The star of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ on Jim Sheridan's ‘The Secret Scripture’ and how her friend Cate Blanchett helped her get cast in sexual abuse drama ‘Una’

Danish police confirm washed up torso is that of Kim Wall, believed killed in submarine

Audi clip features a woman being examined like an animal by her future mother-in-law

Launch by North after military parade stokes tensions, but US response measured so far

Carrie Lam seen by China as low-risk candidate on fractious island territory

Donald Tsang has been convicted in relation to a luxury apartment in mainland China

Footage of officers kicking and punching activist was widely viewed and condemned

Panel of just 1,200 will elect new chief executive in March as CY Leung steps down

State newspaper editorial in Beijing accuses US of being serial spying offender

Chinese-backed chief executive cites family reasons for decision not to stand

Government prosecutors fail in bid to jail student leaders over 2014 protests

‘If I don’t speak up. . . then there is no hope for Hong Kong,’ says Lam Wing-kee

Tiananmen Square protests are no longer relevant to some in the former UK colony

Anti-smokers want Beijing rules adopted nationwide but tobacco lobby is strong

Ken Tsang, allegedly beaten by police in 2014, faces up to two-year sentence on Monday

Zhang Dejiang’s visit is first by a Chinese official since pro-democracy protests in 2014

Claims indicate publishers were taken by Chinese security officials for ‘political reasons’

Government takes aim at outlandish architecture cropping up in cities

Chinese women’s distance runners were ‘forced to take large doses of illegal drugs’

EU steps up rhetoric against China after nationals paraded on television

Britain’s foreign secretary stresses Hong Kong has its own judicial system

Conference hears simultaneous calls for more online freedom and better governance

Any commemoration to be low-key as Hu Yaobang remains divisive figure

The sales event created by Alibaba’s Jack Ma could become a global phemonenon

Decision over colonial-era royal insignia stirs controversy as some fight to ‘retain heritage’

Attack in Guangxi province appears to be the work of a disgruntled citizen

Police talk of a wave of sophisticated fraud

Proscribed catalogue takes aim at undesirable songs with ‘severely problematic content’

Latest day of frenzied selling shows a lack of confidence in Beijing’s response to ongoing stock market chaos, analysts argue

AIIB is a sign of China’s growing influence in the region

Customers left squealing as boar punches hole through hoof of shop...sorry, roof

Draft of wide-ranging law raises concerns over curbing of individual freedoms

Police told to enforce laws preventing ‘suspicious’ gatherings of three or more

The social media service has been banned in China since 2009

Team of journalists from 45 countries unearths secret bank accounts maintained for criminals, traffickers, tax dodgers, politicians and celebrities

Xu Zengping says he has not received any money from the Chinese government

Legislators raise yellow umbrellas, a symbol of last year’s Occupy Central protests, and leave

Police vow to identify all those who took $HK15m that fell on to street

While toxins belch from power plants, children in nearby Beijing compare brands of mask

Former taoiseach in China as chairman of Ireland China Co-operation Council