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HONG KONG -- A Hong Kong court has sentenced democracy activist Joshua Wong to three months in jail in a contempt case stemming from the 2014 "Umbrella Movement" protests. The 21-year-old Wong was among activists who learned their punishment in Hong Kong's ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — A Hong Kong court has sentenced democracy activist Joshua Wong to three months in jail in a contempt case stemming from the 2014 "Umbrella Movement" protests. The 21-year-old Wong was among activists who learned their punishment in Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s leader hit back on Tuesday at a British concern group for “interfering” in the city’s internal affairs with “unfounded and unfair” criticism. And in a first, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor revealed aspects of her working ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — Three Hong Kong activists will have to wait to learn the outcome of their final appeal Tuesday to overturn prison sentences for their roles in sparking 2014's massive pro-democracy protests in the semiautonomous Chinese city. Judges at Hong ... ( read original story ...)

They were jailed last year for leading Hong Kong's 2014 pro-democracy "Umbrella Movement." The three young activists appeared in Hong Kong's top court on Tuesday to appeal against their jail terms. In August, Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow were ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — Three young Hong Kong activists, including Joshua Wong, are making a last-ditch attempt to overturn prison sentences for their roles in sparking 2014's massive pro-democracy protests in the semiautonomous Chinese city. Lawyers for the three ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — David Hanson envisions a future in which AI-powered robots evolve to become "super-intelligent genius machines" that might help solve some of mankind's most challenging problems. If only it were as simple as that. The Texas-born former ... ( read original story ...)

But for Hong Kong’s disabled residents, the image is laden with irony. The Lok Ku Road public toilet is surrounded by staircases but no ramps, making it nearly impossible for wheelchair-bound people to get to it. The toilet is among the design oddities ... ( read original story ...)

Travellers from Hong Kong to Guangzhou on the high-speed rail link opening later this year will have to pay HK$260 (US$33) per trip under finalised fares that are much higher than original estimates. The 48-minute journey from the city’s West Kowloon ... ( read original story ...)

The city’s consumer watchdog warned would-be car buyers to be cautious as Hong Kong was revealed to be the one of the worst among many advanced regions in terms of legal protection against harsh terms and conditions for new car warranties. Conditions ... ( read original story ...)

“There have been many, many cases involving travellers who have come off flights landing in Hong Kong and then taken airport buses into the city. Perhaps they feel the threat to their property drops once they are on the ground, but this is now not the ... ( read original story ...)

A Hungarian has won Hong Kong’s first international orchestra conducting competition after three rounds of performances against 15 hopefuls from around the world. Gabor Kali, 35, scored the highest mark from an international jury headed by Yip Wing-sie ... ( read original story ...)

But the life of children in Yuen Long is not always this blissful. The district – one of 18 residential areas in Hong Kong – consistently has the highest number of child abuse cases in the city. Latest available full year figures from 2016 showed that ... ( read original story ...)

A top Beijing envoy in Hong Kong on Sunday said his office would be “working more and closer” on youth development and a range of other issues with the city’s administration. Wang Zhimin, director of the central government’s representative office ... ( read original story ...)