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Concurrent local exhibitions by Italy’s Uffizi and UK’s National Gallery rare treat for art lovers, but also underscores cultural ties with China despite tensions.

Councillors’ performance will affect people’s confidence in electoral system overhauled at the behest of the central government, observers say.

Participation rate hits record low 27.54 per cent, but pro-establishment heavyweights say they are confident the turnout will not disappoint Beijing.

Hong Kongs first district council poll after an electoral overhaul ordered by Beijing has yielded a turnout of 27.54 percent, a record low since the return to Chinese rule in 1997, despite officials, tycoons and political leaders mounting an unrelenting drive to get out the vote and a sudden extension of polling hours.

Hong Kong, Dec 11 (EFE).- The first district councilor elections in Hong Kong “only for patriots” had a turnout of 27.5 percent, the government reported Monday, an unprecedented figure for elections in which opposition candidates have been excluded. The former British colony last held district council elections in 2019, during the height of massive and …

Eunice Lam Nearly 1.2 million people cast their ballot in the election, a record-low 27.54 percent turnout for a race that was limited to pa...

A political scholar stated that the new district election arrangements favor larger political parties, making it more challenging for indepe...

About 1 million ballots cast to decide 88 seats contested by pro-establishment candidates in poll city leader John Lee says marks new chapter for municipal bodies.

Campaigning has been marked by little physical interaction between candidates and residents, prompting question of whether people will vote for someone they never met.

Tsang Chi-kin, 22, who was jailed in October for nearly four years, appeared on a national security show and recounted his experience during the 2019 protests.