It was a day Alvin Chan and his partner C.P. So had never imagined possible -- tying the knot in front of cheering family and friends in Hong Kong. Apprehensive about holding a wedding ceremony in the socially conservative city a year after they signed ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Journalist Is Roughed Up and Detained by Police in Beijing
HONG KONG — A cameraman from a Hong Kong news station was roughed up and detained by the police in Beijing while trying to cover a human rights lawyer’s disciplinary hearing, the Hong Kong news media reported. Video footage shows uniformed police ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong journalist handcuffed and dragged into police van in Beijing while covering hearing of human rights lawyer Xie Yanyi
... State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office “mediated” at the request of the Hong Kong government. The incident came four days after i-Cable News journalist Chan Ho-fai was kicked and beaten by two men in mainland China’s southwestern ... ( read original story ...)
Top Hong Kong disease researchers welcome news that mainland Chinese cash will be made available to city at Xi Jinping’s instruction
Thirteen years ago, a national laboratory was launched at the University of Hong Kong to do groundbreaking research on emerging infectious diseases as the city got back on its feet from the deadly 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars). ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Steps In to Defend Its Currency Peg Again
Hong Kong stepped in to defend its currency peg for the first time in almost a month. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority mopped up HK$1.57 billion ($200 million) of local dollars overnight after the currency fell to the weak end of its trading band. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong scientists told to love China if they want state support, but leader Carrie Lam calls President Xi Jinping’s offer ‘breakthrough’
Funding that drove China’s tech rise now available to Hong Kong scientists, as Xi Jinping pledges to make city global innovation hub Xi’s move, reported by state news agency Xinhua on Monday, came in response to an appeal by 24 of Hong Kong’s leading ... ( read original story ...)
Mother on trial in Hong Kong for neglecting daughter, 7, tells court other three children were healthy and good students
A woman on trial for neglecting her seven-year-old daughter to a state of near death in 2015 told a Hong Kong court on Monday she had raised her three other children to be healthy and do well at school. Mandy Wong Wing-man, 42, also alleged for the first ... ( read original story ...)
Funding that drove China’s tech rise now available to Hong Kong scientists, as Xi Jinping pledges to make city global innovation hub
Xi’s move, state news agency Xinhua reported on Monday, was in response to an appeal by 24 of Hong Kong’s leading scientists and university professors who wrote to him last year to “express their pressing hope to make a contribution to the motherland”. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong rail chiefs admit high-speed rail link to mainland China will not always be as quick as they claimed
Hong Kong rail bosses admitted on Monday that some journeys on the city’s new high-speed rail line to Guangzhou would take longer than the promised 48 minutes, after reports they could overshoot that by as much as half an hour. The MTR Corporation’s ... ( read original story ...)
Young Hong Kong legislators found guilty over oath-taking incident
A Hong Kong court on Friday found two pro-independence activists guilty of unlawful assembly inside the legislature while they were still lawmakers, dealing a further blow to waning political dissent in the Chinese-ruled territory. Opposition leaders and ... ( read original story ...)
Two ex-Hong Kong lawmakers convicted of unlawful assembly, further sapping dissent movement
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court on Friday found two pro-independence activists guilty of unlawful assembly inside the legislature while they were still lawmakers, dealing a further blow to waning political dissent in the Chinese-ruled territory. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong should be praised by US, not dragged into trade war, Civic Party head Alan Leong says in Washington
In an unusual move, the chief of a leading Hong Kong opposition party and a vocal critic of China’s handling of the city’s affairs spoke in Beijing’s defence at a seminar in Washington over the US-initiated trade war against China. Hong Kong Civic ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Election Bans Could Extend to Candidates at District Level
Legal opinions in Hong Kong indicate that the candidacy requirements for district council elections should be the same as those set for the Legislative Council (LegCo), the Sing Tao Daily News reported on Wednesday. Prospective candidates who don't sign a ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Economy Continues to Defy Gravity
Hong Kong’s economy continues to defy gravity, for now. The world’s least-affordable property prices continue to hold up, tourism and shopping have rebounded as China’s economy hums along, and a bustling stock market that’s set to boast one of the ... ( read original story ...)