カテゴリー: Hong Kong
The 72-year-old media tycoon was charged under China’s draconian new security law on FridayThe Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai has been denied bail, after being charged with colluding with foreign entities under the city’s…
Government says deal allowing Beijing officials to interrogate Chinese nationals was standard ‘technical arrangement’The Swiss government has strongly rejected accusations that a deal allowing Chinese officials to enter Switzerland and interrogate Chin…
Survey finds more than 600,000 may want to move to Britain, many within two years of January start dateHong Kong residents are likely to move to the UK faster than the British government has anticipated, and more should be done to prepare for their arr…
Media mogul accused of foreign collusion on same day teen activist found guilty of defiling China’s flag after throwing it on the ground at protestHong Kong’s crackdown on dissent has escalated, with national security charges laid against media mogul J…
Ted Hui says move by UK’s biggest bank is act of ‘oppression’ as eight more democracy activists are arrestedA Hong Kong legislator who fled to Europe has called on regulators to investigate the actions of major banks including HSBC, after his accounts …
The 27-year-old activist, who was forced to flee the city by Beijing’s crackdown, is determined to continue the fight for freedom‘We need to keep talking about how we’re feeling’: the NHS staff who became social media starsSee the Observer’s faces of 2…
Lai, whose newspaper Apple daily was raided by police this year, is denied bail until April amid accusations of improper use of his office space Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy activist whose Apple Daily newspaper was raided by …
Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam also sentenced over pro-democracy protest at police HQ last yearThe high-profile Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong will spend more than a year in jail over an unauthorised protest outside police headquarters in June last year, a Ho…
After fleeing Hong Kong for Taiwan, Lam Wing-kee speaks of the danger the island faces and the ordeal of his detention in ChinaLam Wing-kee leans forward in his chair, answering quickly and sharply to issue a warning to the people of his new home, Taiw…
Carrie Lam says she is paid in cash and calls US sanctions imposed over security crackdown ‘unjustifiable’Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said she keeps “piles of cash” at home because she has no bank account after the United States imposed sanctions o…
Chief executive says in annual address the city’s problems driven by ‘external forces’ and pandemicHong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, has defended the crackdown on opposition by her government and Beijing, and praised the widely criticised nation…
Pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong, Ivan Lam and Agnes Chow arrived at West Kowloon magistrates courts to face charges related to illegal assembly stemming from a protest last year in Hong Kong.The trial was scheduled to begin on Monday, but after ple…
Joshua Wong urges everyone to ‘hang in there, add oil’ as he, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam are taken away ahead of sentencing next weekHong Kong activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam face the prospect of jail after pleading guilty to charges rela…
Exclusive: Thinktank urges UK to build democratic counterweight to China’s growing influenceThe UK should make a major post-Brexit tilt towards the Indo-Pacific region, ploughing military, financial and diplomatic resources into building a major democr…
Foreign ministry rejects calls by western security grouping to reinstate ousted pro-democracy lawmakersChina has rejected criticism by the Five Eyes alliance of its Hong Kong policy, saying it “should face up to the reality” that the former British col…