The officer said she never actually saw the attack used to justify deploying tear gas and projectile weapons against the crowd of protesters.
Just over a year after HSBC Holdings acquired the UK unit of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) for £1 (US$1.27), wealthy customers from Hong Kong and the rest of Asia are keenly exploring investment opportunities in tech start-ups, according to a senior HSBC executive. HSBC, the biggest lender in Europe and Hong Kong, bought Silicon Valley Bank UK in March last year after its US parent collapsed following a run on the bank. Three months later, the newly acquired unit was rebranded HSBC Innovation Bankin
A sharp decline in Taiwan's ties with mainland China could extend to the very devices being used to transmit and read this story. The far-reaching implications from what has been a geopolitical tug of war are ultimately likely to bolster mainland China's standing as a dominant supplier of older-model semiconductors while ramping up the need for Western allies to rely more on themselves for cutting-edge chips - a scenario that industry insiders say threatens to erode Taiwan's formidable "silicon