Start your Independent Premium subscription today ... An explosion struck a Hong Kong-flagged container ship Tuesday traveling north through the Red Sea, sparking a major fire that forced its ...

Hong Kong schools required to hold Chinese national flag ceremony once a week under ... the institution appointed a five-member independent committee to look into the incident and release a ...

Activists in Hong Kong have desecrated a Chinese flag and vandalised a shopping centre on the 16th straight weekend of anti-government protests. Escalators and glass panels were targeted at the ...