HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) has agreed to prevent the sale of up to 15 illegal or dangerous toys in the United States, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) chairman said on Tuesday.

    It is the first such agreement between the CPSC and a foreign company, CPSC Chairman Elliot Kaye said on the sidelines of the Hong Kong Toys and Games Fair.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – The Hong Kong government on Wednesday cemented its support for China’s plan to pre-screen candidates for the city’s 2017 leadership election, just weeks after authorities cleared the streets of protesters pushing for greater democracy.

Chief Secretary Carrie Lam, in an address to lawmakers, framed the debate about Hong Kong’s future as one about how an existing, Beijing-approved election nominating committee will operate rather than whether the committee should continue to exist.

HONG KONG, Jan 7 (Reuters) – The Hong Kong government on
Wednesday cemented its support for China’s plan to pre-screen
candidates for the city’s 2017 leadership election, just weeks
after authorities cleared the streets of protesters pushing for
greater democracy.

Chief Secretary Carrie Lam, in an address to lawmakers,
framed the debate about Hong Kong’s future as one about how an
existing, Beijing-approved election nominating committee will
operate rather than whether the committee should continue to
exist.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – When Xi Jinping wanted to deliver a political message to Hong Kong as protesters demanding free elections were threatening to take to the streets, he summoned the tycoons who dominate the city’s economy. The words from the Chinese leader at the September 22 meeting in Beijing were uncompromising but not surprising. He would not entertain any demand for full universal suffrage in Hong Kong, according to two people who attended.

Just six days later, pro-democracy activists made good on their threat, unleashing more than two months of street demonstrations. But while Xi’s message that day in the Great Hall of the People failed to deter the protesters, in speaking directly to the city’s business and professional elite he was showing where Beijing believes real power in Hong Kong resides.

HONG KONG, Dec 31 (Reuters) – When Xi Jinping wanted to
deliver a political message to Hong Kong as protesters demanding
free elections were threatening to take to the streets, he
summoned the tycoons who dominate the city’s economy. The words
from the Chinese leader at the September 22 meeting in Beijing
were uncompromising but not surprising. He would not entertain
any demand for full universal suffrage in Hong Kong, according
to two people who attended.

Just six days later, pro-democracy activists made good on
their threat, unleashing more than two months of street
demonstrations. But while Xi’s message that day in the Great
Hall of the People failed to deter the protesters, in speaking
directly to the city’s business and professional elite he was
showing where Beijing believes real power in Hong Kong resides.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong police arrested pro-democracy activists and cleared most of the main protest site on Thursday, marking an end to more than two months of street demonstrations in the Chinese-controlled city, but many chanted: “We will be back”.

Most activists chose to leave the Admiralty site, next to the Central business area, peacefully, despite their demands for a free vote not being met. But the overall mood remained defiant.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Over 10,000 protesters massed at a major pro-democracy protest site on Wednesday evening, even as authorities warned people to stay away, before the final clearance of the main ‘occupy’ camp the following morning.

Hong Kong urged pro-democracy protesters to pack up their tents and leave their main camp near government headquarters, saying it could not promise there would be no “confrontations”.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong authorities started on Thursday clearing the main pro-democracy protest site that has choked roads into the city’s most economically and politically important district for more than two months as part of a campaign to demand free elections.

The mainly peaceful protests in the Chinese-controlled city have represented one of the most serious challenges to China’s authority since the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations and bloody crackdown in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

HONG KONG, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Hong Kong urged pro-democracy
protesters to pack up their tents and leave their main camp near
government headquarters, saying it couldn’t promise there would
be no “confrontations” when the site is cleared on Thursday.

Thousands of police will move in on the site in Admiralty,
next to the Central business district, after two and a half
months of road blockades and sporadic violent scuffles in the
former British colony that returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Bands of determined protesters and hundreds of wet tents pitched near Hong Kong government headquarters were all that remained on Wednesday of months’ long pro-democracy protests in the final hours before police clear the main protest site.

“We’ll Be Back,” proclaimed a large yellow banner painted by a handful of students the night before.