Tens of thousands of travellers are stuck in train stations in southern and eastern China less than a week before the Lunar New Year kicks off, with severe weather conditions adding to the annu...
China’s state news agency Xinhua has released a music video to promote President Xi Jinping’s new political theory after an earlier musical effort introducing the 13th five-year plan was wid...
Former secretary for security Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee has said that missing publisher Lee Bo is unlikely to face legal trouble for leaving Hong Kong without travel documents because “illegal ex...
https://hongkongfp.com/2016/02/02/exiting-hong-kong-illegally-is-not-a-crime-says-regina-ip/
A Chinese anti-corruption official, who was found hanged in her office building last month, may have left a will in which she urged her family to leave the country, according to a now-censored�...
A Hong Kong newsmaker is chosen each month by HKFP. Rising social activist Benson Tsang, who founded Fair Sharing Action, has been chosen for January 2016. In 2011, the Hong Kong government wa...
Japanese clothing company Evisu has come under fire over an ad campaign which feminists say promotes the objectification of women and “rape culture”. A Hong Kong mother has started an online ...
https://hongkongfp.com/2016/01/31/evisu-ads-draw-backlash-in-hong-kong-for-objectifying-women/
Last week, when China’s state broadcaster CCTV unveiled a mascot for its upcoming annual gala to celebrate the Year of the Monkey, the internet was universally appalled. The red, yellow and ...
Swedish police arrived in Thailand this week to investigate the case of missing publisher Gui Minhai, according to Apple Daily. The newspaper cited building management staff at Gui’s holiday ...
Swedish human rights NGO worker Peter Dahlin, who made a televised “confession” on China’s CCTV last week, has returned home safely, but he expressed concerns for his colleagues and friend...
A Chinese labour rights NGO targeted in a government crackdown last year has fought back by suing state news agency Xinhua for defamation. Nanfeiyan Social Works Service Centre in Foshan, Guangd...
Hong Kong’s second most powerful official Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has said that she will retire next year, eliminating speculation that she may run for chief executive. In an interview w...
Last week, an “ISIS style” video featuring 16-year-old Taiwanese pop star Chou Tzu-yu apologising to the people of China for “hurting their feelings” by holding a mini Taiwanese flag gri...
The curious “confession” of Hong Kong publisher Gui Minhai, who was paraded on Chinese national TV admitting to fleeing a decade-old manslaughter charge after disappearing for three months, ...
The recent disappearances of five Hong Kong residents connected to the Causeway Bay Bookstore and Mighty Current publishing house have caused a storm in the Chinese special administrative region...
https://hongkongfp.com/2016/01/17/seven-banned-books-published-in-hong-kong-censored-in-china/
China has allowed the first group of tourists to visit its controversial man-made island in the disputed South China Sea. A Hainan Airlines plane carrying civilian visitors touched down on Fiery ...
A young man in western China has been locked up in a cage by his family who said he is “mentally disturbed”, reported Hua Shang Daily. The 26-year-old in Xianyang, Shaanxi province lives in...
Mainland Chinese media have launched an attack on Taiwan opposition leader Tsai Ing-wen as she is poised to unseat the ruling Kuomintang, which is friendly to Beijing, and become the island nat...
https://hongkongfp.com/2016/01/15/mainland-media-attacks-taiwan-presidential-hopeful-tsai-ing-wen/
The mysterious new owner of Causeway Bay Bookstore allegedly took over the struggling business in November in order to collect information on its thousands of clients from the mainland, Hong ...
The University of Hong Kong is the third most international university in the world this year, according to a report by Times Higher Education (THE). The University of Macau also scored highly, r...
2015 was a bad year for the Chinese economy – GDP growth slowed to a new low, exports and imports dropped and trillions of dollars evaporated from the stock market, and yet for Chinese employee...
Lawmaker Albert Chan Wai-yip was among four pan-democrats escorted out of the Legislative Council chamber on Wednesday during Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s 2016 Policy Address as they prote...
It was all about “One Belt One Road” as Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying delivered his fourth Policy Address on Wednesday – the term was mentioned over 40 times in his two-and-a-half-hour...
https://hongkongfp.com/2016/01/13/cy-focuses-on-belt-and-road-in-fourth-policy-address/
Authorities in Shenzhen said they are hunting for six more people in connection with a man-made landslide which saw an avalanche of dirt and construction waste swamp an industrial zone, buryin...
https://hongkongfp.com/2016/01/13/six-suspects-still-at-large-after-shenzhen-landslide/
“Peng Liyuan quietly pushed open that half-closed door in the General’s Building, like a wisp of soft wind. The house was silent and empty except for one room where light came out, that was ...
https://hongkongfp.com/2016/01/08/the-curious-tale-of-five-missing-publishers-in-hong-kong/
The carcass of a young finless porpoise has been washed ashore on the Tung Wan Beach in Cheung Chau. The animal was surrounded by garbage floating in nearby shallow waters, according to pictur...
https://hongkongfp.com/2016/01/05/dead-porpoise-washed-ashore-among-trash-in-cheung-chau/
A 12-year-old boy has been arrested for his suspected involvement in two indecent assaults reported recently in Kwun Tong. Police received a report from a 27-year-old woman on December 6 that she...
https://hongkongfp.com/2016/01/05/12-year-old-arrested-for-alleged-indecent-assaults-on-two-women/
Taxis were difficult to find on the roads of Shenzhen, Guangdong on Monday as many drivers went on strike to protest at competition from other car-hiring services. A picture posted on car websit...
https://hongkongfp.com/2016/01/04/shenzhen-taxi-drivers-strike-in-protest-at-new-competitors/
International hackers alliance Anonymous’s Hong Kong division has said it will invade government websites and Chinese police websites in response to a Hong Kong bookseller’s suspected abducti...
More than a dozen political groups formed by professionals have issued a joint statement against executive councillor Arthur Li Kwok-cheung’s appointment as chairman of the University of Hong...
https://hongkongfp.com/2016/01/04/professional-groups-join-to-oppose-arthur-lis-hku-appointment/
The Beijing municipal government has rolled out a ranking and appraisal system for professionals working in the digital news industry. The system will test online news editors on their “politi...
https://hongkongfp.com/2015/12/31/beijing-introduces-appraisal-system-for-online-editors/