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Hong Kong’s High Court has begun a retrial of an ex-professor convicted and jailed for life over murdering his wife and daughter in 2015. Khaw Kim-sun, a former associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and an anaesthesiologist from Malaysia, appeared before a seven-member jury at the High Court on Wednesday. He was […]

A former high-level Chinese government employee has been sentenced to death for leaking state secrets to a foreign power, Beijing’s spy agency said Wednesday. The individual surnamed Zhang “provided a large number of top secret and classified state secrets to foreign intelligence agencies,” the Ministry of State Security said in a post to its official WeChat […]

The Hong Kong government will introduce national security guidelines for all civil servants in the first half of 2025, the city’s security chief Chris Tang has said. The guidelines, which will be confidential, will outline how civil servants can safeguard national security in their daily duties, Tang said on Monday afternoon in the Legislative Council, […]

China said Wednesday it hoped for “peaceful coexistence” with the United States as Donald Trump neared a decisive victory over Kamala Harris in the country’s presidential election. “We will continue to approach and handle China-US relations based on the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told a […]

Donald Trump claimed victory and pledged to “heal” the country Wednesday as results put him on the verge of beating Kamala Harris in a stunning White House comeback. His exuberant speech came despite the fact that only Fox News had declared him the winner, with no other US networks having made the call so far. […]

A worker has died after falling from height while dismantling bamboo scaffolding outside a building in To Kwa Wan. The man, surnamed Lam, was removing scaffolding on the exterior of the 11th floor of Tung Nam Factory Building on Monday, where window maintenance work had just been completed, local media reported. At around 2 pm, […]

Two Beijing-backed newspapers in Hong Kong have slammed award-winning filmmaker Johnnie To, who said in an interview with BBC News Chinese that the city no longer had free speech and human rights. In an editorial published on Monday, Chinese state-backed newspaper Ta Kung Pao said To was being “unfair” to local filmmakers by simplify the […]

Myanmar’s embattled junta chief arrived in China Tuesday — his first reported visit since leading a coup in 2021 — but analysts say the invitation is only a lukewarm endorsement from his key ally and could backfire. Min Aung Hlaing was in the southwestern city of Kunming for a summit of the Greater Mekong Subregion […]

Hong Kong Free Press has been nominated for a journalistic independence prize at the 2024 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom Awards. “Despite the enactment of the National Security Law and the shutdown of numerous media in the territory, HKFP remains one of the rare media covering subjects considered taboo by Beijing, including human rights, politics, and […]

Hong Kong has experienced its hottest October since records began in 1884, with the city’s Observatory recording an average temperature of 27.3 degrees Celsius for the month, 1.6 degrees higher than normal. “Mainly attributable to the weaker northeast monsoon over southern China, October 2024 was much warmer than usual in Hong Kong,” the Observatory said […]

Hong Kong will impose security screenings in magistrate court buildings, the Judiciary has said following a man’s attempted knife attack on a judge in a courtroom. The Judiciary said in a statement on Monday night that it would strengthen security measures from Tuesday, including by introducing screenings and increasing manpower, in magistrate courts. Police will […]

A Taiwanese radio host and his wife have been charged with receiving $2.3 million from “overseas sources” including China in exchange for attempting to influence the island’s elections and referendums. The man surnamed Chang and the woman surnamed Hung were charged Monday with violating Taiwan’s anti-infiltration law, the district prosecutors’ office in southern Chiayi city […]

A Hong Kong legal body has issued warning letters to lawyers linked to a defunct fund set up to help protesters arrested during the 2019 protests. In a Chinese statement on Monday, Law Society of Hong Kong President Roden Tong said the group had completed an investigation into 16 lawyers in relation to the 612 […]

Fewer Hong Kong primary school students have reached basic levels in Chinese, English and maths for the second consecutive year, according to a citywide assessment, with the figures dropping to a 20-year low. The Education Bureau on Monday said it had received the 2024 Territory-wide System Assessment (TSA) report from the Hong Kong Examinations and […]

The Hong Kong government should display baby photos in its offices to create an “atmosphere” that would encourage civil servants to have children, a lawmaker has suggested. Hong Kong authorities should combat the city’s record-low birth rate by boosting the birth-giving sentiment among government employees, legislator Bill Tang said at the Subcommittee to Study Population […]

A man has been arrested after charging towards a magistrate in a Hong Kong courtroom while wielding a knife. Police said on Monday that the incident took place at the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts in the morning, when a man seated in the public gallery in an eighth-floor courtroom charged towards the magistrate while taking […]

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will travel to key ally China this week, both countries said Monday, in his first known trip there since seizing power in a 2021 coup. China is a major ally and arms supplier of the junta and analysts say Beijing also maintains ties with Myanmar ethnic armed groups which […]

By Mary Yang China’s top lawmakers gathered Monday to hash out a major stimulus package that analysts say could grow even bigger if former US president Donald Trump wins the White House this week. Beijing has in recent months heeded calls to step up support for the economy after years of inaction, announcing a raft […]

Former lawmaker Shiu Ka-chun has revealed a cancer diagnosis after undergoing surgery to remove half of his stomach. The pro-democracy ex-lawmaker, who was convicted of public nuisance-related charges related to the 2014 Umbrella Movement and jailed for eight months in April 2019, revealed his stomach cancer diagnosis on Sunday. In a social media post, the […]

Three Hong Kong men have been jailed for 28 days over firing water guns at police and reporters from local broadcaster TVB during a Thai water festival last year. A magistrate judge sentenced Tsang Wai-shing, Ip Ka-kin and Yuen Tsz-kin at Kowloon City Magistrates’ Court on Friday. They were earlier found guilty of assaulting a […]

Tens of thousands of Tung Chung residents were left without water on Sunday night, with the Water Supplies Department (WSD) racing to fix a 1.2 metre diameter burst pipe. The supply is expected to resume on Monday morning. At least ten housing estates, hotels and a hospital were affected as a section of Lantau’s Cheung […]

The chief of Hong Kong’s correctional services has said the department would not be intimidated by threats of violence, after an officer was attacked outside a prison by a group of men with triad links. Commissioner of Correctional Services Wong Kwok-hing on Sunday visited a prison officer who had been hospitalised after being attacked outside […]

Taiwan said it detected 37 Chinese fighter jets, drones and other aircraft near the self-ruled island on Sunday as Beijing carried out “long-distance” training flights. China has ramped up military activity around Taiwan in recent years as Beijing pressures Taipei to accept its claims of sovereignty over the island. The Chinese aircraft were spotted from […]

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will visit China next week, Beijing said Friday. The visit will take place from Monday to Thursday, Beijing’s foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said at a regular press briefing. Anwar was elected in 2022 and has visited China twice since then, describing the country as “a great friend” as he […]