Hong Kong

Hong Kong court finds five guilty in 2019 attack on protesters at station

The July 21 attack saw more than 100 people wearing white T-shirts wielding sticks and poles attack anti-China protesters and bystanders at a train station in Yuen Long district.

Several arrested as Hong Kong police raid Apple Daily newspaper

Hong Kong police raid offices of newspaper Apple Daily and arrest five executives under the city's national security law, including its chief editor Ryan Law, police and paper say.

Anti-Beijing activist Agnes Chow freed from Hong Kong prison

Chow was released from prison after serving nearly seven months for her role in an unauthorised assembly during anti-government protests in the city in 2019.

Hong Kong to censor all movies for anti-China content

The Film Censorship Ordinance has been expanded to include "any act or activity which may amount to an offence endangering national security" under a "common responsibility" to "safeguard sovereignty, unification and territorial integrity" of China.

Hong Kong police arrest anti-Beijing activist on Tiananmen anniversary

DECK: Chow Hang Tung, 37, is one of the vice-chairs of The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China that organises the city's annual June 4 candlelight vigil for the victims of Tiananmen Square.

China reports world's possibly first human case of H10N3 bird flu

A 41-year-old man in Jiangsu province, northwest of Shanghai, was hospitalised on April 28 and is in stable condition, the National Health Commission says but insists the risk of large-scale transmission is low.

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai gets new jail sentence over October rally

Beijing critic and founder of Apple Daily newspaper Jimmy Lai must now serve a total of 20 months, including prison time for participating in anti-China protests on August 18 and August 31, 2019.

Hong Kong passes sweeping pro-China electoral rules

New changes cut proportion of directly elected seats in legislature from half to less than a quarter, while a new body will vet candidates and bar those deemed insufficiently patriotic towards Beijing from participating.

Hong Kong's Joshua Wong jailed for additional 10 months for Tiananmen vigil

The prominent anti-Beijing activist is already serving a 13.5 month jail sentence for taking part in a protest during the 2019 unrest.

Hong Kong working on ‘fake news’ laws amid overhauls of media leadership

Carrie Lam says the government is researching “fake news” to tackle “misinformation, hatred and lies” but has no timetable for the law, which comes after the imposition of a sweeping national security law in 2020.

Hong Kong journalist convicted for accessing public records for probe

Choy Yuk-ling, also known as Bao Choy, was investigating a mob attack on anti-Beijing protesters in 2019 when she was arrested in November on charges of falsely declaring why she needed to obtain license plate information from a database.

Passengers test positive for virus after New Delhi flight to Hong Kong

Some 49 people tested positive for Covid-19 during Hong Kong’s mandatory three-week quarantine period, one of the strictest entry regimes in the world.