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China's Parliament endorses proposal to 'improve' Hong Kong's electoral system
• 4 years agoMembers of the National People's Congress in Beijing voted 2,895 in favor of the resolution, with no votes against and one abstention
To build unwavering loyalty to China, Hong Kong sets about rewriting history
• 4 years agoIn mainland China, major events have been largely erased from public memory by censorship. Critics fear that model is being imported to Hong Kong.
US suspends extradition and tax accords with Hong Kong, cites China's imposition of national security laws
• 5 years agoThis comes after Donald Trump's decision to revoke Hong Kong's preferential trade status as Beijing clamped down on the territory over pro-democracy protests last year
Hong Kong voters defy Beijing, throw support behind protest leaders in unofficial primary vote
• 5 years agoJust half of the 70 seats in the Hong Kong legislature represent geographical districts that are directly elected by voters. The other half are so-called functional constituencies, most chosen by corporate voting and more likely to go to establishment candidates
China opens new national security office in Hong Kong, converts hotel into its new headquarters
• 5 years agoThe office will oversee the Hong Kong government’s enforcement of Beijing’s sweeping national security legislation that will punish acts of secession, subversion, terrorism, and collusion with foreign forces with up to life in prison.
China passes stringent National Security Law; Beijing now armed with sweeping powers over Hong Kong
• 5 years agoChina has also drawn criticism from other governments, including the G-7 countries. Foreign ministers from the bloc said this month that the law was a threat to Hong Kong’s autonomy and called on China to abandon it
Hong Kong Police fires tear gas as protesters resist China's grip, launch first major demonstration after COVID-19 outbreak
• 5 years agoThousands of protesters swarmed some of Hong Kong’s busiest neighbourhoods on Sunday, singing, chanting and erecting roadblocks of torn-up bricks and debris as police repeatedly fired tear gas, pepper spray and a water cannon during the city’s largest street mobilisation in month
Uncoordinated response to coronavirus, refusal to seal border with mainland China broadens discontent with Carrie Lam's administration in Hong Kong
• 5 years agoCarrie Lam's administration's uncoordinated response to virus, refusal to seal border with mainland China, which might have prevented infections has broadened discontent
China coronavirus toll stands at 908 with rise in cases following sharp dip on Saturday; WHO experts likely to visit by Tuesday
• 5 years agoMainland China has reported another rise in cases of the new virus after a sharp decline the previous day, while the number of deaths grow by 97 to 908, with at least two more outside the country
Coronavirus epidemic: Toll rises to 490 in China; 10 on Japanese cruise ship test positive for virus, 3,700 crew, passengers quarantined on-board for 14 days
• 5 years agoDeaths from a new virus rose to 490 in mainland China on Wednesday while new cases on a Japanese cruise ship, in Hong Kong and in Thailand showed the increasing spread of the outbreak and renewed attention toward containing it