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Hong Kong News, Asia's Financial Crossroads
Hong Kong is one of Asia's leading financial centres and a dense, fast-moving news market. The NewsMesh Hong Kong feed covers government and Legislative Council affairs, listings and earnings on HKEX and the swings of the Hang Seng Index, currency and banking decisions from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and the city's standing as a hub for asset management, IPOs, and cross-border capital flows. Coverage also spans property, logistics, and tourism, drawn from major broadsheets, broadcasters, business press, and the wire. Stories are tagged with category, Hong Kong country relevance, and the named officials and executives detected in the body, so finance-focused analytics, intelligence, and media products can route precisely.
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Hong Kong news coverage
NewsMesh aggregates Hong Kong-relevant coverage across every major beat, from politics and business to technology and sport, normalised into one structured feed.
Pull Hong Kong news into your app
Authenticate with your apiKey and call one endpoint (GET api.newsmesh.co/v1/latest?country=hk). The examples below are ready to copy.
curl "https://api.newsmesh.co/v1/latest?apiKey=nm_xxx&country=hk&limit=20"Endpoints
GET /v1/latest: Most-recent articles, filterable by category, country, and date range.GET /v1/search: Full-text search across the archive with boolean operators and source filters.GET /v1/trending: Cached trending headlines, the fastest endpoint for homepage feeds.GET /v1/article/{id}: Fetch a single article and its full metadata by ID.
Guides
Frequently asked questions about Hong Kong news
What sources does NewsMesh cover for Hong Kong?
NewsMesh aggregates Hong Kong-relevant reporting from national wires, broadcasters, and major papers, normalised into one structured feed with consistent fields across every source.
Which API endpoint returns Hong Kong news?
Call GET /v1/latest?country=hk. Add &category= to narrow to a single beat, &from= and &to= for a date range, or use /v1/search?q= for keyword queries.
Can I filter Hong Kong news by category?
Yes. Append &category=politics (or business, sports, technology, health, and more) to /v1/latest?country=hk, or browse the Hong Kong category pages linked above.
Is Hong Kong news available in real time?
Yes. NewsMesh is a real-time news API: Hong Kong stories are served through the live /v1/latest and /v1/trending endpoints alongside a searchable archive, each tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body, so you can build a live feed without scraping HTML.
How do I access the Hong Kong news feed?
Create a NewsMesh account, generate an API key, and call the endpoint above with your apiKey parameter. See the pricing page for current plans and rate limits.
Need more Hong Kong articles?
Access the full dataset programmatically with the NewsMesh API.