inclusion by the committee. secondly, nobody could dispute the extension of the slot to hong ko

rob mcbride reports from hong kong. there were a total of 7 defendants in court, found guilty of the charge of inciting others to take part in an illegal assembly. now this dates back to a protest on july 1st of last year, which is traditionally a day of protest here in hong kong. it's the anniversary of hong kong handover back to the chinese rule. but it came at the height of the kobe 19. pandemic them were restrictions were in force to stop people gathering in numbers. so this was in contravention of that 5 of the defendants arrived here in court in prison vans. they were already behind bars and some of them denied bail. others already serving lengthy prison sentences for their part in other demonstrations last year. and the year before, as sentences that and it will now be extended in some cases with the handing down of these at since it's between 6 and 12 month, 2 of the defendants were out on vale. they arrived at this court in the one chide district of hong kong to be greeted by supporters. there was some chanting

oh scott, now from hong kong, keith richberg, who is the director of the university of hong kong. journalism and media studies tend to keep nice to say you, this is just the way it's going to be, isn't it? with the security law and type as rob was pointing out, it is so wide ranging and covers so much of society that as soon as someone is arrested for it, they're going to see jail time. that's pretty much it. i mean that these, these sentences today were not very surprising. we expected now that everybody who's been arrested on something we'll be facing jail time. they've pretty much come down. the courts have come down with a pretty heavy hat. and the interesting thing about these protests that, that they're accused of, which happened last july. first, they're really kind of the last protest, their protest just on the david national security ball came back and they were relatively peaceful protest as well. so it doesn't matter if the protest was peaceful or not, if it was so, so called unauthorized protests, meaning you didn't have an official police. okay. they're really going to lock into

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might hong kong lose its competitiveness?ourse i am concerned and we are working very hard to resume normal travel in a gradual and orderly manner it with the mainland of china and overseas places. but as the chief executive in hong kong, i am duty-bound to protect my people. any such a day -- any such fatality will cause a major concern in society. it cannot be a single factor of a financial center. but i think bloomberg knows better than everybody that we are doing very well. >> a lot of speculation has been delayed whether or not it is on the back burner. talk to us about what is happening with the nt sanctions law. -- with the anti-sanctions law. >> it is a piece of national legislation. there is a mechanism for national legislation to be applied to hong kong by an act of inclusion. secondly, nobody could dispute the extension of this law to hong kong if needed. the whole round of sanctions by the united states arose out of hong kong. i am a sanctions officer. i am still being sanctioned. the time will calm that if -- the

is adopted in hong kong -- the practices adopted in hong kong should be as aligned as possible withactices. but they also accepted that we are operating under a very different regime. so the discussions between the two sides are meant to find a way forward that is respect in the differences in the systems between the two places. that could be assurance that we will not be sort of the weak link, in terms of covid-19 control. >> for hong kong to remain a financial hub, and has to be open not just to china, but the rest of the world. are you concerned perhaps that your competitiveness will be impacted? because singapore is opening up. and there's great can petition between the two cities. might hong kong lose its competitiveness? >> of course, i am concerned. we are working very hard to resume normal travel in a gradual and orderly matter with the mainland of china and overseas places. as a chief executive in hong kong, i am also duty-bound to protect my people. so, any fatality or increases in fatality will cause a major concern in society. so, in dealing with the public of crisis, we

not optimistic about hong kong. a case if like an hong kong view, just given what's perceived here is the track down on free speech in the past couple years. yeah, let's talk about the free speech because i would imagine that this case, like the others that have gone before i've been watched very closely by supporters . a democracy in hong kong. there is a real change here. it's that change completely in the last couple years. but in particular, since the introduction of the national security law that came into 40 in july of last year because it is so wide ranging the number of offences that you can be found guilty of that to do with the versions. succession isn't even colluding with foreign entities and the trouble with this is it's pro democracy. activists and human rights groups will tell you it is open to so much interpretation. so it has really changed the political dynamic, but also the general feel here in the city of what is permitted now. and the real feeling, especially among activists, that all of the fre

