About 4,100 restaurants and shops participated in offering customers July 1 discounts. In Victoria Park, Hongkongers posed for photos with giant egg tarts and mini panda sculptures at an event marking ...

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 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.

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

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 ...

Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997 with the guarantee of freedoms not enjoyed on the mainland, including an independent judiciary and right to protest, for at least 50 years.

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

The U.S. consulate in Hong Kong has condemned the city’s government for what it is calling the repression of U.S.

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.

HONG KONG/LONDON, March 6 (Reuters) - Some shipping companies are discreetly moving operations out of Hong Kong and taking vessels off its flag registry. Others are making contingency plans to do so.

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 ...