Hong Kong lawmakers defy ban as standoff over oaths drags on

HONG KONG – More unruly scenes have erupted in Hong Kong's legislature as two newly elected lawmakers defied an order barring them from retaking their oaths after being disqualified earlier for insulting China. Surrounded by journalists and other ... ( read original story ...)

Stand-off in Hong Kong legislature over pro-independence oaths

Hong Kong's legislature was again reduced to chaos on Wednesday as political divisions deepen over the swearing in of two new lawmakers who advocate a split from Beijing. There are growing concerns in the semi-autonomous city that China is tightening its ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong court sees chilling video describing torture

HONG KONG – A jury in Hong Kong watched chilling video Tuesday of a British banker describing how he tortured and killed an Indonesian woman he met in a bar, saying he repeatedly raped her and "tortured her badly." In the video he shot, Rurik Jutting ... ( read original story ...)

U.K. banker pleads not guilty to murder in Hong Kong trial

HONG KONG -- A British banker accused of the grisly 2014 killings of two Indonesian women pleaded not guilty when he went on trial Monday in Hong Kong, in a case expected to highlight the Asian financial hub's inequality and privileged lifestyle of its ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong court is told banker was using cocaine during murders

HONG KONG -- A British banker was using cocaine when he killed two Indonesian women by slitting their throats and then used his phone to film himself talking about it, a Hong Kong prosecutor said as a trial for the 2014 killings opened Monday. The banker ... ( read original story ...)

Rurik Jutting pleads not guilty to Hong Kong murders

A British banker accused of murdering two Indonesian women in Hong Kong has pleaded not guilty on grounds of diminished ... but guilty to manslaughter," Mr Jutting said according to AFP news agency, entering his plea for the first time in the city's ... ( read original story ...)