what's it like in hong kong? now? we are not just getting the aftermath of this dorm thursday, but to the whole of wednesday, the city was pretty much close down. i think you did that take people by surprise just the length of time that it took for they still to pass. let me just show you where we are. this is one of hong kong typhoon shelters, which always get busy, very congested ahead of storms as they come in with various cross pleasure boats commercial crop. and in this case, a lot of fishing boats in this particular type in shelter, whereas we've been hit the past hour or so we'd be watching those the same fishing boats. now go back out again to things get back to normal. that wasn't a huge amount of storm damage because the wind strength because the storm, the typhoon was so far off. sure. but we did get an awful lot of rain. so there was localized flooding. a number of trees brought down and roads blocked. that was one fatality and number of injuries attributed to the storm. but of course, in the philippines,

in hong kong. beijing _ watercolour trucks. in hong kong, beijing has _ watercolour trucks. beijing has been - watercolour trucks. in hong - kong, beijing has been clamping down on descent since the start of the protests in 2019. the clashes between the police and pro—democracy demonstrators may have subsided for now, at least. but the same cannot be said for the online world, where the battle for the narrative still continues. furious edit wars have been raging behind the scenes on wikipedia between pro—democracy and pro— beijing points of view. 0ur investigators have spent weeks looking into these edits, mostly in chinese languages but also some in english. this article is about the yuen long attack in 2019 we saw about 100 men in white shirts attacking people in a transport station. there were allegations these men had triad connections but were in cooperation with the police ultimately backed by beijing. but on the chinese wikipedia page of the incident, the second of these pictures was removed and then two days later, well over 100 photo editors were made to the page. c

rob mcbride has more from hong kong. as if barreled in from the western pacific compassed to 1st hit the philippines, especially the northern island of luzon, which sore extensive flooding and land slides with a number of deaths and injuries. these typhoons often lose some of their force over the philippines. as compassed, who did, but it then passed into the south china sea moving westwards over open water. and so maintaining a lot of its strength with its outer rain bands really lashing and soaking much of the southern coast of china, including here in hong kong which wednesday was brought pretty much to a standstill. this is an area that has already been soaked by a similar storm just days earlier. that was storm lion rock which passed into the island in the southern china of hein and, and then into northern vietnam. now this storm can pass who is following pretty much the same route, so those areas are being hit once more as they bear the brunt of compasses. landfill. still ahead on al jazeera, why group is palestini

let's go straight to our correspondent rob mcbride, who's live in hong kong. rob took us through what's going on yeah, this is a court case that is the prosecution of activists linked to these ongoing street protests that we've been having here in hong kong for the past couple of years. it's being seen by many pro democracy groups as a further tightening of the screw by the authorities using the legal system, the court at basically to try to climb down. generally on the central though, the authorities would obviously deny that was the case. these are 7 defendants in total, they were found guilty of the charge of inciting others to take part in the legal assembly that the states back to july. the 1st protest of last year, which is normally a day of protest when people judicially would take to the streets here with the anniversary of hong kong handover to china. but it came at the height of the cobra, 1900 pandemic. and there were restrictions in force to stop people gathering in large numbers. so these people were found guilty of contra beating, that 5 of the d

of sanctions by the united states arose out of hong kong.tion officer. i am still an officer being sanctioned. so the time will come that it hong kong is put in that sort of situation, then of course we will follow the central authorities' direction to implement any anti-sanctions measures. the most important point is i have been given to understand that the anti-sanctions law at the national level is a toolbox, and in extending a toolbox to the hong kong special administered of region, the central government will take full account of hong kong's unique status, especially her status as an international financial center. so the final point is i have no timetable. alix:alix: that was hong kong's chief executive carrie lam speaking with bloomberg's haslinda amin. really interesting conversation there. this is bloomberg. ♪ laura: i'm laura wright with the bloomberg business flash. chevron has set a goal of net zero emissions for its operations by 2050. the energy giant is responding to rising pressure from investors in society to play a bigger r

