President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered a two-year extension of a program allowing Hong Kong residents living in the US to stay beyond the expiry of visas.

Former media boss initially told court he felt the US human rights bill targeting Hong Kong was ‘more academic than substance’.

Hong Kong tried on Tuesday to reset its relationship with new US President Donald Trump but sent mixed messages by also condemning "malicious" comments by his former deputy about jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai.

With less than a week before leaving the White House, President Joe Biden on Wednesday again shielded Hong Kongers who stay in the United States beyond the expiration of their visas from deportation.

Hong Kong’s leader has said he hopes to promote “positive relations” with the United States under the new administration of President Donald Trump, but warned against any attempts to interfere in the city’s political and judicial affairs.

Survey from American Chamber of Commerce also finds 79 per cent of respondents have no intention of moving headquarters in next three years.

"Since June 2020, at least 200 opposition politicians, activists, and protesters have been taken into custody on politically motivated NSL charges," said President Joe Biden.

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Now that Hong Kong has begun to recover after the pandemic, its demand for agricultural imports is also picking up again, posing an opportunity for United States agricultural exports.

Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index gained 0.3% to 40,074.87 after the central bank raised its benchmark rate to about 0.5% from 0.25%, as widely expected. It is the highest level for the rate since 2008, as the Bank of Japan shifts out of a long spell of extreme low interest rates meant to spur more borrowing and spending.

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