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Protesters pay their respects outside the Chinese Liason Office of Hong Kong after the death of Chinese Noble laureate Liu Xiaobo, in Hong Kong on July 13th, 2017. The United States called on China to free the dissident's widow from house arrest and let her leave the country.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: Protesters Paying Their Respects for Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo in Hong Kong

Protesters pay their respects outside the Chinese Liason Office of Hong Kong after the death of Chinese Noble laureate Liu Xiaobo, in Hong Kong on July 13th, 2017.

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

Hong Kong Democracy Is at a ‘Low Point’ After Blows to the Suffrage Movement

First they came for the democracy activists. Or so it seemed in Hong Kong this week. On Sunday,…

Massoud Hayoun

News in Brief

Field Notes: Quarry Bay, Hong Kong

As part of an architectural series called Look Up, photographer Andy Yeung reveals the artistry of vertical human…

Pacific Standard Staff

Social Justice

Peak Talent

Talent has replaced the depletion of natural resources as the world's biggest crisis.

Jim Russell

Economics

Hong Kong Is Dying

The quality of demographics carries greater weight than the quantity, and the Pearl of the Orient, while dense, is aging rapidly.

Jim Russell

Economics

Where the Billionaires At?

In unequal, poor, super-polluted places.

Ryan O'Hanlon