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Hong Kong's government is defending the city's ban on same-sex unions at a landmark court challenge days after neighbouring Taiwan legalised gay marriage in an unprecedented first for Asia. Despite ... ( read original story ...)

Earlier this month, two Hong Kong democracy activists revealed Germany had granted them refugee status, possibly the first such case in the world. Now a Sri Lankan couple, their two children and a ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Some Hong Kong judges fear they are being put on a collision course with Beijing as the special administrative region's government pushes for sweeping legal changes that would ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. warned Hong Kong that it could face penalties if it does business with an oil tanker headed for the city that allegedly violated sanctions on Iran. Washington wants to put ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong is getting a second chance to land the record-breaking deal that got away. Five years after Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. spurned the city’s stock exchange for a $25 billion ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong’s second-richest man, Lee Shau Kee, is stepping down as chairman of Henderson Land Development Co., joining the ranks of the city’s aging tycoons handing the reins to the next ... ( read original story ...)

Photo: SCMP Hong Kong was plagued by a rash of gang violence in the 1990s. Criminals such as “Big Spender” and “Teeth Dog” were household names, their bold attacks and robberies regularly splashed ... ( read original story ...)

To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story: Jeanny Yu in Hong Kong at jyu107@bloomberg.net;April Ma in Beijing at ama112@bloomberg.net To contact the editors responsible for this story: Sofia ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters marched through central Hong Kong on Sunday as part of annual demonstrations demanding that China be held accountable for its democracy crackdown in ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG -- More than 2,000 people marched in Hong Kong on Sunday to mark 30 years since a pro-democracy protest in Beijing's Tiananmen Square ended in bloodshed. Demonstrators took to the streets ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s justice chief on Sunday said the government would consider adding more human rights safeguards to its controversial extradition proposal, including a requirement that a jurisdiction would ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING, May 25 (Reuters) - China has made "solemn representations" to Germany after it granted refugee status to two Hong Kong activists facing rioting charges in the Chinese-ruled city, demanding it ... ( read original story ...)

Karen Lo Cheuk-hang was a rising swimming star when she quit the Hong Kong team in 2006 at the age of 17. At the time, she could not figure out why her competition results were so disappointing. “I ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s leader has made a strongly worded official complaint to Germany’s top diplomat in the city, nearly three days after the news broke that the European nation had granted asylum to two local ... ( read original story ...)