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HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court on Friday found a prominent independence activist in the Chinese-ruled territory guilty of rioting, a verdict that could see him put behind bars for up to 12 years. The closely watched case concerned an overnight ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court on Friday found the most prominent leader of the Chinese-ruled territory's independence movement, Edward Leung, guilty on one charge of rioting, a verdict that could see him put behind bars for up to 12 years. ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court on Friday found the most prominent leader of the Chinese-ruled territory’s independence movement, Edward Leung, guilty on one charge of rioting, a verdict that carries a maximum sentence of 12 years’ jail. ( read original story ...)

It was a day Alvin Chan and his partner C.P. So had never imagined possible -- tying the knot in front of cheering family and friends in Hong Kong. Apprehensive about holding a wedding ceremony in the socially conservative city a year after they signed ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — A cameraman from a Hong Kong news station was roughed up and detained by the police in Beijing while trying to cover a human rights lawyer’s disciplinary hearing, the Hong Kong news media reported. Video footage shows uniformed police ... ( read original story ...)

... State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office “mediated” at the request of the Hong Kong government. The incident came four days after i-Cable News journalist Chan Ho-fai was kicked and beaten by two men in mainland China’s southwestern ... ( read original story ...)

Thirteen years ago, a national laboratory was launched at the University of Hong Kong to do groundbreaking research on emerging infectious diseases as the city got back on its feet from the deadly 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars). ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong stepped in to defend its currency peg for the first time in almost a month. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority mopped up HK$1.57 billion ($200 million) of local dollars overnight after the currency fell to the weak end of its trading band. ( read original story ...)

Funding that drove China’s tech rise now available to Hong Kong scientists, as Xi Jinping pledges to make city global innovation hub Xi’s move, reported by state news agency Xinhua on Monday, came in response to an appeal by 24 of Hong Kong’s leading ... ( read original story ...)

A woman on trial for neglecting her seven-year-old daughter to a state of near death in 2015 told a Hong Kong court on Monday she had raised her three other children to be healthy and do well at school. Mandy Wong Wing-man, 42, also alleged for the first ... ( read original story ...)

Xi’s move, state news agency Xinhua reported on Monday, was in response to an appeal by 24 of Hong Kong’s leading scientists and university professors who wrote to him last year to “express their pressing hope to make a contribution to the motherland”. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong rail bosses admitted on Monday that some journeys on the city’s new high-speed rail line to Guangzhou would take longer than the promised 48 minutes, after reports they could overshoot that by as much as half an hour. The MTR Corporation’s ... ( read original story ...)

A Hong Kong court on Friday found two pro-independence activists guilty of unlawful assembly inside the legislature while they were still lawmakers, dealing a further blow to waning political dissent in the Chinese-ruled territory. Opposition leaders and ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court on Friday found two pro-independence activists guilty of unlawful assembly inside the legislature while they were still lawmakers, dealing a further blow to waning political dissent in the Chinese-ruled territory. ( read original story ...)