カテゴリー: Hong Kong
The reassessment of China highlighted by Wang Yi’s trip has political, economic and security implicationsThe Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi did not exactly end his week-long European tour with his tail between his legs but he may have been chastened …
Protests against treatment of Hongkongers and Uighurs accompany foreign minister’s continental visitA network of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists have disrupted a week-long European charm offensive by the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, by demandin…
Chinese coastguard stopped a speedboat on Sunday suspected of an illegal border crossingMore than 10 Hong Kong residents, including an activist charged under the city’s punitive national security law, have been detained by China’s coastguard while tryi…
Irish journalist Aaron McNicholas’s visa was rejected in what’s believed to the first such case at a local titleAfter months of reassurance that Beijing’s national security law would not affect Hong Kong’s free press, the government has denied a visa t…
Ted Hui and Lam Cheuk-ting held over incident in July 2019 when white-clad thugs attacked activists at train stationHong Kong police have arrested pro-democracy lawmakers over involvement in protests in 2019, including one who was injured when a large …
Hong Kong case leads scientists to doubt development of antibodies in previous patients, but other experts say it is no cause for alarmCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA young man has been diagnosed with coronavirus more than…
References to ‘separation of power’ removed in some books, as well as illustrations of protesters holding placards Hong Kong publishers have been told to remove references to the separation of powers and protest slogans from school textbooks, in a move…
End of cooperation ‘because of pandemic’ comes as extent of similar British contracts with foreign forces emergesThe government has barred UK military personnel from training the Hong Kong police force and two other organisations amid worsening relatio…
Apple Daily founder and pro democracy activist says his case will likely be a ‘litmus test’ of Hong Kong’s legal systemWary but defiant, Jimmy Lai is determined to keep fighting for a democratic Hong Kong, even as he acknowledges that China’s goal is t…
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has told the Guardian he believes that how authorities handle his case will likely be a ‘litmus test’ for the future. The 71-year-old this week became the highest-profile pro-democracy figure so far to have been arreste…
Pro-democracy activist says he did not expect to be arrested so soon given the global outcry, and that it suggested chaos in the ranksJimmy Lai has said he was surprised to be arrested so quickly, and suggested there was “great disorder” among Chinese …
Apple Daily founder and pro-democracy activist returns to office following arrest under national security lawThe Hong Kong pro-democracy figure and media mogul Jimmy Lai received a hero’s welcome as he returned to his newspaper after being arrested on …
Demosisto co-founder and 23-year-old protest veteran faces an uncertain future after being arrested under new security lawsAgnes Chow, the Hong Kong activist arrested this week along with media tycoon Jimmy Lai, has become a prominent figure in the cit…
Fears Beijing would export its strict control of the media to Hong Kong have been borne out by arrest of pro-democracy media mogul and raid on his paperHong Kong rallies around Apple Daily after arrest of founder Jimmy Lai On Monday when Zoe*, a local …
Joseph Wu tells visiting US health secretary Taiwan lives under constant threat of its freedoms being quashed by BeijingChina is trying to turn Taiwan into another Hong Kong, the island’s foreign minister warned on Tuesday as he met with a senior US of…