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Rescued diary in Hong Kong sheds light on Chinese involvement in D-Day
HONG KONG — A key piece of a little-told chapter of World War II history almost ended up in a landfill. In 2015, a photographer in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong was exploring an apartment building scheduled for demolition when he discovered a number of items from China’s pre-Communist republican era, including a diary…
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Hong Kong discovers dinosaur fossils for the first time
Michael Pittman, an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who specializes in dinosaur studies, said he was “very excited” about the landmark discovery, which researchers had “long expected.” “It’s difficult to find dinosaur bones in general,” Pittman said, adding that he had been to Port Island himself but had had no luck.…
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9 monkeys who died in Hong Kong zoo had been infected with melioidosis, officials say
HONG KONG — Nine monkeys who died in Hong Kong’s oldest zoo in two days this week had been infected with an endemic disease, possibly after some digging work near their cages, officials said on Friday. Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Kevin Yeung said in a press briefing that the animals in the Hong Kong Zoological…
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Nine monkeys die mysteriously at Hong Kong zoo
HONG KONG — Zoo authorities in Hong Kong are keeping a close watch on a monkey that is behaving unusually a day after the ninth death this week of one of the animals while hastening tests to find out what killed them. During the monitoring, the city’s Zoological and Botanical Gardens (HKZBG) will keep shut…
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Walz admits misspeaking when he previously said he was in Hong Kong during Tiananmen Square crackdown
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz conceded Tuesday night that he “misspoke” in the past when he claimed that he was in Hong Kong during the crackdown in Tiananmen Square in which China’s military attacked and killed pro-democracy demonstrators. The Minnesota governor said that he had been in Hong Kong during the summer of the…
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Two Hong Kong journalists to be sentenced in sedition case criticized by U.S.
Two journalists who led a pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong are being sentenced Thursday after being convicted of sedition last month in a verdict seen as a further blow to press freedom in the Chinese territory. Chung Pui-kuen, the former editor-in-chief of the now-defunct Stand News, and Patrick Lam, the newspaper’s former acting editor-in-chief, had been…
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Hong Kong gets two more giant pandas as Finland says it can’t afford its own bears
HONG KONG — Pandas An An and Ke Ke, a gift from Beijing to Hong Kong, arrived in the Chinese territory on Thursday to much fanfare, two days after Finland said it would return its own pair over mounting debts. Hong Kong officials welcomed the giant pandas at the city’s international airport with a red…
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Hong Kong’s first transgender singer-songwriter seeks voice through music
HONG KONG — Xavian Wu, Hong Kong’s first high-profile transgender singer-songwriter, sought to use the city’s annual LGBTQ Pink Dot HK carnival on Sunday to share his story through music. Wu, 30, who uses the stage name SY, debuted in February and has released three songs about his self-discovery journey, which he recounted at the…
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Two Hong Kong men jailed for seditious acts under new security law
HONG KONG — A Hong Kong judge on Thursday jailed two men in the Chinese territory’s first sedition cases under a new national security law, one for wearing a shirt with a protest slogan and another for writing similar messages on bus seats. Chief Magistrate Victor So initially sentenced Chu Kai-pong, 27, to 14 months’…