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Hong Kong is bracing for another weekend of protests with the pro-Beijing camp set to stage its second major rally on Saturday to mobilise middle-of-the-road residents to condemn violence and support police, a day before yet another massive march against

Police said the suspect started a fire in the three-story building in Japan's capital after spraying an unidentified liquid accelerant.

Chief executive again uses loaded term 'rioters' to refer to protesters involved in clashes on Sunday

China's crackdown on ethnic Uighurs in the western part includes a vast network of at least 124 concentration camps along with scores of labor camps

The arrival of a Chinese surveillance ship on Australia's doorstep as it kicks off defence exercises with the US has highlighted the massive investment China is making into its military.

Organizers said that more than 100,000 people took part in an anti-extradition bill march on July 14 in Shatin, a city north of Kowloon, Hong Kong. Clashes between demonstrators and police were reported by local media, which said that police used pepper s

Hong Kong is Asia's most Canadian city, with 300,000 citizens among its residents, while more than 200,000 Hong Kong immigrants call Canada home. That close relationship is the reason why Canada is one hub of an international network supporting pro-de

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday the extradition bill that sparked the Chinese-ruled city's biggest crisis in decades is dead and that government work on the legislation had been a "total failure", but critics accused her of playing

China has demanded the US halt its plan to sell $2.

The U.S. State Department has approved a request by Taiwan to purchase an estimated $2.2 billion worth of military equipment.The deal, announced Monday by the Defense Department's Defense Security Cooperation Agency, inc

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LONDON: British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has refused to rule out sanctions on China, as he is keeping his

Young demonstrators speak of their passion, depression and steely determination to take to Hong Kong's streets again. They are clear in their opposition to Beijing's tightening grip on their city.

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Last week, as the world focused attention on the Hong Kong protests, a report came out that gruesomely underscored why the protesters felt led to protest.

Hong Kong police are hunting down hundreds of protesters who stormed and vandalised the city's legislature and are preparing to launch citywide raids to arrest them, the Post learned on Wednesday.To locate the suspects, officers from the Organised Cri

Hundreds of Hong Kong protesters stormed the government HQ on the anniversary of the city's 1997 return to China on Monday, destroying pictures and painting walls with graffiti

Hundreds of protesters stormed Hong Kong's parliament late on Monday as the territory marked its China handover anniversary, ransacking the building and daubing its walls with graffiti as police warned they were poised to use "appropriate force

Business leaders fear their firms could be vulnerable if Carrie Lam's stalled bill passes

The Japan Meteorological Agency says a magnitude-6.7 quake struck the northern part of the country late Tuesday night. No fatalities have been reported. Tsunami advisories issued along the Sea of Japan coast have been lifted.