カテゴリー: Hong Kong
We would like to hear from those in Hong Kong who’re planning to take up the new visa and move to the UKOn Sunday, Britain launched its new scheme to offer millions of Hong Kong residents the chance to apply for a visa to move to the UK. The immigratio…
High level of interest in scheme launched on Sunday comes despite fears applications will be monitoredMigration agents in Hong Kong say they have had a rush of inquiries from people seeking to access the new visa scheme launched by the UK government on…
It’s hard to believe just how quickly the vibrant city has changed since I first arrived in 2013 to perform a song at a protest. A blanket of fear covers it nowListen to Reverberate: Music That Shook History – episode 1: Hong Kong’s accidental popstarM…
Former residents who have chosen to take their chances in the UK after Beijing’s clampdown speak outAragon starts work on Monday as an estate agent in London, focused on finding clients who want to move to Britain’s capital from his home city of Hong K…
Scheme allows Hong Kong residents with a BNO passport to live and work in the UK with a pathway to citizenship after five yearsA new visa scheme offering millions of Hong Kong residents a pathway to British citizenship will go live on Sunday as the UK …
Move comes after UK says people with status can move to Britain and eventually settle China has announced it will no longer recognise the passports of British national overseas citizens just hours after the UK launched its scheme to give passport holde…
Ian Samson, originally from Edinburgh, describes his experience of Hong Kong’s strict isolation rules for travellersI have a pile of 20 bananas in my hotel room here in Hong Kong, a spin bike I’ve had delivered and some rapidly dying flowers that the h…
Officials plan to test everyone inside a designated zone of Kowloon Peninsula’s Jordan neighbourhood during two-day lockdownCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThousands of people in Hong Kong have been ordered to stay in their …
British barrister was called ‘mercenary’ by UK foreign secretary for taking on case against pro-democracy figuresThe British QC hired to run the prosecution of senior Hong Kong activists, including the media mogul Jimmy Lai, has pulled out of the case …
Lai Chi-wai spent 10 hours pulling himself up the tower to raise money for spinal cord patients Lai Chi-wai has become the first in Hong Kong to climb more than 250 metres of a skyscraper while strapped into a wheelchair, as he pulled himself up for mo…
Eleven people, aged 18 to 72, have been arrested on suspicion of helping 12 democracy activists flee Hong Kong by boat last yearHong Kong police have arrested 11 people under the national security law for allegedly helping 12 pro-democracy activists ac…
UK politicians challenge David Perry’s decision to act against group accused of illegal assemblyA British barrister has agreed to act for the Hong Kong government next month in its efforts to convict Jimmy Lai and eight other pro-democracy activists ac…
Human Rights Watch lists persecutions in Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet and Hong Kong but notes new willingness to condemn BeijingChina is in the midst of its darkest period for human rights since the Tiananmen Square massacre, Human Rights Watch has said i…
City’s leader accuses foreign critics of double standards when they condemn rioters in the US but support pro-democracy protesters in Hong KongHong Kong’s leader has defended the unprecedented mass arrest of opposition figures last week, and accused we…
Joint statement by four foreign ministers expresses ‘serious concern’ about national security law which saw dozens of activists arrested last weekThe foreign ministers of Australia, the United States, Britain and Canada have issued a joint statement e…