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China’s parliament has passed a ruling that in effect bars two elected Hong Kong pro-independence politicians from taking office, Beijing’s most direct intervention in the territory’s legal and political system since the 1997 handover. The National ... ( read original story ...)

When it became clear that the Chinese government had forcibly kidnapped five Chinese sellers of potboiler political books – apprehending them in Hong Kong, during visits to the mainland, and, in the case of Gui Minhai, while vacationing in Thailand ... ( read original story ...)

The ruling is expected to bar two activist lawmakers from taking office in Hong Kong. The prospect of the ruling had sparked protests in the former British territory that returned to Chinese rule in 1997. The official Xinhua news agency reported that China ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's government will fully implement the interpretation, said Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, the Beijing-backed leader of the semiautonomous Chinese region. He told a packed news briefing in Hong Kong that the Youngspiration duo had not only ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG – The Chinese legislature's decision to intervene in the exclusion of two Hong Kong legislators has underscored Beijing's determination to ensure its control over the semi-autonomous region's political life. Here is a look at recent events and ... ( read original story ...)

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 ...)