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By Holmes CHAN HONG KONG, Dec 14, 2023 (AFP) – Hong Kong police on Thursday offered HK$1 million bounties for information leading to the capture of five overseas activists accused of national security crimes, adding they would be pursued “till the end”. All five are living abroad after Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on the financial hub in 2020 to quash dissent after massive pro-democracy protests. Thursday’s bounties were the second batch […]
HONG KONG, Dec 11, 2023 (AFP) – Hong Kong’s first “patriots only” district council elections saw a turnout of 27.5 percent, the government said Monday, a record-low number for a race that had shut out all opposition candidates. The city last held district council elections at the peak of huge, sometimes violent, democracy protests in 2019, recording a historic-high 71 percent turnout that delivered a landslide victory for the democracy camp. But a clampdown on […]
By Xinqi SU HONG KONG, Dec 10, 2023 (AFP) – Polls opened in Hong Kong’s first “patriots only” district council election on Sunday, with officials dismissing concerns of potentially low turnout in a race that has shut out all opposition candidates after a national security crackdown. The previous election was held at the peak of the huge, sometimes violent, democracy protests in 2019, and recorded a historic-high 71 percent turnout — delivering a landslide victory […]
HONG KONG, Dec 1, 2023 (AFP) – A Hong Kong journalist group said Friday it was “very concerned” about the safety of an award-winning defence reporter who was reportedly missing after attending a security forum in Beijing. Minnie Chan, a reporter with Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post (SCMP) specialising in defence and diplomacy issues in China, “became unreachable” after visiting Beijing to cover the Xiangshan Forum in late October, Japanese news agency Kyodo said, […]
HONG KONG, Nov 29, 2023 (AFP) – Hong Kong authorities charged a 26-year-old man with sedition on Wednesday after police allegedly found “seditious wording” on a shirt he wore and on flags in his possession. China has tightened its grip on Hong Kong after the finance hub was rocked by huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests in 2019. The following year Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on the city to quell dissent. Local […]
HONG KONG, Oct 30, 2023 (AFP) – Four former student leaders of a Hong Kong university were jailed for two years Monday for inciting others to wound police after they “glorified” a knife attack on an officer, said a judge. On July 1, 2021, a man stabbed and wounded a police officer in a busy shopping district before taking his own life in what authorities called an act of “domestic terrorism”. Several days later, […]
By Xinqi SU and Holmes CHAN HONG KONG, Oct 25, 2023 (AFP) – Hong Kong leader John Lee used his policy address on Wednesday to sound the alarm on the threat of “soft resistance” — a vague term used by Chinese politicians to signal a new chapter in their crackdown against dissent. The phrase has no clear definition nor is it included in the city’s laws, but this week it appeared in a guilty verdict […]
HONG KONG, China, Oct 9, 2023 (AFP) – Asian finance hub Hong Kong halted trading at its stock exchange on Monday and closed schools, after Typhoon Koinu generated torrential rainfall overnight. Koinu — which caused one death in Taiwan last week — had weakened into a severe tropical storm by Monday, said the Hong Kong Observatory, as it moved toward the coastal areas of China’s Guangdong province. The storm caused non-stop rain overnight, leading the […]
HONG KONG, Oct 8, 2023 (AFP) – Hong Kong issued its third-highest storm warning signal on Sunday, prompting the closure of some transport services and schools, as Typhoon Koinu skirted the financial hub, bringing rains and powerful gusts. Koinu comes just a month after the financial hub was lashed by Typhoon Saola, which triggered Hong Kong’s highest “T10” storm alert. A week after that, the city experienced its highest rainfall in nearly 140 years, flooding […]
HONG KONG, Oct 6, 2023 (AFP) – A Hong Kong man was sentenced to jail on Friday after importing “seditious” children’s books that portrayed the city’s democracy supporters as sheep defending their village from wolves. Following massive democracy protests in the Chinese city in 2019, authorities have revived a colonial-era sedition offence to jail dozens of residents, which critics have decried as political suppression. Finance company worker Kurt Leung, 38, was sentenced to four months […]
By Xinqi SU HONG KONG, Sept 29, 2023 (AFP) – Hong Kong unionist Joe Wong had applied for permission to hold a Labour Day march, but cancelled his request to police in an abrupt U-turn after he briefly went missing. He cannot reveal what led to the change of heart, a result of a confidentiality clause in a sweeping national security law Beijing imposed on Hong Kong in 2020 to quell dissent. Three years after […]
HONG KONG, Sept 22, 2023 (AFP) – Crypto investor Jenny first learned about digital assets at a Hong Kong store that promoted cryptocurrency exchange JPEX in March — but by September she was among more than 2,000 “inexperienced” victims police said the platform had defrauded. “Many of my classmates and friends went all in with our investments,” Jenny — not her real name — who lost “six figures” in Hong Kong dollars, told reporters. “We […]
