Category Archives: Blog

For years after 1989, the HK Alliance were free to organize annual Tiananmen vigils, which included calls for an end to one-party rule in China. Then, in 2021, its leaders were arrested and charged with inciting subversion under the NatSec … Continue reading →

Some stats from a contributor here. A quarter of Hong Kong’s population is over 65. It’s amazing things are still ticking over. Joel Chan at Numberwang goes into detail… Looking back in time, the population has hovered around 7.5 million … Continue reading →

Hong Kong’s population reaches 7.58 million – a 0.3%/19,400 increase year on year. After some 30,000 births and 50,000 deaths, that means a net inflow of around 40,000… The government spokesman said that various measures to attract talent and import … Continue reading →

A thorough HKFP account of Hong Kong’s clampdown on bookstores, which seems to be expanding into a broader official fear of books imported from Taiwan… This year alone, staff from four bookstores were arrested by national security police. In March, … Continue reading →

From the HK Uncensored Substack… A hard-hitting Observer investigation by Danny Vincent reveals the extraordinary lengths Hong Kong’s authorities have gone to keep Jimmy Lai isolated — clearing entire floors of Stanley Prison to cut him off from other inmates. … Continue reading →

Spent yesterday morning getting my first proper physical in a decade at a place in Central. They must do dozens of people every day – a three-hour long conveyor belt of form-filling, examinations and tests, plus some waiting in between.  … Continue reading →

Lingua Sinica examines the links between pro-Beijing media outlets attacking the HK Journalists Association last week… Without evidence, and in remarks that seemed a clear public setup stemming from the Wen Wei Po question [at a press conference on a … Continue reading →

Desmond Shum tweet on Beijing’s tax clampdown on offshore wealth… Article 11 states that even someone who has obtained foreign nationality or permanent or long-term residence overseas may still be deemed a Chinese domiciled tax resident if his or her … Continue reading →

The Court of Appeal allows 11 of the HK47 – convicted of ‘conspiracy to commit subversion’ over the 2020 pan-dem primary elections – to go to the Court of Final Appeal… The defendants feature some of Hong Kong’s most prominent … Continue reading →

Lingnan University Students Union – founded in 1967 – decides to dissolve. The only student unions still active are at City U and HKUST, plus a couple of Chinese U’s colleges.  One of the few remaining prominent and critical civil-society … Continue reading →