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Starbucks Korea to shut 2,000 stores to teach history lessons to employeesStarbucks Korea is closing over 2,000 stores for mandatory history and social sensitivity training after a marketing campaign sparked outra...- Hong Kong’s last active pro-democracy party, League of Social Democrats, disbands amid intense political pressureHong Kong's last active pro-democracy party, the League of Social Democrats (LSD), disbanded on June 29, 2025, due to immense political pre...
- US sanctions 6 Chinese and Hong Kong officials, drawing backlash from city's governmentThe United States sanctioned six Chinese and Hong Kong officials allegedly involved in transnational repression and eroding the city's auto...
- Who is Agnes Chow? Hong Kong activist breaks bail condition by refusing to return due to fear of safetyAgnes Chow, a notable Hong Kong activist who played a pivotal role during the country’s 2019 riots against China has refused to come back t...
- Wanted activists should surrender or 'spend days in fear': Hong Kong leaderHong Kong's leader, John Lee, has called on eight overseas activists to surrender themselves after police offered rewards for their arrests...
- British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah under 'medical intervention', says familyThe pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah started his partial hunger strike in April. Now he has refused water as well.
- Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 14-month jail term over 2019 protestLai and nine others were charged with incitement to take part in an unauthorized assembly, for their roles in a protest on Oct. 1, 2019, wh...
- Hong Kong bans Tiananmen crackdown vigil for 2nd yearThe Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which organises the candlelight vigil annually, said in a sta...
- As China-style justice comes to Hong Kong, activists retreatForty-seven activists were charged overall, in the biggest crackdown on the city’s opposition since a national security law was imposed by ...
- Dozens of leading Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigners charged with subversionThey were accused of organising and participating in the unofficial primary last July aimed at selecting the strongest candidates for a leg...
- Dozens of HK democracy activists arrested as crackdown intensifiesThe arrests represent the biggest crackdown on the opposition camp since Beijing imposed the law security law in the former British colony ...
- Who are the young Hong Kong trio facing jail time for their participation in protests?Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam have spent years campaigning for democracy, becoming activists when they were just teenagers.
- Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers threaten to resign 'en masse'The threat came ahead of a meeting of one of China's top law-making bodies, with Hong Kong media reporting that it was considering disquali...
- Hundreds rally in Taiwan, call for release of 12 Hong Kong people arrested by ChinaThe 12 were arrested on Aug. 23 for alleged illegal entry into mainland China after setting off from Hong Kong in a boat bound for democrat...
- Hong Kong leader shelves loathed extradition lawMillions of people have taken to Hong Kong's streets since June in the biggest challenge to China's rule of semi-autonomous Hong Kong since...
- Anger soars over vicious mob attack on Hong Kong protestersHospital authorities said 45 people were wounded in the attack, with one man in critical condition and five others with serious injuries.
- China asks British MPs not to badger it over Hong Kong"China firmly opposes the interference of any country, institution or individual in any form in Hong Kong affairs," Lei said.
- China rules out ‘full democracy’ for Hong KongThe Chinese parliament rejected the demand for "full democracy" by activists in Hong Kong while approving a system of limited elections in ...
- Scuffles at Olympic torch relay in Hong KongHong Kong police detained around 20 people following minor scuffles along the route of the Olympic torch relay in the southern Chinese city...
- Myanmar cuts phone service to mediaMyanmar's military government has cut off the mobile phones of prominent pro-democracy supporters and of some journalists representing fore...
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