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The U.S. State Department updated its travel advisory for Hong Kong, merging it with its advisory regarding China, on Thursday, warning that visitors may face arbitrary arrest and other human rights violations.

The Hong Kong Department of Justice (DoJ) said on Saturday it was “appalled” by overseas government officials demanding the release of pro-democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai.

The owner of Hong Kong anti-communist newspaper Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai, is facing a minimum of a decade in prison after being charged on Friday with violating the city’s new, and illegal, law against “national security” trespasses.

China imposed sanctions Thursday against U.S. officials who allegedly “performed badly” over Hong Kong issues in response to the restrictions on Chinese officials over Beijing’s illegal crackdown on the supposedly autonomous region.

A church in Hong Kong has had its bank account frozen after it provided humanitarian support for protesters during the city’s recent pro-democracy demonstrations, its pastors revealed on Monday.

House Democrats and Republicans on Monday approved a mass immigration pipeline that will provide expedited entry into the United States for Hong Kong residents.

Hong Kong canceled its annual New Year’s fireworks display for 2021 on Friday in an attempt to contain the region’s recent outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus.

Officials in Hong Kong accused imprisoned pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong on Tuesday of smuggling drugs in his stomach after finding an alleged “foreign object” through an X-ray.

Authorities in Hong Kong will tighten the city’s lockdown measures in response to a recent surge in cases of the Chinese coronavirus, the region’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on Monday.

Hong Kong’s Education Bureau said on Thursday it will introduce drastic changes to the curriculum of a liberal studies course taught in the city’s public high schools next year, including a new focus on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s constitution and implementation of the rule of law.

Georgia Senate Democrat candidate Jon Ossoff’s campaign said its omission of a payment from the CCP was a result of a “paperwork oversight.”

Hong Kong pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong is in solitary confinement with lights on 24 hours a day, friends denounced.

Hong Kong pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong and two other prominent activists pleaded guilty Monday morning to inciting and organizing “unauthorized assembly” at the height of last year’s demonstrations, a charge that could leave them facing up to five years in prison.

Chinese state media on Thursday derided the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance for daring to criticize China’s ugly crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong, spraying extra venom at Australia, which the state-run Global Times sneeringly dismissed as a “vassal of the U.S.”

Police in Hong Kong raided the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) on Friday to collect evidence after more than 100 graduating students participated in a rally in support of the region’s pro-democracy movement.

Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) continues to circumvent U.S. sanctions by operating via a network of shell companies registered in Hong Kong, an investigation by Radio Free Asia (RFA) revealed on Wednesday.

The Villa Villa Cafe and Bar in Hong Kong published a photo of a custom cake it baked for a customer this week depicting American presidential candidate Joe Biden sniffing the hair of a distressed cartoon girl drawn in the Japanese anime style.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Thursday issued a stern warning to the Five Eyes intelligence group — an international intelligence-sharing bloc consisting of Australia, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States — after it condemned Beijing’s move to disqualify four opposition leaders in the Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo).

The Beijing-controlled government of Hong Kong banned four pro-democracy legislators on Wednesday, branding them as threats to national security.

Hong Kong police notified organizers of the city’s annual LGBT pride parade that they would not receive a permit to hold the event this year, allegedly to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

The Hong Kong police established a hotline this week where residents can snitch on their neighbors for violating the “national security law” imposed on the island by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in June.

Authorities in Hong Kong arrested a filmmaker on Tuesday in relation to her production of a recent TV documentary that detailed how pro-China mobs brutally attacked civilians during a peaceful anti-communist protest last year.

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Sunday reported that Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement is keenly interested in the U.S. presidential election and decidedly favors incumbent President Donald Trump.

Ronny Tong Ka-wah, a senior member of Hong Kong’s China-controlled leadership, insisted that the region is “no independent kingdom” in an interview Monday.

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police arrested seven people Sunday over scuffles that broke out in the city’s legislature during a faceoff between pro-democracy and pro-Beijing lawmakers earlier this year.

An Apple store in Hong Kong reportedly refused to engrave an anti-China, pro-democracy logo on the Apple pencil of one of its customers, the Asian website Coconuts reported Thursday. 

China was gleeful when Daryl Morey stepped down from his position with the Houston Rockets, but now it appears that Morey is narrowing in on a deal to join the Philadelphia 76ers’ front office.

The World Health Organization and the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, announced a collaboration last week responding to “misinformation” on the coronavirus pandemic. As part of the collaboration, the W.H.O. has released several “fact-check” graphics on a free license so they can be used on Wikipedia and other sites owned by the Foundation. The partnership prompted criticism from some Wikipedia editors due to the W.H.O.’s mishandling of the pandemic in its early stages in China.

China’s government media arms launched an attack on Swedish climate celebrity Greta Thunberg this week after the nation’s Foreign Ministry scolded her not to opine on Chinese issues, the Asian outlet Coconuts reported on Tuesday — Thunberg recently expressed support for 12 Hongkongers imprisoned after attempting to escape to Taiwan.

Swedish climate activist Great Thunberg on Saturday joined an online campaign demanding the release of 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists detained in China.

A Hong Kong court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for two pro-democracy activists after they failed to attend a hearing on October 15 related to their attendance of a banned Tiananmen massacre vigil in Hong Kong on June 4.

China’s state-run Global Times publication celebrated the resignation of Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey, who publicly supported Hong Kong’s anti-communist movement last year, on Friday, speculating that Morey is cursed and his “bad luck” may have resulted in the death of Kobe Bryant.

Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey may say that he’s leaving his post to pursue other opportunities, but China’s official state broadcaster says otherwise.

Hong Kong Airlines sold out its first tickets for a half-hour tour in the sky of the city it has branded “Home Kong,” the Asian news outlet Coconuts reported on Friday, which begins and ends at Hong Kong International Airport.

China’s Ambassador to Canada, Cong Peiwu, warned the country on Thursday that, if Ottawa cares about the “health and safety” of Canadians, it will not extend a hand to help Hong Kong refugees fleeing a wave of communist repression.

Rockets GM Daryl Morey has resigned only a year after earning the ire of the NBA for supporting the democracy movement in Hong Kong.