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Hongkongers will be able to enter a competition in October for naming a new pair of giant pandas gifted by the Chinese government. They are set to arrive in the city on Thursday ahead of China’s National Day next week. The Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau will organise a naming contest next month to select […]

An award-winning French photojournalist working for Associated Press has been denied entry to Hong Kong months after an extension of her work visa was rejected by the city’s immigration authorities. Louise Delmotte, who has been working for the US news agency’s Hong Kong bureau since March 2023, had her visa renewal denied by authorities earlier […]

China’s central bank on Tuesday unveiled a raft of measures to boost the country’s struggling economy, cutting the amount of cash banks must hold in reserve and lowering a key interest rate. China’s economy, the world’s second-largest, has yet to achieve a highly anticipated post-pandemic recovery as it is battered by a prolonged property sector […]

An activist has expressed regret that the government will proceed with its plan to build a tech hub near the Shenzhen border despite his pending legal challenge. Eddie Tse said the Development Bureau should not “break the rules and jump the gun,” and should suspend all work related to the project, adding that he “expressed […]

A Hong Kong court has sentenced a woman to one year in jail for illegally importing shark fins from endangered species from Brazil last year. The woman, 39, was found to have over 450 kilograms of dried fins in her baggage when she arrived in Hong Kong from Brazil via Ethiopia last November, according to […]

The Hong Kong government has condemned a team of international lawyers advocating for the release of media mogul Jimmy Lai after they reported the tycoon’s deteriorating health to the United Nations. The lawyers on September 12 made an urgent appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur alleging that Lai had been denied access to specialised medical […]

Investors will continue to trade stocks on Hong Kong markets during typhoons or rainstorms, as the city’s policy of trading halt during severe weather was officially scrapped on Monday. The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) implemented new trading arrangements on Monday that will prevent any suspension or delay in the city’s securities and […]

China warned the United States on Monday not to take “discriminatory actions” against its firms, following reports Washington is planning to ban the sale of vehicles using Chinese and Russian technology. Bloomberg and other media reported Sunday, citing sources, that the United States was mulling new rules that would ban hardware and software made in […]

Japanese foreign minister Yoko Kamikawa said on Monday she will meet her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi during a visit to New York to discuss the fatal stabbing of a schoolboy. After the attack last week in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida demanded an explanation and urged China to ensure the […]

The family of a man who died after being shot by the police has filed a complaint against the force, questioning why the officer resorted to firing their gun after being called to handle a domestic dispute. The widow and older brother of the deceased lodged their complaint at the police headquarters in Wan Chai. […]

Close to half of Hong Kong secondary school students in Hong Kong have said they would not necessarily seek help when facing mental health issues, a survey conducted by a non-governmental youth organisation has found. Students who were less willing to ask for assistance showed significantly higher levels of depression, anxiety, and stress, and had “notably […]

Molecular biologist Dennis Lo is the “sole candidate” to become the next president and vice-chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), local media reported on Sunday. Lo is the associate research dean of the Faculty of Medicine and the director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences at CUHK. The university’s […]

By Emily Wang with Rebecca Bailey in Shanghai When Wang Tao ran away from home aged 17 to become a professional wrestler he knew it would be a hard slog to succeed in China’s passionate but underdeveloped scene. Years later, he has endured family disapproval, countless side gigs and thousands of hours of brutal training […]

US President Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic Saturday telling the leaders of Australia, India and Japan that an aggressive China is “testing us,” in remarks that risked undercutting a summit declaration that carefully avoided mentioning Beijing by name. The comments came as Biden opened a farewell summit in his hometown of Wilmington, […]

Hong Kong on Thursday saw the first people imprisoned under a new security law, which will have been in effect for six months on Monday. Chu Kai-pong was jailed for one year and two months after earlier pleading guilty to one count of “doing with a seditious intention an act or acts that had a […]

Malcom Gladwell is a great populariser of scientific obscurities, so we now all know that in order to achieve proficiency in almost any worthwhile pursuit you have to put in 10,000 hours of practice. Or alternatively, it now appears, you can outsource the grunt work to a computer and just claim the credit. This has […]

Chris Brook greets customers with a smile as he takes their coffee and lunch orders. The 22-year-old moves with familiarity behind the counter, compiling receipts and punching the cash register at Museum Cafe 8, above Hong Kong’s Maritime Museum in Central.  Brook was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder when he was younger. He was recommended […]

By Ludovic Ehret Cooking, cleaning, caring for the kids during the day, Chen Hualiang takes on household tasks many Chinese fathers tend to leave to their wives, bucking a deep-rooted patriarchal tradition and even inspiring a hit TV show. The former project manager gave up the rat race to join a growing number of “full-time […]

Auction house Christie’s opened its regional headquarters in Hong Kong on Friday as its Asia Pacific chief predicted a sales “pickup” despite a global art market weighed down by wary sellers. Christie’s is the third major auction house in recent years to expand their footprint in the Chinese finance hub in a bid to woo […]

A Hong Kong court has handed a community service order to the former manager of a cleaning company contracted by the government over extorting HK$38,000 from three employees. Choy Wai-hong, who the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) charged with three counts of fraud, appeared at the Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Court on Friday after earlier pleading […]

Hong Kong’s new security law is “unambiguous” about what counts as unlawful seditious acts, the city’s government has said, after a man was sentenced to 14 months in jail in the first conviction under the legislation. Chu Kai-pong, 27, was sentenced on Thursday after he earlier pleaded guilty to one count of “doing with a […]

China said Friday that it would “gradually resume” importing seafood from Japan after imposing a blanket ban in August last year over the release of water from the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant. “China will begin to adjust the relevant measures based on scientific evidence and gradually resume imports of Japanese aquatic products that meet the […]

A Hong Kong court has convicted a third person under a new security law, sentencing him to one year and two months in prison for sedition over statements made on social media platforms. Au Kin-wai, 58, appeared before Chief Magistrate Victor So at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Friday, where he pleaded guilty to […]

Same-sex Taiwanese-Chinese couples are now legally able to register their marriages in Taiwan, Taipei said Thursday, recognising cross-strait unions for the first time. Taiwan has long been at the forefront of Asia’s burgeoning LGBTQ rights movement, becoming in 2019 the first place in the region to legalise marriage equality. But tensions between Taiwan and China […]