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A top Hong Kong media executive said Thursday that HSBC had frozen his account after he and others from his pro-democracy newspaper were arrested under a new national security law Beijing imposed on ... ( read original story ...)

Authorities in the financial center are seeking to reshape public discourse around the city’s pro-democracy protests. ( read original story ...)

China ties have deteriorated rapidly since the start of the year over Hong Kong and the coronavirus pandemic. Jimmy Lai tells protesters to be 'careful' What is Hong Kong's sec ... ( read original story ...)

An Irish journalist has been denied a work visa for Hong Kong, stoking fears of a clampdown on press freedoms following the imposition of a national security law by Beijing. ( read original story ...)

A Chinese government offer to test all Hong Kong residents for the novel coronavirus is meeting scepticism from the city’s medical community and public and is emerging as a politically charged issue ... ( read original story ...)

Irish journalist Aaron McNicholas’s visa was rejected in what’s believed to the first such case at a local title ... ( read original story ...)

As a crackdown on dissent continues, officials are trying to frame it as a necessary remedy for an increasingly ungovernable city. ( read original story ...)

A Hong Kong news website on Thursday said authorities had denied a visa for an Irish journalist in what press groups described as an alarming acceleration of a government clampdown on the media. The ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong police have been accused of re-writing history over their account of an attack on protesters in 2019, as two opposition lawmakers are arrested. Last year, masked men suspected to be triad ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong police arrested 16 people, including two opposition lawmakers, on Wednesday on charges related to anti-government protests last year. The arrests of pro-democracy legislators Ted Hui and Lam ... ( read original story ...)

US secretary of state says China bullying UK and claims accounts of pro-democracy customers are being closed ... ( read original story ...)

The sweep, which included two lawmakers, comes as Beijing moves to clamp down on dissent in the territory and local officials try to polish their tarnished image. ( read original story ...)

Vanguard Group has said it will leave Hong Kong and plans to relocate staff from the territory to Shanghai, becoming the latest US firm to focus on the opening up of mainland China’s vast fund ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong police have arrested two pro-democracy lawmakers for allegedly participating in social unrest last year as authorities crack down after the introduction of a national security law in June. ( read original story ...)