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Containers pile up at Kwai Chung Container terminal in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Apr. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Hong Kong post office will stop shipping parcels to the US over tariffs
Hong Kong’s post office will stop shipping small parcels to the United States after Washington announced plans to charge tariffs on small-value parcels from the southern Chinese city.
 
Hong Kong defends its immigration procedures after British MP was denied entry
Hong Kong’s government has defended its immigration procedures after a British member of parliament was denied entry to the Chinese city last week, an incident that raised concerns among U.K. officials.
 
Lo Kin-hei, chairman of Hong Kong's Democratic Party, speaks at a press conference at the office of Hong Kong's Democratic Party in Hong Kong on Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy party gets mandate to move closer to disbandment
Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy party has received its members’ mandate to proceed with steps toward a potential disbandment, part of the erosion of political freedoms as China cracks down on dissent in the southern city.
 
Yeung Sum, the founding member of the Democratic Party, speaks during an interview at the Democratic Party's office in Prince Edward in Hong Kong on April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/May James)
Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy party moves to disband as freedoms dwindle
Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy party is moving to disband itself after more than 30 years of activism.
 
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, fourth from left, and Panama Canal Authority Administrator Ricaurte Vasquez wave to workers on a boat during a tour of the Panama Canal's Miraflores Locks in Panama City, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Hong Kong company denies that it failed to pay Panama under a contract to operate its canal ports
A subsidiary of a Hong Kong conglomerate, which is embroiled in U.S.-China tensions over its Panama Canal port assets has denied allegations that it had failed to pay about $1.2 billion to the Central American country.
 
Hong Kong social worker Jackie Chen stands in front of the District Court building in Wan Chai, Hong Kong for journalists to take photographs ahead of her verdict hearing Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Kanis Leung)
Social worker imprisoned nearly 4 years for mediation attempts at Hong Kong protests
A Hong Kong social worker has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for rioting after she tried to mediate between protesters and police at the 2019 anti-government protests.
 
FIEL - Raymond Siu Chak-yee, commissioner of police speaks during a press conference to "review the law and order situation of Hong Kong and the work of the police in 2021", at the police headquarters in Hong Kong, on Jan. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
US sanctions 6 Chinese and Hong Kong officials over rights abuses. Beijing threatens to retaliate
The United States sanctioned six Chinese and Hong Kong officials for alleged “transnational repression” and acts that threaten to further erode the southern Chinese city’s autonomy.
 
Artist Chow Chun-fai speaks during an interview at his studio in Hong Kong, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Hong Kong painter draws inspiration from city’s recent history in works at Art Basel
At Hong Kong’s Art Basel, painter Chow Chun-fai’s new works transport viewers back to the night in 1997 when the former British colony returned to Chinese rule, displayed in the very exhibition center where one era ended and another began.
 
Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings company, speaks during a press conference to announce the company's annual results in Hong Kong, March 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
Hong Kong’s richest man is in hot water over his company’s Panama Canal ports deal
Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing’s business empire is in the crosshairs after CK Hutchison Holdings chose to sell its Panama Canal port assets to a consortium that includes U.S. investment firm BlackRock Inc., apparently angering Beijing.
 
Cranes load a cargo ship at the Panama Canal's Balboa Port in Panama City, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
Hong Kong’s leader swipes at Trump but avoids criticism of tycoon’s deal to sell Panama Port assets
Hong Kong’s leader says his government opposes coercion by foreign governments, an allusion to comments by U.S.
 
A worker carries a box of supplies for a Mixue store in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
Make room Starbucks and McDonald’s. China’s Mixue and other brands win fans in Southeast Asia
Chinese food and beverage brands are gaining fans across Southeast Asia, offering alternatives to big name American chains and expanding Beijing’s commercial and cultural sway in neighboring economies.
 
Hong Kong social worker Jackie Chen stands in front of the District Court building in Wan Chai, Hong Kong for journalists to take photographs ahead of her verdict hearing Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Kanis Leung)
A social worker who tried to mediate during the 2019 protests in Hong Kong is convicted of rioting
A social worker who tried to mediate during the peak of Hong Kong’s mass anti-government protests in 2019 has been convicted of rioting at a retrial.
 
Tang Ngok-kwan, one of core members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, leaves the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Top Hong Kong court overturns convictions of 3 former organizers of Tiananmen vigils
Hong Kong’s top court has overturned the convictions of three former organizers of an annual vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown over their refusal to provide information to police, marking a rare victory for the city’s pro-democracy activists.
 
CORRECTS THE YEAR - Police officers stand guard outside the District Court ahead of the sentencing on a riot case involving a former pro-democracy lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting in Wan Chai, Hong Kong on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Former Hong Kong lawmaker sentenced to over 3 years in jail on charge of riot during 2019 protests
A Hong Kong judge sentenced a former pro-democracy lawmaker to three years and one month in prison on a charge of riot after an incident in which he was beaten up at a subway station during the city’s anti-government protests in 2019.
 
Lo Kin-hei, chairperson of Hong Kong's Democratic Party, seated, second from right, attends a press conference held at the office of Hong Kong's Democratic Party In Hong Kong on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Kanis Leung)
Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy party takes initial step toward disbanding
Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy party took an initial step toward dissolving on Thursday. Hong Kong’s Democratic Party’s chairperson Lo Kin-hei said in a news conference that the party’s central committee decided to set up a task force to look into the procedures involved.
 
