By James Edgar Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday hailed ties with Russia as “conducive to peace” as he met with counterpart Vladimir Putin in Beijing. It is Putin’s first trip abroad si...
Hong Kong’s public hospitals expect to hire 250 non-locally trained doctors this year, a senior official has said as he expressed confidence in addressing a manpower shortage in the sector thro...
Hong Kong’s iconic bun festival attracted tens of thousands of visitors to Cheung Chau on Wednesday, a public holiday marking Buddha’s Birthday. The Jiao Festival and bun scramble returned to...
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A strange, indeed barely believable, controversy has erupted over a question which appears hardly disputable: whether Hong Kong still enjoys the degree of press freedom that it did before 2020. �...
By Beiyi Seow US President Joe Biden blasted Beijing Tuesday for “cheating” rather than competing as he unveiled steep tariff hikes on Chinese imports like electric vehicles and semiconductor...
Zines come in a wide array of shapes and sizes. Among the extensive collection curated by Samantha Chao, a zine librarian at the Asian Art Archive (AAA) in Hong Kong, certain zines were smaller t...
Google has blocked Hong Kong users from accessing pro-democracy protest song Glory to Hong Kong on YouTube following a court order. It comes days after Secretary for Justice Paul Lam said the gov...
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By Rod Parkes “Tell good stories about Hong Kong,” the government constantly exhorts the media and the public in the face of much perceived criticism of the territory. In the archetypal “go...
By Beiyi Seow The United States is hiking tariffs on US$18 billion worth of imports from China, targeting strategic sectors like electric vehicles, batteries, steel and critical minerals, the Whi...
The defence should be allowed to call a witness to the stand for a second time “in the interests of justice,” the lawyer for jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai has argued at the landmark national ...
The licensing body for Hong Kong’s social workers will be overhauled to allow government appointees to command a majority, after the welfare chief said changes were needed to “better protect ...
The UK government said on Tuesday it had summoned China’s ambassador Zheng Zeguang, a day after three people were charged in the latest Beijing-linked alleged espionage case. The foreign minist...
By James Edgar Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit China this week on the invitation of leader Xi Jinping, Beijing’s foreign ministry said Tuesday. Putin will be in Beijing from Thursda...
A group of current, and former, foreign politicians say they have demanded to be called as witnesses in the landmark national security trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai. Members of the Inter-Parliam...
Hong Kong welcomed almost 3.4 million visitors in April, according to provisional figures from the Tourism Board. Though it represents a 17.3 per cent increase in visitors compared to last April,...
The Tourism Board will give HK$200 vouchers to visitors from eight Chinese cities who will soon be able to come to Hong Kong under an expanded solo travel scheme, allowing them to experience the ...
Hong Kong’s anti-corruption watchdog has charged two women for allegedly bribing a HSBC counter service officer with an unspecified amount of money in connection to a bank account opening. The ...
A judge presiding over Jimmy Lai’s national security case has warned the prosecution not to make unfounded allegations against the media mogul’s lawyers, after a prosecutor suggested that the...
Hong Kong has logged fewer phone scam cases in the first quarter of 2024 but losses soared to HK$789 million, with mainland Chinese students in the city being increasingly targeted by swindlers, ...
The government is “anxious” to see Google’s response to its request to remove a protest song – Glory to Hong Kong – from their platforms, Secretary for Justice Paul Lam has said. Lam, t...
Three suspects went before a UK court Monday on charges they assisted Hong Kong’s intelligence services, the latest in a recent series of alleged espionage cases in Europe with Chinese links. T...
China is targeting citizens studying abroad for their political activism, rights group Amnesty International said Monday, with some students reporting harassment of family members back home. Chin...
Hong Kong’s weightlifting and powerlifting body has apologised after its chair referred to competitor “countries” at an event that included Taiwan and Hong Kong. It comes after the governme...
The addition of eight Chinese cities to Hong Kong’s solo travel scheme will be “a timely boost” for the hotel and retail sectors, a veteran industry representative has said. The move by Bei...
Hong Kong authorities intend to increase the number of government-appointed members in a body that reviews social workers’ licenses, local media have reported. The potential move came after the...
Nobody is offering any official results, but it seems the first test of the proposed solid waste charging regime was not a success. The scheme, under which we will all have to buy bags from the g...
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Chinese President Xi Jinping departed from Budapest on Friday, completing his first European tour since 2019, which also took him to France and Serbia. His official plane took off shortly after 6...
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The Ukraine war is inching closer to Hong Kong. On Mayday, while many people here were enjoying a well-deserved day off work, officials at the US Treasury Department were busy: they announced a p...
By Holmes Chan Using virtual reality headsets, students at a Hong Kong university travel to a pavilion above the clouds to watch an AI-generated Albert Einstein explain game theory. The students ...
A US law which authorises sanctions against mainland Chinese and Hong Kong officials for perceived human rights violations could be “highly subjective,” the national security trial of Jimmy L...