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The Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor has criticised police use of pepper spray in Central and Mong Kok on Thursday evening. Television footage shows a man being sprayed in the face at close range while talking to an officer. An RTHK reporter was sprayed ...

Hong Kong’s economy has slid into a technical recession for the first time in a decade, shrinking by 3.2 percent in the third quarter from the previous three-month period, as imports and exports, retail sales, and tourism figures all fell sharply. Econ...

Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma is set to retire as Hong Kong’s top judge in January 2021 when he turns 65, after what would be a decade-long span at the helm of the judiciary. He was appointed a judge of the Court of First Instance in 2001, and was promoted...

Welfare minister Law Chi-Kwong says the government is concerned about attempts by the police to take out child protection orders against teenagers arrested during protests. At least three minors were taken away from their families over the summer, even...

Hundreds of aftershocks rattled the southern Philippines today, after a magnitude-6.6 earthquake killed at least six people yesterday, cracking buildings and injuries scores of people in a region still reeling from a previous deadly tremor. Annemarie E...

Beijing says it approves and supports the decision to bar Demosisto leader Joshua Wong from the next month's district council elections, saying the move had factual and legal basis and upheld the 'One Country, Two Systems' principle. For his part, Mr W...

A Nepali mountaineer and former British Marine has climbed the world's tallest 14 peaks in seven months - beating an earlier record of almost eight years. Nirmal Purja reached the top of his 14th mountain, Shishapangma in Tibet on Tuesday morning. Purj...