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The signage of Hong Kong’s Final Court of Appeal is seen at the court in Hong Kong Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Hong Kong’s top court on Monday (August 12, 2024) upheld the convictions of seven of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy activists over their roles in one of the biggest anti-government…
Diplomacy for a semi-autonomous city is tricky business. Do you woo investors, dispel democratic anxieties, or crack down on dissent? If you are John Lee Ka-chiu, you do it all, and you do it without mincing words. Last year, during the “Hello Hong Kong” campaign, the city’s Chief Executive was seen gesturing his arms open,…
Photo of Zheng Zeguang, Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Britain’s foreign ministry has summoned the Chinese ambassador after three men were charged with spying for Hong Kong, the Telegraph newspaper reported on May 14. The ambassador will be challenged by officials over the allegations that three men had assisted Hong Kong’s foreign intelligence service…
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On March 19th, the Hong Kong government passed a new national security law that has been criticised by several Western countries and rights groups The Safeguarding National Security law revises the existing regulations and penalties, and adds five new categories of offences — treason, insurrection, espionage and theft of state secrets, sabotaging national security, and…
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The announcement comes after US’ annual review of Hong Kong’s autonomy (Representational) Washington: The United States announced on Friday that it was “taking steps” to put fresh visa curbs on Hong Kong officials responsible for cracking down on rights in the Chinese city, days after a new national security law came into force. In a…
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A lawmaker holds a copy of the proposed Safeguarding National Security Bill during the second reading of the Basic Law Article 23 legislation at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, on March 19, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Hong Kong lawmakers unanimously approved a new national security law on March 19 that grants the government…
Around 390,000 of Hong Kong’s 7.5 million people are Catholic. File. | Photo Credit: AFP The Catholic Church in Hong Kong said on March 15 that confessions by devotees to priests would remain confidential under the city’s upcoming national security law. Hong Kong is fast-tracking a homegrown national security law, following the one Beijing imposed…
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Both babies seemed to be less than a year old. A cleaner discovered two dead baby boys in glass bottles in the living room of an abandoned rented Hong Kong flat on Saturday, as per a report in Fox News. A man and a woman, who are believed to be the parents of the two…
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Hong Kong on Friday introduced the draft Bill of a new national security law that includes life sentences for major offences such as treason and insurrection. The home-grown legislation is set to become the city’s second national security law, following the one Beijing imposed in 2020 after quashing huge and sometimes violent democracy protests. The…
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Tam Tak-chi, one of the 47 pro-democracy Hong Kong activists. File | Photo Credit: AP Criticizing laws or chanting anti-government slogans can be enough to jail someone for sedition in Hong Kong, an appeal court ruled Thursday in a landmark case brought under a colonial-era law increasingly used to crush dissent. Hong Kong’s Court of…
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