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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong residents braced for further political turmoil as the territory’s government prepared to send the legislature a widely opposed bill that would allow criminal ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG - Opponents of legislation in Hong Kong that would allow criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China are planning more protests and labour strikes in an attempt to block the move, ... ( read original story ...)

All later appeared in detention in China, and some appeared in apparent forced confessions broadcast in Hong Kong. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a daily news briefing that ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam remained defiant on Tuesday, pledging to push ahead with a proposed extradition bill that would allow fugitives captured in Hong ... ( read original story ...)

“That’s just the number we have at the moment, and it’s still rising,” he said. China’s Xinhua news agency described the Hong Kong protest, the largest in the city in decades, as “a public procession. ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's leader says a highly controversial extradition bill will proceed to the territory's legislature. Carrie Lam's comments on Tuesday came after hundreds of thousands of people took to the ... ( read original story ...)

Candidates to become the new Conservative leader have until 17:00 BST to enter the race. Some of the 11 are having trouble getting the support of eight of the party's MPs, which they need to be ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's leader has signalled that her government will go ahead with proposed amendments to its extradition laws after a massive protest against them. Chief Executive Carrie Lam told the media ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Riot police surrounded Hong Kong's parliament on Monday after authorities said they would go ahead with a proposed extradition law, which would allow suspects to be sent to ... ( read original story ...)

"We are not in Hong Kong, but we still really support them," protester Agnes Wong told CTV News. Wong said she fears the new reality if the law passes. She referred to China's arrest of two ... ( read original story ...)

The local authorities have rejected demands for free elections and ousted opposition lawmakers, and critics say Beijing’s supporters are chipping away at the independence of the territory’s courts and ... ( read original story ...)

"This is the end game for Hong Kong, it is a matter of life or death. That's why I come," Rocky Chang, a 59-year-old professor, told Reuters news agency. "This is an evil law." "The people's voices ... ( read original story ...)

The concerns were highlighted on Saturday with news that a local high court judge had been reprimanded by the chief justice after his signature appeared on a public petition against the bill. Reuters ... ( read original story ...)

(Reuters) - At least half a million people in Hong Kong are expected to brave sweltering heat on Sunday to press the government to scrap a proposed extradition law that would allow suspects to be ... ( read original story ...)