Hong Kong residents compete to name twin panda cubs who just turned 6 months old
Panda craze has once again gripped Hong Kong as residents compete to name the territory’s first locally-born giant panda cubs who just turned six months old.
 
Hong Kong plans to ban substandard tiny apartments. Low-income families fear higher rents
Hong Kong plans to crack down on poor-quality subdivided flats are leaving many low-income residents uncertain about their future in one of the world’s most expensive housing markets.
 
Packages are seen stacked on the doorstep of a residence, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Upper Darby, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)
Hong Kong to file complaint with WTO on US tariffs
Hong Kong will file a complaint against the latest U.S. tariffs on the city’s products with the World Trade Organization.
 
The Icons for the smartphone apps DeepSeek and ChatGPT are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
DeepSeek’s new AI chatbot and ChatGPT answer sensitive questions about China differently
Chinese tech startup DeepSeek’s new artificial intelligence chatbot has sparked discussions about the competition between China and the U.S. in AI development, with many users flocking to test the rival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
 
Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and newly sworn-in Macao Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai leave the stage following the inauguration ceremony as part of the 25th anniversary of Macao's handover from Portugal to China, in Macao Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (Justin Chan/Pool Photo via AP)
China’s Xi swears in new leader of casino hub Macao, telling the city to diversify economy
Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged the casino hub of Macao to diversify its economy as he swore in the former Portuguese colony’s new government at an event marking the 25th anniversary of its handover to China.
 
China's President Xi Jinping, right, speaks upon his arrival at the airport in Macao, China, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024, ahead of celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the casino city’s return to Chinese rule. (Eduardo Leal/Pool Photo via AP)
Macao’s casino boom brings wealth but at a cost, 25 years since China’s takeover
Macao has grown from a monopoly-driven gambling enclave into the world’s biggest gaming hub, packed with Chinese tourists, since Beijing took control of the former Portuguese colony 25 years ago.
 
China's President Xi Jinping speaks upon his arrival at the airport in Macao, China, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024, ahead of celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the casino city’s return to Chinese rule. (Eduardo Leal/Pool Photo via AP)
Xi visits casino hub Macao to mark 25 years of its return to Chinese rule
Chinese President Xi Jinping has begun a three-day visit to Macao to mark the 25th anniversary of the casino city’s return to Chinese rule. Xi and his wife were welcomed at the airport Wednesday by a lavish ceremony.
 
FILE- A pro-democracy lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting, center, gestures with five fingers, signifying the "Five demands - not one less" as he is surrounded by riot police during a news conference to mark one-year anniversary of the Yuen Long subway attack at the subway station in Hong Kong, July 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
Hong Kong court convicts 7 men, including ex-lawmaker, of rioting during 2019 protests
A Hong Kong judge on Thursday convicted seven people, including a pro-democracy former lawmaker, of rioting during mob violence at a subway station at the height of the city’s anti-government protests in July 2019.
 
A jailed Hong Kong activist loses appeal over denial of early release under new security law
A jailed Hong Kong activist has lost his landmark legal challenge against the prison authorities’ refusal to grant him early release under the new national security law.
 
The Beijing-gifted giant panda An An makes his debut appearance to media in Ocean Park during a preview event in Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Hong Kong will display 2,500 panda sculptures to capitalize on a local bear craze
Thousands of giant panda sculptures will greet residents and tourists starting on Saturday in Hong Kong, where enthusiasm for the bears has grown since two cubs were born in a local theme park.
 
FILE - Artist Maurizio Cattelan's piece of art "Comedian" hangs on display during an auction preview at Sotheby's in New York, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)
Cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought banana art for $6.2 million eats the fruit in Hong Kong
A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who had bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, for $6.2 million last week ate the fruit in Hong Kong on Friday.
 
Cai Guixia, 60, second from right, learns African drumming from an instructor at the University for the Elderly in Beijing, Oct. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
China’s aging population fuels ‘silver economy’ boom, but profits can prove elusive
Many older Chinese are looking beyond traditional care homes, worried about abandonment and quality issues. Their strong preference to age at home is driving a boom in universities, home care services and communities catering to older adults.
 
FILE - A participant holds a rainbow flag at the annual Pride Parade in Hong Kong, Nov. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
Hong Kong’s top court rules in favor of equal inheritance and housing benefits for same-sex couples
Hong Kong’s top court has upheld earlier rulings that favored the granting of subsidized housing benefits and equal inheritance rights to same-sex couples, in a landmark victory for the city’s LGBTQ+ community.
 
A Correctional Services Department vehicle arrives at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, ahead of Hong Kong activist publisher Jimmy Lai's national security trial. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai denies he asked a newspaper colleague to draft list of sanction targets
Former publisher Jimmy Lai has denied that he asked a colleague to draft a list of potential sanction targets in testimony at his landmark national security trial in Hong Kong.
 
Jimmy Lai's wife Teresa Lai, left, and retired Chinese cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun arrive at West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts to attend Hong Kong activist publisher Lai's national security trial in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Hong Kong ex-publisher Jimmy Lai testifies he didn’t ask Pence, Pompeo to take action against city
Former Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai is testifying in his defense at his landmark national security trial. He told the court on Wednesday about his 2019 meetings with former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and former U.S.
 
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