Hong Kong's highest court sent media tycoon and outspoken Beijing critic Jimmy Lai Chee-ying back behind bars on Thursday, allowing prosecutors to appeal against his release last week on HK$10 million ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Hong Kong confirms 42 Covid-19 cases, lowest since fourth wave started, but experts warn of possible holiday spike
Hong Kong confirmed 42 new Covid-19 infections on New Year's Day, the lowest daily caseload since the start of the fourth wave about six weeks ago, but health officials and experts warned numbers ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s leaders are lackeys, says US secretary of state Mike Pompeo
Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, has described Hong Kong’s leadership as “lackeys” of a “fragile dictatorship” in Beijing who had “eviscerated freedoms” after ten activists were jailed for ... ( read original story ...)
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo calls Hong Kong’s leadership ‘lackeys’
Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, has described Hong Kong’s leadership as “lackeys” of a “fragile dictatorship” in Beijing who had “eviscerated freedoms” following the jailing of activists who ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Hong Kong confirms 42 Covid-19 cases, the lowest since fourth wave started, but experts warn of possible holiday spike
Hong Kong confirmed 42 new Covid-19 infections on New Year's Day, the lowest daily caseload since the start of the fourth wave almost six weeks ago, but health officials and experts warned more cases ... ( read original story ...)
Reshaping of Hong Kong Follows 2019’s Pro-Democracy Protests
Hong Kong endured a year of political crackdown in 2020, as the aftermath of last year’s pro-democracy protests took shape, with Beijing tightening its grip on the former British colony. The ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong national security law and Covid-19: ‘This was our 2020’, activists say as they lament change in protest mood
As the clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve 12 months ago, groups of young people who had been gathering outside Times Square in Hong Kong - many of them couples - chanted "See you in Victoria Park ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong mogul Jimmy Lai ordered into custody after release on bail
Hong Kong dissident and media mogul Jimmy Lai has been ordered back to prison, more than a week after he was freed on bail. ( read original story ...)
Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Mogul, Is Ordered Back to Jail
Mr. Lai, the most prominent figure charged under Hong Kong’s sweeping national security law, had been released on bail just days before Thursday’s hearing. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai’s Bail Has Been Revoked
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has had his bail revoked after prosecutors succeeded in asking the city’s highest court to send him back to detention. Lai had been granted bail on Dec. 23 after three ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai sent back to jail
Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has been sent back to jail after the territory’s top court rescinded his bail, in one of the highest-profile cases in the territory under ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai jailed after bail revoked
Hong Kong’s highest court has revoked media tycoon Jimmy Lai’s bail after prosecutors succeeded in asking the judges to send him back to detention ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong fourth wave: Covid-19 patient identified in housing block where coronavirus traces found in sewage, as city reports 68 new cases
A Covid-19 patient has been identified in a housing block where Hong Kong's pilot sewage surveillance scheme found traces of the coronavirus, just days after Covid-19 cases were uncovered in another ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai returned to jail until at least February
Court grants prosecutors’ request to appeal against bail order on media mogul ... ( read original story ...)