A Hong Kong court has sentenced pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai to five years and nine months in prison and fined him $257,000 over two fraud charges linked to lease violations ...
Hong Kong: detained press freedom symbol Jimmy Lai gets an additional 5 years and 9 months for alleged fraud
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges for the release of Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, a symbolic figure of press freedom in Hong Kong, who received today an additional 5 years and 9 months for ...
Hong Kong Cinemas Lobby for COVID Restrictions to be Scrapped Ahead of ‘Avatar 2’ Release
Cinema operators in Hong Kong are lobbying the city government to keep up with the new pandemic rules in mainland China and scrap COVID restrictions on local theaters before the release of “Avatar: ...
Hong Kong International Races take center stage in weekend horse racing
The Longines Hong Kong International Races, featuring four Group 1 events, make up the final big international meeting of 2022. Relaxed pandemic rules have brought out a powerful group of foreign ...
Hong Kong stocks notch 2%; China reports inflation data in line with expectations
China's consumer price index rose 1.6% in November on an annualized basis, while its producer price index fell 1.3%.
Loose coupling device lead to train fault, Hong Kong’s MTR finds; engineer says human error ‘unlikely’
Hong Kong Free Press. Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation (MTRC) has said a loose, European-made energy absorption device was the cause of a recent train fault that affected around 1 ...
Hong Kong child abuse scandal: ex-carer jailed for 15 months in heaviest sentence to date linked to leading charity group
Former childcare worker from Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children convicted of mistreating nine toddlers Security camera footage shows 24-year-old dragging orphan and another child by the ...
Hong Kong students and principals discuss the importance of technology in education at SCMP forum
Sponsored by Preface, the event was attended by 140 school principals and more than 30 representatives from companies and NGOs.
‘The Cartier-Bresson of the East’: Fan Ho’s Hong Kong – in pictures
Whether shooting street photography or art for art’s sake, the late Chinese artist spent a lifetime honing his evocative style
The Biggest Lesson Michelle Yeoh Learned Early in Her Career in Hong Kong
B efore Michelle Yeoh became a celebrated Hollywood star, she was an action star in the rough-and-tumble world of Hong Kong action movies. Those roles were incredibly physically demanding and could ...
Hong Kong’s plan to streamline development procedures could reduce public participation, says research group
Hong Kong Free Press. The government’s proposal to streamline development procedures would reduce public participation, a Hong Kong research group has said after the administ ...
Student departures during academic year ease at some elite Hong Kong schools, but 10 per cent rate persists amid ongoing emigration wave
Eight prominent subsidised schools reviewed by the Post saw record-high exit rates over the past three academic years 'Most of the parents eager to emigrate may have already left', according to Dion Chen,
Hong Kong stocks start with further gains
Hong Kong stocks opened slightly higher on Friday morning, building on the previous day's surge and following a healthy lead from Wall Street as
Register Hong Kong permanent residents to vote by default and allow those living in mainland China to cast ballots, pro-Beijing party says
Bid to ramp up voter numbers after lowest-ever turnout, 30.2 per cent, was recorded for directly elected seats in the Legislative Council elections last year But 'no use' boosting voter numbers, Democratic Party chairman Lo Kin-hei says,