Trading in shares of Next Digital, the parent company of Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, has been suspended at the company’s request, the operator of the Hong Kong stock exchange announced on Monday. The government’s Security Bureau…

Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai and nine other veteran democrats pleaded guilty on Monday to their roles in an unauthorised mass protest on China’s National Day in 2019. The 73-…

Hong Kong has suspended a planned quarantine-free travel bubble with Singapore for the second time and tightened controls on entry from Taiwan as it tries to fend off a surge in cases in the region. A spokesperson for the Hong Kong government said on Monday…

Hong Kong employees of websites based overseas will be liable to arrest if their bosses fail to remove doxxing data from the platforms, under a new legal amendment to criminalise the malicious publishing of personal data, Secretary for Constitutional Affairs…

Hong Kong’s leader has refused to comment on reports that authorities will crack down on the city’s annual candlelight vigil for victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, adding th…

Hong Kong has suspended the operation of its Economic, Trade and Cultural Office in Taiwan. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the government said it “will continue to handle general enquiries and requests for assistance made by Hong Kong residents in Taiwan”…

The new leader of Hong Kong’s more than 400,000 Catholics says the church will adopt a position of “passive co-operation” in politics as the city grapples with the fall-out from months of protest and the imposition of a wide-ranging national security law…

Hong Kong protest coalition leader Figo Chan and five other pro-democracy figures have been remanded in custody pending sentencing for organising an unauthorised National Day assembly in 2019. Figo…

A top officer in the highly sensitive national security department of the Hong Kong police force who was found inside an unlicensed massage parlour during an anti-vice raid by colleagues has been cleared of wrongdoing after an internal police investigation.…

Hong Kong’s public broadcaster RTHK has denied replacing an episode of a TV documentary series about the proposed shake-up of the city’s electoral system following local media reports t…

A chronic shortage of doctors has prompted Hong Kong health chiefs to propose a new pathway for non-locally trained doctors to be cleared to work in the city’s public healthcare sector. Offic…

There was an interesting interview last week with Mr Lo Kin-hei, who currently occupies the most perilous political post in Hong Kong – he is the chairman of the Democratic Party. In that capacity he spends a good deal of time visiting fellow-members in prison…

Activists who have fled overseas since the imposition of the national security law may become “disposable” in the eyes of their host nations when they no longer have political value, Hong Kong’s Secretary for Security John Lee has warned. “International relations…

The first person to be charged under Hong Kong’s national security law will not be allowed a trial by jury, the High Court has ruled, rejecting a defence application for a judicial review to challenge a decision by the Department of Justice. In a ruling handed…

A Hong Kong pro-democracy politician has announced he is giving up politics as he expects a long prison term under the national security law and other charges. Former lawmaker Eddie Chu has decided…

Hong Kong’s unemployment rate has fallen from 6.8 per cent to 6.4 per cent in the past three months as the Covid-19 pandemic eased, government figures show. Provisional figures from the Census and Statistics Department released on Thursday show around 7,900…

A Hong Kong High Court judge has rejected an application for a judicial review of the government’s mammoth “Lantau Tomorrow Vision” project, a controversial plan to create artificial islands east of Lantau for housing and business. “The question on whether…

The Peninsula Hotel has announced that its staff will receive a cash bonus and paid holidays if they get vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of August. Employees at the five star hotel will be entitled to a HK$2,000 cash bonus and two days of paid leave…

Two Hong Kong pro-democracy activists have been disqualified from holding their elected political offices after the government gazetted a law requiring oaths of loyalty from the city’s district councillors on Friday. Tiffany Yuen and Lester Shum – who represented…

Hong Kong suspended the operation of its representative office in Taipei because of what it described as “gross interference” in SAR affairs by the Taiwan government and to protect its staff from threats to their safety on the island. In a strongly worded…