Bloomberg Hong Kong protest organisers said they would lead demonstrators through Kowloon on Sunday in a march despite losing an appeal against a police ban on the procession. The Appeal Board on Public Meetings and Processions supported the police’s refusal to approve the march because of the potential for violence, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) reported. The rally was originally ...

Bloomberg US officials proposed a long-term plan to help North Korea construct a tourist area in return for denuclearisation during recent working-level talks in Stockholm, Hankook Ilbo newspaper reported. US negotiators prepared plans on the development of the Kalma tourist area, the paper said, citing an unidentified senior South Korean diplomat familiar with the talks in Stockholm. The paper didn’t ...

Bloomberg Tens of thousands of protesters set fires and cut off roads across Lebanon, demanding the removal of a political class whose mismanagement and corruption they say has brought the economy to the brink of bankruptcy. In a televised speech, Lebanese PM Saad Hariri gave his feuding coalition government a 72-hour deadline to get behind his plan for an economic ...