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Hong Kong will begin enforcing stricter social distancing guidelines this week after reporting its highest single-day increase in coronavirus cases since August. The city reported 80 new cases from ... ( read original story ...)

Prosecutors have accused a University of Hong Kong professor of murdering his wife in cold blood for money two years ago while his defence counsel argued for manslaughter as the one true verdict. ( read original story ...)

Angela Merkel to discuss plan with state premiers; Hong Kong facing renewed virus surge; WHO says experts to investigate origins of virus ... ( read original story ...)

Former Hong Kong lawmakers have launched their final appeal against the government's use of a colonial-era law to impose a blanket ban on wearing masks during protests last year, likening its ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong will close bars, nightclubs and other entertainment venues for the third time this year, Health Secretary Sophia Chan said on Tuesday as authorities scramble to tackle a renewed rise in ... ( read original story ...)

China urged Britain on Tuesday to curb its colonial mindset, hypocrisy and double standards, in a response to its series of six-monthly reports on the former colony of Hong Kong. The remarks were made ... ( read original story ...)

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is consulting with the U.K.’s most senior legal officer on the position of British judges in Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal, as he condemned China’s “chilling” ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong will again shutter bars, nightclubs and karaoke parlors, the South China Morning Post and other local media outlets reported, as concerns rise about a new wave of Covid-19 cases in the Asian ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong plans further measures to tighten social distancing rules, while Japan is moving toward actions to contain the virus from spreading rapidly. ( read original story ...)

Senior UK ministers have warned that British judges sitting in Hong Kong should not lend “a veneer of respectability” to the region’s legal system if it is compromised by Beijing’s new security law. ( read original story ...)

Kathy Wong Kin-ho hid from the sun inside one of the large, upcycled water pipes in a park in Western District. Around her, children were crawling through them as if they were in a tunnel, sliding ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s government said on Sunday that it would give cash payments of about $650 to residents who tested positive for the coronavirus, a policy designed to encourage people to get tested. Sophia ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government is not targeting any LegCo member. Nor are we going for political suppression, or silencing dissenting views. ( read original story ...)

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is consulting with the U.K.’s most senior legal officer on the position of British judges in Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal, as he condemned China’s “chilling” ... ( read original story ...)