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The party was in full swing at 11pm. Carrying a large bag of leaflets, Kit entered a gay bar in Hong Kong’s Sheung Wan, maneuvered through the crowd of people drinking and socialising, and handed out free packs, each containing a condom, lubricant and an information card about preventing HIV.  “Thank you! These free condoms […]

Hong Kong writer Sa’diyya Nesar was born with muscular myopathy, a condition that weakens her muscles and forces her to use a wheelchair for most daily activities. The condition can be life-threatening, particularly during childhood. Her muscular weakness would frequently escalate a common flu into pneumonia because she struggled to breathe or cough properly. At […]

Turning heads as they cruise past office buildings and malls, driverless taxis are slowly spreading through Chinese cities, prompting both wariness and wonder. China’s tech companies and automakers have poured billions of dollars into self-driving technology in recent years in an effort to catch industry leaders in the United States. Now the central city of Wuhan […]

Even with two electric fans whirring, retired janitor Chun Loi was sweating profusely in her windowless, one-room flat that swelters during Hong Kong’s humid summer. Her 50-square-foot room is partitioned with well-worn planks from four other small rooms, commonly known as sub-divided units. It is a sweaty but low-cost option that has proliferated across Hong […]

Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation has reported a net profit of HK$6 billion for the first half of this year, an almost 45 per cent year-on-year increase thanks to a recovery in ridership and growth in property income. The number of passengers rose 4.1 per cent to 957 million people in the first six months of […]

A domestic worker who accused her ex-employer of raping her two years ago had initiated sex with him before the alleged incident, a lawyer representing the accused has said. The trial of Swedish businessman Patrik Tobias Ekstrom, 36, continued at the High Court on Friday. He is accused of one count of rape and one […]

Hong Kong welcomed over 3.9 million visitors in July, according to provisional figures, a 9 per cent increase compared to same month last year. Mainland China continued to be the city’s largest source market, with 80 per cent of visitor arrivals from across the border, the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) announced on Thursday. The […]

China supports a plan by Myanmar’s junta to hold fresh elections and return the conflict-torn country to a “democratic transition”, Beijing’s foreign minister said Friday. The Southeast Asian country has been in turmoil since the military deposed the government of Aung San Suu Kyi and seized power in 2021. The coup upended a ten-year experiment […]

Hong Kong’s Immigration Department has arrested three tourists from mainland China on suspicion of working illegally as photographers in the city. Two women and a man, aged 25 to 30, were arrested by immigration officers on Wednesday and Thursday, over allegedly providing photography services in Hong Kong illegally. In a press briefing held on Friday, […]

The chief editor of Hong Kong’s Ming Pao has urged columnists to be “prudent” and “law-abiding” when writing for the newspaper, warning that if they were not, “crisis may come.” Barrister and Ming Pao columnist Senia Ng on Thursday posted a note sent by chief editor Lau Chung-yung on social media. “For Ming Pao to […]

China announced Friday it will begin screening people and goods entering the country for mpox over the next six months, just two days after the World Health Organization declared the virus a global health emergency. People travelling from countries where virus outbreaks have occurred, who have been in contact with mpox cases or display symptoms […]

A lawyer representing a Swedish businessman accused of raping his domestic worker has said she told a “pack of lies” to a Hong Kong court. The trial of Patrik Tobias Ekstrom, 36, continued at the High Court on Thursday. He is accused of one count of rape and one count of non-consensual buggery over an […]

A group representing Hong Kong architects has appealed to the government to speed up capital works projects and outsource more work to compensate for a dearth of jobs and widespread layoffs in the construction sector. “The local architectural practices are undoubtedly facing an extremely difficult time and some of them are already at the tipping […]

A UK charity that advocates for British nationals imprisoned overseas has rejected pressure to oust British judge David Neuberger as a trustee over his role in rejecting an appeal by media tycoon Jimmy Lai. Lai, who founded the Apple Daily newspaper and is a UK national, has been detained since December 2021 for allegedly violating […]

A UK judge who was among a panel who denied media tycoon Jimmy Lai and six other democrats an appeal over a 2019 protest on Monday has withdrawn from his position on an advisory board to an international press freedom NGO. David Neuberger – an Overseas Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal – […]

Hong Kong has seen the birth of its first-ever giant panda twins. Ocean Park’s Ying Ying gave birth to a male and female on Thursday, one day before her 19th birthday, the park announced in a press release. Ocean Park chair Paulo Pong said in the Thursday statement that they were thrilled with the new […]

Kiribati’s pro-China president retained his parliamentary seat in a landslide, according to the first results on Thursday of an election that hinged on worries about the cost of living, rising sea levels and closer ties with Beijing. Results posted by the Pacific nation’s Ministry of Culture and Internal Affairs showed Taneti Maamau won his Onotoa […]

A Hong Kong woman has been arrested for animal cruelty after police found 32 cats and one dog in her public housing flat, which reportedly measured just 200 square feet. Police arrived at the flat at midnight on Wednesday after receiving complaints of a smell and broke into the unit on the Fu Shin Estate […]

A Hong Kong police superintendent on trial for allegedly molesting a female colleague three times in a public toilet two years ago was a powerful figure akin to a “tribal chief,” a court has heard. Luk Chun-chung, 43, is on trial in the District Court on three counts of indecent assault. His lawyer, barrister Francis […]

By Isabel Kua Chinese industrial production growth slowed in July while unemployment rose, official data showed Thursday, highlighting an uneven recovery in the world’s second-largest economy despite recent government measures to try to stimulate expansion. More than a year and a half after the lifting of stringent Covid-19 measures, the much-anticipated post-pandemic recovery has been […]

A three-year-old girl in Hong Kong has died after she was hit by a tram in an accident which also injured a 66-year-old man and a six-year-old girl. The man and the two young girls were hit by an eastbound tram outside the Kennedy Town Swimming Pool at around 10.45 am on Thursday. Hong Kong […]

Hong Kong’s finance chief Paul Chan has urged big banks to do more to help small businesses, as a survey found that 74 per cent of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) see cashflow as the biggest challenge in the year ahead. Chan said he and Hong Kong Monetary Authority chiefs met representatives of major banks […]

The Hong Kong government has criticised what it called “malicious slandering” of an appeal judgement that ruled against media tycoon Jimmy Lai, and the “wanton personal vilification” of a British top-court judge by the city’s last colonial governor Chris Patten. A government spokesperson on Wednesday said Patten had ignored a 76-page ruling delivered on Monday […]

Mainland Chinese food and beverage brands have gone against the tide to expand in Hong Kong, a research NGO has said, whilst international eateries have scaled down their businesses compared to five years ago. Liber Research Community said on Tuesday that the local food and beverage sectors had seen a trend of “China progressing and […]