カテゴリー: Hong Kong
Region now on par with Saudi Arabia in some indicators – and coming closer to converging with ChinaHong Kong has plunged further in a human rights ranking report, bringing it on a par with Saudi Arabia in some indicators, and closer to converging with …
Language and cultural differences confronting refugees are compounded by an administrative limbo and lack of support in their new homeWhen Kenneth Ip and Natalie Wong left Hong Kong in early 2021, they carried little with them except for some luggage a…
Jumbo Floating Restaurant encountered ‘adverse weather’ after being towed away from territory’s harbourOne of Hong Kong’s most distinctive restaurants – the Jumbo Floating Restaurant – has capsized in the South China Sea, days after it was towed away f…
Press crackdown continues as Japanese, US and Taiwanese reporters blocked from 1 July event, which is also 25th anniversary of British handoverHong Kong authorities have barred some local and international media from the inauguration of the new chief e…
School books will reportedly say China never recognised the treaties that ceded it to colonial powers during opium warsNew Hong Kong textbooks will teach students that the city was never a British colony, after an overhaul of a school subject that auth…
Authoritarian measures are widened to meet Chinese loyalty requirements, despite fears it will worsen teacher shortagesForeign English-language teachers working in Hong Kong government schools will need to swear allegiance to the city, officials have o…
Taipei takes on the role of commemoration from Hong Kong as the only Chinese-speaking country to hold vigilsOn a steamy summer’s night several hundred people gathered at the foot of Taipei’s grand Chiang Kai-shek memorial for one of dozens of vigils be…
Authorities try to stamp out any public commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of massacreHong Kong authorities on Saturday detained several people as they pounced on any attempt at public commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown…
US ‘will not forget June 4’, says Blinken, while Taiwain set to be only part of Chinese-speaking world where public commemorations permittedThe victims of China’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square 33 years a…
Hong Kong has commemorated 1989 crackdown for decades, but national security law imposed in 2020 has put a stop to annual vigilsHong Kong police have warned that people risk breaking the law if they gather on Saturday to commemorate China’s Tiananmen S…
Assailed by a hostile press, police and judiciary, Michael Vidler left the city with pride at having tried to improve the lives of ordinary peopleMichael Vidler has built his legal career on fighting for the “little guy” in Hong Kong, from high-profile…
Concerns of breaching security law prompt cancellation of services that were among last ways to publicly mark China’s 1989 crackdownFor the first time in 33 years, church services to commemorate the Tiananmen Square crackdown will not be held in Hong K…
Signatories of legal opinion say territory’s government is using continued presence of overseas judges as ‘vote of confidence’International judicial figures including the former UK attorney general Sir Robert Buckland have warned the remaining British,…
Zen’s supporters fearful that a crackdown on churches in mainland China could spread to Hong KongThe activist Leung Wing-lai was in prison when he first met Cardinal Zen. In 2018, while Leung was serving a sentence for illegal assembly, Zen visited him…
Prominent Catholic cleric, 90, detained with three others linked to disbanded charity for protestersThe Vatican has voiced concern after Hong Kong’s national security police arrested 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen, one of Asia’s most senior and outspo…