Hong Kong will ban all nonresidents from entering the city beginning at midnight Tuesday evening to fight the coronavirus, its leader said, as she unveiled plans to stop restaurants and bars serving alcohol.
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All pets of people in Hong Kong infected with the coronavirus will be quarantined, with one dog already in isolation, city authorities said Friday.
Read moreChina on Thursday appointed a senior official known for a hardline crackdown on Christians to head its main policymaking body for Hong Kong, following months of pro-democracy protests in the city.
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Hong Kong said on Friday that it will deploy an army of volunteers to bolster the forcible quarantine of all arrivals from mainland China, warning that anyone caught breaching the new rules faces up to six months in prison.
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Hong Kong’s leader said Tuesday that all rail links to mainland China will be cut starting Friday as fears grow about the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
Read moreA Hong Kong airline forced a Japanese woman to take a pregnancy test before allowing her on a flight to a Pacific island popular with mothers seeking U.S. citizenship for their babies.
Read moreHong Kong may be allowed to keep its freedoms beyond their 2047 expiry date, its chief executive Carrie Lam said Thursday, but only if inhabitants remain loyal to Beijing’s vision of how the city should be run.
Read moreChina on Monday defended barring the head of Human Rights Watch from entering Hong Kong, saying nongovernmental organizations were responsible for political unrest in the city and should “pay the proper price.”
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Hong Kong’s health chief said Tuesday that a respiratory illness whose cause remains unknown will be added to an official list of diseases that medical practitioners are required to report to the government.
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Hundreds of thousands of people packed Hong Kong streets for an annual New Year’s Day protest march as the months-long pro-democracy movement extended into 2020 with more violence between police and demonstrators.
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Hong Kong protesters formed a line, patiently waiting their turn to buy sweet milk and tea drinks from a store that advertised ardent support for their cause with a banner declaring, “If you set off a nuclear blast, we’ll stick by you.”
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Hong Kong’s much-maligned police force has slipped on a banana peel by making light of its liberal use of tear gas during the territory’s protest movement.
Read moreA class action in British Columbia Supreme Court demands more than $142,000 from Access Asia Tours for allegedly refusing to issue refunds for a Hong Kong tour that was canceled because of the protests.
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Almost hidden among the throngs of demonstrators who marched in Hong Kong on Sunday was one woman who crawled on hands and knees on the rough road surface — an apt metaphor for the arduous path traveled by Hong Kong’s protest movement in the past six months.
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China said Monday it will suspend U.S. Navy visits to Hong Kong and sanction several U.S. pro-democracy organizations in retaliation for U.S. congressional of legislation supporting human rights in the semi-autonomous territory.
Read moreChina accused the U.N. high commissioner for human rights of emboldening “radical violence” in Hong Kong by suggesting the city’s leader conduct an investigation into reports of excessive use of force by police.
Read morePresident Trump signed two bills Wednesday meant to support pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong and human rights, in spite of suggesting last week that he may veto the legislation.
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A major tunnel in Hong Kong reopened Wednesday morning and a weeklong police siege of a nearby university appeared to be winding down, closing a violent chapter in the city’s long-running anti-government protests.
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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s shares jumped 6.6% in their debut on the Hong Kong stock exchange on Tuesday, an auspicious start as the former British colony is reeling from political unrest.
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Monday she would “seriously reflect” on the landslide victory by pro-democracy candidates in the Sunday elections that were a clear rebuke of how she has handled protests, and the police siege of Hong Kong Polytechnic University appears to be over, as only one woman was found in a campus search Tuesday.
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