Yearly Archives: 2024

Three HKFP stories, starting with a 14-month sentence following the first Article 23 seditious T-shirt trial… Chu Kai-pong, 27, was convicted on Monday after he pleaded guilty to one count of “doing with a seditious intention an act or acts … Continue reading →

…but just time for a quick glimpse at the Standard’s daily attempt to talk up the property market. Someone bought five apartments for more than HK$15 million at the imaginatively (putridly?) named SkyeHi in beautiful Tuen Mun in July. They … Continue reading →

After three months in jail, 27-year-old Chu Kai-pong is convicted of ‘doing acts with seditious intent’ – wearing a T-shirt… Under the new security law, the maximum sentence for the offence has been increased from two years to seven years … Continue reading →

HKFP reports on an intimidation campaign against Hong Kong news media workers… The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) said in a statement on Friday that since June, dozens of journalists have received emails and letters with defamatory content to their … Continue reading →

The decline of a semi-open political system and civil society in NatSec-era Hong Kong extends beyond pan-dem parties, activist groups and unions – it’s also affecting tycoons’ ‘think-tanks’. A Standard editorial notes the imminent closure of property scion Lau Wai-ming’s … Continue reading →

From the SCMP… A group of mainland Chinese tourists was suspected to have suffered food poisoning after developing diarrhoea and vomiting in Hong Kong, with a dozen ambulances called to take them to hospitals on Tuesday. …Photos posted online showed … Continue reading →

The US House of Representatives approves – by 413 to 3 – the HKETO Certification Act, which requires the US government to consider shutting down Hong Kong’s economic and trade offices in the US. The bill still needs to go … Continue reading →

Politics is the process by which a community decides how to govern itself through laws and policies. In an open, representative system, this involves public debate, often between factions supporting different views. In an authoritarian system, the process takes place … Continue reading →

German activist and former HKU student David Missal is turned away at Hong Kong airport after hours of questioning after flying in from… Beijing. As some are pointing out, this could be an example of ‘1 Country. 2 Systems’, in … Continue reading →

Hong Kong’s top security official is sorely vexed after the Wall Street Journal’s recent editorial on the Stand News trial… In an open letter to the Journal on Tuesday, Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung … vowed that Hong Kong … Continue reading →