HONG KONG: Controversy over a new cross-border rail link which will see mainland laws enforced in a Hong Kong train station escalated Thursday after the justice chief likened China to the city's "landlord."

It comes at a time when fears are worsening that Hong Kong's freedoms are under threat from an increasingly assertive Beijing.

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