Hong Kong police have arrested a 40-year-old man on suspicion of using seditious words after a flag with a banned protest slogan was ... Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

Hong Kong’s incoming and outgoing leaders attended a flag-raising ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the return to Chinese rule for the city pulled in recent years under much tighter ...

HONG KONG, July 1 — Hong Kong leader John Lee said on Tuesday the city has become safer and more competitive as it marks its ...

LONDON — They smashed glass windows, sprayed rude graffiti and defaced Hong Kong’s official emblem with black paint. But of all the dramatic photos showing hundreds of young protesters ...

HKU Holds Flag-Raising Ceremony to Commemorate the 28th Anniversary of the Establishment of the HKSAR The University of Hong Kong (HKU) held a ...

A Hong Kong court Thursday sentenced citizen journalist Paula Leung to three months in prison – the first conviction under the National Anthem Ordinance of the People’s Republic of China in Hong Kong.

What began on this day in 1843 ended in a strange form of decolonisation. The UK handed over a territory to China, not by ...

Hong Kong’s education minister has defended government rules for flag-raising ceremonies at schools, saying the measures were not intended to make pupils “suffer” but to instil a sense of ...