Hong Kong

Explore our coverage of Hong Kong’s politics, economics, business and culture, in articles, charts, podcasts and video


China

Snuffing out the flame of freedom in Hong Kong

Dozens of pro-democracy activists are thrown into jail for up to a decade 

China

Can Xi Jinping take Hong Kong “from stability to prosperity”?

A fixation on security may cost the city in the long term

China

The noose around the press in Hong Kong tightens

Even advocating press freedom begins to seem a bad career move

China

A spectre looms over Hong Kong’s property market

Why mortgage payments in the city can be ghoulishly expensive

Britain

Britain is a home but not a haven for Hong Kongers

Life is not easy for a very distinctive group of immigrants

China

Foreign judges are fed up with Hong Kong’s political environment

Three have left the city’s highest court this month

Graphic detail

Hong Kong smothers dissent ahead of the Tiananmen anniversary

Data show the extent to which repression has grown

China

Hong Kong convicts 14 pro-democracy activists

The ruling acts as a warning: dissent and pay the price

China

Why Hong Kong is sending its old people to Guangdong

Gardens and bigger rooms await

China

Hong Kong passes a security law that its masters scarcely need

But the city’s clampdown on dissent will please officials in Beijing 

China

Hong Kong is struggling to restore its image as a global city

Efforts have been tripped up by nationalists

Culture

A row over the Hong Kong Heritage Museum is a window on China

Museums are yet another front for Communist Party control

China

Hong Kong gets a second draconian security law

John Lee thinks foreign powers are still trying to overthrow his government

Finance & economics

Evergrande’s liquidation is a new low in China’s property crisis

A judge in Hong Kong surprises the mainland

China

Hong Kong is becoming less of an international city

As foreigners leave, people from the mainland are taking their place

Finance & economics

Hong Kong’s problems trace back to China. And also America

The “superconnector” suffers the worst of both worlds

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