Hong Kong

Hong Kong activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for charges related to an illegal pro-democracy rally in 2019.

The announcement came hours after Singapore said the agreement, which was set to take effect on Sunday, would go ahead as planned.

ECA International’s Lee Quane attributed this year’s gains to a “sustained increase in productivity in many Asian nations” despite the coronavirus crisis.

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers say they will resign en masse after four of them were ousted from the semiautonomous Chinese territory’s Legislature.

A man in Hong Kong has become the first confirmed patient to be infected with the coronavirus a second time, according to researchers at the University of Hong Kong. The finding suggests that some patients who recover from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, may have only short-lived immunity from reinfection. The case will likely also be significant for...

China has announced unspecified sanctions against 11 U.S. politicians and heads of organizations promoting democratic causes, including Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who have already been singled out by Beijing

Hong Kong police have arrested media tycoon Jimmy Lai and raided the publisher’s headquarters, broadening their enforcement of a new security law and raising fears about press freedom in the semi-autonomous Chinese city

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says the government will postpone highly anticipated legislative elections by one year, citing a worsening coronavirus outbreak in the semi-autonomous Chinese city

Britain’s government says it will open a new special pathway to obtaining U.K. citizenship for up to 3 million eligible Hong Kongers as of January

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a bill and executive order that he says will hold China accountable for its oppressive actions against the people of Hong Kong. “[Hong Kong’s] freedom’s been taken away, their rights have been taken away and with it goes Hong Kong in my opinion,” he said.

Only five years ago, Britain and China were celebrating a “golden era” in relations

Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers have voted in an unofficial two-day primary election held by the city’s pro-democracy camp as it gears up to field candidates for an upcoming legislative poll

TikTok says it will stop operations in Hong Kong after the city enacted a sweeping national security law last week

In implementing the national security law for Hong Kong, police will have sweeping authority that allows them to take actions, including conducting searches without a warrant, restricting suspects from leaving the city, and intercepting communications

Prominent Hong Kong democracy activist Nathan Law says he has left the city for an undisclosed location after testifying in a U.S. congressional hearing about a tough new security law imposed by mainland China on the semi-autonomous territory

China’s government and pro-Beijing activists in Hong Kong are condemning what they call foreign meddling in the territory’s affairs, as countries move to offer Hong Kongers refuge and impose sanctions on China over a new security law

Hong Kong police have made the first arrests under a new national security law imposed by mainland China, as thousands of people defied tear gas and pepper pellets to protest against it

People living in Hong Kong are starting to seek a way out after China passed a controversial new national security law that the people of Hong Kong said violates their autonomy. The passage of the law is seen as Beijing’s response to the year-long, anti-government protests that have swept the former territory.

China approved a contentious national security law that will allow authorities to crack down on subversive and secessionist activity in Hong Kong, a move many see as Beijing’s boldest yet to erase the legal firewall between the semi-autonomous territory and mainland China’s authoritarian Communist Party system.

The Trump administration is barring defense exports to Hong Kong and will soon require licenses for the sale of items that have both civilian and military uses