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HKFP reports… The Hong Kong Women Development Association (HKWDA) said at a press conference on Monday that 98.7 per cent of respondents identified economic pressure as the biggest barrier to having children. Meanwhile, 92.7 per cent mentioned housing problems as … Continue reading →

Without informal, non-government (often missionary-run) schools on Kowloon rooftops, half of Hong Kong’s 1950s and 60s generation would have been illiterate. But today, a bookseller hosting a Spanish interest class in his store can be prosecuted… Before handing down the … Continue reading →

HKFP reports… All Hong Kong restaurant licences will include national security clauses from September, Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan has said. …According to an FEHD letter sent to restaurants, entertainment premises, and other businesses last year, business licence … Continue reading →

Flew into Hong Kong on Tuesday night. It seems I was one of 757,761 residents returning to the city at the end of the five-day weekend. That’s one in 10 of the population. Melbourne is a genuinely impressive city: a … Continue reading →

Bloomberg reports that Chinese officials have summoned the US Hong Kong consul-general… …and urged the US to immediately cease all interference in Hong Kong and Beijing’s internal affairs. The meeting followed a March 26 security alert from the US consulate … Continue reading →

From HKFP… The founder and three staff members of Hong Kong independent bookshop Book Punch have been released on bail after they were arrested by national security police over allegedly selling “seditious books.” Mark Clifford, author of one of the … Continue reading →

RTHK reports… Officials are planning to turn a typhoon shelter in southern Hong Kong into a marina equipped with recreational facilities and residential housing in a bid to promote yacht tourism. The Development Bureau on Wednesday said it expects to … Continue reading →

From HKFP… Hong Kong independent bookseller Pong Yat-ming and three of his staff have reportedly been arrested on suspicion of selling seditious titles, including a biography of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai. …Citing anonymous sources, the reports said police also … Continue reading →

The latest ramping-up of NatSec laws reduces privacy rights and the right to silence. From HKFP… Hong Kong has introduced a new offence requiring suspects in national security investigations to surrender their passwords – or face up to one year … Continue reading →

It must have been a while since the SCMP had an interesting op-ed. For a decade or more, most of the paper’s opinion pieces have been churned out by one David Dodwell, whose columns are mainly known as a highly … Continue reading →