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HONG KONG – Organizers of a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong marking the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown are set to use slogans calling for the "end to one-party dictatorship" despite warnings from pro-Beijing forces of potential ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s railway operator is expected to discuss the idea of building public housing when developing property atop its stations with the government, in what would be a first for the city as it seeks to provide more affordable flats. Multiple sources ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged China to disclose the details of people killed, detained or missing during the Chinese military's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters centred on Beijing's Tiananmen Square 29 years ago. ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — Tens of thousands of pro-democracy activists turned out in Hong Kong Monday to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, observing an event that goes largely unmentioned in mainland China. This year’s ... ( read original story ...)

The topic remains taboo in mainland China and any form of commemoration, whether public or private, is banned. In Hong Kong, however, tens of thousands of people gather every year in Victoria Park on the evening of June 4 to remember the victims in the ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court on Monday sentenced two former lawmakers to four weeks in jail for unlawful assembly inside the legislature while they were still lawmakers, further sapping the energy of political activists in the Chinese-ruled ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's top court on Monday began hearing the final appeal of a landmark LGBT rights case that has garnered public support from more than 30 top global banks and law firms, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Marriage is ... ( read original story ...)

Baggio Leung arrives at a magistrate court in Hong Kong. Photograph: Bobby Yip/Reuters Two Hong Kong independence activists who were stripped of their status as lawmakers in 2016 were sentenced to four weeks in prison on Monday for their role in a fracas ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court on Monday sentenced two former lawmakers to four weeks in jail for unlawful assembly inside the legislature while they were still lawmakers, further sapping the energy of political activists in the Chinese-ruled ... ( read original story ...)

For 28 years, tens of thousands of Hong Kong democracy advocates have marked the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown by rallying for political change in China. This year, they face new risk in doing so. At issue are a series of slogans chanted ... ( read original story ...)

While authorities cannot confirm if two storms brewing in the region will become a “double typhoon”, Hong Kong weather officials expect unstable conditions with squally showers and thunderstorms over the city in the coming days. After sweltering under ... ( read original story ...)

One look at all the news about Hong Kong’s metro system these days and you’d think we’re talking about a train wreck of a service. Anyone overseas who has never been to this city could be forgiven for assuming we have a third world-standard mass ... ( read original story ...)

It is a story previously only whispered of in certain circles, a story of a young married couple fleeing a violent government crackdown, of a man who left his family and risked his life to smuggle them out of the country, and of the part Hong Kong played ... ( read original story ...)

Farm owner Raymond Cheng Wai-man never thought the day would come when he would yearn for a downpour. Subtropical Hong Kong, after all, gets an average of 2,400mm of rain a year, about a tenth of which comes in May. But since January this year, less than ... ( read original story ...)