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Two more Hong Kong universities on Friday removed public monuments to the 1989 Tiananmen protests in Beijing, following on the heels of the dismantling of a sculpture marking victims of the crackdown ... ( read original story ...)

Two Hong Kong universities on Friday removed sculptures marking Beijing's deadly 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square democracy protesters, as authorities move to erase the event from the Chinese city's ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has detected a suspected omicron case in an airport cleaner, marking the first time the more infectious variant has jumped through the city’s fortress-like border controls and infected a ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong removed two more artworks commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown overnight, as the city completes a purge of efforts to memorialize an event long ago stripped from the public ... ( read original story ...)

China has cracked down on any attempts to commemorate the 1989 massacre of protesters. Now, the university says it posed "legal risks." ... ( read original story ...)

A leading Hong Kong university has dismantled and removed a statue from its campus site that for more than two decades has commemorated pro-democracy protesters killed during China's Tiananmen Square ... ( read original story ...)

It happened in the dead of night. Workers at the University of Hong Kong put up barriers that largely blocked their activity from view and, over the next several hours, took down the towering "Pillar ... ( read original story ...)

The decision to take down the “Pillar of Shame,” an enduring symbol of the territory’s pro-democracy movement, was another sign of Beijing’s crackdown. ( read original story ...)

A monument at a Hong Kong university that was the best-known public remembrance of the Tiananmen Square massacre on Chinese soil was removed early Thursday, wiping out the city's last place of public ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s most prestigious university has dismantled a sculpture commemorating the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre in Beijing, stoking fears among academics and students over the greater ... ( read original story ...)

For more than 20 years the "Pillar of Shame" sculpture stood as a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, in which the Chinese military crushed protests led by college students ... ( read original story ...)

A monument at a Hong Kong university that commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre has been removed by workers over the objections of its creator from Denmark ... ( read original story ...)

Cheung Yuk-fong spends her day collecting discarded packaging for re-sale, a growing industry in one of the world’s most unequal cities, Hong Kong. “There seems to be more people scavenging cardboard ... ( read original story ...)

The artwork's removal underscored the dramatic political changes in the city, where authorities have sharply curtailed freedom of expression since China imposed a harsh security law last year. ( read original story ...)