Controversial Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to step down in June
Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam announced Monday that she will step down in June, ending a divisive term that saw ...
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HK cops raid newsroom, arrest 6 staff for ‘seditious publication’
Hong Kong—Hong Kong police raided the office of a local media outlet and arrested six current and former staff on ...
Read morePatriots? Students navigate HK classroom crackdown
Hong Kong teenager Sum says he lives a double life. In school he presents as a dutiful student, happy to ...
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Amnesty to shutter Hong Kong offices, blames security law
Hong Kong—Amnesty International said Monday it will shutter its offices in Hong Kong because of the threat posed to staff ...
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Hong Kong councilors swear new loyalty oath to China
Dozens of local community politicians in Hong Kong swore a newly required loyalty oath to China on Friday after hundreds ...
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‘Grandma Wong’ nabbed for protest
Hong Kong—Hong Kong police have arrested an elderly democracy activist as she made a solo demonstration over China’s deadly Tiananmen ...
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Patriot games: Hong Kong arts scene shudders as loyalists circle
After successfully muzzling Hong Kong's democracy protests and opposition, Beijing's loyalists are now taking aim at the arts as they ...
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Veteran Hong Kong activists on trial over huge democracy rally
Veteran Hong Kong activists went on trial Tuesday for organising one of the biggest democracy protests to engulf the city ...
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Another HK man arrested for violating security law
A Hong Kong man was dragged from a court shouting democracy slogans and remanded into custody on Tuesday after becoming ...
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‘CIA’-like street food vendors first on scene to feed Thai protesters
With an intelligence network so good they have been compared to the CIA, Thai street vendors are often first on ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.