Hong Kong rejects US report criticising crackdown on freedoms
Hong Kong, China Reuters Hong Kong on Saturday “firmly rejected” findings in a new US Government report that said US interests had been threatened and that Beijing continued to “undermine” the rule of law and freedoms in the territory under a national security crackdown. The US 2023 Hong Kong Policy Act Report, published by the […]
Small island off Hong Kong offers haven from stress of living
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Something clicked instantly for Zero Chan when she first set foot on the island of Peng Chau, a short ferry ride from Hong Kong’s central business district, at a time when she was feeling burnt out and recovering from illness. “When I take the ferry back, it’s like a cleansing ritual,” the […]
A window into life behind bars: Smuggled sketches offer glimpses into harsh Myanmar prison
Images smuggled out of Myanmar’s Insein Prison and interviews with eight former prisoners have given Reuters a rare glimpse inside the notorious institution…
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says she will not seek a second term
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam, who has governed the global financial hub through the unprecedented upheaval of anti-government protests and COVID-19, said on Monday she will not seek a second five-year term of office. Lam’s announcement came as media said Chief Secretary John Lee, Hong Kong’s second most senior official, was […]
The Long Read: In a scarred Hong Kong, “beautiful things are gone”
YIK LAM and JESSIE PANG, of Reuters, report on the changing landscape in Hong Kong…
Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 14 months in prison for unauthorised assembly
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 14 months in prison while nine other activists received jail time or suspended sentences on Friday for taking part in unauthorised assemblies during mass pro-democracy protests in 2019. Senior barrister Martin Lee, who helped launch the city’s largest opposition Democratic Party in the […]
Updated: Hong Kong police arrest stabbing suspect, Pence slams China’s “betrayal” of 1997 deal
Updated: 8.40am AEST, 3rd July, 2020Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Hong Kong police arrested a 24-year-old man at the airport early on Thursday on suspicion of stabbing and wounding an officer during a demonstration against a new national security law imposed by Beijing on the financial hub. The arrest followed protests on Wednesday in which police fired […]
Hong Kong mall clash ends in bloody knife attack and bitten off ear
Hong KongReuters Hong Kong anti-government protesters crowded a shopping mall in running clashes with police on Sunday during which a man with a knife slashed several people and apparently bit off part of a local politician’s ear. A human chain in Cityplaza, in the eastern suburb of Taikoo Shing, turned into a face-to-face conflict with […]
Security tight in Tiananmen 30 years after students “died for nothing”
Beijing, ChinaReuters Tourists thronged Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Tuesday amid tighter-than-usual security, although most visitors approached by Reuters said they were unaware of the bloody crackdown on student-led protests 30 years ago or would not discuss it. The anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, when Beijing sent troops and tanks to quell pro-democracy activists, is not […]
Veteran cleric and Hong Kong democrat keeps up quest for “historical truth” of Tiananmen
ReutersHong Kong Veteran Hong Kong democracy campaigner and Baptist cleric Chu Yiu-ming was in his mid-40s when he joined demonstrators around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, just before a bloody crackdown that roiled China. Thirty years later, the political landscape appears even bleaker to Chu, who helped smuggle out dissidents after the bloodshed, and helped […]