not for hong kong.- you have sent in the past that singapore will continue getting a competitive edge. >> we have made our position clear that we see a risk for competitiveness of hong kong in line with strict quarantine measures. it seems the chief executive does not see or plan relaxation for border opening to the west. we see a situation where xi made clear we are looking at mainland china and for us it is equally as important to be able to travel to the mainland where european companies have vested interest in it is a major trading partner. hong kong is normally a great place to do business out of. so we are looking forward to seeing measures that will lead to a swift opening of the border, but we have not seen any timeline or anything we can follow in order to support that. we have not changed our position on not being able to travel to europe. obviously that is still a big pain. haidi: is the greater alignment and access to mainland china enough to outweigh being closed off to the rest of the worl

at the anniversary of hong kong over back to chinese rule. but it came at the height of the covert. 19 pandemic restrictions were in force to stop people gathering in numbers. so this was in contravention of that 5 of the defendants arrived here in court in prison bands. they were already behind boss. some of them denied bail others already serving length the prison sentences for their party and other demonstrations last year. and they gave before sentences that will now be extended in some cases with the hunting down of these sentences of between 6 and 12 month. 2 of the defendants were out on bail. they arrived at this court in the district of hong kong to be greeted by supporters. there was some chanting as some speeches as they went in, one of the defendants tank and seeing is a very well known activist. his nickname is the bolt. he was not optimistic about his chances. he was not optimistic about hong kong. chances give him what is perceived here as the restrictions in free speech in the last couple years or come today and been sent to j

it corresponded in hong kong. no, no. no, of course also has enormous wealth and enormous geostrategic locations sitting between japan and the philippines. exposed directly to the western pacific. taiwan has both historical residents for the, for the chinese communist party and geostrategic value. because i think she just been working by justification for why he is allowed to stay on for the 3rd term, perhaps in perpetuity and looking to continually mobilize domestic chinese sentiment to regard the outside world of track. so as to justify the see, see, please hold on our really needs to keep the nation are spun out on the notion that taiwan is worth sacrificing their freedom and their development for so the taiwan unification of the mainland to be accomplished during his time in office go there. interesting to get your thoughts. scott w. harold senior political scientist, the rand corporation. thank you. libby is treatment of migrant. san asylum seekers has come under intense scrutiny in the past 24 hours on friday. gone

be shown here in hong kong anymore. but don't forget, the other thing you have to think about now is a lot of films we're here from hollywood. worse, so censoring, and that's the other problem you're going to have, you will now designing film released in china and hong kong. now maybe i'd better take out this reference or that reference or another reference. so, you know, you're going to start seeing, you know, china is a big market on cons, a smaller market, but it's still, you know, it's a major film going up population year. and if you're a hollywood filmmaker, you know, you probably would rather just scratch a few lines or a scratch, a few references out of a film you're going to make. so i think self. censorship is going to be a huge problem going forward. keith richberg, always a pleasure to talk to you. i suspect it wouldn't be the last time on such issue. thank you. thank you. there with government says again trying to expedite the we can expand the julian, athens from the u. k. processed as denouncing the extra

and lessons about hong kong, national security law have become part of the curriculum with no one it seems too young to learn. what is the national security aimed attending months of social unrest and riots? critic say the law has severely curved free speech, but the probate gin camp says it's restored order and students must learn about it . you wanted to teach the younger generation to learn more about why we need the national security. i think every country they must have their national security law because paul tapped their people put out the country sol iving hong kong is not a sensor at the height of the protest, some of the most violent clashes happened on college campuses and 40 percent of the people arrested were high school or college students. it means the cities classrooms are at the center of efforts to change how the youth think and act that the university of hong kong, one of the last memorials on chinese soil, to the 1989 tiana mon square crack down is under threat of being removed and most of the city student unions are no longer functioning. critics say teaching abo

so i think hong kong is not a censor at the height of the protest. some of the most violent clashes happened on college campuses and 40 percent of the people arrested well, high school or college students. it means the cities classrooms are at the center of efforts to change how the youth thing contact at the university of hong kong, one of the last memorials on chinese soil to the 1989 t animal square, correct down is under threat of being removed, and most of the cities student unions are no longer functioning. critics say teaching about national security is part of a wider effort to curb all forms of descent. i think the goal is to change that behavior of the people of hong kong, and they're doing this through intimidation. they're doing this through telling them what they should do. they want the behavior changed. 2 years ago, during the protests, carrie led a boy out of classes at her high school and says, teaching the national security law will undermine critical thinking. first of all, i think this has limited what? well, all thoughts in learn

