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	Asia Daily Briefing - Recession in Hong Kong October 31, 2019

	Protests tip Hong Kong  into official recession as  trade war stings HONG KONG -- New data  has confirmed that months  of anti-government protests  have tipped the economy  of Hong Kong, already under  pressure from China's  slowdown, into its first recession  in a decade.
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