Han Kuo-yu, the defeated contender in this year’s presidential vote and reportedly Beijing’s preferred candidate, has now been ousted from his role as mayor of a southern city.

Commemoration in Hong Kong of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown took on extra meaning this year after months of unrest and with fears over a new national security law.

Insulting the Chinese national anthem will come with the risk of a jail term in Hong Kong after the city’s Legislative Council outlawed it on Thursday – but not before opposition politicians made a final attempt at resisting, by throwing foul-smelling liquid.

A proposed ban on “denigrating” traditional Chinese medicine has prompted a backlash on China’s internet.

China has more than twice as many online shoppers as the entire population of the US.

A Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman’s tweets about George Floyd’s death and the sudden death of a doctor who treated coronavirus patients have captured Chinese social media’s attention.

Thousands of people, sometimes more, meet in Hong Kong every year to honor the memory of the crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy movement in Beijing.

Police cancel the city’s annual June 4 event to remember Beijing’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, but organizers insist they will mark the date. It comes as Beijing imposes a controversial security law on Hong Kong.

Britain’s prime minister promised to create a path to citizenship for about 3 million eligible Hongkongers if Beijing moves forward with a national security law that some of the city’s 7.5 million residents fear could undermine political freedom.

As China braces for a possible economic decoupling from the United States, it has revealed plans to turn its southern island of Hainan into a “free trade port” similar to Hong Kong, cutting taxes and red tape, and encouraging duty-free shopping.