Hong Kong has a free market economy, highly dependent on international trade and finance - the value of goods and services trade, including the sizable share of reexports, is about four times GDP.

Forty-five prominent activists in Hong Kong were sentenced to jail for up to 10 years on Tuesday, sparking criticism from foreign governments and rights groups. Beijing defended the decisions.

A Hong Kong Court sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to jail terms of up to 10 years on Tuesday, in the first-ever mass sentencing since Beijing imposed a controversial national security law on ...

Hong Kong has become a center for money laundering and sanctions evasion under the tightening grip of Beijing, US lawmakers have warned, calling for a re-evaluation of America’s close business ...

Most pro-democracy figures are either in prison or in self-imposed exile, a slew of civil groups have disbanded and many independent media outlets shut down. Beijing also overhauled Hong Kong’s ...

Forty-five pro-democracy activists have been jailed in Hong Kong's largest ever national security trial. The activists sentenced with jail terms ranging from four years to ten years were accused ...

A Hong Kong Court has sent Australian man Gordon Ng to jail for more than seven years as part of a mass sentencing targeting dozens of pro-democracy activists under the territory's sweeping ...

A Hong Kong court on Tuesday sentenced 45 pro-democracy leaders, the city’s most prominent activists among them, to prison terms of up to 10 years. None received sentences of less than four ...

Many had already been in jail for years. By Tiffany May Reporting from Hong Kong Anywhere else, it wouldn’t have been controversial: a public vote by pro-democracy activists trying to strengthen ...

HONG KONG, Nov 22 (Reuters) - (Note language in paragraph 26 that some readers may find offensive) Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai testified this week in court for the ...