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Hong Kong’s district council elections were a key win for pro-democracy parties, signaling support for protesters’ demands.

HONG KONG - It seemed impossible to conceive Hong Kong could produce a more unpopular leader than Leung Chun-ying, the hapless one-term chief executive who was despised for refusing to negotiate with activists during the 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella M

L. P. Hartley once wrote, ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” If so, the future too is foreign. For politically charged places like Hong Kong, this is not merely an idle literary or philosophical inquiry. Its inhabitant

Hong Kong police arrested more than 50 politicians and activists Wednesday, in a sign of how drastically Beijing has curtailed political freedoms.

The new $900-billion relief package signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on December 27, 2020, designed to supplement the U.S. economy over the impact of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is hardly straightforward in its purpose. It is being

A new strain of coronavirus discovered in the UK, thought to be up to 70 per cent more transmissible than the original virus, has led to a slew of countries temporarily banning arrivals from the UK. The Netherlands was the first country to issue rest

Photography by Roni Ahn. Styling by Rosana Lai.Set design by Kate Jones. Hair and Make-up Karen Yiu, Cindy Lai, Sandy Cheung and Kenji Lee at Hong Kong Makeup Artist Models Wai Ki at Elite Model Management Asia, Ka Wai at Elite Model Management Asia

Photography by Roni Ahn. Styling by Rosana Lai.Set design by Kate Jones. Hair and Make-up Karen Yiu, Cindy Lai, Sandy Cheung and Kenji Lee at Hong Kong Makeup Artist Models Wai Ki at Elite Model Management Asia, Ka Wai at Elite Model Management Asia

Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam, all in their 20s, have been held since pleading guilty in November for organizing a protest last year that surrounded police headquarters.

On May 13, Samson Young won the inaugural M+ Sigg Prize in Hong Kong with his 12-channel sound-and-video installation Muted Situations #22: Muted Tchaikovsky’s 5th (2018), receiving HKD 500,000 (USD 64,500). Abstract painter and writer Etel Adnan was

After Hong Kong returned to the motherland in 1997, the Chik family in Zhejiang Province in east China decided to shift their garments business from Thailand to the new special administrative region (SAR) and settle down there due to the huge room fo

Thirty years after the promulgation of the Basic Law of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) and 23 years after Hong Kong’s return to the motherland, one article in the Basic Law has yet to be implemented. Article 23 of this constitutional d

The king of Macau. The godfather of gambling. Stanley Ho Hung-sun was known by many names during his nearly six-decade long career. But for the extended family the tycoon left behind when he died in May, even those grandiose epithets only scratch the

At the closing meeting of the Third Session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC), the top legislature of China, on May 28, deputies adopted a decision to make national security laws for Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR). The decis

The renewed push from China to pass a national security law will almost certainly set off more protests against Beijing's rule in Hong Kong, which is semi-autonomous.

When the Association of Returned Overseas Chinese Macao was founded way back in 1968, its founding members all regarded Macao as Chinese territory and believed it would return to China from under Portuguese control one day, said Lao Ngai Leong, Chair

When Kou Kam Fai was a university student in Macao, he had to work part-time to pay for his tuition because his family couldn’t afford his education. That was before 1999 when the peninsula in south China was under Portuguese rule following Portugal’

Since Macao returned to China from Portuguese control on December 20, 1999, the principles of “one country, two systems” and “Macao people administering Macao” have been implemented, giving Macao a high degree of autonomy. With the support of the Cen

The Hou Kong Middle School (HKM) in Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) has a notable place in history. Founded in 1932, it has the distinction of raising the five-star red flag of the newly founded People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949

Newly elected representatives are among those trying to turn the demonstrations into a permanent prodemocracy movement.

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy camp won big in district elections. Now, incoming councilors have to translate their dreams into day-to-day decisions.

The city’s leaders believe a revamped education system will make its people more loyal to Beijing and less likely to protest.

Voters overwhelmingly chose pro-democracy candidates in local elections, putting an end to the notion that a large chunk of the population was against months of protests.