HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s top American diplomat said on Thursday that the policies of the Chinese and Hong Kong ...

Hong Kong passes new security law to crack down on dissent 04:36. In March, Hong Hong's legislature, which has been purged of all pro-democracy legislators over the past few years, bolstered the ...

New school textbooks state that Hong Kong, which Britain handed back to China in 1997, was never a British colony, because Beijing does not recognize the 19th-century treaties that ceded Hong Kong ...

The Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984 dictated the terms under which Hong Kong was returned to China. The declaration and Hong Kong’s Basic Law, the city’s constitutional document that ...

Since Hong Kong was returned to China from the UK in 1997, the Chinese central government has clashed several times with local pro-democracy movements asking for universal elections and less ...

China wants to open its largest diplomatic outpost in Europe, a new mega-embassy, in central London. The plight of Hong Kong dissident-in-exile Chloe Cheung is a cautionary tale as the British ...

The effort to physically integrate Hong Kong with mainland China predates the two planned megaprojects, and even Beijing’s effort to suppress Hong Kong in the wake of the 2019 mass protests.

As China doubles down on Covid lockdowns, restricting movement for tens of millions of people, a very different scene is unfolding in Hong Kong. The mood in the Chinese-controlled city is perhaps ...

China had initially promised Hong Kong 50 years of political freedoms under the city's mini-constitution, the Basic Law, following the city's 1997 handover from Britain.

HONG KONG, CHINA - JUNE 30: Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a news conference, displayed on a television screen at a shopping area on June 30, 2022 in Hong Kong, China.

Hong Kong has an on-again-off-again relationship with crypto: Before China outlawed all crypto-related activities in 2021, the Asian financial hub was the early home to several crypto startups ...

Between 2017 and 2021, Hong Kong and the U.A.E. enjoyed an annual average growth of 4.1%, and about 9.5% of the buoyant and growing trade between the U.A.E. and mainland China was routed through ...