Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) debuted a new program hosted by the city’s pro-China chief executive, Carrie Lam, in the past month shortly after the government took over the station.
British businesses, schools, property, and critical infrastructure have reportedly been bought up by Chinese investors to the tune of £135 billion, doubling previous estimates.
A new Hong Kong public school textbook uses an image depicting a “gun-toting Mickey Mouse” to illustrate how multinational corporations enter developing countries and “invade local cultures,” the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported Thursday.
Hong Kong officials announced Tuesday they would ban the annual June 4 Victoria Park vigil to commemorate the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square due to coronavirus restrictions. The vigil was banned for similar reasons in 2020.
While several Oscar winners and presenters used Sunday’s live ABC broadcast to promote left-wing politics, one winner took a truly bold step by acknowledging pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong — a virtual no-no in Hollywood where saying anything critical of China’s Communist dictatorship has become taboo.
Journalist Jojje Olsson told Breitbart London that threats from the Chinese embassy in Sweden will not deter him reporting on the CCP.
A coalition of Latin American anti-communist activists, including Cuban dissidents who suffer regular repression on the island, organized a multi-continental set of peaceful assemblies Thursday calling for the freedom of 47 pro-democracy activists arrested in Hong Kong for allegedly violating an illegal “national security” law.
Hong Kong, now under full de facto control of communist China after reforms meant to curb protests last year, celebrated its first “National Security Education Day” on Thursday by having children in schools learn the basics of a Beijing-imposed anti-protest law.
Hong Kong protest leader Joshua Wong, already serving over a year in prison for his role in organizing anti-communist protests in 2019, received another four-month sentence Tuesday for wearing a mask in public.
Four men armed with sledgehammers forcibly broke into and ransacked the Hong Kong printing house of the anti-communist newspaper Epoch Times on Monday, local news outlet Coconuts Hong Kong reported.
Chinese state media on Monday mocked U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken for sending “mixed messages” and bungling the Biden administration’s China policy, which is supposedly torn between rational recognition of China’s new global power and the need to “keep a hardline stance to respond to domestic anti-China consensus.”
Chinese officials and state media on Wednesday warned the Biden administration not to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics over human-rights complaints, claiming that such a boycott would “damage the spirit of the Olympic Charter” and inflict severe economic and political damage on the weakened United States.
Bar owners in Hong Kong staged a symbolic hunger strike on Monday to protest the city government’s ongoing coronavirus restrictions, which have forced bars to remain closed while allowing other businesses, such as restaurants, to reopen.
HONG KONG — The Oscars will not be shown in Hong Kong for the first time in more than half a century, its local broadcaster confirmed Monday, as doubts remained over whether Hollywood’s top awards will air in mainland China.
Two more people died in Hong Kong this week shortly after receiving doses of the Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine candidate “Coronavac,” bringing the number of Hong Kong deaths unofficially tied to it to nine.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has announced sanctions on a number of high-profile British politicians, lawyers, and campaigners, in retaliation for sanctions on regime officials for human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
President Joe Biden falsely claimed that Donald Trump never stood up to China on human rights. In fact, Trump was the most aggressive president to date.
Hong Kong government authorities ejected a private clinic from the city’s coronavirus vaccine drive on Tuesday for suggesting that its patients choose the coronavirus vaccine developed by American company Pfizer over a Chinese-made option.
James Cameron’s 2009 blockbuster ‘Avatar’ is breaking records as it dwarfs Disney’s controversial ‘Mulan’ in China.
China’s state-run Global Times on Friday defended Hong Kong’s practice of forcibly restraining babies to hospital beds while in coronavirus isolation wards as an anti-epidemic policy in need of “more understanding.”
Babies are forcibly restrained to their beds while in coronavirus isolation wards in Hong Kong public hospitals for their own “safety and well-being,” Hong Kong health authorities claimed on Wednesday.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday dismissed sanctions against 24 Chinese officials announced by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, sneering at Blinken’s combination of “strategic aggression” and “diffidence” and jeering that the officials he threatened to punish for the oppression of Hong Kong were already sanctioned by the Trump administration anyway.
The authoritarian government of China on Wednesday reportedly ordered state television not to carry the Academy Awards ceremony next month, because one of the films nominated for an Oscar is about the Hong Kong protest movement.
A Hong Kong district court sentenced a 24-year-old man to nearly six years in prison on Monday for a series of offenses, including biting off the fingertip of a police sergeant during a pro-democracy protest in 2019.
The Professional Teachers’ Union (PTU) of Hong Kong withdrew from the Civil Human Rights Front on Sunday, followed the next day by the Hong Kong Democratic Party, the city’s largest opposition party.
Speaking at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken described Taiwan as a “country that can contribute to the world, not just its own people.”
China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC), unsurprisingly “passed” a package of extensive “reforms” for Hong Kong elections Thursday.
China’s Global Times, a state propaganda newspaper, published an editorial Thursday warning any attempts to convince Beijing to end its genocide of the Uyghur people in an upcoming meeting between high-level American and Chinese diplomats is unacceptable.
The number of Hong Kong residents volunteering to receive a dose of Coronavac, a Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine candidate, has dropped from 90 percent to 72 percent following news three people died shortly after receiving the shot this week.
Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam said on Monday that legislative elections, already postponed for a year by the coronavirus pandemic, could be delayed again while the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “reforms” the island’s electoral system to ensure only Communist loyalists can hold public office in the future.
