Month: January 2022

A Hong Kong cabinet minister resigned on Monday for attending a birthday party alongside dozens of officials and lawmakers just days after the city's government had called on people to avoid large ... ( read original story ...)

A senior Hong Kong official resigned on Monday over his attendance at a karaoke birthday party during the city’s first Omicron variant Covid-19 outbreak. Caspar Tsui, the territory’s home affairs ... ( read original story ...)

A senior Hong Kong government official has resigned after attending a large birthday party that fueled complaints of double standards by authorities enforcing strict Covid-control measures. ( read original story ...)

When Hong Kong set a daily record of 164 Covid-19 infections last Thursday, officials were forced to confront the previously unthinkable: had the time finally come to dump the city’s “dynamic ... ( read original story ...)

A coalition of Christians and Catholics on Monday called on Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to drop charges against media tycoon Jimmy Lai and other political activists jailed or in custody under a ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Secretary for Home Affairs Caspar Tsui has resigned after he attended a birthday party for a top delegate to China’s top legislature which was ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's Secretary for Home Affairs Caspar Tsui, who recently attended the birthday party of a delegate to China's legislature, where two of the nearly 200 guests tested positive for COVID-19, ... ( read original story ...)

Overseas judges sitting in Hong Kong’s top court are not barred by their nationality from hearing controversial cases about Chinese national security, according to the city’s chief justice Andrew ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong denied that criticism of the city’s strict policy to push for zero Covid-19 cases is illegal under a sweeping national security law that has silenced dissent in the former British colony. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s government has said that discussion of the city’s Covid-19 strategy would not violate the national security law. A spokesperson said in a press release on Sunday that “making general ... ( read original story ...)

Tens of thousands of Hong Kong people are emigrating – and taking their beloved pets, as much part of the family as their children. There is booming demand for charter jets to carry emigrants, their ... ( read original story ...)

Former Hong Kong chief executive Leung Chun-ying also makes appearance at annual gathering in Beijing Chinese President Xi Jinping outlined what he referred to as last year’s national achievements, ... ( read original story ...)

Meanwhile, the government has issued a clarification that public debate over the effectiveness of its ‘zero-infection’ strategy does not violate the national security law. ( read original story ...)