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The new measure targets two districts which cover a small, but densely populated part of the Kowloon Peninsula.
Hong Kong
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Young activists now in exile tried to flee to the self-ruled island of Taiwan in late July.
![Police picked up 11 people under the national security law on Thursday, the latest crackdown in the territory [File: Tyrone Siu/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-01-06T045326Z_414521756_RC242L9V5XKV_RTRMADP_3_HONGKONG-SECURITY.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Latest arrests are related to a group picked up by the coastguard as they fled in a speedboat, and...
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Beijing also considers changes to electoral system, in an effort to further curtail the influence of...
![Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley said in filings that they will delist 500 Hong Kong-listed structured products that are linked to telecom companies China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom or are linked to local indexes whose components include the telecoms [File: Yuri Gripas/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2018-11-09T195259Z_2038998821_RC138EB22270_RTRMADP_3_USA-CHINA.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley plan to reduce exposure to Chinese telecom firms named in a US ban.
![Former Democratic Party legislators Andrew Wan, left, Lam Cheuk-ting, second left, and Helena Wong, right, attend a news conference after being released on bail in Hong Kong, Friday, January 8, 2021 [Kin Cheung/ AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AP_21008398525733.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Foreign ministers issue joint statement condemning last week’s arrest of more than 50 democracy activists in Hong Kong.
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Mike Pompeo says the US will consider sanctions against officials involved in the arrest of 53 people in Hong Kong.
![Ben Chung, front centre, of a pro-democracy political group is arrested by police in the Central district after as many as 50 Hong Kong opposition figures were arrested in Hong Kong on January 6, 2021 [Peter Parks/ AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/000_8Y92CJ.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Taiwan calls arrests ‘shocking’ as cabinet pick for US President-elect Joe Biden vows to stand with people of Hong Kong.
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Politicians and activists arrested in early morning raids in crackdown linked to ‘primaries’ held by the opposition.
China is cracking down hard on the popular democratic movement in the former British colony.
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Lai, a vocal Beijing critic, is one of the highest-profile figures charged under a sweeping security law.
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For Beijing, the year 2020 was marked by a sharp deterioration in ties with the US, Taiwan, Australia and India.
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The group was detained in Chinese waters as they allegedly tried to flee to Taiwan in a speedboat.