HKFP finally made a foray into video production this year after hiring our first multimedia reporter. From a queer graduation ceremony, to a chat with the city’s last protest group, to a nostal...
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/12/26/2022-in-review-hkfps-best-videos-of-the-year/
About 50 people gathered for a vigil at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) on Monday night to mourn those who died in a Xinjiang fire after it was locked down amid Covid restrictions. As ...
“Being in this era, you ought to tell the stories about this era,” says by Chan Tze-woon, director of Blue Island – an uncensored documentary that cannot be screened publicly in Hong Kong. ...
Raymond Yeung’s announcement that he would plead guilty to a charges of illegal assembly was not made in court, but on Facebook. He faces the possibility of a five-year jail term when he enters...
Voguing, or ballroom culture, has taken root in Hong Kong, providing a safe space for the LGBT+ community to express their queerness. In May 2022, the Kiki Ball attracted queer performers and cul...
“I guess time does fly. I don’t mean ‘time flies when we’re having fun’.” University entry exams began on Friday in Covid-hit Hong Kong, as schools resumed in-person teaching followin...
Chief Executive Carrie Lam is delivering the final Policy Address of her current term, where she is expected to lay out a new blueprint for housing and land policy, as well as a restructuring of ...
https://hongkongfp.com/2021/10/06/live-video-hong-kong-policy-address-2021/
Inti Fu was diagnosed with glaucoma at 16 and became totally blind a decade later. She told HKFP that she was desperate and felt she had no future, until she built the confidence to start running...
https://hongkongfp.com/2021/06/26/video-22-marathons-and-counting-for-hong-kongs-blind-runner/
Wearing black, clutching flowers and candles, and waving mobile phone flashlights, Hongkongers found ways to commemorate the Tiananmen Massacre on Friday despite police warnings and heavy law enf...
As one of the only mixed-gender sports available, Quidditch has moved on from its fictional roots in the Harry Potter series and evolved into a legitimate sport that helps promote gender equali...
When Lo Kin-hei entered politics as a fresh graduate in 2006, Hong Kong was a very different place. Back then, the bread-and-butter issues of how to address the city’s growing poverty gap and t...
Pro-democracy activists carried out the annual cleaning of the “Pillar of Shame” monument at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) on Sunday to commemorate the upcoming 32nd anniversary of the 19...
The winners of an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short have paid tribute to Hong Kong protesters after beating a film about the 2019 demonstrations to the Oscar. Alice Doyard and Anthony Giac...
The government has launched a series of video clips to promote Beijing’s decision to overhaul Hong Kong’s election system. In the second episode of “Improve Electoral System, Preserve One C...
By Geoffrey Knoell As Hong Kong’s population grows, so does the amount of waste generated. Landfills are reaching capacity, yet there is a still a huge shortfall in recycling. HKFP speaks to Di...
Melody is among a group of Hong Kong hikers who have been voluntarily picking up rubbish along the city’s rural trails. But whilst it may reduce litter in the mountains, Melody says littering c...
Hong Kong’s legislature has apologised and promised a “detailed investigation” after it flew the national flag upside-down on Thursday. Twitter user Tariq Dennison noted that the Five-starr...
Hong Kong police lost legitimacy during the 2019 protests due to “inept” decision-making by their commanders and a lack of coordination, British policing expert Clifford Stott told HKFP. His ...
66-year-old Harry Chan tells HKFP that he is fighting an endless battle against marine trash. Chan and his scuba diver team have been voluntarily collecting fishing debris and litter around Hong ...
https://hongkongfp.com/2020/11/18/video-hong-kong-humans-meet-the-deep-sea-litter-pickers/
Following the pomp and ceremony of the National Day flag-raising festivities, riot police thwarted pro-democracy protests across Hong Kong, searching demonstrators and making over 87 arrests. HKF...
https://hongkongfp.com/2020/10/02/video-hong-kong-police-halt-national-day-demos-86-arrested/
Chief Executive Carrie Lam has “starred” on the late night Conan O’Brien show in the US – albeit in cardboard cut-out form. The embattled leader formed part of Conan’s “socially dista...
Wang Chau villagers resisted eviction on Wednesday, driving out around 50 representatives sent from the Lands Department after they entered the villages on the official eviction date. The governm...
Police fined protesters who gathered at Yuen Long’s Yoho Mall on Tuesday for breaching coronavirus social distancing laws. Protesters had gathered in Yuen Long on the one year anniversary of th...
Doreen Weisenhaus is working on a new edition of the Hong Kong Media Law textbook – a title that is likely on every local newsroom’s bookshelf. But Weisenhaus has told HKFP that she has had t...
An HKFP reader has spotted a large python consuming a barking deer in the forest near Tsuen Wan. The clip – shot this week during a hike – shows what appears to be a Burmese python constricti...
https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/16/video-huge-python-consumes-barking-deer-in-forest-near-tsuen-wan/
Hong Kong police made more than 370 arrests on Wednesday, deploying the water cannon truck and firing rounds of tear gas against pro-democracy protesters. HKFP videographer Ryan Lai was on the sc...
In an exclusive live interview with HKFP, artist Kacey Wong has said that the future of Hong Kong dissident art will be new, alternative platforms, adding that the national security law will only...
Basic Law Committee member Priscilla Leung has released an upbeat music video calling on people to come together against “mutual destruction,” advocated by some pro-democracy protesters. The ...
Covid-19 is threatening a growing performance art and fitness trend: pole dancing. Jaycee Man examines how one studio is surviving the pandemic.
Stuck at home with no visitors and not much else to do, a pair of pandas in Hong Kong finally decided to give mating a go after a decade of dodging the issue. Like half the planet, Ying Ying an...