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Two former editors from a Hong Kong online pro-democracy news outlet were charged with sedition and denied bail Thursday, a day after the outlet said it would cease operations following a police raid on its office and seven arrests.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Chinese authorities to stop arresting Hong Kong journalists, a day after the biggest remaining pro-democracy news organization shut down under a probe. Blinken's ... Click to Continue

Chinese Communist officials have branded the constraints imposed on Hong Kong's electoral system as "the new practice of democracy" in the former British colony — a vocabulary for the ideological competition between Washington and Beijin

Binance, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, said on Friday it would restrict Hong Kong users from trading derivative products, the latest in a series of changes the exchange has made to improve compliance standards. Regulators in Hon

This great, free, vibrant city was promised 50 years of autonomy. It got less than half that allotment.'

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration issued a blanket warning Friday to U.S. firms about the risks of doing business in Hong Kong as China continues to clamp down on political and economic fr...

Hong Kong announced on Monday that it will soon begin banning all passenger flights from Britain in an effort to stem a resurgence of COVID-19 and the Delta variant there.

The decline of democracy in Hong Kong , with Beijing continuing to tighten its grip, has accelerated. While the Chinese government pledged a hands off posture towards Hong Kong for 50 years when the UK relinquished its control, that pledge seems to have b

The CEO and editor of a pro-Democracy newspaper in Hong Kong were denied bail at their court hearing Saturday after being detained for breaking the city's new national security law.

Britain is prepared to offer extended visa rights and a pathway to citizenship for almost 3 million Hong Kong residents in response to China's push to impose national security legislation in the former British colony.'

Hong Kong was once considered a 'golden goose' to the CCP, helping propel China's economic development and transformation. By trying to impose absolute control on Hong Kong, the CCP killed the golden goose.

Hong Kong permanent residents aged 18 and above will each receive a cash handout of HK$10,000 (US$1,200) in a HK$120 billion relief deal rolled out by the government to ease the burden on individuals and companies, while saving jobs, the Post can reveal.F

A number of Hong Kong banks including HSBC and Standard Chartered have rushed to introduce measures to relieve the pressure on small and medium-sized businesses and individuals as the coronavirus outbreak threatens to further derail the city's embattl

Ten members of a radical anti-government group were arrested on Tuesday and Wednesday by Hong Kong police, who also seized a powerful pipe bomb.Officers made the first arrests on Tuesday in a subdivided flat in Mong Kok and Ho Par village in Sheung Shui,

President Xi Jinping said on Friday China would never allow foreign forces to interfere with its special regions of Hong Kong and Macau, as he swore in a new pro-Beijing government for the gambling hub of Macau.

Britain urged China on Thursday to open dialogue with Hong Kong protesters and r...

Donald Trump Jr. mocked Time magazine for choosing climate change activist Greta Thunberg as its 2019 Person of the Year.

Hong Kong police say they have made 6,022 arrests and fired nearly 16,000 tear gas rounds during six months of anti-government protests.

Over 10,000 rounds of tear gas have been fired in the crowded city since June

What began in early 2019 as peaceful marches against a bill to allow extraditions to mainland China has exploded into a direct challenge to Beijing's grip on Hong Kong. The local government eventually withdrew the legislation, but the protests continu