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Residents across the city gathered to commemorate the victims of China's 1989 crackdown, despite a police ban. Hours earlier, the city made mocking China's anthem a crime. Chanting slogans like [...]

As the Chinese government's grip tightens, protesters are debating how and why to keep fighting, or whether resistance is even possible. HONG KONG -- Protesters have deleted their social media [...]

As the Chinese government's grip tightens, protesters are debating how and why to keep fighting, or whether resistance is even possible. HONG KONG -- Protesters have deleted their social media [...]

Many sought to oppose a bill that would threaten prison for disrespecting the Chinese national anthem, the latest expression of public anger at Beijing's encroachment. HONG KONG -- The protesters [...]

Marchers defied social distancing rules and a water cannon to demonstrate against Beijing's plan for new security legislation in the territory. HONG KONG -- Thousands of protesters swarmed some of [...]

The protests in Hong Kong began as a mass expression of frustration over a contentious bill. They have evolved into a violent fight over the future of this Chinese territory. [...]

HONG KONG -- Fat Boy is a college dropout with a youthful blush of acne who excels at playing video games and lives with his mother. He is also a [...]

The explosive device, set off with a mobile phone, indicated an escalation in the street-level arms race between police officers and the protesters. HONG KONG -- A homemade bomb was [...]

HONG KONG -- When protesters in Hong Kong this weekend came upon an older, shirtless man who was threatening a crowd, they pounded him to the ground with a stick. [...]

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong residents were recovering on Saturday from street clashes, arson and vandalism that threw the city into chaos a night earlier, and bracing for the prospect [...]

Thousands protested, many wearing masks, as the clock ticked toward the ban taking effect, and clashes broke out around the city. HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's embattled leader invoked emergency [...]

The shooting of a teenage protester has amplified anger at a police force that some see as a symbol of Beijing's unchecked power. HONG KONG -- A woman was hit [...]

HONG KONG -- Antigovernment protesters in Hong Kong rallied in a downtown park, occupied a major road and blanketed several neighborhoods with pro-democracy artwork on Saturday, days before a sensitive [...]

HONG KONG -- After months of public unrest and criticism that she was ignoring the demands of protesters, Hong Kong's embattled leader, Carrie Lam, came face to face on Thursday [...]

HONG KONG -- Antigovernment protesters in Hong Kong mounted their fiercest challenge to the authorities on Monday, disrupting more than 200 airline flights, occupying malls and blocking roadways and rail [...]

HONG KONG -- Thousands of Hong Kong's civil servants demonstrated against the government after work on Friday evening, sending a powerful message of discontent by joining the anti-government protests that [...]

HONG KONG -- The Hong Kong police have announced their first arrest in connection with Monday's assault on the territory's legislative building, as protesters gird themselves for the possibility of [...]

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's protesters tried on Wednesday to maintain a united front and take stock of the movement's gains and losses, as the police said they had arrested [...]

HONG KONG -- Riot police officers used pepper spray and water cannon against huge crowds of protesters who blocked roads around Hong Kong's legislature on Wednesday morning, as lawmakers prepared [...]

HONG KONG -- Jian Liu has kept 60 rolls of film hidden from public view for three decades. He was a 20-year-old fashion design student in Beijing in the spring [...]

HONG KONG -- Jian Liu has kept 60 rolls of film hidden from public view for three decades. He was a 20-year-old fashion design student in Beijing in the spring [...]

The article discusses the conviction of 14 democracy activists in China's Hong Kong on national security charges, signaling a crackdown on dissent in the city. Topics discussed include the figures like Benny Tai and Joshua Wong, highlighting the authorities' use of sweeping powers to stifle pro-democracy voices and eliminate opposition. It mentions the trials that reflect a broader erosion of civil liberties and judicial independence in Hong Kong under Beijing's influence.

The article focuses on Agnes Chow, a prominent pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong, announcing that she has fled to Canada and will not return to Hong Kong, challenging authorities and risking legal consequences for skipping bail amid the government's crackdown on dissent.

The article presents the discussion on Chen Siming, an activist who fled China, has been camped out at an airpon in Taiwan. Topics include critic of China's ruling Communist Party fled to South Korea, apparently by jetski; and police have conducted mass raids on civil society organizations detained by the authorities in Laos.

The article focuses on the controversy surrounding the return of Ya Ya a female giant panda from Memphis Zoo in Memphis, Tennessee to China. Topics include concerns about Ya Ya's health and welfare, the practice of panda diplomacy used by China, and the symbolic and economic significance of pandas in zoos.

The article reports that Chinese legal authorities have threatened to revoke the licenses of two lawyers hired to help a group of Hong Kong protesters who were arrested last year while trying to flee to Taiwan by speedboat.

The article reports on views of activist Nathan Law on applying for political asylum in Great Britain with petition that inflamed tension with China and mentions that national security law gave Hong Kong, China power to quash dissent of anti-government protests.

The article inform Joshua Wong, a prominent pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong, was sentenced to more than a year in prison for his role in a protest last year.

The article reports on Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong and two others were taken into custody after they pleaded guilty to charges related to demonstrations outside the police headquarters during anti-government protests in 2019.

The article reports on the division among activists who marched in protest as Hong Kong commemorated its British hand over to China in 1997. Topics discussed include the vandalism created by a group of activists indicating a divide between protesters, protest over China's meddling on Hong Kong, social media pleas for protesters to use nonviolent methods and Hong Kong chief executive officer Carrie Lam's condemnation of the violence.

The article reports that the Hong Kong authorities barred Joshua Wong, a prominent democracy activist, from running in district council elections, a blow to the protest movement's efforts to convert deep anger toward the authorities into electoral gains.