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It was close to midnight when Reuters photojournalist Tyrone Siu spotted chatter among students in an online forum that a statue seen as a symbol of Hong Kong's freedoms was being covered up by ... ( read original story ...)

Universities in Hong Kong are removing memorials to the bloody suppression of the 1989 Chinese pro-democracy movement centered on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The Chinese University of Hong Kong early ... ( read original story ...)

Two more Hong Kong universities removed monuments to the 1989 Tiananmen protests in Beijing, a day after the dismantling of a similar sculpture at another university. ( read original story ...)

CUHK’s Goddess of Democracy and a sculpture at Lingnan University were removed overnight as authorities pursue the erasure of memory of massacre ... ( read original story ...)

Two more Hong Kong universities have taken down monuments commemorating the Tiananmen massacre. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) tore down a Goddess of Democracy statue, while Lingnan ... ( read original story ...)

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 ...)