it's true it out of hong kong where the temperature is below average, as is the humidity. it's true shankar but not the same degree. so it's sunshine is the basic story. there has been rain in japan, there's still a few showers around the real rain, which is the last post, maybe the season stuff is on its way out to west pacific. so just grades, at least inside of home shoot. otherwise no real change. now there is rain gathering in the northeast of indian, a bit of snow, maybe in sichuan, but nothing like it was recently. doesn't mean it's the end of it yet. but the wet season really is for the sake of that, we got the ne monsoon bringing more rain to viet nam, it's down to kind of on time. in particular where the wet season is. we've got 3 months here of figures. 3 or $400.00, been beaches per city, per month for the next 3. this is the proper rainy season. the monsoon rains on i retreating property from india, but they did pulse very unusually all the way up through the account. as you saw, the resulting clinic evolving, producing lot of right up in our sam. that's also

force t crackdown in hong kong.about h we can adapt to china's growing human rights abuses and inevitability of its power without doing further harm to those we are trying to help. amy: that is ethan paul, we will live to his article. to see part one of the discussion, go to democracynow.org. democracy now! is currently accepting applications for two positions: a director of finance and administration and a humancc ♪♪♪ andrew cuomo: the president said this is a war. i agree with that, this is a war. then let's act that way and let's act that way now. karishma vyas: as new york rose from the ashes of 9/11, first responders became america's heroes. now they're under attack again, this time from a hidden enemy. male: yo, mike, close the truck, close the truck. karishma: new york is a key battleground in the global war on covid-19. megan pfeiffer: there's been a lot of deceased people, a lotta people just waiting to die. karishma: over two weeks, we'll take you to the frontlines.

sophie: i in hong kong. we are counting down to asia's major market open. >> our top stories this hour. apac investors weight inflation and taper concerns after wall street extends its rebound. asian tech make it a boost with reports of beijing breaking down the online search barrier. we hear exclusively from boris johnson who's at the u.k. does not want to generate -- to turn away chinese investments despite tense relations. pm johnson: china is an economic -- as a part of our economic lives and will be for our lifetimes. that does not mean that we should be naive. haidi: let -- let's get you to the start of trading with sophie kamaruddin in hong kong. markets continuing to really try to work out what's going on when it comes to the inflation front. sophie: that's the case with them continuing on the short end when you have the aussie five yield jumping to a may 2019 hi. when it comes to the stock story, take a look at the asx i 200. minors we are seeing under pressure after a three-day event. this on the b

i haven't i and hong kong. and he says a sent a letter just to see if he could make a solution all of this a problem that we need some more time to take it down. of course, it's a long time to prepare this counseling, but they have good not answer at all. the pillar of shame, statue is estimated to be worth $1700000.00 and has been standing in hong kong for 24 years. students clean it is part of anniversary events, marking the tandem and square massacre. a chapter in history. the chinese government would prefer to forget commemorations of the military, correct down a strictly band on the mainland, on kong, semi autonomous status under the 1997 handover agreement between china and the u. k . permitted freedom of speech and civil liberties under a one country to systems policy. but pro democracy campaign is say, restrictions on this right now apply in hong kong. beijing has imposed a controversial national security law there, which it said was needed to bring oda after months of unrest. oh, we don't know exactly

force to crackdown in hong kong.about h we can adapt to china's growing human rights abuses and inevitability of its power without doing further harm to those we are trying to help. amy: that is ethan paul, we will live to his article. to see part one of the discussion, go to democracynow.org. democracy now! is currently accepting applications for two positions: a director of finance and administration and a human■o ♪ >>> hello and welcome back to nhk "newsline." i'm takao minori in new york. an american soldier and statesman who broke down barriers has died. colin powell rose to the highest rank in the military, advised several presidents and became the first black secretary of state. president joe biden called him a patriot of unmatched honor and dignity. powell's family says he died of complications of covid-19.

