Hundreds of people gathered outside Hong Kong’s High Court on Wednesday to show support for a jailed activist who coined one of the defining slogans of the city’s ongoing protests.

Edward Leung, face of Hong Kong’s fringe independence movement, was in court to try to overturn his six-year sentence, which began in June 2018. 

While he has never participated in the months-long anti-government protests, the 28-year-old is acknowledged by some protesters as a spiritual leader of the grassroots…

Luxury jeweller Tiffany & Co has removed an ad from its social media accounts due to concerns that it could be interpreted as a show of support for Hong Kong protesters. 

The ad was centered around an image of Chinese model Sun Feifei covering her right eye with her hand. It prompted criticism from internet users in China for looking like the “eye for an eye” gesture used by anti-government protesters in Hong Kong. 

The gesture became widespread in the movement after a young woman suffered a…

It takes less than two hours to fly from Seoul to Shanghai.

The capital of South Korea and one of China’s largest cities are separated by a mere 500 miles, but the differences between the two Asian giants are clear.

South Korea is a democracy that elected its first female president, Park Geun-hye, in February 2013.

China, meanwhile, is a one-party state that has never had a woman president or premier. The all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee, which currently has seven members, has never…

“I can’t understand why speaking Mandarin is now a sin in Hong Kong,” said “Mary,” a 35-year-old who works in the financial industry.

A few weeks ago, the native of the southern province of Guangdong said she was chatting in Mandarin with a friend in Hong Kong when a young man walked past and began shouting obscenities at them and saying they should “go back to mainland China.”

Mary (not her real name – she fears being bullied if her identity is revealed) said the incident left her shaken and…

Martial arts icon Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco’s Chinatown. 

Now, thanks to his daughter, Shannon, and her producing partners, his long-fabled passion project, the TV series Warrior, set in his birthplace, has completed its first season. 

In the show, our Bruce-esque protagonist, played by British actor Andrew Koji, is a young martial arts prodigy called Ah Sahm, who arrives from China in 1878.

The series follows him as he looks for his estranged sister in San Francisco’s Chinatown –…

After the general manager of the Houston Rockets drew a backlash in China with a tweet in support of anti-government demonstrations in Hong Kong, the NBA swung into damage-control mode.

The remarks of Daryl Morey had “deeply offended” fans, the league said in a statement on Monday morning, “which is regrettable.”

But in an illustration of the political tightrope that foreign companies are forced to walk to secure access to the world’s second-biggest economy, the NBA’s statement in Chinese…

Discussions of American satirical cartoon South Park have disappeared from the Chinese internet after the show mocked Beijing’s human rights practices in a recent episode. 

In a recent episode titled Band in China, the cartoon poked fun at the country’s censorship regime, detention facilities and how American companies have bent to Beijing’s pressure. 

South Park has no official releases in China, but pirated versions have for years been circulating among its small but loyal fans – many of…

The world’s most-Chinese city outside of Asia is Richmond, near Vancouver, on the west coast of Canada.

It was here outside the Aberdeen Centre mall that supporters of the Hong Kong protest movement were marking China’s National Day on Tuesday by building a Lennon Wall – and counterprotesting opponents were tearing it down.

Taunts and challenges turned into shoving.

Then there were cheers and applause when uniformed police appeared on the scene and led away two of the counterprotesters, to…

Wang Shuping, a doctor who helped expose a tainted blood scandal in China in the 1990s, has passed away in Salt Lake City at the age of 59. Fellow whistleblower Gao Yaojie, who lives in exile in New York, wrote this essay in her memory.

The Chinese “blood plasma economy” spread AIDS like wildfire. Over one million people have been its victims in one way or another.

Before the government admitted to the existence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, among the four million workers in the medical field in…

The Hong Kong government has announced a ban on face masks at public gatherings as it struggles to contain rising violence in the city. 

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said the ban, which comes into effect from midnight on Friday, will help the city restore peace following four months of anti-government protests. 

But many protesters say the ban will not stop them from carrying on with the movement. 

Here’s what you need to know about the new mask ban: 

What’s being banned?

Under the ban,…