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Students march with a Chinese national flag during a flag-raising ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese rule at Scientia Secondary School in Hong Kong on Thursday.

Carrie Lam’s banquet for Xi Jinping cancelled due to rampant COVID

The Chinese president arrives in Hong Kong to cement Beijing’s control and farewell CEO Carrie Lam. But he’ll have to live with the virus while there.

  • Kari Lindberg and Rebecca Choong Wilkins

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Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam will not seek re-election.

Carrie Lam resigns, leaving Hong Kong more divided than ever

The Hong Kong chief executive will put an end to a 42-year career that saw her transform from a social activist to an icon of Beijing’s authoritarian reach.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, centre, has asked all residents to test themselves for COVID-19.

Hong Kong to test entire population, Shanghai struggles with COVID lockdown

The entire Hong Kong population of more than 7.4 million people will be asked to voluntarily test at home for COVID-19 for three days in a row.

All three Australian judges on Hong Kong’s court, Robert French, Murray Gleeson and William Gummow, are former High Court judges.

Australians to stay on Hong Kong court after British judges resign

Three of Australia’s most senior judges will remain on Hong Kong’s top court after Britain pulled out its judges in response to Beijing’s national security laws.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
Health workers wearing protective suits store COVID-19 test samples at a hotel used for COVID quarantine on March 20 in the Yanqing district of Beijing.

China reports first COVID-19 deaths in more than a year

China’s health authorities reported its first COVID-19 deaths since January 2021, as the country battles its worst outbreak in two years.

  • Huizhong Wu
A makeshift COVID-19 isolation facility in the San Tin area of Hong Kong on Friday.

How Hong Kong fell from COVID-zero to world’s worst death rate

Driven by a false sense of security, the harbour city was slow to lock down, failed to vaccinate the aged and now its failures are angering Beijing.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
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Shoppers prepare to celebrate Lunar New Year in Hong Kong, China, amid ongoing “COVID-zero” restrictions.

It repelled four waves but Hong Kong’s COVID-zero strategy may be collapsing

As residents prepare for another Chinese New Year under COVID-19 restrictions, Omicron seems to have gotten the better of the city’s defences.

  • Michelle Fay Cortez, Jinshan Hong and Iain Marlow
Pro-Beijing candidates, including Starry Lee Wai-king, centre, chairperson of pro-Beijing party Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), attend a legislative election campaign event on December 5, 2021.

Fear dominates Hong Kong as it heads for an election

All the candidates are vetted by Beijing, but authorities are threatening to arrest anyone who boycotts the vote.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
The new M+ gallery in Hong Kong.

M+, the world’s most controversial new art gallery, opens

Asia’s largest billion-dollar gallery opens in the middle of a political storm over censorship in Hong Kong.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
The Hong Kong Cultural Association of South Australia, seen in a performance earlier this year. They wanted to use umbrellas as one of their props for a workshop at the OzAsia festival in Adelaide.

The tentacles of Hong Kong’s national security laws reach Australia

Inside the Lucky Dumpling Market on the Moon Lantern Trail in Adelaide, Janet Leung wanted to put up some umbrellas. That’s when the trouble started.

  • Eryk Bagshaw

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