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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tencent Holdings is working with China’s authorities for its popular WeChat app to replace travel documents on border crossings between Hong Kong and China, the technology giant said on Wednesday. Tencent demonstrated its proposed ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s “persistent weakness in research and development” has left it lagging on a list of places best prepared for technological change in the next five years, a new report has said. A report published by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU ... ( read original story ...)

One of Hong Kong's top "celebrity tutors", who rose to prominence by promising exam success to under-pressure students, has been charged by the city's anti-corruption bureau for leaking questions from public university entrance papers. Cut-throat ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG – Organizers of a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong marking the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown are set to use slogans calling for the "end to one-party dictatorship" despite warnings from pro-Beijing forces of potential ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s railway operator is expected to discuss the idea of building public housing when developing property atop its stations with the government, in what would be a first for the city as it seeks to provide more affordable flats. Multiple sources ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged China to disclose the details of people killed, detained or missing during the Chinese military's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters centred on Beijing's Tiananmen Square 29 years ago. ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — Tens of thousands of pro-democracy activists turned out in Hong Kong Monday to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, observing an event that goes largely unmentioned in mainland China. This year’s ... ( read original story ...)

The topic remains taboo in mainland China and any form of commemoration, whether public or private, is banned. In Hong Kong, however, tens of thousands of people gather every year in Victoria Park on the evening of June 4 to remember the victims in the ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court on Monday sentenced two former lawmakers to four weeks in jail for unlawful assembly inside the legislature while they were still lawmakers, further sapping the energy of political activists in the Chinese-ruled ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's top court on Monday began hearing the final appeal of a landmark LGBT rights case that has garnered public support from more than 30 top global banks and law firms, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Marriage is ... ( read original story ...)

Baggio Leung arrives at a magistrate court in Hong Kong. Photograph: Bobby Yip/Reuters Two Hong Kong independence activists who were stripped of their status as lawmakers in 2016 were sentenced to four weeks in prison on Monday for their role in a fracas ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court on Monday sentenced two former lawmakers to four weeks in jail for unlawful assembly inside the legislature while they were still lawmakers, further sapping the energy of political activists in the Chinese-ruled ... ( read original story ...)

For 28 years, tens of thousands of Hong Kong democracy advocates have marked the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown by rallying for political change in China. This year, they face new risk in doing so. At issue are a series of slogans chanted ... ( read original story ...)

While authorities cannot confirm if two storms brewing in the region will become a “double typhoon”, Hong Kong weather officials expect unstable conditions with squally showers and thunderstorms over the city in the coming days. After sweltering under ... ( read original story ...)