Warning: Graphic imagery. As far as Asia is concerned, the world’s news agenda is dominated at the moment by Hong Kong and Myanmar – the bail hearings for 47 Hong Kong democrats charged under the national security law and the increasingly bloody suppression…

One person has died while two others remain in critical condition after suffering serious adverse effects within days of being vaccinated against Covid-19, the Department of Health reported over th…

Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam is unable to rule out another delay to the legislative election. The news comes as China’s parliament is expected to pass a resolution on Thursday…

Hong Kong’s city-wide vaccination drive will open to seven more priority groups from Tuesday onwards, Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip announced on Monday. It means the vaccination programme will be expanded to cover 1.3 million more Hongkongers.…

A gay widower is taking the Hong Kong government to court over its refusal to recognise him as his partner’s surviving spouse. The decision prevented the widower from identifying his spouse&#…

by James Pheby British regulators on Monday imposed fines of £225,000 (US$311,000) on Chinese news network CGTN, having already revoked its licence, and upheld a further two complaints made by Hong Kong dissidents. Ofcom fined the network £100,000 over a…

Local mothers have launched a photo project in an effort to banish the stigma surrounding public breastfeeding for International Women’s Day (IWD). To mark IWD 2021 on Monday, the “#ittasteslikelove” campaign arranged a photo shoot of Hong Kong mothers breastfeeding…

A 55-year-old Hong Kong woman who passed away four days after receiving the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine did not die as a direct result of the jab, according to an expert committee investigating the adverse effects of vaccinations. A preliminary autopsy report…

Hong Kong’s top court has granted former lawmaker, “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung, leave to appeal against a judgement to send a contempt case against him for retrial, as fellow acti…

The leader of a recently-formed pro-establishment party, compromised mainly of mainland-born business and financial professionals, said on Monday that the party will take part in “every aspec…

Around 200 Hong Kong civil servants could face dismissal after they refused to declare allegiance to the Hong Kong government and sign up to a vow to uphold the Basic Law. Patrick Nip. File Photo: …

Former lawmaker Ted Hui – who fled Hong Kong in December while on court bail – has left Britain for Australia in what he has described as a bid to expand international lobbying efforts …

A local NGO has launched a service to help people remove intimate images of themselves that have been shared online without their consent. The group has also called on the government to enforce har…

UK ambassador to China Caroline Wilson has defended an article she wrote on Chinese social media arguing that an independent foreign media played a “positive role” as a watchdog for Chinese authorities. Her comments come after the Chinese foreign ministry…

A 23-year old woman and a 20-year-old man have been acquitted of charges related to protests that occurred in Wong Tai Sin and Causeway Bay respectively in 2019. Summons against a 62-year-old man have also been dismissed, after the prosecution declined to…

Hong Kong’s government has told HKFP that police will “track down” fugitive offenders, a day after ex-lawmaker Ted Hui – who jumped bail and fled to Europe last December &#8…

The percentage of people who have not shown up for their booked vaccination appointments at eight government-run community centres administering the Sinovac vaccine has more than tripled in the pas…

Eight members from the League of Social Democrats (LSD) and the Labour Party were sentenced to 14-days imprisonment and an 18-month suspended sentence by the Eastern Magistrate’s court on Wed…

A Hong Kong court has rejected one of the appeals lodged by the Department of Justice (DoJ) against the decision to grant bail to 11 of the 47 democrats charged under the national security law, whi…