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BEIJING—China’s top legislature effectively barred two democratically elected separatist lawmakers from taking office in Hong Kong with a ruling Monday on the city’s constitution, an intervention into a local political dispute that’s likely to ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong: Thousands took to Hong Kong’s streets Sunday after Beijing said it would step into an escalating row over whether two city lawmakers who advocate a split from China should be banned from taking up their seats. The protest follows an ongoing ... ( read original story ...)

according to state news agency Xinhua. Leung and Yau were among several young politicians elected in a September vote that attracted record turnout, who favor greater autonomy or even independence for Hong Kong. Their right to retake their oaths is also ... ( read original story ...)

The prime spot at the annual Lunar New Year fair was auctioned off to a wedding banquet and restaurant company for a record HK$820,000, smashing last year’s record – set by the same company – by almost HK$200,000. As the hammer went down on Monday ... ( read original story ...)

Instead, a 41-year-old woman had reported that she was molested by a man more than three decades ago when she was studying in a primary school in Hong Kong Island, the spokesman said, and police had arrested Cheung following investigation. Cheung was ... ( read original story ...)

Their oaths were invalidated amid chaotic scenes in the Legislative Council (LegCo). The interpretation of Hong Kong's Basic Law, carried by state news agency Xinhua, states that lawmakers taking their oaths must do so "sincerely and solemnly". They must ... ( read original story ...)

China's top legislature effectively barred two democratically elected separatist lawmakers from taking office in Hong Kong with a ruling Monday on the city's constitution, an intervention into a local political dispute that's likely to spark further ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong police fired pepper spray and protesters threw bottles and road cones in clashes near China’s representative office on Sunday night where activists had gathered to demonstrate against Beijing’s attempts to stop a fledgling independence movement. ( read original story ...)

It added that it should deter advocates of Hong Kong independence, as their actions were a threat to national security, state news agency Xinhua reported. Some demonstrators scuffled with police in front of the office of China's representative in the ... ( read original story ...)

The Standing Committee of China's rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress, said in a statement that Beijing could not afford to do nothing in the face of challenges in Hong Kong to China's authority, the official Xinhua News Agency ... ( read original story ...)

The Standing Committee of China's rubberstamp legislature, the National People's Congress, said in a statement that Beijing could not afford to do nothing in the face of challenges in Hong Kong to China's authority, the official Xinhua News Agency reported ... ( read original story ...)

The parliamentary meeting in Beijing ends on Monday, the state news agency Xinhua said. Earlier in the day, the Communist Party's top newspaper, the People's Daily, ran an editorial that said anyone "who splits the nation or promotes 'Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong government has asked the courts to review a decision ... (Reporting by Venus Wu, Writing by Greg Torode; Editing by Michael Perry) Next In World News ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying is taking additional steps to cool the world’s costliest property market, where prices have rebounded after a short-lived dip. The government raised the stamp duty to 15 percent for all residential purchases ... ( read original story ...)