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The Wider Image: In a scarred Hong Kong, "beautiful things are gone

World Aug 04

Hong Kong bans financial support for 16 overseas activists and cancels passports

By Kanis Leung, Associated Press

World Jun 26

U.S. Consul General Gregory May speaks to the media, in Hong Kong
Top U.S. diplomat in Hong Kong criticizes the city and China for curtailing freedoms

U.S. Consul General Gregory May, Hong Kong's top American diplomat, said Thursday that the policies of the Chinese and Hong Kong governments have curtailed freedoms, pointing to the case of jailed prominent activist Jimmy Lai and what he called “transnational regression."…

By Kanis Leung, Associated Press

World May 27

Panda cubs and their mother Ying Ying in Hong Kong
Meet Jia Jia and De De, Hong Kong’s giant panda cubs

The pandas' birth in August made their mother, Ying Ying, the world's oldest first-time panda mom.

By Kanis Leung, Associated Press

World Mar 18

FILE PHOTO: The Balboa Port is pictured after Hong Kong's CK Hutchison agreed to sell its interests in a key Panama Canal ...
Hong Kong’s leader takes swipe at Trump but avoids criticism of deal to sell Panama assets

Hong Kong’s leader says his government opposes coercion by foreign governments but stopped short of criticizing a prominent local conglomerate’s decision to sell its Panama Canal port assets to a consortium including American investment bank BlackRock.

By Kanis Leung, Associated Press

World Nov 19

Scenes from outside the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts building after the sentencing of 45 convicted pro-democracy activ...
45 Hong Kong democracy activists get 4 to 10 years in prison under Beijing-imposed law

Forty-five ex-lawmakers and activists have been sentenced to four to 10 years in prison in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case under a Beijing-imposed law that crushed a once-thriving pro-democracy movement.

By Kanis Leung, Zen Soo, Associated Press

Sep 20

Watch 6:16
Son of jailed Hong Kong journalist Jimmy Lai rallies U.S. support in fight for his release

By Nick Schifrin

A group of U.S. lawmakers came together in a show of bipartisan support to call for the release of Hong Kong businessman Jimmy Lai. Lai, who owned the newspaper Apple Daily, is one of the hundreds of democracy activists, journalists…

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Sep 06

Nearly a million people flee as Typhoon Yagi makes landfall in China

By Kanis Leung, Jim Gomez, Associated Press

A powerful typhoon has made landfall on a Chinese holiday island after it swept south of Hong Kong, forcing many aspects of life in the region to a halt.

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Aug 29

Hong Kong court convicts 2 journalists who openly criticized the government amid a crackdown on dissent

By Kanis Leung, Associated Press

A Hong Kong court has convicted two former editors of a shuttered news outlet in a sedition case widely seen as a barometer for the future of media freedoms in a city once hailed as a bastion of free press…

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Jul 30

Watch 6:47
Former Hong Kong bookstore begins new chapter in upstate New York

By Christopher Booker, Maea Lenei Buhre, Mary Fecteau

From 2021 to 2022, Hong Kong experienced its biggest population drop since record-keeping began more than 60 years ago. Tens of thousands left because of strict COVID-19 policies and a crackdown on civil liberties by Beijing. Special correspondent Christopher Booker…

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Jun 04

WATCH: House Speaker Jeffries and Pelosi mark 35th anniversary of Tiananmen Square crackdown

By Ken Moritsugu, Kanis Leung, Associated Press

China has long quashed any public memory of the military crackdown on months-long protests at the heart of its capital. Hundreds, if not thousands, are believed to have been killed in an overnight operation that ended on June 4, 1989.

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