Shares of Alibaba-backed Robosense Technology fell 2% on its Friday debut in the first new listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange this year. Robosense, a Chinese developer of laser imaging, detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors for self-driving cars, announced January that it had raised HK$985.12 million ($126.14 million) in its IPO by offering 22.9 … Read more
HONG KONG — Prominent activist and publisher Jimmy Lai on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to three charges of sedition and collusion with foreign countries in a landmark national security trial in Hong Kong. Lai, a media tycoon who founded the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, faces one count of conspiring to print seditious publications to incite … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave LONDON — One of the youngest pro-democracy activists to have been sentenced in Hong Kong under a national security law imposed by China has fled to Britain, where he said he will seek asylum. Tony Chung, who in an interview described attempted brainwashing while incarcerated and arbitrary … Read more
HONG KONG — An activist who advocated for Hong Kong independence and was jailed under a sweeping national security law fled to Britain to seek political asylum, according to his social media posts Friday. Tony Chung was among the first convicted under the Beijing-imposed law that was introduced after the 2019 pro-democracy protests. He was … Read more
The official trailer for Expats, a limited series created and directed by Lulu Wang, has arrived. Based on Janice Y. K. Lee’s bestselling novel The Expatriates, the six-episode limited series stars Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue and Ji-young Yoo, playing characters bound together after a family tragedy. After a series of life-altering events, their lives are … Read more
RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars is coming! The first-ever global all stars edition of RuPaul’s Drag Race is expected to arrive sometime in 2024. There’s not much known about the new series on Paramount+ just yet, except that it’s a first-ever All Stars global showdown of queens from across the world. Thanks to the … Read more
HONG KONG — A landmark national security trial opened Monday in Hong Kong for prominent activist publisher Jimmy Lai, who faces a possible life sentence if convicted under a law imposed by Beijing to crush dissidents. Lai, 76, was arrested in August 2020 during a crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement under the sweeping national … Read more
HONG KONG — A landmark national security trial opened Monday in Hong Kong for prominent activist publisher Jimmy Lai, who faces a possible life sentence if convicted under a law imposed by Beijing to crush dissidents. Lai, 76, was arrested in August 2020 during a crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement under the sweeping national … Read more
BEIJING — China on Friday defended controversial bounties offered for the capture of Hong Kong dissidents who have fled abroad that have been heavily criticized by foreign governments and human rights groups. Rewards of 1 million Hong Kong dollars ($128,000) have been offered for information leading to the capture of 13 opposition figures accused of … Read more
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai will on Monday appear in court for a long-awaited trial that is emblematic of Beijing’s efforts to silence critics after the pro-democracy protests of 2019. Lai, the 76-year-old former publisher of the once-popular but now closed newspaper Apple Daily, has been imprisoned for more than three years. His trial … Read more