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# Hong Kong

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Follow Hong Kong  


## Hong Kong


* ![Thick smoke and flames rise as a major fire engulfs several apartment blocks at the Wang Fuk Court residential estate in Hong Kong's Tai Po district on Nov. 26, 2025.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc84069e525cbaac7/6998cc2b25f3ee4d676453c3/hong-kong-fire.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 5, 2025  
## [How Hong Kong Is Stamping Out Discontent Over Fire](https://time.com/7338838/hong-kong-fire-arrests-national-security/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Chad de Guzman
* ![People watch as residential buildings continue to burn at Wang Fuk Court in the Tai Po district in Hong Kong, China, on Nov. 27, 2025](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d7484c476d60703/6998cc0025f3ee8538645376/hong-kong-fires.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 27, 2025  
## [Why Hong Kong’s Latest Fire Is So Deadly](https://time.com/7337132/hong-kong-deadliest-fire-deaths-causes-factors-density-poverty-rules/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Chad de Guzman
* ![Police gather outside the train station near Victoria Park in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay district on June 4, 2025.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt64e1e6d6c5ac2bf2/6998c78947fe517d5555bd19/hong-kong-national-security-crackdown.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 16, 2025  
## [With a Distracted U.S., Hong Kong Intensifies Its Democratic Crackdown](https://time.com/7294510/hong-kong-national-security-china-democratic-crackdown-distracted-us-trump/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Chad de Guzman
* ![Former chief-editor of Stand News Chung Pui-kuen enters the Wanchai Law Courts ahead of a verdict for Hong Kong Stand News sedition trial in Hong Kong, China, on August 29, 2024.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt13303c1579b620d3/698a5a5b18689282e26c86da/stand-news-chung-pui-kuen-hong-kong-sedition.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 29, 2024  
## [Hong Kong Convicts Journalists of Sedition Charges](https://time.com/7015897/hong-kong-convicts-journalists-sedition-stand-news/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Bloomberg
* ![Hong Kong Hospitality Campaign Launch Ceremony](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfbbf08a99a2fdfca/698a5791b21a9c2a2c50a138/hong-kong-hospitality-campaign-tourism.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 5, 2024  
## [Hong Kong Tells Residents to ‘Smile More’ to Revive Tourism](https://time.com/6985732/hong-kong-smile-more-hospitality-campaign-tourism/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Chad de Guzman  
* ![Hong Kong Finds 14 Guilty in Biggest National Security Case](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1abd5574f8df9b0e/698a5760011682a632985dad/Hong-Kong-Court-National-Security-Conviction-Democracy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 30, 2024  
## [Hong Kong Convicts 14 in Largest-Yet National Security Trial](https://time.com/6983544/hong-kong-national-security-trial-verdicts-guilty/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Bloomberg
* ![HONG KONG-CHINA-POLITICS-TIANANMEN-COURT](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd83def13d4e790cd/698a5745b21a9c72f450a0b0/Hong-Kong-National-Security-Law-Arrest-Tiananmen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 28, 2024  
## [Hong Kong Makes First Arrests Under New Security Law](https://time.com/6982629/hong-kong-first-arrests-new-security-law/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Bloomberg
* ![Hong Kong protest song](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf48c8dd657373d99/698a5685b21a9c81e6509f8c/hong-kong-protest-song.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 8, 2024  
## [Hong Kong Bans Protest Anthem](https://time.com/6975893/glory-to-hong-kong-song-ban/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Anna Gordon
* ![The Hong Kong skyline in on Feb. 27, 2024](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52411350bc6ec1a7/698a54f6e6e84a19ec2b2bce/hong-kong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 19, 2024  
## [Hong Kong National Security Law: What to Know](https://time.com/6958258/hong-kong-national-security-law-2024-explainer/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Bloomberg
* ![Hong Kong Team v Inter Miami - Preseason Friendly](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt95762ff29dd41946/698a48af47ca385d053bc0a9/Lionel-Messi-Hong-Kong-Apology.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 20, 2024  
## [Messi Denies Hong Kong No-Show Was Political in Appeal to Chinese Fans](https://time.com/6696584/messi-hong-kong-apology-chinese-fans/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Bloomberg  
* ![Hong Kong Soccer Inter Miami](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c97983421783857/698a485edb2987419326a336/Messi-Hong-Kong-Backlash-Inter-Miami.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 9, 2024  
## [The Most Extreme Reactions Over Messi in Hong Kong](https://time.com/6693153/messi-hong-kong-reactions-backlash-international-appeal/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Koh Ewe
* ![Hong Kong Soccer Inter Miami](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1bc65264be69eae3/698a4588e6e84a452e2b1120/Messi-Inter-Miami-Hong-Kong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 5, 2024  
## [Why Hong Kong Is Mad Over Messi](https://time.com/6660600/hong-kong-fans-angry-messi-inter-miami-injury/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Koh Ewe
* ![Elderly women hang out in a market in Hong Kong on Sept. 25, 2022.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt91d2476d880551c4/698a43ee86f68e66b26f3243/hong-kong-elderly.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 17, 2024  
## [Hong Kong No Longer Has World’s Longest Life Expectancy](https://time.com/6556320/hong-kong-japan-world-longest-life-expectancy/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Bloomberg
* ![Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee is helping to pour out votes from the ballot box at a polling station in Hong Kong, China, on Dec. 10, 2023.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte01dbf0e8a559136/698a43169d83e861b4b97f56/john-lee-district-council-elections.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 11, 2023  
## [Why So Few Voted in Hong Kong’s District Elections](https://time.com/6344588/hong-kong-district-elections-low-turnout-arrests/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Chad de Guzman
* ![Visitors read at a booth displaying the books on the national security law of Hong Kong at the 33rd Hong Kong Book Fair in the Wan Chai area of Hong Kong on July 19, 2023.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt282cc9665fd4178a/698a3fda4ee262060c31baed/national-security-china.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 29, 2023  
## [China Is Cracking Down on Cantonese Language Advocacy in Hong Kong](https://time.com/6309344/hong-kong-cantonese-china-crackdown/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Chad de Guzman

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