The U.S. State Department's annual human rights report indicates that arbitrary detention of human rights lawyers and advocates have increased in China in 2015.
Beijing are now studying ways on how to increase the participatory role of Hong Kong in interpreting the Basic Law. Over the past years, Hong Kong's legal domain has been overshadowed by the mainlands totalitarian control.
An article in a university newspaper has again started a spark in the hearts of the Hong Kong people. Local groups in the country are now asking the United Nations to recognize Hong Kong as an independent country in 2047.
A legal expert from Beijing suggested the positioning of Mainland Officers to the West Kowloon Terminus of the controversial Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway. This is withouth changing the Basic Law which implies that it will go directly under the noses of the lawmakers without being scruitinized.
China allegedly breached a bilateral treaty it has with Britain after bookseller Lee Bo disappeared in Hong Kong and have been abducted to China. There are four more other Hong Kong booksellers missing.
More than 10,000 desperate refugees are trapped in Hong Kong in hopes of seeking political asylum. However, a protected rule prevents them for doing so, trapping them in the country as a result.
Newly Hong Kong's Chief of innovation and technology bureau accused the taxi-hailing company Uber of uncooperating with the government. Meanwhile, Uber's statements focused on positive cooperation.
Philip Morris claims of free-trade was denied by the international tribune even though the company asserted that it infringe the treaty made by Australia and Hongkong.
China allowed a senior U.S. Congressional delegation to visit Tibet, including Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, a long time critic of China's human rights record, a Chinese politician said on Thursday.
Hundreds of pro-democracy activists rallied near government headquarters on Monday amid tight security to mark the first anniversary of pro-democracy protests that crippled parts of the Chinese-controlled city.
On a bustling street in China's southern boomtown of Shenzhen, more than 30 stores carrying Apple Inc's iconic white logos peddle pre-orders for the new iPhone, a gadget that has become a status symbol among many better-off Chinese.
Police hunting for the perpetrators of Thailand's deadliest bombing arrested a foreign man on Saturday they said fitted the description of a suspect seen leaving a rucksack at the site of the Bangkok blast nearly two weeks ago.
Police raided the Hong Kong offices of taxi-hailing service Uber Inc on Tuesday and arrested five drivers for the "illegal use of vehicles for hire", police said.
China's markets regulator has suspended a trading account of U.S.-based hedge fund Citadel LLC, the fund said on Monday, in the watchdog's first known move against a big foreign investor as it battles to prop up China's ailing stock markets.
Two Hong Kong students who rose to fame during pro-democracy demonstrations that angered Beijing last year were charged on Tuesday with obstructing police during a protest earlier in the year.
Police who seized Asia's largest known shipment of liquid cocaine at a Bangladeshi port late last month say it was headed for India, the latest sign that drug cartels are increasingly plying their trade in South Asia.
Hong Kong lawmakers began a debate on Wednesday on a Beijing-backed electoral reform proposal that will define the city's democratic future and could trigger fresh protests in the Chinese-controlled city.
Hong Kong's leader warned on Tuesday that violence will not be tolerated, a day after authorities arrested 10 people and seized suspected explosives ahead of a crucial vote on a China-backed electoral reform package this week.
Hong Kong police arrested nine people and seized suspected explosives, authorities said on Monday, as the city goes on high alert ahead of a crucial vote on a China-backed electoral reform package that sparked widespread protests last year.
Hong Kong issued a "red alert" advisory on Tuesday against non-essential travel to South Korea, where eight new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) were reported, bringing the total to 95 with seven fatalities.
