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jan23
About 20% of the Americans in Hong Kong have left for various reasons over the past two years, the U.S. consul general in the semi-autonomous Chinese city said, drawing harsh criticism from Beijing for allegedly interfering in its affairs.
Hong Kong’s strict anti-COVID-19 measures and “diminishing freedoms” have “clearly impacted the city and the people in it,” Greg May said, citing the departure of roughly 15,000 Americans as one of the outcomes. He said about 70,000 Americans and 1,300 U.S. companies are currently present in Hong Kong.
https://www.manisteenews.com/news/article/consul-20-of-americans-in-hong-kong-left-in-17743039.php
dez22
Hong Kong’s human rights lawyers are fleeing abroad amid an effort to cleanse the city of dissent. The pressure is part of a wider crackdown by the ruling Communist Party on lawyers across China, say activists, legal scholars and diplomats.https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-lawyers-crackdown-exodus/
nov22
Hong Kong has eased most of its stiff COVID19-related restrictions and begun promoting the territory’s reopening to the world, but relocation professionals do not expect an early end to the largest emigration wave the city has seen since its handover to China in 1997.
“In pre-COVID times, we usually would have a 50/50 mix of outbound/inbound activity. In 2021 and 2022, we’ve had a 75/25 mix of outbound/inbound. This ratio mirrors our sister company in Hong Kong [Asian Tigers Group],” said Kay Kutt, CEO of Silk Relo, a local relocation services company with over 40 years of experience in Hong Kong.
“Our team doesn’t foresee the volume of relocations diminishing as we head into 2023,” Kutt said.
In September, the government ended hotel quarantine, significantly loosening some of the world’s toughest COVID-19 restrictions, and this month it hosted more than 200 global financial leaders in a summit to win back confidence in Asia’s top financial center
https://www.voanews.com/a/can-hong-kong-stem-the-outflow-of-residents-/6850949.html
nov22
Fighting an exodus, Hong Kong faces a tough task to lure back young people. New visas and other measures aim to entice people after 140,000 workers fled Hong Kong amid a security crackdown. Hong Kong has seen an exodus of workers since a national security law was introduced in 2020. The erosion of social and political freedoms, due to the security crackdown and tighter digital surveillance that began during Covid-19 pandemic, have coincided with the city’s workforce shrinking by about 140,000 people in the past two years.out22
Data released this week shows the Hong Kong-born population of Canada is on the rise, with a large majority settling in the Vancouver region, reversing a return-migration trend that had previously seen thousands of Hong Kongers leaving Canada.
Experts say the shift is being propelled by a political crackdown in Hong Kong, which came under a sweeping national security law in 2020 after anti-government protests.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/hong-kong-census-numbers-1.6634312
out22
The city’s leader, Chief Executive John Lee, announced Wednesday that the government would earmark 30 billion Hong Kong dollars ($3.8 billion) for a new fund aimed at bringing more businesses in.
The fund will seek to attract companies to set up operations in Hong Kong, as well as invest in their businesses, he said in a wide-ranging policy address.
The move comes after the city witnessed a massive exodus amid some of the world’s strictest pandemic controls, which were recently eased after more than two years. In August, Hong Kong logged its biggest population drop since officials began keeping track of such figures in 1961.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/19/business/hong-kong-business-investment-covid-reopening-intl-hnk/index.html
out22
A demographic crisis looms over Hong Kong and its reopening: The city is rapidly losing people
set22
Thousands of people from Hong Kong have moved to the UK in the past year. Many have fled tensions with Chinese authorities there - others say they are attracted by a slower pace of life. The BBC has been speaking to some new arrivals about life in the UK.
Yowin Mo, Eddie Wong and their nine-year-old daughter Hayley swapped their high-rise flat in Hong Kong for a two-bed semi in Crewe, in the north-west of England. They didn't know anyone here and had never visited the UK before they moved, but so far they've had a good impression. "Most British people are polite and laid-back," says Yowin.
It wasn't an easy decision for the trio to leave their friends, family and jobs behind. "My dad cried, he didn't want to leave," remembers Hayley. She wasn't sure about the move either, but getting a puppy helped her settle in.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62658669
set22
Taiwan becomes growing destination for Hong Kong residents looking for more freedom
ag22
A swarm of around 100 protesters dressed in black descends on Tokyo’s famed Shibuya crossing on a recent Sunday afternoon, prompting onlookers to stop and stare as a police escort expertly guides the raucous group toward the nearby neighborhood of Aoyama.
Among the protesters is William Lee, one of the most prominent Hong Kong activists in Japan, who uses a megaphone to urge everyone who can hear him to defend democracy in his place of birth.
“Stand with Hong Kong,” he pleads. “Fight for freedom.”
His fellow protesters, many of whom have fled Hong Kong to build a new life in Japan, repeat the cry as they trail in Lee’s wake.
Slogans such as these were commonplace during the protests in Hong Kong in 2019, but the national security law Beijing enacted in June 2020 has given authorities the power to crack down on demonstrations, arrest hundreds of prominent activists and pro-democracy lawmakers, and close media outlets that are overtly critical of Beijing. As a result, many people have left to seek other opportunities abroad.
According to the latest census data, Hong Kong’s population has dropped by 1.6% to around 7.29 million in the past year, with more than 110,000 residents reportedly leaving the city.
Many Hong Kong residents relocated to Taiwan or the United Kingdom, where eligible citizens of the former colony are offered a relatively straightforward immigration path and eventual citizenship. Canada is another popular destination due to its sizable Chinese population.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2022/08/22/issues/hong-kong-immigrants/
ag22
Hong Kong Exodus May Threaten City's Global Financial Status
mai22
Hong Kong lost some 93,000 residents in 2020, followed by another 23,000 in 2021. But early estimates show this year will see far more people go.
“In the last couple of years people have thought about leaving, but in the last six months there’s been an absolute mass exodus,” said Pei C., who has lived in Hong Kong for 17 years. She asked to be identified with her last initial because of sensitivities surrounding the topic in Hong Kong.
The trigger, she said — one echoed by numerous people who spoke to CNBC for this story — was the highly-publicized policy that separated Covid-positive children from their parents earlier this year.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/27/people-are-leaving-hong-kong-and-here-is-where-they-are-going.html
Mai22
Three prodemocracy activists on the run from Beijing, three wild and bizarre journeys to—and through—America
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/05/hong-kong-prodemocracy-activists-exile-beijing/629741/
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