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Hong Kong stocks slumped as investors assessed results in the U.S. presidential election, with Republican Donald Trump holding a slim lead in Florida. The offshore yuan traded near a record low. The Hang Seng Index slid 1.3 percent as of 10:11 a.m. local ... ( read original story ...)

The protests are the latest in a growing division between China and Hong Kong over the city state's "one country, two systems” laws. More than a thousand lawyers staged a silent protest Hong Kong Tuesday after China intervened against two pro ... ( read original story ...)

More than 2,000 join silent protest after China intervened in supposedly independent legal system to stop activists joining parliament More than 2,000 lawyers and activists have paraded through Hong Kong in silence and dressed in black to protest against ... ( read original story ...)

Photograph: The Asahi Shimbun/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Imag Beijing’s unprecedented eviction of two pro-independence activists from Hong Kong’s parliament has dealt a severe blow to “political extremists”, a Communist party-controlled newspaper ... ( read original story ...)

Speaking at the Thomson Reuters Pan-Asian Regulatory Summit on Wednesday, Thomas Atkinson, recently appointed to head up enforcement at Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), said the regulator had created a temporary team dedicated to ... ( read original story ...)

British banker Rurik Jutting was today found guilty of the sadistic murder of two prostitutes at his Hong Kong flat. The 31-year-old faces a mandatory life sentence after being convicted at a trial that featured horrific video evidence of rape and torture. ( read original story ...)

BEIJING - China's top legislature effectively barred two democratically elected separatist lawmakers from taking office in Hong Kong with a ruling Monday on the city's constitution, an intervention into a local political dispute that's likely to spark ... ( read original story ...)

A ruling by China's parliament that effectively bars two Hong Kong pro-independence politicians from taking office sparks outrage. Paul Chapman reports. The Chinese parliament's passing of its own interpretation of Hong Kong's Basic Law is Beijing's most ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING, China - China's top legislature took the rare step Monday of intervening directly in a local Hong Kong political dispute by effectively barring two legally elected separatist lawmakers from taking office, setting the stage for further turmoil in ... ( read original story ...)

Sixtus Leung and Yau Wai-ching, who were elected to Hong Kong’s legislative council in September, were told they had been blocked from their new roles after refusing to swear allegiance to Beijing, leaving Hong Kong to grapple with a severe legislative ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong: Hong Kong's leader said Monday that he would "fully implement" a ruling by Beijing which effectively bars two elected pro-independence lawmakers from the city's legislature after they deliberately misread their oaths of office. An oath that did ... ( read original story ...)

Officials in Kowloon East, Hong Kong’s designated test ground for smart city development, are seeking the public’s views on a proposed framework for the area. Four “proof of concept” trials for smart city solutions will be carried out progressively ... ( read original story ...)

China’s parliament has passed a ruling that in effect bars two elected Hong Kong pro-independence politicians from taking office, Beijing’s most direct intervention in the territory’s legal and political system since the 1997 handover. The National ... ( read original story ...)

When it became clear that the Chinese government had forcibly kidnapped five Chinese sellers of potboiler political books – apprehending them in Hong Kong, during visits to the mainland, and, in the case of Gui Minhai, while vacationing in Thailand ... ( read original story ...)