Bloomberg Hong Kong, already grappling with tightened policing to rein in widespread protests that followed last year’s proposed extradition bill, is now bracing for the prospect of stricter digital controls — ones that would curtail free speech, communications and the ability to organise and turn the city of 7 million into a surveillance state that more closely resembles China. In ...

Bloomberg Mexico plans to keep migrant workers from travelling to Canada amid a wave of coronavirus outbreaks on farms, threatening a labour squeeze in the northern nation’s fruit and vegetable industry as harvests start to ramp up. There will be a “temporary pause” on migrant workers travelling to Canada while protocols and sanitary situations are reviewed, Daniel Millan, a spokesman ...

Bloomberg Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet signed off on plans to raise another 62.5 billion euros ($70 billion) in debt to finance the country’s largest stimulus program in recent history. The proposal has yet to be approved by parliament and would increase net borrowing to 218 billion euros this year. In March the Bundestag, or lower house, had already authorised a ...