Hong Kong is not the world’s freest market economy that it once was. For years, Hong Kong was a place where one could count on an open business environment with strong rule of law protections. 2020 – and the subsequent implementation of the National ...

HONG KONG — Five years ago, on a sweltering July 1, enraged protesters in Hong Kong smashed their way into the local legislature and ransacked the building. It was a bold act of violence that laid bare high levels of frustration among the demonstrators ...

On March 19, Hong Kong’s Legislative Council unanimously passed the Safeguarding National Security Bill proposed by the Hong Kong government, with the legislation taking effect on March 23. The bill complements the so-called National Security Law and ...

For Hong Kong, 2023 was a year for the record books – but not the sort of records that send champagne corks flying. The Hang Seng stock index logged its fourth consecutive year of losses, down by nearly 50% from January 2021. IPOs on the Hong Kong Stock ...

CLOSING ARGUMENTS are under way in the trial of Hong Kong’s most famous media mogul. Jimmy Lai’s publications cheered the millions who marched against the territory’s government in 2019. The charismatic billionaire could have fled. But Mr Lai stayed ...

Beijing has torn up Hong Kong’s freedoms and now threatens the security of Hong Kongers and their supporters around the world. It must not be allowed to get away with this with impunity. In the first three months of the new Trump administration, there ...

HONG KONG, March 19 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's 90-seat legislature on Tuesday unanimously passed a new national security law just 11 days after it was tabled, despite concerns from Western governments that freedoms would be further undermined in the financial ...

Hong Kong’s legislature unanimously passed sweeping new powers on Tuesday that critics and analysts warned would align the financial hub’s national security laws more closely with those used on the Chinese mainland and deepen an ongoing crackdown on ...

Luke Ching has made a name for himself with creative campaigns to improve working conditions for menial laborers, even as the scope for political protests in the city has narrowed. By Tiffany May Reporting from Hong Kong On a recent eight-hour shift at a ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Corralled by mountain, sea and great swathes of protected countryside, Hong Kong can appear as incongruous as it is remarkable. Around 600 skyscrapers face off across the narrow glint of ...

The crowds weren’t just equipped for a storm, they were counting on one. When rain started to fall on the tens of thousands of mostly young people amassed around Hong Kong’s legislature on the morning of June 12, umbrellas popped open with loud shouts ...