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The Hong Kong Observatory has issued a T3 storm warning as Super Typhoon Yinxing edged closer to the coast of southern China. The Strong Wind Signal No. 3 was raised at 3.40 pm on Saturday and was expected to remain in force until at least Sunday morning. “Winds are expected to strengthen gradually, with winds […]

China on Friday passed a new energy law to promote carbon neutrality, state media reported, as Beijing moves ahead with its pledge to decarbonise its economy by 2060. China is the world’s biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases scientists say drive global warming and climate change. But it is also a global leader in clean […]

Ko, a Hong Kong retiree, felt weighed down on Wednesday afternoon. His burden was the result of the US presidential election, and the reality that former Republican president Donald Trump would be returning to the White House for a second term after beating Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris. “I had a heavy heart, because Trump’s policies […]

By Isabel Kua, with Luna Lin China can buckle in for another four years of tariffs, tensions and tough talk under a second Donald Trump presidency, experts told AFP — though they said the billionaire’s openness to deals could play in Beijing’s favour. World leaders lined up to congratulate Trump on Wednesday as the former […]

A Hong Kong broadcaster has cancelled a documentary series on global conflicts after online backlash, with comments accusing it of being politically motivated in favour of Ukraine and neglecting Russia’s narrative. Scheduled as a 10-episode series, the first two instalments of TVB’s Cantonese show Planet Under Fire were broadcast on Monday and Tuesday night. They […]

No one should attempt to interfere with ongoing legal proceedings in Hong Kong, the city’s justice minister has said in response to US president-elect Donald Trump’s earlier pledge to secure the release of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai. Speaking to the press after a Hong Kong Legal Week 2024 event on Friday, Secretary for Justice […]

By Peter Catterall and Sam Davies China said on Friday lawmakers had agreed to raise the local government debt ceiling by US$840 billion, opening up new funds for its ailing economy as they eye the possibility of intensified trade tensions with US president-elect Donald Trump. Policymakers were keeping tabs on the US vote as they […]

Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca said that the head of its China operations had been detained, after reports the firm was under investigation for potentially illegal data collection and drug imports. Leon Wang, president of AstraZeneca China, “has been detained”, a representative of the firm’s global media team said in an email received by AFP on Thursday. […]

A Hong Kong court has refused bail to two police officers, who filed an appeal against their convictions and jail sentences over planting drugs and covering up surveillance cameras to frame a homeless man. The Court of Appeal on Thursday rejected bail applications from Leung Fei-pang and Pong Chun-sze, local media reported. The pair were […]

The Hong Kong Observatory will raise the T1 storm warning between noon and 3 pm on Friday as Tropical Cyclone Yinxing edges closer to the city. The forecaster said on Friday that Yinxing had entered within 800 kilometres of Hong Kong. “Under the combined effect of Yinxing and the northeast monsoon, there will be a […]

Taipei will help Taiwanese firms relocate their China-based production plants if President-elect Donald Trump carries out his threat to impose a 60 percent tariff on Chinese-made goods, the island’s economic ministry said Thursday. Trump’s victory in the US presidential election has left world leaders, business owners and stock markets grappling with the potential impact of […]

Independent Hong Kong media outlet InMedia has been fined HK$10,000 over not keeping registers of its members and directors at its Wan Chai office. InMedia was charged with two offences under the Companies Ordinance after the Companies Registry received a report on August 23 that it did not keep the relevant registers at its office […]

By Oliver Hotham Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday Beijing and Washington must find a way to “get along” in a message to US president-elect Donald Trump, state media reported. Trump’s crushing presidential victory ushers in a new era of uncertainty in the United States and the world, and heralds a possible shift in US-China […]

A Hong Kong restaurant director has said that inadequate staff training was to blame after a Paralympic athlete was barred from entering because of her wheelchair. The comments came after boccia player Ho Yuen-kei, who won two gold medals at the Paris Paralympics, said in a post on social media platform Threads on Tuesday that […]

Hong Kong police have arrested 275 people over allegedly staging traffic accidents to fraudulently claim HK$14 million in government aid for victims of road accidents. A total of 182 men and 93 women, aged 18 to 64, were apprehended between October 3 and November 1 on suspicion of staging traffic accidents and using forged medical […]

Hong Kong’s High Court has begun a retrial of an ex-professor convicted and jailed for life over murdering his wife and daughter in 2015. Khaw Kim-sun, a former associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and an anaesthesiologist from Malaysia, appeared before a seven-member jury at the High Court on Wednesday. He was […]

A former high-level Chinese government employee has been sentenced to death for leaking state secrets to a foreign power, Beijing’s spy agency said Wednesday. The individual surnamed Zhang “provided a large number of top secret and classified state secrets to foreign intelligence agencies,” the Ministry of State Security said in a post to its official WeChat […]

The Hong Kong government will introduce national security guidelines for all civil servants in the first half of 2025, the city’s security chief Chris Tang has said. The guidelines, which will be confidential, will outline how civil servants can safeguard national security in their daily duties, Tang said on Monday afternoon in the Legislative Council, […]

China said Wednesday it hoped for “peaceful coexistence” with the United States as Donald Trump neared a decisive victory over Kamala Harris in the country’s presidential election. “We will continue to approach and handle China-US relations based on the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told a […]

Donald Trump claimed victory and pledged to “heal” the country Wednesday as results put him on the verge of beating Kamala Harris in a stunning White House comeback. His exuberant speech came despite the fact that only Fox News had declared him the winner, with no other US networks having made the call so far. […]

A worker has died after falling from height while dismantling bamboo scaffolding outside a building in To Kwa Wan. The man, surnamed Lam, was removing scaffolding on the exterior of the 11th floor of Tung Nam Factory Building on Monday, where window maintenance work had just been completed, local media reported. At around 2 pm, […]

Two Beijing-backed newspapers in Hong Kong have slammed award-winning filmmaker Johnnie To, who said in an interview with BBC News Chinese that the city no longer had free speech and human rights. In an editorial published on Monday, Chinese state-backed newspaper Ta Kung Pao said To was being “unfair” to local filmmakers by simplify the […]

Myanmar’s embattled junta chief arrived in China Tuesday — his first reported visit since leading a coup in 2021 — but analysts say the invitation is only a lukewarm endorsement from his key ally and could backfire. Min Aung Hlaing was in the southwestern city of Kunming for a summit of the Greater Mekong Subregion […]

Hong Kong Free Press has been nominated for a journalistic independence prize at the 2024 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom Awards. “Despite the enactment of the National Security Law and the shutdown of numerous media in the territory, HKFP remains one of the rare media covering subjects considered taboo by Beijing, including human rights, politics, and […]