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An elderly busker has been sentenced to two weeks in jail over unlicensed public performances of the protest anthem Glory to Hong Kong. Li Jiexin’s conviction on Tuesday marked the second time he had been sentenced to jail over unlicensed performances, both involving the protest song popularised at the height of pro-democracy protests in 2019. […]

Four men were allegedly held up by a group of 10 in a Hong Kong party room in the early hours of Wednesday and forced to transfer HK$110,000 to their assailants. Police have yet to make any arrests. Three men from mainland China and a Taiwanese man, aged 28 to 33, were robbed in a […]

A former Taiwanese military officer held in China for nearly five months after he was rescued by Chinese authorities during a fishing trip finally returned home on Wednesday. The angler, surnamed Hu, from Taiwan’s outlying Kinmen islands was found with a friend on March 18 by the coast guard of China’s Fujian province after the […]

The Hong Kong government has warned residents to exercise caution if they plan to visit the UK or are already in the country amid ongoing anti-immigrant riots that broke out last week. In an official statement on Tuesday evening, residents were reminded that an “Amber Outbound Travel Alert… issued against the United Kingdom was still […]

A prominent Chinese-born academic and author who feigned being a pro-democracy activist was convicted on Tuesday of acting as a covert Chinese agent, the Justice Department said. After a one-week trial, a jury convicted Shujun Wang, 75, of four counts of acting and conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government. He will […]

Olympic fencing gold medallist Vivian Kong will join the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) to promote sports development in the city, it has been announced, two days after she said she would step away from competitive sports. Raymond Tam, executive director of corporate affairs for the HKJC, said Kong would be joining the club to […]

UK parliamentarian Nigel Farage was visiting Hong Kong as unrest erupted across Britain, his team has confirmed to HKFP. The leader of the right-wing Reform UK party has been criticised for comparing the far-right, racist riots sweeping British cities to the Black Lives Matter movement. “This was an important family visit, taken whilst UK Parliament […]

China’s embassy in Beirut urged citizens to “travel with caution” should they visit Lebanon, warning they face “higher security risks” as fears of a regional conflict soar. In a statement issued Monday evening Beijing time, the embassy warned citizens the situation in the country was “grave and complex”. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the […]

Hong Kong has unveiled a new exhibition about national security, with the city’s leader John Lee citing a recent key political meeting the “third plenum” and urged vigilance against “security risks.” The exhibition, which occupies over 1,100 square metres of the Museum of History in Tsim Sha Tsui, will open to the public on Wednesday. […]

Hong Kong transport company Citybus has announced that all of its employees would receive a pay rise of at least 3.6 per cent, while full-time bus captains, engineers and other frontline staff have been guaranteed a pay rise of no less than HK$810 per month. The newly announced wage hike, together with the minimum guarantee […]

Hong Kong police have launched a probe into a suspected suicide of an officer who had sustained a gunshot wound to his head. The death marked the second suspected police suicide in less than two months. A 39-year-old man was found unconscious with a pistol next to him on grassland near Muk Min Ha Tsuen […]

China’s heavily indebted real estate giant Evergrande said Monday that it and its liquidators were seeking to recover about US$6 billion in dividends and remuneration from seven people or entities, including its founder. Evergrande was once China’s biggest real estate firm, a powerhouse in a sector that helped propel the country’s rapid economic growth during […]

A Hong Kong green minibus operator has offered refunds to passengers who were overcharged on four routes by up to HK$1 per ride between May and July. Passengers who paid more they should have for their trips on green minibus routes 501A, 501C, 501K and 501S between May 19 and July 16 may get a […]

A Hong Kong man charged over anonymous comments posted in an online forum following an attempted murder-suicide against a policeman did not intend to incite people to wound officers, a court has heard. Yung Cheong-ming, who last August pleaded not guilty to the incitement charge, appeared before Deputy District Judge Amy Chan at the West […]

Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin clinched Taiwan’s first gold of the Paris Olympics on Sunday when they beat their top-seeded Chinese opponents to retain their men’s badminton doubles title. The unseeded Taiwanese pair beat Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang 21-17, 18-21, 21-19 in an epic encounter at La Chapelle Arena, becoming the first men’s doubles […]

Hong Kong has recorded its hottest day of the year, with the Observatory logging a temperature of 35.4 degrees Celsius on Monday, following an “exceptionally hot” July. In a statement issued on Monday afternoon, the government forecaster said that “temperatures over most parts of the territory rose to 35 degrees or above, and the maximum […]

By Martin Parry Pan Zhanle and stalwart Zhang Yufei spearheaded China to 12 Olympic medals in the Paris pool, shrugging off intense scrutiny over a doping controversy that engulfed the team ahead of the Games. Their haul — two gold, three silver and seven bronze — was an improvement on their total Tokyo collection of […]

The Chinese University of Hong Kong has merged its 54-year-old politics department with two newer programmes and restructured them into an interdisciplinary school of governance amid what it said was a shortage of student intakes. Founded in 1970, the Government and Public Administration Department was officially merged into the new School of Governance and Policy […]

A Hongkonger has lodged a legal challenge against environmental authorities approval of a report that green lit a proposed 600-hectare tech hub near the city’s border with Shenzhen, which has sparked concerns over its impact on wetlands and endangered species that frequent them. Eddie Tse, a registered social worker and the convenor of the environmental […]

The Hong Kong government has recovered around 5,000 subsidised rental units which had allegedly been “misused” by “rich tenants” amid a crackdown on pubic housing abuse. Rosanna Law, director for housing, told Commercial Radio on Saturday that by taking back the units, the government had saved around HK$5 billion. “It currently costs around HK$1 million to build […]

Hong Kong’ fencer Vivian Kong, who won a gold medal at the Paris Olympics, has announced she is retiring from professional fencing. Meanwhile, controversy surrounding the athlete’s political stance has grown as some Hongkongers accused her of criticising the city’s pro-democracy movements. Kong said on social media on early Sunday morning that she had decided […]

Zheng Qinwen became the first Chinese player to win an Olympic Games tennis singles gold medal on Saturday when she defeated Croatia’s Donna Vekic in the final. The 21-year-old Zheng came through 6-2, 6-3, winning only China’s second ever tennis gold after Li Ting and Sun Tiantian’s women’s doubles triumph at Athens in 2004. Zheng’s […]

Swathes of eastern China baked under a scorching heat wave on Saturday, with temperatures in some areas reaching record highs, weather authorities said. China is enduring a summer of extreme weather, with unseasonable heat searing parts of the north and east while torrential rains have triggered floods and landslides in central and southern regions. The […]

In July, the 49th month since the Beijing-imposed national security law came into effect, court proceedings in some of the city’s most high-profile national security trials were delayed. Civil society group the Hong Kong Christian Institute announced plans to disband citing the “social environment,” and the opposition-free legislature passed a bill to transform a social […]