カテゴリー: Hong Kong
Nearly 90,000 Hong Kongers apply to resettle in the UK this year amid a crackdown on dissent in the territoryBeijing has claimed the UK wants to make Hong Kongers “second-class citizens” with its British national (overseas) (BNO) visa scheme, after new…
Thirteen taken to hospital after blaze that reportedly broke out in an electrical switch roomFirefighters have rescued 350 people who were trapped on the roof of a shopping centre and office complex in Hong Kong after a fire broke out in one of the cit…
Lai and seven other democracy campaigners handed prison sentences for commemorating victims of massacreThe Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and seven other pro-democracy activists have been sentenced to up to 14 months in prison for organising, taking …
City’s education board seeks to distance itself from incident in which young students at one school watched video of corpses and executionsA primary school in Hong Kong has apologised after students as young as six were left in tears last week after te…
Former journalist Gwyneth Ho and rights lawyer Chow Hang-tung also found guilty of unlawful assembly chargesJailed Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai was among three democracy campaigners convicted of taking part in a banned Tiananmen vigil as the prosecu…
Reporters Without Borders calls increasing media oppression in China a ‘great leap backwards’ and says Hong Kong journalism is ‘in freefall’Xi Jinping has created a “nightmare” of media oppression worthy of the Mao era, and Hong Kong’s journalism is in…
Unjabbed Greeks face a €100 fine per month; French regulator says children who could develop severe Covid should be vaccinatedModerna boss predicts current jabs may be less effective against OmicronHong Kong and Ecuador join ranks of countries imposing…
Streaming channel went live this month, but without an episode in which the family visit ChinaAn episode of the Simpsons in which the cartoon American family visit Tiananmen Square is absent from Disney’s streaming channel in Hong Kong, at a time when …
Figures show that 93% of those charged over protests are under 25 and many therefore not eligible to access current UK visa schemeMore than nine in 10 people who have faced protest charges in Hong Kong are too young to access a UK visa scheme dedicated…
Judge sentences 20-year-old to three years and seven months in prison for secession and money launderingA 20-year-old student activist who was arrested while attempting to seek asylum at the US consulate in Hong Kong has become the youngest person sent…
Benefits of approving age extension outweigh the risks, says secretary for food and healthCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHong Kong has approved lowering the age limit for the Covid-19 vaccine from China’s Sinovac Biotech to…
The ‘unspecified breach’ in Frankfurt led to 150 other employees being quarantined for three weeks under Hong Kong’s strict rulesSee all our coronavirus coverageCathay Pacific Airways has sacked three cargo pilots for becoming infected with Covid-19 du…
Penalties increased for feeding wild pigs as city struggles to control the animals, one of which bit a police officer last weekHong Kong authorities have captured and euthanised seven wild boars as they began a campaign to reduce their numbers in urban…
Sue-lin Wong becomes latest foreign journalist to be forced out of the city as concerns about press access and freedoms growHong Kong has refused to renew the visa of an Australian correspondent from the Economist, the newspaper’s chief editor said, am…
Jens Galschiot wants to bring sculpture back after decades in Hong Kong but fears arrest under national security lawThe Danish sculptor of a statue that commemorates pro-democracy protesters killed during China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown has asked Ho…