China plans to enact national security legislation for Hong Kong that would put an end to free speech and political freedoms guaranteed to the city when it was handed back to China in 1997.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a rare visit to Hong Kong this week to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the city’s handover from British to Chinese rule. Here are some of the key political ...

The Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong has sailed into harbor on a port call as part of a drive to drum up patriotism and ...

China's first domestically built aircraft carrier, the Shandong, sailed into Hong Kong waters on Thursday in its first visit ...

China's first domestically built aircraft carrier Shandong sails into Hong Kong for port call Thursday, 3 July 2025.

And that bitter history did not keep China and Hong Kong from getting closer in the decade that followed. Rather, they grew to rely on one another, economically at least: TIME reported in 1979 ...

British Hong Kong’s trajectory was different from that of mainland China, which became a Communist country in 1949. Up to 100,000 Chinese found refuge in Hong Kong after the Communist Party took ...

HONG KONG — The Sham Chun River and adjoining wetlands, which separate Hong Kong from the Chinese city of Shenzhen, have throughout modern history served as a physical marker of the differences ...

Four years after the protests, the Hong Kong authorities have largely stamped out the civil-society movement that powered them. In the past 12 months, they have also begun rewriting the history of ...

A new proposed curriculum for Hong Kong schools is missing key parts of modern Chinese history. The struggle over education is the latest battle with China over how the city is governed.

The UK government got its welfare bill over the line, but only after huge concessions. And Hong Kong’s stock market is ...