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Hong Kong reopens as Beijing begins less restrictive lockdown

By Associated Press

Hong Kong had closed water sports venues during an outbreak of the highly transmissible omicron variant but has been reducing restrictions as cases decline.

Hong Kong leader Lam won’t seek new term after five years marked by protests and COVID-19

By Zen Soo, Vincent Yu, Associated Press

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says she won't seek a second term after five rocky years marked by huge protests, a security crackdown and an overwhelming COVID-19 wave.

Hong Kong’s new COVID cases top 10,000

By News Desk

Hong Kong has reported another sharp jump in new COVID-19 cases to more than 10,000 in the latest 24-hour period.

Hong Kong says it will test its entire population as COVID-19 outbreak grows

By Zen Soo, Alice Fung, Associated Press

Hong Kong's leader says the city will test its entire population for COVID-19 in March as it grapples with its worst outbreak driven by the omicron variant.

Hong Kong faces its worst outbreak of the pandemic even as sticks with ‘zero-COVID’ strategy

By Alice Fung, David Rising, Associated Press

Hospitals in Hong Kong are struggling to keep up with an influx of coronavirus patients amid record numbers of new infections as the city doggedly adheres to its "zero-COVID" strategy.

Hong Kong to euthanize thousands of small animals after several test positive for coronavirus at pet store

By Zen Soo, Associated Press

Hong Kong authorities say they will kill about 2,000 small animals, including hamsters, after several tested positive for the coronavirus at a pet store where an employee was also infected.

Hong Kong journalists charged with sedition following raid

By Zen Soo, Associated Press

Two former editors from a Hong Kong online pro-democracy news outlet have been charged with sedition and denied bail.

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy leaders urge the West to ‘step up’ amid raids on free press

By Nick Schifrin, Dan Sagalyn

One of the largest remaining independent media outlets in Hong Kong shut itself down Wednesday. The closure came after police raided its offices, arrested editors and board members, and accused them of “sedition.” As Nick Schifrin reports, the death of…

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Universities remove more Tiananmen massacre memorials in Hong Kong

By News Desk

Universities in Hong Kong are removing memorials to the bloody suppression of the 1989 Chinese pro-democracy movement centered on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

Citing ‘legal risks’, last monument for Tiananmen massacre removed in Hong Kong

By Zen Soo, Associated Press

A monument at a Hong Kong university that was the best-known public remembrance of the Tiananmen Square massacre on Chinese soil was removed early Thursday, wiping out the city's last place of public commemoration of the bloody 1989 crackdown.