カテゴリー: Hong Kong
Riot police send snatch squads to detain demonstrators throughout night after declaring gatherings illegalThousands of Hongkongers have sung a popular protest anthem and chanted slogans across the city as they marked the first anniversary of major clas…
Foreign secretary calls for new laws to be dropped and says Beijing ‘tortured’ UK employeeThe foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has urged China to step back from the brink by abandoning plans to impose new security laws on Hong Kong, as he accused Beiji…
‘Action arm’ will have intelligence-gathering capabilities, security chief says, as state media says legislators are working ‘day and night’ on new lawsHong Kong’s security chief has announced that a dedicated police unit is being set up and would be r…
Fifty-three demonstrators arrested after ignoring ban on gatherings to mark one year of protestsMore than 50 people were arrested in Hong Kong on Tuesday night after thousands of protesters took to the streets in defiance of a police order to mark the …
Hong Kong used to be seen as cautious, pragmatic and materialistic. But in the past year, an increasingly bold protest movement has transformed the city. Now, as Beijing tightens its grip, how much longer can the movement survive? By Tania Branigan and…
China’s national security law has reinvigorated a protest movement that began with opposition to an extradition billWhen Freeman Yim stepped out to join a peaceful demonstration against a controversial extradition bill on 9 June last year, he never kne…
Fear of mainland China is driving dissidents, parents and business people to take Boris Johnson’s path to citizenshipArthur fears that as the Chinese Communist party tightens its grip on Hong Kong, his kids’ education will be undermined. Gloria Siu is …
Lawmakers from EU parliament and eight other countries create new bodyInternational cooperation is needed to protect democratic values from an increasingly assertive communist China, a new group made up of lawmakers from eight countries and the EU parl…
Protesters in Hong Kong have defied a police ban to mark the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown with a vigil, as the city’s legislature passed a law criminalising the mocking of China’s national anthem. Many fear this year’s commem…
Protesters defy police ban as legislation prohibits mockery of Chinese anthemThousands of people have defied a police ban in Hong Kong to mourn the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre, after the city’s legislature passed a law criminalising the mo…
UK prime minister says all eligible for BNO passport can apply if China cuts freedomsBoris Johnson has opened the path to what he called one of the “biggest changes” ever to the British visa system, stating he was ready to offer a right to live and wor…
Huge demonstrations 17 years ago managed to block Beijing’s bill, but now China threatens a fresh clampdownOn 1 July 2003, in the middle of a sweltering Hong Kong summer, Mak Yin-Ting was among a crush of people trying to get into the tree-fringed Vict…
Secretary of state says he is considering immigration option similar to move announced last week by UK The US is considering letting people who no longer “feel comfortable” in Hong Kong move to the US, secretary of state Mike Pompeo has suggested.The c…
Criticism follows the US president accusing Beijing of breaking its word over Hong Kong for imposing national security lawsSenior Hong Kong government officials have criticised moves by Donald Trump to strip the city of its special status in a bid to p…
Home Office decision infuriates Chinese government and could risk backlash among traditional Tory votersThe Home Office appears to have dramatically widened the pool of Hong Kong citizens that will be eligible to apply for UK citizenship, implying mill…