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HONG KONG Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong, who helped lead the months-long "Umbrella Movement" in 2014 demanding full democracy, said on Thursday he would not fight a charge related to the protests in the spirit of civil disobedience. The Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong based photographer Edward Barnieh has over 175,000 followers on Instagram. He gives the BBC Travel Show’s Carmen Roberts a tour of the back streets of Hong Kong and gives her some tips on taking travel photographs. ( read original story ...)

New Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng ­Yuet-ngor has told her ministers they must lobby lawmakers and not leave the job to anyone else. Her instructions on Wednesday ­followed accusations that officials from Beijing’s liaison office had been involved ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s new leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor will be grilled on how she will deliver on her election promises on Wednesday as she attends her first question-and-answer session at the Legislative Council. She will also announce plans to give an extra ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG New Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam struck a conciliatory tone on Wednesday and vowed to improve ties with the legislature, but she suggested fresh reforms to bring greater democracy to the Chinese city would not be tabled any time soon. The former ... ( read original story ...)

Sir Richard Branson launched Virgin Australia's inaugural flights to Hong Kong on Wednesday, marking the start of the airline's expansion into Greater China. The airline's inaugural flight departed at 9.40am after much fanfare at Melbourne International ... ( read original story ...)

On the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover from British to Chinese rule, the founder of one of the territory's biggest political parties has taken a swipe at Hong Kong's ruling elite. Hong Kong's new leader, Carrie Lam, was sworn in today by Chinese ... ( read original story ...)

The Italian fashion house is just one of many top Western firms that have found themselves on the wrong end of Hong Kong's dizzying real estate boom. The price of commercial property in prime areas of the city has almost doubled since the U.K. handed it ... ( read original story ...)

Today's Hong Kong, a bustling home to over seven million people, is very different from how it was in the 1950s and 1960s. At that point in time, the British colony was embracing a large inflow of immigrants from mainland China after Communist leader Mao ... ( read original story ...)

A chronology of key events: 1842 - China cedes Hong Kong island to Britain after the First Opium War. Over the decades, thousands of Chinese migrants fleeing domestic upheavals settle in the colony. 1898 - China leases the New Territories together with 235 ... ( read original story ...)

President Xi Jinping has warned Hong Kong not to challenge Beijing's authority, 20 years after it took back the colony from Britain. During a swearing-in ceremony for Hong Kong's new leader, he said any activities threatening China's sovereignty and ... ( read original story ...)

Strolling through Vancouver's Kerrisdale neighbourhood, historian Henry Yu reflects on how immigrants from Hong Kong have helped shape the city over the past two decades. "Vancouver is one of the main places that a lot of Hong Kong Chinese came to ... ( read original story ...)

Chinese President Xi Jinping swore in Hong Kong's new leader on Saturday with a stark warning that Beijing won't tolerate any challenge to its authority in the divided city as it marked the 20th anniversary of its return from Britain to China. Police ... ( read original story ...)

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned Saturday that any activities in Hong Kong seen as threatening China's sovereignty and stability would be "absolutely impermissible," employing some of his harshest language yet against burgeoning separatist sentiment in ... ( read original story ...)