Hong Kong authorities have strengthened a crackdown on 16 overseas-based activists who were previously targeted by bounties on suspicion of endangering national security.

The 36th anniversary of a bloody crackdown that ended pro-democracy protests in China passed like any other weekday for most Chinese.

Hong Kong’s first locally born giant pandas have finally been named and introduced as Jia Jia and De De.

At Hong Kong’s Art Basel, painter Chow Chun-fai’s new works transport viewers back to the night in 1997 when the former British colony returned to Chinese rule, displayed in the very exhibition center where one era ended and another began.

As Taiwan’s presidential election approaches, many immigrants from Hong Kong are supporting the governing Democratic Progressive Party after witnessing the alarming erosion of civil liberties at home.

A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to four months in prison after he pleaded guilty to importing children’s books deemed to be “seditious publications.”.

Two giant inflatable ducks are making a splash in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor, in the return of a pop-art project that sparked a frenzy in the city a decade ago.

Hong Kong police have detained eight people on the eve of the 34th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown.

Two Hong Kongers have been found guilty on a sedition charge after they clapped and criticized the judge during a previous trial over a banned Tiananmen Square vigil in the city.

Hundreds of Hong Kong residents are lining up in front of the British Consulate General for hours each day to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II, leaving piles of flowers and handwritten notes.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says it has compiled evidence of increasing government repression against Uyghur Muslims in China's western Xinjiang region.

Police in Hong Kong halted a four-person pro-democracy protest on China's National Day amid a expanding crackdown on free speech and opposition politics.

FILE - In this July 7, 2019, file photo, thousands of protesters carrying the British flag march near the harbor of Hong Kong. Thousands of people from Hong Kong are fleeing their hometown since Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the territory in the summer 2020. Applications for the British National Overseas visa officially opened Sunday, though many have already arrived on British soil to get a head start. It was unclear what effect the announcement would have because many Hong Kongers carry multiple passports. AdBeijing drastically hardened its stance on Hong Kong after the 2019 protests turned violent and plunged the city into a months-long crisis.

HONG KONG – Chinese authorities have confirmed the criminal detention of 12 Hong Kongers who were allegedly attempting to travel illegally to Taiwan by boat last month, while the foreign ministry in Beijing labeled the group separatists. The statement was the first formal announcement from Chinese authorities that the 12 would likely face criminal charges. Critics say the Hong Kong law is Beijing's clearest attempt to erase the legal firewall between the semi-autonomous territory and the mainland’s authoritarian Communist Party system. The relatives of the arrested Hong Kongers held a news conference on Saturday calling for the return of their family members to Hong Kong, saying their legal rights were being violated. She said that the Hong Kong government would try and render assistance.

Lam's 6-year-old son fell in love with the Hong Kong protest anthem, "Glory to Hong Kong," the first time he heard it and sings it quite often. Thanks to a sweeping new national security law, though, singing it in public is now risky. But many living in Hong Kong chose to escape the communist mainland or are descended from people who did. Beijing promised Hong Kong 50 years of a one-country, two-systems arrangement granting the city its own customs territory and legal system after the 1997 handover. It also criminalized the popular protest slogan Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our time - a phrase included in the protest anthem.

People queue up to vote in Hong Kong, Sunday, July 12, 2020, in an unofficial primary for pro-democracy candidates ahead of legislative elections in September. Over 200,000 Hong Kongers voted in an unofficial Hong Kong primary that will help the pro-democracy camp decide which candidates to field in legislative elections in September. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)HONG KONG Young activists and localist candidates dominated Hong Kongs unofficial pro-democracy primaries over the weekend, with hundreds of thousands of people voting despite warnings the election could violate the territory's new security law. Beijings Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office lashed out at the pro-democracy camp for holding the primaries, calling it illegal and that stating that the primaries blatantly challenges the Basic Law. It also said that the primaries violated the national security law, singling out the organizer Benny Tai and accusing him of subversive activities and advocating for the independence of Hong Kong.

HONG KONG - In the middle of a beautiful sunset in May, Emily's boyfriend knelt before her on a beach in Japan and proposed. "Hong Kong has faced -- and overcome -- momentous challenges every decade since the end of World War II," Lam wrote recently. "This should tell us something about the people of Hong Kong: They are resilient and resourceful. It should also tell us something about the values that the Hong Kong people share and our common aspiration for a bright future." He attended several large-scale demonstrations, but is increasingly dubious that any longterm change can happen in Hong Kong.

Beijing has stationed troops in Hong Kong since assumed sovereignty over the city in 1997. CNN has reached out to Hong Kong and Chinese authorities for comment. Also on Friday, US president Donald Trump credited his trade talks with China for "keeping the temperature down" in Hong Kong. "I think if it weren't for the trade talks, Hong Kong would be in much bigger trouble. As of Saturday however, there was no sign Hong Kong's protesters had been scared off the streets.