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Arrests in Hong Kong cast a wider net in a case that has already rattled activists in the city and drawn international condemnation. ( read original story ...)

A dragnet is expanding around those affiliated with the city’s pro-democracy movement, with more than 100 arrested under the security law. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong media say police have arrested a lawyer and 10 other people on suspicion of helping 12 Hong Kongers try to flee the city last year. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong police on Thursday arrested a lawyer and 10 others on suspicion of helping 12 Hong Kong activists try to flee the city, media reported. The fresh wave of arrests comes a week after 55 ... ( read original story ...)

Eleven people, aged 18 to 72, have been arrested on suspicion of helping 12 democracy activists flee Hong Kong by boat last year ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's national security police arrested 11 people in dawn raids on Thursday, including a veteran human rights lawyer, on suspicion of helping a group of activists make a failed bid to flee the ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong police have arrested 11 people over suspected crimes related to assisting a group of 12 pro-democracy activists accused of attempting to flee the city by boat for Taiwan last year, local ... ( read original story ...)

A total of 11 people have been arrested, linked to a daring escape attempt from Hong Kong to Taiwan. It follows recent mass arrests of pro-democracy activists by police in the semi-autonomous ... ( read original story ...)

Latest arrests are related to a group picked up by the coastguard as they fled in a speedboat, and now jailed in China ... ( read original story ...)

Critics have urged the Hong Kong government to impose restrictions on a public transport subsidy scheme for local seniors so as to curb possible abuse and overuse, and to help alleviate its long-term ... ( read original story ...)

I refer to "US wakes up to the dangers of anti-government violence but in Hong Kong it's a different story" (January 12). Many commentators have closely compared the storming of Capitol Hill in the US ... ( read original story ...)

We seem to have a love-hate relationship with remote working. This is understandable, given that it was forced on many organisations due to Covid-19. Of course, at the moment it seems like Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

Undaunted by high fees and distance, an increasing number of Hong Kong parents are opting to send their children to boarding schools in Britain, home of renowned institutions such as Eton and Harrow. ( read original story ...)

A British barrister has agreed to act for the Hong Kong government next month in its efforts to convict Jimmy Lai and eight other pro-democracy activists accused of taking part in an illegal assembly ... ( read original story ...)