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The Hong Kong government rejected claims that the detention of activist Chow Hang-tung was “arbitrary” and warned against commenting on ongoing legal proceedings, a UN report has revealed. Chow, who was the vice-chair of the group behind Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen vigils, has been detained since September 2021 pending trial. She has been charged with […]

American firms in China are grappling with an unprecedented web of challenges, a business group said Thursday, as economic woes and geopolitical tensions drag optimism and profitability to all-time lows. The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai report comes just a day after a European one highlighted what it said was the growing difficulty of […]

Detained Hong Kong activist Owen Chow is seeking to overturn his conviction and sentence over removing a complaint form about corrections officers from prison without approval. Chow was last month found guilty of breaking prison rules along with his solicitor Phyllis Woo over a plan to take Chow’s complaint form out of the detention centre. […]

About one in three upper primary pupils in Hong Kong have been bullied at school, a survey has found, as an NGO launched a campaign calling for “zero tolerance” of bullying. Hong Kong has seen a rise in youth suicides in the past year, with the suicide rate for girls under 15 increasing seven-fold, according […]

Hong Kong customs officers have arrested two directors of the gym chain Physical Fitness after the company abruptly closed last week, as law enforcement authorities and the city’s consumer watchdog racked up some 2,600 reports. Citing high rents, Physical abruptly closed 23 fitness and health centres citywide last Friday, leaving customers with gym memberships and fitness plans […]

Hong Kong has seen a sharp rise in suicide rates among teen girls, a study has found, with researchers citing the Covid-19 pandemic’s effect on mental health. The Hong Kong Jockey Club Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention at the University of Hong Kong announced the latest suicide statistics in the city on Tuesday, which […]

A Hong Kong union has urged the government to look into a labour dispute that arose after dozens of mainland Chinese migrant labourers working on a hospital construction site said they had been cheated out of wages. The Hong Kong Construction Industry Employees General Union, a union under the pro-establishment Hong Kong Federation of Trade […]

European firms are considering a “substantial” rethink of their operations in China in the face of lacklustre demand and a lack of action by Beijing to mitigate economic woes, a business lobby warned Wednesday. The world’s number two economy is straining under the pressure of a highly indebted property sector, sluggish domestic spending and high […]

Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te on Wednesday rallied residents to support the island’s troops after a fighter jet crashed during a night training flight. Under Lai’s administration, Taiwan revamped training for its armed forces to include more nighttime drills and exercises as the democratic island faces greater pressures from China, which claims it as part of […]

Beijing and Hong Kong authorities have hit back at the US after its House of Representatives passed a bill that could see the closure of Hong Kong’s trade missions in New York, San Francisco, and Washington DC. The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) Certification Act calls on the US president to “remove the […]

The Hong Kong government has rejected “smears” by an international media freedom coalition after 23 partner countries expressed concern about a court ruling that found the former editors of shuttered independent news outlet Stand News guilty of sedition. Members of the Media Freedom Coalition (MFC) in a statement on Monday said they were “gravely concerned” […]

A Hong Kong court will allow detained activist Chow Hang-tung to challenge the city’s prison rules that mandate women inmates to wear trousers throughout the summer, while men may wear shorts. Chow, who has been detained since September 2021, filed a legal challenge last week against the Commissioner of the Correctional Services over a policy […]

A Hong Kong badminton player who won silver at the Paris Paralympics has asked the public to continue supporting the city’s para-athletes as the team returned home with a haul of eight medals. “Some athletes who won medals deserve your applause, and others narrowly missed out on a place on the podium. I hope everyone […]

More than half of Hong Kong people believe government officials do not “care much” about what they think, a university survey has found. The Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong released the results of its survey on people’s interest in politics on Monday. According to the findings, 56.2 […]

A senior US military official warned his Chinese counterpart against Beijing’s “dangerous” moves in the South China Sea during the first talks of their kind between the commanders. Washington and Beijing remain at odds on issues from trade to the status of self-ruled Taiwan and China’s increasingly assertive approach in disputed maritime regions. But they […]

Chinese football on Tuesday banned 43 people for life over alleged gambling and match-fixing, including three former China internationals and South Korean player Son Jun-ho, state news agency Xinhua said. Beijing has in recent years deepened a crackdown on corruption in Chinese sports, especially football, and jailed several top officials. The 43 were among 128 […]

An elderly woman has died in a tenement building fire in Sheung Wan that also left three others injured. Police received reports about a fire on Gough Street at around 10 pm on Monday. Firefighters were deployed to the site of the blaze. An 86-year-old woman surnamed Lui was pronounced dead on the scene before […]

A green group has found that 85 per cent of five types of wild mammal in Hong Kong had ingested microplastics in countryside areas, as it called on the government to step up waste reduction policies. Research teams from Hong Kong and Taipei universities, in collaboration with Greenpeace, found 2,503 pieces of microplastics in the […]

A social worker who protested the government’s plans to overhaul an industry licensing board has said he believed he had been removed from a committee under the body. Veteran of the industry Eddie Tse told HKFP on Monday that his name was absent from the Social Workers Registration Board’s Disciplinary Committee Panel’s updated name list, […]

Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog has received 1,000 complaints with claims amounting to about HK$31 million against gym chain Physical Fitness, days after the company announced a “temporary shutdown.” Physical abruptly closed 23 fitness and health centres across Hong Kong last Friday, blaming high rents. The move came after the city’s pensions authority warned that the […]

China will train thousands of law enforcement officers from different countries over the next 12 months, its police chief said Monday, as it seeks to cement its role as a global security provider. Police from China have trained 2,700 officers in the past year and are planning to coach 3,000 more from various countries over […]

Chinese consumer inflation ticked up slightly in August to a six-month high, official data showed Monday, but the reading missed expectations and did little to soothe worries about sluggish spending in the world’s number two economy. Leaders in Beijing have been seeking to boost domestic activity as property sector woes and trade frictions weigh on […]

Hong Kong authorities have halted a scheme to import construction workers from outside the city after more than 120 migrant labourers complained of being cheated out of wages. The move was welcomed by the Hong Kong Construction Industry Employees General Union, which held a press conference last Wednesday detailing the allegations raised by the affected […]

An award-winning German journalist, activist and University of Hong Kong (HKU) graduate has said he was barred from entering the city. David Missal said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he was denied entry on Sunday evening: “After 13 sleepless hours under immigration examination in the middle of the night, I was told that […]