A stuffed toy wolf stocked by Swedish furniture giant Ikea has also become an unlikely symbol of the protest. The character is called Lufsig in Hong Kong - but its Chinese name sounds similar to a ...

HONG KONG—Jimmy Lai came to Hong Kong in 1961 as a boy smuggled on a fishing boat, a refugee who left mainland China because his mother was afraid he would starve to death in the turmoil ...

When protesters, Lai among them, tried to secure democracy for Hong Kong and stop Beijing from tightening its grip, only to face exile or imprisonment, the self-made millionaire became a symbol of ...