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A UK judge who was among a panel who denied media tycoon Jimmy Lai and six other democrats an appeal over a 2019 protest on Monday is reconsidering his position on an advisory board to an international press freedom NGO, a legal body has told HKFP. The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) said […]

A domestic worker who said she was raped by her employer has told a court that he threatened to kill her if she resisted sex with him. The domestic worker, known only as X, testified at the High Court on Wednesday on the second day of the jury trial. Her former employer, Patrik Tobias Ekstrom, […]

Detained activist Owen Chow has been sentenced to three days in prison over removing a complaint form about corrections officers from prison without prior approval. Chow and his solicitor Phyllis Woo, who faced the same charge, were sentenced by Principal Magistrate Ivy Chui at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Wednesday. Woo was fined HK$1,800, […]

Hong Kong’s High Court has granted an application for a legal challenge against environmental authorities’ approval of a report into the development of a large-scale technology hub. Critics have said the San Tin Technopole will destroy swathes of valuable ecosystems near the city’s border with mainland China. The legal bid was launched earlier this month […]

A former Chinese naval captain arrested for illegally entering Taiwan by boat was formally charged Wednesday, but prosecutors said “no military or national security involvement” was linked to his act. The man, surnamed Ruan, was picked up by Taiwan’s coast guard in June after his vessel collided with other boats on the Tamsui River, which […]

A US Army intelligence analyst pleaded guilty on Tuesday to providing sensitive defense information to China, including documents about US weapons systems and military tactics and strategy. Sergeant Korbein Schultz, who held a top-secret security clearance, was arrested in March at Fort Campbell, a military base on the Kentucky-Tennessee border. Schultz pleaded guilty to charges […]

Hong Kong’s top court has given the green light to detained pro-democracy activist Tam Tak-chi to challenge his conviction and sentence under a since-repealed sedition law next January. The Court of Final Appeal on Wednesday granted leave to appeal to the former radio host, who was fined and jailed for 40 months for 11 charges […]

A Hong Kong police superintendent allegedly molested a female colleague in a disabled toilet while they were out for dinner with others in June 2022, a court has heard. The alleged victim reportedly testified that she had not reported the incident because “no one would have believed what I said.” Luk Chun-chung, 43, was the […]

The Hospital Authority (HA) in Hong Kong has said it is concerned about the suspected resale of medication prescribed by a public hospital on online retail platform HKTVmall. Local media reported on Monday that the HA had vowed to follow up on a complaint by a pregnant woman concerning a bottle of lactulose she purchased […]

The mood of Hongkongers born in mainland China has consistently been better than those born in the city, a survey has found. The Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (PORI) released the results of its latest public sentiment index on Tuesday. The poll, which has been conducted since 1992, aims to quantify Hongkongers’ sentiments in […]

By Sam Davies and Matthew Walsh The splash of young athletes hitting the water and the cries of encouragement from coaches echo through a Beijing swimming pool, where the next generation of Chinese diving champions is being trained. China completed a clean sweep of all eight Olympic diving gold medals in Paris on Saturday — […]

Hong Kong prosecutors have dropped charges against four prison service officers over an alleged gang rape of a woman in a party room last year because the complainant will not testify. Prosecutors on Monday applied to withdraw the rape charges against four grade two assistant officers of the Correctional Services Department (CSD) as the case […]

The Hong Kong government has expressed its endorsement of a top court decision which rejected a bid by prominent democrats to overturn their convictions for knowingly taking part in an unauthorised assembly on August 18, 2019. After the Court of Final Appeal handed down its judgement on Monday, a government spokesperson said later that evening […]

China celebrated one of its best Olympic performances on Tuesday, while state media attempted to score political points from the golden haul won by its athletes at the Paris Games. Team China racked up 40 gold medals in Paris, level with the United States, in their best performance at an overseas Olympics. However, it trailed […]

Around 400 establishment figures are set to elect Macau’s new leader on October 13, with a new law requiring candidates to be vetted for their political stance. Each must also sign a declaration of allegiance to Beijing, as well as to the Special Administrative Region. The Macau government on Monday announced the date after Sunday’s […]

Sub-divided homes in Hong Kong should measure no less than 7 square metres, the pro-Beijing DAB party has proposed, as the government mulls new measures to eradicate “low-quality sub-divided flats.” Vincent Cheng, legislator for the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), said during a Monday press conference that his party […]

The average waiting time for Hong Kong’s public rental housing has dropped to 5.5 years for general applicants, according to the latest government figures, as authorities continued to crack down on tenancy abuse. The Housing Authority on Monday said the average waiting time for a public rental unit in the past 12 months had dropped […]

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The Hong Kong government has warned residents travelling to Japan to stay alert after the country issued a “megaquake” advisory in response to a 7.1 magnitude tremor last Thursday. In a Chinese statement issued on Monday afternoon, the government noted that it was currently the summer holiday season and Japan was among Hongkongers’ favourite travel […]

Pacific nation Kiribati will begin voting in a general election this week, a poll that will test the strengthening ties between China and the government of the climate-threatened archipelago. The vote on Wednesday in tiny Kiribati — a country of scattered atolls and islands — has the potential to stir ripples across the South Pacific. […]

A 20-year-old Hong Kong man has been jailed for eight weeks over his involvement in an unlawful demonstration at a shopping mall in June 2020. Student Isaac Lee was put behind bars by Magistrate Edward Wong on Monday, after pleading guilty last month to taking part in an unlawful assembly in Kwun Tong’s apm mall […]

China on Monday urged all sides in the Ukraine war to de-escalate as Kyiv’s forces pierced deep into Beijing ally Russia’s Kursk border region. Kyiv has deployed thousands of troops to the surprise operation, a Ukrainian security official told AFP, seizing the battlefield initiative after months of slow Russian advances across the east. The assault […]

Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy figures Martin Lee, Margaret Ng, Jimmy Lai, Albert Ho, Lee Cheuk-yan, “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung and Cyd Ho have lost an appeal to overturn their convictions for knowingly taking part in an unauthorised assembly on August 18, 2019. The Court of Final Appeal delivered its verdict on Monday, after hearing the […]

Hong Kong leader John Lee has lauded the historic performance of the city’s athletes at the Paris Olympics, as the 33rd edition of the Games came to an end. “Hong Kong athletes have demonstrated their extraordinary capability at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games and achieved historic results by capturing two gold medals and two bronze […]