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Hong Kong swimmer Siobhan Haughey has advanced to the women’s 100-metre freestyle final at the Paris Olympics, while mixed table tennis pair Doo Hoi-kem and Wong Chun-ting missed out on a medal but achieved history for the city by making it to the final four teams. Haughey qualified fastest out of 16 swimmers in the […]

Three Tiananmen vigil activists convicted over refusing to comply with a national security data demand have been granted permission to take their appeal to the city’s top court. The Court of Final Appeal heard the application for leave to appeal from Chow Hang-tung, Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong, all former standing committee members of the […]

People should stay alert as risks to national security remained despite relevant laws to safeguard the city, Hong Kong’s security chief Chris Tang has said. Speaking on Tuesday, Tang said Hong Kong had completed its constitutional responsibility of passing the city’s homegrown national security in March, as stated in Article 23 of the Basic Law. […]

The Italian Fencing Federation has filed a formal protest following Hong Kong athlete Edgar Cheung’s gold medal win at the Paris Olympic Games. Italian fencer Filippo Macchi was “denied a gold” in the men’s individual foil event after losing 14-15 to Cheung in a thrilling final on Monday night Paris time, the Italian Fencing Federation […]

Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te said Tuesday “a threat from China to any country is a threat to the world”, emphasizing to lawmakers of more than 20 countries that global democracies must unite against “authoritarian expansion”. China has in recent years stepped up military and political pressures on democratic Taiwan, which Beijing claims as part of […]

Four people died and three were missing after heavy rain and flooding hit central China’s Hunan province, state media reported on Tuesday. China is enduring a summer of extreme weather, with heavy rains battering swathes of the country and many regions enduring sweltering heat waves. The country is by far the world’s largest emitter of […]

The redesign of Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)’s emblem cost around HK$4 million, an investigation has revealed as the institution’s governing council condemned university management over the controversy. John Chai, a dentist and the chairperson of the CUHK Council, told reporters on Monday evening that the body met earlier that day to review an […]

Hong Kong Olympians Edgar Cheung and Siobhan Haughey made history on the third day of the Paris Games, with Cheung winning gold in the men’s individual foil and Haughey securing bronze in the women’s 200-metres freestyle swim. Cheung, who was defending his gold medal for the same event from the Tokyo Olympics three years ago, […]

Hong Kong is a safe and welcoming city “full of opportunities,” leader John Lee has told students at a secondary school in Laos during a tour of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in an effort to promote Hong Kong and attract talent. Lee arrived in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on Sunday afternoon, beginning […]

Detained pro-democracy activist Owen Chow has been found guilty of removing an unauthorised article from prison related to the removal of a complaint form about corrections officers. Wearing a short sleeved beige shirt, Chow appeared before Principal Magistrate Ivy Chui at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Monday. Chui found the activist and his lawyer […]

By Michael Zhang, with Peter Catterall Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni hailed China as an “important interlocutor” in managing global tensions Monday as she met President Xi Jinping. Meloni is in Beijing on her first visit to China since she took office nearly two years ago, pledging to “relaunch” ties strained by her country’s departure […]

American restaurant chain Outback Steakhouse will close nearly half of its outlets in Hong Kong, citing operational costs and “current market conditions.” The chain announced on Monday that it would shut nine of its 19 branches, with some 300 staff set to lose their jobs. Affected restaurants include outlets in Causeway Bay, Wan Chai, Tsim […]

By Léon Bruneau The foreign ministers of the United States, Japan, Australia and India on Monday expressed “serious concern” over the situation in the South China Sea in a veiled rebuke to Beijing. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his counterparts in the so-called Quad grouping issued a joint statement calling for a “free […]

Hong Kong’s hopes fall on the shoulders of Olympic medal winners swimmer Siobhan Haughey and fencer Edgar Cheung on Monday, as they prepare to compete on the third day of the Paris 2024 Olympics. Cheung, who won Hong Kong’s second-ever gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago, will be first to step up […]

The Hong Kong government has launched eight local care teams to reach out to ethnic minorities in need, with each team led by a social worker and two people from ethnic minority communities as team members. Eric Chan, the city’s chief secretary, said during a launch ceremony for the new care teams on Sunday that […]

Hong Kong authorities have launched an investigation into the operator of four green minibus routes that have allegedly been overcharging passengers. Fully Mint Limited, which manages four minibus routes in the North District, had set fares between HK$0.30 and HK$1 higher than the approved amount, a government statement published on Saturday read. “We are following […]

By Holmes Chan Three of the world’s top auction houses are racing to expand in Hong Kong, eager to woo young Asian buyers even as the global art market retreats from pandemic-era highs. In the span of two months, Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams will each see the culmination of years-long efforts to upgrade their regional […]

China’s foreign minister told his US counterpart Saturday that Beijing denies charges that it is helping Russia’s war effort in Ukraine. Wang Yi, meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the capital of Laos, also said his country would take “forceful measures” to defend Chinese interests, according to a statement from the Chinese Foreign […]

Like many migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, Mary has a lot of people counting on her and the money she sends home every month. She has two children in university, two in high school, and a baby back home in the Philippines. She supports her mother and her siblings, too. When a recent family […]

Fencer Vivian Kong has won gold in the women’s individual épée, taking team Hong Kong to the podium on the first day of the Paris 2024 Olympics. World number one Kong, 30, came from behind against home-crowd favourite Auriane Mallo-Breton of France to win 13-12, becoming only the third Hongkonger in history to clinch Olympic […]

By Rob Woollard China took the first gold of the Paris Olympics on Saturday, as the rain that dampened the opening ceremony took its toll on the first full day of sporting action. In a closely fought final of the mixed-team 10-metre air rifle, teenage duo Sheng Lihao and Huang Yuting outscored Keum Ji-hyeon and […]