Photographer Benny Lam has documented the suffocating living conditions in Hong Kong’s subdivided flats, recording the lives of these hidden communities.

Few cities represent the remarkable 20th century trend of skyscraper-filled, obscenely dense cities better than Hong Kong. At its height, The Kowloon Walled City, which was demolished in 1993, was perhaps the most dystopian portrait of urban living.

AP photographer Kin Cheung spent time recently photographing some of the tiny subdivided housing units in Hong Kong, known as “coffin homes.”

When Britain handed over control to China in 1997, Hong Kong was a beacon of freewheeling prosperity – but in recent years Beijing’s grip has tightened. Is there any hope for the city’s radical pro-democracy movement? By Howard W French. (Mar. 21, 2017)

Wine authenticator Maureen Downey shares a few tips on telling a faux Bordeaux or a sham champagne from the genuine article. By Bernice Chan.

Police arrested a 14-year-old boy on Thursday night after his pregnant girlfriend, also 14, took herbal medicine and had an abortion at her home in Aberdeen. On Thursday, the girl, a Form Three student, complained she was feeling unwell – hours after the abortion – and was sent to the Queen Mary Hospital for treatment. Her mother, 34, called police at about 8.15pm that day after learning she had an abortion. Initial investigations showed the fetus had been disposed of on the seaside of a public housing estate in Aberdeen, according to a police source.

"The Allegory of the Cave" is a surreal time-lapse short film by Hong Kong-based Visual Suspect. By Michael Zhang.

Cpak Studio

“If the energy of young designers in both Hong Kong and abroad were focused less on criticizing places that are actually doing fine, there are real urban and social problems in Hong Kong that are currently, like the Walled City once was, being neglected…” By Rory Stott.

As the liberal order erodes, and growing inequality fuels anti-establishment forces, the seemingly disparate societies are converging in a way once unimaginable. By Rana Mitter.

The most comprehensive account to date of the disappearance of five Hong Kong booksellers in late 2015. By Pen America.

Taiwanese Animators

What job could be attractive enough to lure almost 8,000 candidates in China? It's not a high-flying position with a popular tech firm like Alibaba or Tencent. Instead, the legions of applicants are apparently eager to become an office worker for a powerless political party.

Jia Jia, a giant panda believed to have been the oldest ever kept in captivity, dies at the age of 38 at a theme park in Hong Kong.

A proposal to relocate feral cattle and buffalo herds in South Lantau, now under consideration by Hong Kong officials, has divided people in Mui Wo and Pui O where the bovines roam

The first pro-independence rally in Hong Kong history took place Friday in the shadow of the city’s main government complex, with at least a thousand people braving the subtropical humidity for the small but politically momentous, and peaceful, gathering. The event, called by the fledgling Hong Kong National Party, was spurred by the banning of six pro-independence activists from standing as candidates in September elections to the city’s legislature. Amid a heavy but discreet police presence, the crowd heard 25-year-old Chan Ho-tin, the National Party’s defiant...

Hong Kong has come to a standstill as a powerful typhoon batters the territory, closing schools and businesses and shutting down transport. Typhoon Nida is now moving to mainland China, with the city of Guangzhou issuing its first-ever red storm alert, the highest-level warning. People in Guangdong province have been told to stockpile food and essentials. Typhoon Nida, which passed over the Philippines, is set to be the strongest typhoon in the region since 1983.

The international shark fin trade has been dealt a body blow as China’s biggest shipping and ­logistics company has pledged a total ban on their transportation. In a letter addressed to the Hong Kong branch of the US-based wildlife conservation group WildAid obtained by the Sunday Morning Post, China Ocean Shipping Company (Cosco Shipping) “pledges to implement” a “no shark fin” policy. Kang Bingjian, a company spokesman, confirmed the letter and the policy change, but could not give a time frame for the move.

Row with landlord comes amid concern about what activists see as growing restrictions on Hong Kong’s freedoms by China. China’s only museum commemorating the 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square is to close temporarily after a long-running legal battle with the management and owners of the building it is housed in. The museum opened in April 2014. Unlike in mainland China where the 1989 crackdown on student-led protests remains taboo, the museum – and an annual candlelight vigil attended by tens of thousands every year – is legal in Hong Kong.

China's internet regulator, long a thorn in the side of social media giants, has turned its focus on two ubiquitous elements of digital life: keyboard warriors and click-bait stories. Ren Xianliang, deputy head of the Cyberspace Administration of China, said late on Tuesday that the watchdog wanted to carry out a large-scale cleanup of comments sections on news sites, and make it easier to report harmful content.