The flags of China and Hong Kong displayed in rows. Bloomberg Creative | Bloomberg Creative Photos | Getty Images China’s embassy hit back against U.S. criticism of Hong Kong’s new national security law on Thursday, saying the U.S. should “respect China’s sovereignty.” Hong Kong lawmakers passed a new national security law on Tuesday which critics … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken denounced the Hong Kong government for publishing what he called a “bounty list” of pro-democracy activists living overseas, including a U.S. citizen. “We reject this attempt to threaten and harass those advocating for freedom and democracy,” Blinken said Friday. The Hong … Read more
HONG KONG — The trial of Hong Kong’s most famous activist publisher who was arrested under China’s crackdown on dissidents will start Monday after being delayed for over a year. Jimmy Lai, 76, broke into the city’s once freewheeling media world about three decades ago, armed with the belief that delivering information is equal to … Read more
The arrests of several pro-democracy protesters alongside record-low turnout on Sunday in Hong Kong’s first district elections in four years—a period that has been marked by the tightening of Beijing’s grip over the city’s government and freedoms and the systematic suppression of opposition or dissent—are the latest signs of widespread discontent and rising apathy in … Read more
Hong Kong Street Scene, Mongkok District with busses Nikada | E+ | Getty Images Hong Kong’s initial public listing market remains in a slump, even as analysts predicted a market rebound in the second half of the year. “The Hong Kong market has not recovered as much as we would like,” Irene Chu, partner at … Read more
HONG KONG — The exodus of tens of thousands of professionals from Hong Kong triggered by a crackdown on its civil liberties is being offset by new arrivals: mainland Chinese keen to move to the former British colony. The Asian financial hub has attracted tens of thousands of visa applications from mainland Chinese under the … Read more
Thailand’s Arpichaya Yubol hits a shot during the women’s individual golf event at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, in China’s eastern Zhejiang province on October 1, 2023. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) Thailand’s Arpichaya Yubol snatched Asian Games women’s gold on Sunday after India’s Aditi Ashok blew a seven-shot overnight lead, while rising … Read more
HONG KONG, CHINA – JUNE 05: A pedestrian walks by an digital display displaying the numbers for the Cling Seng Index on June 5, 2023 in Hong Kong, China. (Photograph by Chen Yongnuo/China Information Service/VCG by way of Getty Photographs) China Information Service | China Information Service | Getty Photographs Buyers will now be capable … Read more
Picture: Powerhouse Animation/Netflix Netflix has been stocking up on animated exhibits based mostly on common franchises over the previous couple of years. Although most of them hail from video video games, the steamer’s subsequent collection, Cranium Island, relies on Legendary’s MonsterVerse films, and continues the story of everybody’s favourite big ape, King Kong. Chris Pratt … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment HONG KONG — For many years, tens of 1000’s would come to Hong Kong’s Victoria Park each June 4 to lift a candle in somber commemoration for these killed by the Chinese language navy because it crushed the 1989 Tiananmen Sq. protests. This Sunday, after three years of prohibitions on gathering … Read more