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Hong Kong's health officials said on Friday the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has made its way past some of the world's toughest COVID 19 restrictions, with the city reporting its first cases ... ( read original story ...)

A ban on selling most ivory products in Hong Kong came into effect Friday, the culmination of a three-year process to eliminate the once rampant trade in the city. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Cantopop star and pro-democracy activist Denise Ho was released on bail after being arrested along with others over a local media outlet's "conspiracy to publish seditious" material on ... ( read original story ...)

Staff and students say the recent destruction of massacre monuments is a manifestation of a new and uneasy culture on campus ... ( read original story ...)

The gains in Hong Kong followed a surge in Chinese internet and technology companies‘ American depositary receipts overnight. ( read original story ...)

Cathay Pacific has announced immediate major cuts to its flight schedule, including cancelling passenger and cargo services to and from Hong Kong. The airline did not provide details on how many ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong activist and singer Denise Ho was granted bail after being swept up in a raid on now-shuttered media outlet Stand News that escalated fears over eroding press freedoms in the former British ... ( read original story ...)

Shares in Hong Kong opened with strong gains Friday, as surging Chinese tech stocks helped it shrug off a weak lead from Wall Street on the last trading day of the year. ( read original story ...)

Two Hong Kong residents have been preliminarily diagnosed with Covid-19, marking the first community spread of the virus in nearly seven months to people without a recent travel history or ties to the ... ( read original story ...)

The police raid on Hong Kong media organisation Stand News this week was "completely lawful and beyond reproach", said a spokesperson with the Chinese embassy in Britain, hitting back at foreign ... ( read original story ...)

Cantopop singer and activist Denise Ho has been released on bail after being arrested in her home and accused of sedition by authorities in Hong Kong. The face of a movement: On Wednesday, Ho and at ... ( read original story ...)

A Hong Kong court on Thursday charged two former editors for a pro-democracy media outlet with sedition and denied them bail. ( read original story ...)

It comes as US secretary of state calls for release of Stand News editors, saying ‘journalism is not sedition’ ... ( read original story ...)

Former Stand News editors Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam were charged with conspiracy to publish a seditious publication. ( read original story ...)