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The Hong Kong government hopes to “truly” tackle the city’s subdivided flats issue in the long run, Chief Executive John Lee has said in a consultation session ahead of his next Policy Address in which he is expected to introduce minimum requirements for subdivided dwellings. The chief executive was speaking to reporters on Sunday after […]

China plans to voice “serious concerns” on Taiwan and other security issues in upcoming talks with the United States, state media said Sunday. “China will focus on expressing serious concerns, clarifying its firm stance, and making stern demands regarding the Taiwan issue, development rights, and China’s strategic security,” state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing a senior […]

The Philippines accused China on Saturday of recently firing flares at one of its aircraft as it patroled over the South China Sea. Beijing claims most of the strategic waterway and has been involved in tense maritime confrontations with Manila in recent months, sparking fears of armed conflict that could draw in the United States, […]

Workers for food-delivery giant Keeta have called for the company to provide answers after many were suspended from duties following a police crackdown on illegal delivery workers in the city. Delivery workers, most of them “walkers,” were locked out of their accounts last month on suspicion of working illegally, the Riders’ Rights Concern Group told […]

Hong Kong athletes made history at the Paris Olympics and have been hailed as “heroes” by Chief Executive John Lee, but their achievements on the international stage have also drawn attention to their income and posed questions for the city’s sports talent pipeline. Professional athletes training at the Hong Kong Sports Institute (HKSI) receive a […]

Hit Chinese video game “Black Myth: Wukong” has become  one of the country’s most successful productions, selling 10 million copies worldwide since launching earlier this week. The game’s X account posted on Friday that it had sold 10 million copies “across all platforms” as of Friday at 9:00 pm Beijing time (1300 GMT). The action […]

By Peter Hutchinson with Peter Catterall in Beijing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday he hoped they could have “honest” discussions about thorny issues as they held the first call between leaders of the countries in over two years. The formal conversation was the first between the pair since […]

Here is a puzzle. The other week Yazhou Zhoukan, a news magazine which has baffled foreigners’ efforts to pronounce its name properly since the early 1990s, hosted an event and invited a guest to address the assembled multitudes. The guest was the Secretary for Security Chris Tang. This is a strange choice. In the days […]

An elderly Hong Kong pro-democracy activist will plead not guilty to displaying an unauthorised banner atop one of the city’s peaks last year, local media has reported. Chan Ki-kau, 76, appeared at Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts on Friday for a pre-trial hearing. He stands accused of violating the Country Parks and Special Areas Regulations over […]

Taiwanese must “unite as one” against the threat from China, President Lai Ching-te said Friday from an outlying island just a few kilometres from the Chinese mainland, on the anniversary of a deadly artillery attack. China claims democratic Taiwan as part of its territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring it […]

A Hong Kong civil servant who was denied residency in Taiwan due to “security risks,” has lost a legal challenge against that decision in a Taipei court, with a judge saying that his role with the Hong Kong government meant there was a higher chance he was a spy for Beijing. According to a judgement […]

The landlord of a private low-rent housing estate has said it would seek to overturn a Hong Kong court’s dismissal of a bid to evict elderly residents who refused to move out of their flats ahead of the planned redevelopment of the complex. The move came after Hong Kong’s District Court on Thursday dismissed the […]

Eight Taiwanese military servicemen were sentenced on Thursday to up to 13 years in prison for spying for Beijing, with the court saying they did it for the money. China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its territory and has ramped up military and political pressures on the democratic island in recent years. The two sides split […]

A foreign press club in Hong Kong has called on the government to improve transparency over media worker visa denials, after Bloomberg said Chinese journalist Haze Fan’s application was rejected without explanation. The Immigration Department should conduct an “urgent review” of its decision to deny Fan a work visa, The Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC) in […]

A government-appointed task force has proposed introducing minimum living standards for Hong Kong’s notorious subdivided flats as part of government efforts to phase out “low-quality” units in a city with some of the world’s least affordable housing. Chief Executive John Lee, who introduced the plan in his last Policy Address, received the taskforce’s report on […]

A Hong Kong man accused of writing “seditious” graffiti on bus seats is set to indicate his plea next month in the city’s third case under a new security law. His lawyer has told the court he did not expect it to go to trial. Chung Man-kit appeared before Chief Magistrate Victor So at the […]

A team from Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority (HA) has visited Kuala Lumpur to try to recruit Malaysian nurses in hopes of easing a significant manpower shortage in Hong Kong’s public hospitals, with 2,559 nurses resigning or retiring last year. The authority hosted recruitment briefing sessions on Monday and Tuesday in Kuala Lumpur, introducing a new […]

A New York resident who took part in China’s 1989 democracy movement was charged Wednesday with operating as an illegal agent for the Chinese government in the United States, the justice department said. Tang Yuanjun, 67, swam to a Taiwan-controlled island more than 20 years ago before being granted political asylum by the United States. He […]

A Hong Kong jury has unanimously found a Swedish businessman guilty of raping his former domestic worker. Patrik Tobias Ekstrom, 35, was convicted on one count of rape and one count of non-consensual buggery on Thursday in a case relating to an incident in October 2022 involving his then-domestic worker, identified only as X. The […]

Hong Kong’s second largest public housing provider has announced a 10 per cent rent rise as it faces a rising repair bill for ageing estates. The Hong Kong Housing Society (HKHS), an independent and non-profit organisation which operates 20 rental estates citywide, announced on Wednesday it had approved the increase. “Well-off tenants” – those whose income […]

Hong Kong’s corruption watchdog has arrested seven people linked to a listed company for suspected fraud following a cross-border operation involving Macau authorities. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said in a press release on Wednesday that it mounted an operation with Macau police as well as with Hong Kong’s market regulator, the Securities and […]

Macau leader Ho Iat-seng said on Wednesday he will not seek another term in an election set to be held in October, citing health reasons. Ho took office in December 2019, weeks before the first coronavirus case was recorded in Macau, and his tenure has been marked by efforts to bolster the casino hub’s pandemic-hit […]

Panda-themed meals could give Hong Kong’s struggling restaurant industry a leg up, an industry veteran has said, as he lamented the hundreds of restaurant closures over recent months. Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants and Related Trades President Simon Wong told Metro Radio on Tuesday that the restaurant industry could ride on what has been dubbed a […]

Chief Executive John Lee has said Hong Kong will “spare no effort” in training local sporting talent, after the city made history at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games by bagging two gold and two bronze medals. A group of Olympic athletes received a warm welcome from the public on Wednesday morning when they rode on […]