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Hong Kong migrant worker groups on Saturday criticised plans to make coronavirus vaccines compulsory for all foreign domestic helpers, labelling the move "discriminatory and unjust". Health officials ... ( read original story ...)

Facing an exodus of journalists and with programmes pulled because of Beijing’s security law, Hong Kong’s public broadcaster has turned to an unlikely quarter for help in filling primetime evening ... ( read original story ...)

Ten months since Beijing’s imposition of its national security law on Hong Kong, press freedom in the SAR is increasingly under threat while there are fears that another new law will allow the ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s young people have grown more pessimistic about the city’s future, and more of them wanted to emigrate if possible, according to a latest survey.The poll, commissioned by the Lions Club and ... ( read original story ...)

Jailed Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong pleaded guilty alongside three others on Friday to joining a banned candlelight vigil for victims of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown. At a pre-trial ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was among four people who pleaded guilty on Friday of participating in an illegal assembly on June 4 last year to commemorate the 1989 crackdown on protesters ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong eased restrictions on Thursday at restaurants and bars where staff and customers have begun receiving coronavirus vaccinations, part of an effort to help businesses hurt by the pandemic ... ( read original story ...)

I stood in line alongside an aide to Tam Tak-chi, both of us readying to meet with the imprisoned political activist at the Hong Kong prison complex where he is being held. As Tam’s assistant waited ... ( read original story ...)

Lam is hosting her own show, "Get to Know the Election Committee Subsectors,” that will air four times a day on the public broadcaster. ( read original story ...)

Government-owned broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong said it would air Lam's daily show to "engender a sense of citizenship and national identity." ... ( read original story ...)

People drink at a bar in Hong Kong's Lan Kwai Fong before bars, nightclubs and other entertainment venues are set to close at midnight in response to a renewed rise in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ... ( read original story ...)

Officials in Hong Kong will soon be able to block people from entering or leaving the territory, raising concerns over the possibility of mainland Chinese-style "exit bans" being used to prevent ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong journalist Bao Choy won an award for her investigative work. The next day, that very same work saw her convicted of breaking the city's laws. ( read original story ...)

The British government said on March 19 that it had received some 27,000 applications from Hong Kongers seeking to resettle in the U.K., and the Home Office anticipates “between 123,000 and 153,700 BN ... ( read original story ...)