2022 is shaping up to be a brutal year in Singapore as the authorities ramp up the speed of executions. Four men have already been hanged this year for drug offences — if not for last-ditch court a…

The US State Department has listed Hong Kong as one of the places where Americans are at risk of wrongful detention as it introduces a new risk indicator for its travel advisories. Travellers arriv…

Hong Kong’s equality watchdog has said it is seeking to mediate between a male secondary school student and their school, after the teenager complained that they were pressured into cutting their long hair. In an Instagram post on Tuesday, 17-year-old Nathan…

HSBC has become the first foreign lender in China to set up a Chinese Communist Party committee in an in-country investment banking venture, the Financial Times reported Thursday. HSBC Qianhai Secu…

Hong Kong authorities have slammed US politicians’ call for sanctions on government prosecutors presiding over court cases related to politics, condemning the move as an “unreasonable b…

My interest in the government’s quarantine and isolation policies was, I confess, academic. That is until the soft knocking on mortality’s door became louder and got the better of me.  I…

A group who applied to hang Chinese national flags on lampposts over multiple highways in Hong Kong last year will see fees totalling HK$147,000 refunded by the Highways Department, following instr…

A medical scholar has cast doubt on a government plan to “standardise” the dissemination of Covid-19 information by its panel of expert advisers. It comes after Hong Kong’s health…

A 56-year-old former childcare worker was sentenced to five months and eight weeks in jail on Friday after she pleaded guilty to abusing three children last year. Lam Mei-po, an ex-employee of Chil…

A domestic workers’ union has denounced the Macau government’s order for all Filipinos in the city to undergo daily Covid-19 tests, calling it discriminatory. Jassy Santos, the chairperson of the Progressive Labour Union of Domestic Workers in Macau, told…

Hong Kong’s school sector will see a “major shock” if the city’s equality watchdog upholds a complaint from a secondary school student over a ban on long hair, the vice-chief of a pro-Beijing teachers’ group has said. Tang Fei of the Hong Kong Federation…

Hong Kong’s annual book fair is under way, with volumes about Chinese leader Xi Jinping prominently on display at the entrance but an absence of publications on more controversial events in Beijing’s history. Crowds flocked to the opening day at the Hong…

You would think our leaders were aware that the last thing Hong Kong needs at the moment is another piece of vague, indiscriminate legislation which will provide a whole new plethora of opportuniti…

The dramatic rise in China’s economy since the 1980s has been matched by an equally dramatic rise in pollution and habitat destruction. Nobody knows this better than the millions of people in China…

By Holmes Chan As a teenager stuck in Hong Kong’s pressure-cooker school system, Eric Yip found his escape in writing poetry — never dreaming that one day his work would go on to win a …

Rows of Matchbox cars line the shelves of a nondescript shop on a busy Sham Shui Po street. A rack displays magazines of yesteryear in one corner, while commemorative MTR tickets and Ronald McDonald Happy Meal toys jostle for space in another. On a July afternoon…

A Hong Kong café known for being sympathetic to the 2019 extradition bill protests has claimed that the police asked them to remove “sensitive” items from the shop, citing potential violations of the Beijing-imposed national security law. Not One Less Coffee…

Family members of a 66-year-old man who was found unconscious in an MTR toilet and later died have raised questioned over the transit firm’s procedures and requested a full investigation. The…

Those arriving in Hong Kong can now hire designated taxis to take them to their quarantine hotels, the government has announced. Meanwhile, from Thursday, all inbound travellers will be asked to co…