robert bride al jazeera hong kong. now hundreds more. people have been told to leave their homes on the spanish island of la palmer . as rivers of law, they get closer and low cannon corruption. there has now been going on for weeks and it's also beginning to impact the annual tourist season. alexander latch reports the start of a new day in la palmer. like many of the islands residents, manuel pianos morning now begins with cleaning the volcanic ash from his shop directly. i'm at the thought of every day we are cleaning and shut, it's everywhere and we can't let our products get dirty. at a nearby cafe lanka, assario says it makes it harder to keep customers happy. i never can get the help that are tourists who want to use a terrace because feel like it better. but because there is so much ash it's difficult. we clean it immediately, but the ash falls again. the debris from camry beckers month long eruption is relentless. but people are finding their own ways to get through the day. the air is filled with small pieces of pumice, or pani

in hong kong and shanghai. 10:29 in new york. pboc governor said authorities can contain risks to the chinese economy from the evergrande crisis. concerns have grown with the cash grants and evergrande spilling out to other developers as president xi jinping maintain strict measures to cool the property. the virtual g 30 meeting says the risk could be prevented. >> overall, we can contain the evergrande risks. in first we will try to keep the completion from evergrande and to other real estate companies. secondly, we will try to contain the risks for a financial sector. quirks china will sell global dollar bonds for the fifth year. it will attract more scrutiny in the evergrande crisis. they plan to raise $4 billion from hong kong on tuesday. that's one third less than the money from the past two years in the least from 2018. this will be a four-part deal comprising 3, 5, 10 and 30 year maturities. global boards are growing more gridlock with the price intensifying. bloomberg shows at least 107 container ships were waiting of hon

hong kong is a health care story.down 5% on that group of stocks takes us into where you are now on the hsi index. we hit a new low for the year. we are at 24,000 just zooming in on where we are with these bottoms the last couple weeks or so. the evergreen story, despite a big one of the market enclosed and some stocks halted, it is still giving. yvonne: bristle off -- we are still off the lows that is trading right now. there was this news in thailand talking about how the real estate developer there to buy 51% stake for 40 billion come come dollars. that could be white we are seeing those suspensions right now? -- could be why. rishaad: we did have the parent company, $30 billion in evaluation being evaluated at 50 billion. they are paying for huge premium isn't it? currently, the market value is 55 billion david: -- billion. rishaad: would you call that a fire sale? yvonne: that would have big knock on effects for the rest of the partners out there. how positive is this news is something that the market has to cont

there is effectively a shortage of good quality property in hong kong.ur exposure to the hong kong property market is significant, but our coverage ratios are high and we don't see any particular spillover effect at the moment into hong kong. >> a few friends that left hong kong a few years ago would be happy to hear that about the scarcity and value. let's talk about risk aversion to china. i don't need to give you a laundry list. do you think global investors' risk appetite for chinese assets is materially weakened? >> through the lens of our business, revenues were up year-on-year. profits are up 30%. we are continuing to invest heavily. we set up a new life insurance venture called pinnacle. we are already up to 500 advisors in that business. so for us, we continue to be very bullish about the long-term growth opportunity in china. yvonne: that was the hsbc chief financial officer speaking with bloomberg's manus cranny. coming, australia's minister for trade, tourism and investment, as the country makes a push for its green economy. this is bloomberg

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a campaign is under way to preserve a ma, loyal at hong kong university, which marks a violent crack down on protesters in china's tellerman square and deadline to remove the artwork passed on wednesday. and so far, the authorities have not attempted to remove it or destroy it. victoria gayton b has more the pillar of shame, statue at hong kong university, built to remember those who died fighting for democracy in tiana mon square. in 1989 university authorities ordered its removal last week and the deadline passed on wednesday. the artist who created it, fears officials intend to destroy it. i had an eye in hong kong, and he says, a sent a letter just to see if i could make a solution all this a problem. i need some more time to take it down. of course, it's a long time to get his counseling. ah, but they have not answer at all. the pillar of shame, statue is estimated to be worth $1700000.00 and has been standing in hong kong for 24 years. students clean it is part of anniversary events, marking the tenement square massacre a chapter in history. the chinese government would prefer