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HONG KONG (Reuters) - A group of Hong Kong lawyers on Monday condemned a ban on a democracy activist by the territory's government to prevent her from contesting a by-election, describing it as the suppression of free expression and a curb on voting. ( read original story ...)

Pro-democracy groups took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday to protest the government's decision to disqualify a prominent activist from legislative elections in March. Agnes Chow, 21, was seeking to become Hong Kong's youngest council member ever ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s opposition politicians are hoping to turn a setback to their advantage and harvest more votes from supporters outraged by the banning of pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow Ting from running in the coming Legislative Council by-election. ( read original story ...)

Legal professionals, including a top adviser to Hong Kong’s leader, see no grounds for electoral authorities to ban any more candidates from running in the coming Legislative Council by-election after pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow Ting was ... ( read original story ...)

It was only the second time in Hong Kong history that such a large bomb had been discovered in an urban area, and it brought parts of the district to a standstill. Police experts began the final process to disarm the unexploded second world war ordnance ... ( read original story ...)

This reluctance mirrored the Hong Kong government’s attitudes towards such businesses locally, according to Amadeus, a Spanish B2B IT provider for the global travel industry. The company polled 300 people in the city about their travel habits and found ... ( read original story ...)

Protesters in Hong Kong gathered outside the government's headquarters Sunday evening after a leading pro-democracy activist was barred from standing as a candidate in upcoming elections. The ban on 21-year-old Agnes Chow, who was at the forefront of mass ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING—Hong Kong’s government banned a 21-year-old pro-democracy activist from standing for election to the territory’s legislature Saturday, in a move her party called payback for the 2014 Umbrella Movement street protests. Agnes Chow was a leading ... ( read original story ...)

Police in Hong Kong battled for over 12 hours to defuse a 1,000lb US World War Two bomb found on a building site after 1,300 people were evacuated from the area. The explosive device was found 15 metres underground at a construction site for Hong Kong's ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong government risks losing touch with China’s national development plans by downgrading the role of the Central Policy Unit (CPU) under a revamp being pushed by the city’s leader, a former head of the think tank says. Professor Lau Siu-kai ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG - Bomb disposal officers in Hong Kong on Sunday (Jan 28) successfully defused a 450kg wartime bomb discovered a day earlier at a construction site in Wan Chai. A construction worker made a report to police at 7.40am on Saturday, prompting the ... ( read original story ...)

News of the study set off a chain of reactions across the community ... One of which was former Democratic Party lawmaker Fred Li Wah-ming who was hired by the Hong Kong Golf Club, which runs the Fanling course, to lobby stakeholders. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong election authorities sparked a political storm on Saturday by banning a pro-democracy activist with strong youth support from running in a Legislative Council by-election in March. Agnes Chow Ting accused the government of “political screening ... ( read original story ...)

The 58-year-old former lawyer turned businessman and environmental campaigner – and grandnephew of late TVB creator Sir Run Run Shaw – is now busily promoting an ambitious scheme to pedestrianise one of Hong Kong’s most crowded, polluted roads. ( read original story ...)