Hong Kong media guide

Hong Kong has one of the world's largest film industries and is a major centre for broadcasting and publishing. Although press freedom is enshrined in the city's Basic Law, there has been pressure on ...

Hong Kong saw hottest summer on record in 2023

The city recorded a monthly mean temperature of 29.7 degrees Celsius (85 degrees Fahrenheit) last month, the hottest August on record, according to the Hong Kong Observatory. This year also saw the third-hottest July and fourth-hottest June since records began in 1884.

L’Occitane halts trading in Hong Kong

Trading in French beauty brand L'Occitane was in Hong Kong on Monday after reports emerged that its controlling shareholder may take the company private.Bloomberg News reported in July that chairman ...

The Book Banners of Hong Kong

The Communist-leaning Ming Pao newspaper tracked 468 works with political themes and reported in May that some 40% of them had disappeared from public library shelves. Among those gone are histories of the Tiananmen Square massacre and books by Hong Kong’s pro-democracy leaders.