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Veganism is rapidly growing globally and Hong Kong is no exception, its local advocates claim, as dabbling in or adopting the plant-based lifestyle gains popularity. In the United States, six per cent of the population, or roughly 20 million people ... ( read original story ...)

Beijing’s top official in charge of Hong Kong affairs has issued the most detailed assessment to date of President Xi Jinping’s policy direction for the city, reassuring Hongkongers their autonomy will be preserved but reminding them of the central ... ( read original story ...)

Mainland Chinese authorities have released a detained Hong Kong bookseller and he has been reunited with his relatives, one of his friends said Friday. Chinese dissident poet Bei Ling said family members confirmed to him that Gui Minhai has been released ... ( read original story ...)

It's a bittersweet day at the Hong Kong stock exchange. Trading at the physical trading floor will close, after 31 years. In its heyday, during the 1980s and 1990s, the floor was home to more than a thousand traders. But the rise of electronic and internet ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong-based bookseller Gui Minhai has been reunited with his family in the Chinese city of Ningbo following his release from custody on the mainland last week, his long-time friend said on Friday. Dissident poet Bei Ling, co-founder of the Independent ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong government was accused of "brainwashing" on Thursday after it suggested schools broadcast to students a live address by a Beijing official visiting the city. It comes as concern grows that Chinese authorities are squeezing semi-autonomous ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's highest court freed pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong and Nathan Law on bail Tuesday pending an appeal of their prison sentences after they were convicted of sparking massive protests in 2014. The pair were imprisoned after the justice ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's highest court freed pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong and Nathan Law on bail Tuesday pending an appeal of their prison sentences after they were convicted of sparking massive protests in 2014. The two were granted bail by the Court of Final ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong’s highest court on Tuesday granted bail to two prominent young democracy activists, Joshua Wong and Nathan Law, who were jailed for unlawful assembly linked to the city’s large-scale pro-democracy protests in 2014. ( read original story ...)

China’s education minister has called for a stronger sense of national identity among Hong Kong’s teachers so they can do a better job of instilling patriotism in the city’s youth. On the sidelines of the Communist Party’s national congress in ... ( read original story ...)

Owners of subsidised flats may not have to pay a high price to fully privatise their properties under a pilot scheme proposed on Monday that echoes the vision of Hong Kong’s leader to boost home ownership. Our Hong Kong Foundation, a think tank founded ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG – It wasn't just the dark-suited delegates in Beijing who were listening intently last week as Chinese President Xi Jinping outlined his grand ambitions to launch a twice-a-decade Communist Party congress. On China's peripheries there was ... ( read original story ...)

A new police division set up under Hong Kong’s organised crime bureau in the wake of mass protests and rallies has sparked consternation from lawmakers and activists who claim community relations and official practices will worsen. Secretary for Security ... ( read original story ...)

For many Hongkongers, the obvious highlight of President Xi Jinping’s lengthy political report on Wednesday must be the assertion of Beijing’s “overall jurisdiction” over Hong Kong, which naturally triggered a new round of debate on whether the ... ( read original story ...)