HONG KONG -- Hong Kong is planning to invoke potentially sweeping emergency powers in response to increasingly violent protests, local media reported on Thursday.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's embattled leader Carrie Lam on Friday invoked colonial-era emergency powers for the first time in more than 50 years in a dramatic move intended to quell escalating ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday her administration had no plans to use emergency powers for the introduction of other laws and that the Chinese territory was equipped ...