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HONG KONG

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 3, 2016
Chinese state enterprises tell workers in Hong Kong how to vote
At least two large Chinese state-owned enterprises in Hong Kong are instructing staffers how to vote in Sunday's legislative election as Beijing seeks to thwart democratic candidates.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2016
Bitcoin sinks after hackers steal $65 million from exchange
Bitcoin plunged after one of the largest exchanges halted trading because hackers stole about $65 million (¥6.6 billion) of the digital currency.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 31, 2016
Hong Kong pro-independence candidate disqualified from election
A member of the pro-independence Hong Kong National Party has been disqualified from running in September’s Legislative Council elections after he declined to sign a controversial new form saying the city is an “inalienable” part of China.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 20, 2016
Hong Kong candidates must pledge city is an 'inalienable' part of China under Beijing's direct control
Candidates in Hong Kong's September elections must by law pledge that the city is an "inalienable" part of China, and advocating independence could end their candidacy, the head of the Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 19, 2016
Trove of documents from purged Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang, smuggled to Hong Kong, to be published
A collection of documents from Zhao Ziyang, who was China's reformist Communist Party chief until he was toppled in 1989 for opposing the Tiananmen crackdown, has been smuggled out of the country and will be published in Hong Kong this month, according to a publishing house that is turning them into...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jul 10, 2016
Latest U.S. country rankings on human trafficking raise eyebrows in some Asian nations
When the U.S. government last week raised the Philippines to its highest ranking in a report that assesses how much countries are battling human trafficking, putting it alongside the likes of Britain, Switzerland and Australia, the decision was questioned by aid workers in the Asian nation.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 7, 2016
China's misconduct set off alarms in Hong Kong
Confidence in Hong Kong's 'one country, two systems' will continue to plummet if China fails to uphold the rule of law there.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 6, 2016
Hong Kong says freed bookseller can't be sent back to China
Hong Kong's security chief said on Wednesday that there is no legal way a Hong Kong bookseller who returned to the city after being detained on the mainland could be sent back to China.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 4, 2016
Hong Kong delegation to press Beijing on detainees
Hong Kong will send a delegation of senior officials to Beijing on Tuesday to discuss notification when its residents are detained, after protests in the Asian financial hub over the disappearances of five booksellers.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 23, 2016
Chinese newspaper says Brexit vote risky, reflects failings of democracy
An influential Chinese newspaper broke Beijing's Brexit silence on Thursday, saying the United Kingdom will lose global influence if it ditches the European Union.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 22, 2016
A courageous bookseller's return to Hong Kong
Lam Wing-kee, is a name that should go down in history, both for Hong Kong and China.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 21, 2016
Hong Kong leader presses Beijing on case of missing booksellers
Hong Kong's leader said on Tuesday he had asked China whether its handling of the booksellers case violated the "one country, two systems" formula under which the city returned to Chinese rule, the strongest response yet from the former British colony.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 20, 2016
Interview with the vanishing Hong Kong bookseller who stood up to China
Chain smoking outside a train station in Hong Kong last Thursday, a thin, bespectacled man called Lam Wing-kee was in a bind.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 25, 2016
Daughter of Hong Kong bookseller detained by China makes appeal to U.S. for help
The daughter of a Hong Kong-based bookseller detained in China on Tuesday appealed for U.S. help in pressing China for information about his status and securing his release.
Japan's elderly population grows to record 36.25 million
The proportion of people aged 65 and over has risen since the 1950s and is expected to hit 34.8% by 2040, when the second baby boomers (born 1971-1974) will join that group.
'Shogun' becomes first non-English-language winner of best drama Emmy
Japanese actress Anna Sawai, winner of the outstanding lead actress in a drama series award for "Shogun," and Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, winner of the outstanding lead actor in a drama series award for the show, pose in the press room during the 76th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Japan jumps to No. 2, from sixth place, in Best Countries index
Pedestrians cross an intersection in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Japan has experienced a postpandemic travel boom, with tourists pouring back in after restrictions closed the country’s borders to travelers.
South Korea is facing deepfake porn crisis
Activists hold up symbolic eye masks during a protest against deepfake porn in Seoul on Aug. 30.
Second assassination attempt on Trump is latest jolt in chaotic campaign
U.S. Secret Service and Homeland Security agents check a former home of a Ryan Routh, a suspect in an alleged assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump, in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Sunday.
‘Shogun’ and the painstaking art of ‘getting it right’
Hiroyuki Sanada and the cast and crew of "Shogun" accept the award for best drama series at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California.
Japan’s schools battle to keep kids cool, with or without AC
Students sit under a misting system during recess at Hikarigaoka Haru no Kaze Elementary School in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, on Sept. 6.
Chris Broad's new bar puts cocktails first, YouTube second
A self-proclaimed lover of great cocktails, YouTuber Chris Broad says his new Shibuya watering hole is more a place to get yourself a solid drink than it is anything related to his social media career.
In LDP presidential poll, three kingmakers hold all the cards
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo in January as former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (left) looks on.
How China’s dominance of solar and batteries is impacting Japan’s energy transition
Solar panels and wind turbines at a power plant in Hami in China's Xinjiang region. The U.S. and other countries have described China’s actions against Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region, a key cog in the cleantech supply chain, as a genocidal campaign aimed at erasing an entire culture.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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