Zheng Lian Mr. Lian is a former chief editor of the Hong Kong Economic Journal. Protesters in a shopping mall in Hong Kong on FridayCredit...Anthony Wallace/Agence France-Presse — The coronavirus ... ( read original story ...)
Abducted Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee opens Taiwan shop
Part-owner of shop that used to sell texts critical of China opens new business in Taipei ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong dissident reopens bookshop in Taiwan, defying Beijing
A Hong Kong publisher previously detained by Chinese authorities reopened his bookstore in Taiwan on Saturday, defying what he called attempts linked to Beijing to intimidate him. The opening of Lam W ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus latest: Hong Kong police refuse to allow May 1 protest march
So far, the city has taken plasma donations from seven recovered patients, and is screening about 10 other potential donors. Hong Kong police rejected an application to hold a demonstration on May 1, ... ( read original story ...)
China prosecutes first foreign suspect for Hong Kong violence
According to prosecutors, the man gave a large amount of money to "hostile elements" in the United States and "colluded with foreign anti-China forces" to intervene in Hong Kong affairs. ( read original story ...)
One country, one system: The week that China shredded its promise on Hong Kong
With the world distracted by coronavirus, Beijing’s intervention this past week fundamentally realigns the political status of the former British colony. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong students take entrance exams despite worries
Face masks on and pencils sharpened, thousands of students in Hong Kong took university entrance exams Friday (April 24) - at a distance. They sat for the long-awaited test - at tables six feet apart. ( read original story ...)
Who’s Making Hong Kong’s Ubiquitous Face Masks? Prisoners, Among Others.
To ensure that city workers have enough surgical masks, an army of inmates works around the clock for pennies. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong being watched ‘closely’ over activist arrests, says UN
The human rights watchdog UNHCR reminds the territory that charges against prominent pro-democracy figures have not gone unnoticed ... ( read original story ...)
China To Prosecute Belize National For Hong Kong ‘Interference’
A Belize national detained in China will be prosecuted on charges of colluding with foreign forces in protest-wracked Hong Kong and funding "hostile elements in the United States", Chinese authorities ... ( read original story ...)
Masked Hong Kong Students Take Final School Exams After Coronavirus Delay
The Diploma of Secondary Education examination was given the go-ahead with a four-week delay as the number of new coronavirus cases has fallen, though social-distancing measures remain in place ... ( read original story ...)
Beijing clamps down on Hong Kong under cover of coronavirus
When China and the UK were negotiating the handover of Hong Kong in the 1980s, Martin Lee helped to write the legal framework that would underpin the future governance of the Asian financial hub, ... ( read original story ...)
China’s coronavirus cases may have been 4 times what officials reported, Hong Kong study finds
A study by Hong Kong researchers, according to The Guardian, is claiming China's c cases may have been four times what officials reported. ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus may have emptied Hong Kong’s streets, but the pro-democracy protests continue
Hong Kong’s rules on social distancing and prohibitions on group gatherings have rendered mass mobilization impossible. Has the pro-democracy movement receded? No — that’s the short answer. Protesters ... ( read original story ...)