- Tens of thousands of opponents of Myanmar's February 1 military coup gathered on Sunday in towns from north to south, undeterred by the bloodiest episode of their campaign the previous day when …
- Around 200 Hongkongers received Sinovac Covid-19 jabs on Tuesday, several days before the government officially rolls out its territory-wide vaccination programme. The participants, consisting o…
- Entertainer Wu Mengda died of liver cancer today ( 27 ) at the age of 70 . Tian Qiwen, who had worked with Wu, announced Dago's death to the media : has just left us, thank you for your heart. H…
- The judge in the Yuen Long mob attack trial has criticised prosecutors for being poorly prepared as the proceedings against eight defendants get under way. The eight made their first appearance …
- Chinese University issued a statement last night that the contents of the "New Year's Eve" platform of the newly elected Cabinet of the Chinese University Students' Association did not represent…
- The Hong Kong Government today announced a new Budget in which an additional $8 billion will be allocated to cover expenditure on "maintaining national security" in the coming years. The Financi…
- The Government relaxed the social distance measures on 4 ( 18 ) last week , restarting the evening market to 10 pm and allowing 4 people to 1 table , although members of the public should use th…
- Joshua Wong, former Secretary-General of the Hong Kong Public Information Council, Ivan Lam, Chairman, and Agnes Chow, a member, pleaded guilty to three counts of inciting, organizing and partic…
- In a speech delivered today, the Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, Mr Michael Xia, stressed that in the political structure of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, thos…
- On Friday, Hong Kong launched its free mass vaccination programme, more than a year after the coronavirus pandemic began in the city. HKFP presents some basic questions and answers about the vac…
- "Hong Kong's music scene is dead", "Hong Kong's film is dead" and "Hong Kong is dead" these discussions have lingered like ghosts in recent years. A few days ago, the discussion of "Hong Kong's …
- On 18 August last year, nine people, including Martin LEE, founding chairman of the Democratic Party, Jimmy Lai, founder of Yan Media, and Margaret Ng, a former member of the Legislative Council…
- Britain will on Monday call for the United Nations to be given "urgent and unfettered" access to Xinjiang to investigate reports of abuses in the region. British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab w…
- A Hong Kong social worker jailed for a year for obstructing police at a 2019 anti-government protest has seen his conviction upheld but his sentence trimmed to eight months following a partially…
- Hong Kong will introduce new requirements for district councillors to take an oath swearing to uphold the Basic Law and pledge allegiance to the government. Those who violate their oaths will be…
- Welcome to watch the third part of the Trending Series. Today's topic is what Biden is most likely to take for the Chinese Communist Party. In addition, the U.S. and China are both down, which n…
- The Chief Secretary for Administration, Matthew Cheung, said that the Government would implement vaccinations on the basis of scientific evidence, in accordance with the principle of openness an…
- Health authorities on Wednesday ordered people who've been to a Chinese restaurant in Tsim Sha Tsui in the past week to get tested for Covid-19, after six customers there came down with the dise…
- The government says the HK$8 billion set aside in the budget for "safeguarding national security" will not be going to the office set up for this purpose, but it can't disclose any details about…
- A paralegal who bit off a policeman’s fingertip during a chaotic anti-government protest in Hong Kong in 2019 has been convicted of assault and remanded in jail ahead of sentencing after a judge…
- Twelve individuals who were previously released after refusing bail conditions have been re-arrested and charged with rioting near Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in November 2019. In t…
- Hong Kong police have lost contact with the family of the late protester known as “raincoat man” – whose yellow jacket became an icon among his comrades after he died in a fall in the early days…
- Meng, huawei's vice chairman, who is under judicial surveillance in Canada on suspicion of bank fraud in the United States, went to the High Court of Hong Kong yesterday to ask the court to orde…
- The Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Edward Yau, said in a press conference today that the Government's new Budget cut the budget expenditure of the Hong Kong and Taiwan stations…
- More than 200 people have been charged with rioting after violent clashes between police and civilians in the city in November 2019. Following the arrest and prosecution of 512 persons on riot c…
- The government says 6,000 people received their first Covid-19 vaccine shot on Friday, the first official day of Hong Kong's vaccination programme. The SAR's inoculation total now stands at 6,60…
- Baptist University has cancelled a press photography exhibition which included images of the Hong Kong protests, two days before it was expected to launch next Monday. The exhibition showcased “…
- In October last year, when demonstrators launched the "18th District Flowering", a 14-year-old girl was stopped by police after being stopped by police in Tsuen Wan and found a laser pen from he…
- The Hong Kong Bar & Club Association has again appealed to the government to allow a resumption of services, saying 70 bars closed their doors during Lunar New Year. The Association told a press…
- Yesterday (February 21) China's 31 provinces and cities and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 11 new confirmed cases, all imported from abroad; On the same day, 33 new cases we…
- Facebook on Thursday said it had banned the Myanmar military from using its Facebook and Instagram platforms with immediate effect, as weeks of mass demonstrations continue in the Southeast Asia…
- Huang Linfu, a Vietnamese male student who is one of the 12 Hong Kong people, has been remanded in custody since he was repatriated to Hong Kong late last year. The arson case in which he was in…
- President Xi Jinping has declared "complete victory" in the country’s efforts to eradicate rural poverty at a ceremony in Beijing to celebrate what has been a signature initiative of his tenure.…
- Tonight the Valley Night Horse for the Million Challenge Cup, by the out-of-form Panton's "normal heart" and the four-look Pokies "create colorful" to win the championship, "create colorful" mus…
- Hong Kong authorities enforced an overnight lockdown to conduct compulsory Covid-19 tests among residents of two buildings in San Po Kong on Tuesday evening. The first “ambush-style” lockdown po…
- The government is to raise taxes on new vehicles and increase annual licence fees in an attempt to relieve traffic congestion in Hong Kong, as it eyes phasing out the sale of petrol- and diesel-…
- Education chiefs hit back on Monday at the “malicious labelling” of national security education in Hong Kong as “brainwashing or spoon-feeding young children”, adding it was imperative to streng…
- The Legislative Council Panel on Education held a special meeting in the afternoon to discuss policies and support strategies to prevent and deal with bullying on campus. Junius Ho also suggeste…
- Police surrounded the Polytechnic University in November 2019 and netizens rescued the trapped demonstrators in the Area of Oil Point On the 18th, eventually clearing the scene and arresting a n…
- In the afternoon , the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council voted 20 in favour and 1 against the adoption of 101 million items and the Secretary for Health , Mr Chan Zhao-shi , who has r…
- Four Hong Kong pro-democracy district councillors have vowed to serve their communities “till the last moment,” after the government signalled that they will be ousted once a new oath-taking law…
- The government said on Thursday that it was putting RTHK's former Educational Television Centre up for sale, just months after the broadcaster was evicted from the site, ostensibly because anoth…
- The pro-government Legislative Council largely cheered Financial Secretary Paul Chan’s latest budget on Wednesday, though questions were raised about the effectiveness of his HK$5,000-per-reside…
- Taiwan has rejected the dependent visa application by Charles Heung Wah-keung, a pro-Beijing Hong Kong film producer, for reasons that include violating the island’s national security law and ha…
- Feb 21, 2021
