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Thomson Reuters Anti-government protesters react as riot police fire tear gas to disperse them during a march against Beijing's plans to impose national security legislation in Hong Kong, China May 24 ... ( read original story ...)

China says it will rush through anti-sedition law as police fire teargas at protesters ... ( read original story ...)

Pacific GeneTech has partnered with a US firm to develop vaccines for the disease, which has caused the deaths or culling of hundreds of millions of pigs globally ... ( read original story ...)

Armoured vehicles and water cannon have been deployed to tackle protests amid China plans to force through security laws ... ( read original story ...)

Beijing politicians sought to allay worries about the impact of China's proposed national security legislation on the Asian financial hub's business environment, saying it would boost investor ... ( read original story ...)

At the cutting edge of fashion and science, innovators are setting a new trend with a circular model of consumption. ( read original story ...)

Beijing has announced it will essentially take control of Hong Kong by directly imposing a sweeping national-security law, bypassing the territory’s elected Legislative Council. Despite repeated ... ( read original story ...)

China’s plan to tighten control over Hong Kong presents the U.S. with tough choices between tolerating Beijing’s incursion on the territory’s semiautonomy and retaliating without hurting its largely ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said late on Friday the Chinese proposal to impose national security laws on Hong Kong will improve business confidence in the city and will not damage the interests of ... ( read original story ...)

A sweeping security law signals Beijing's determination to crush pro-democracy protests at the risk of deepening its rift with the U.S. It is a bold strategy from Chinese leader Xi Jinping. ( read original story ...)

New Chinese national security restrictions imposed on Hong Kong could draw a U.S. revocation of the former British colony's "special status" under U.S. law, a move that would have far-reaching trade ... ( read original story ...)

Over the course of April and throughout May, while much of the world’s attention was trained on the coronavirus’s spiraling death toll, hardly a day passed in Hong Kong without news of arrested ... ( read original story ...)

Beijing said Friday it would forego gross domestic product targets as it tries to revive its economy from the damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and that it would consider a national security bill ... ( read original story ...)

The territory’s stock market plunged amid expectations that money would soon be leaving the Asian financial hub, which faces tough new measures from Beijing and retaliation from the United States. ( read original story ...)