Government authorities in Hong Kong are reportedly planning to lock down thousands of people within the Yau Tsim Mong area of Kowloon district starting January 23 to contain a Chinese coronavirus outbreak in the area.
A professional impersonator of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un said on Wednesday that police in his hometown of Hong Kong arrested him last fall in what he believes was a targeted attack for his open criticism of the Chinese Communist Party.
Family members of jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong have sold their Hong Kong home and moved to Australia, the local newspaper Sing Tao Daily reported on Tuesday.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday that American officials who have engaged in “nasty behavior” concerning Taiwan and Hong Kong will be subjected to sanctions and pay a “heavy price” for following the “wrong path.”
Internet service provider Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) confirmed Thursday that it blocked access to a pro-democracy news website called HKChronicles under orders from the city’s Beijing-controlled government.
Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday complained of “double standards” because her government, and its masters in Beijing, were criticized for ruthlessly cracking down on pro-democracy demonstrators, comparing that movement to the riot last week at the U.S. Capitol.
Evidence points to the CCP committing crimes “indicative of genocide” in Xinjiang, the UK’s Conservative Party Human Rights Commission said.
Pro-democracy Hong Kongers are reportedly changing their Twitter avatars to signal support for outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump and protest Trump getting banned from the platform.
The foreign ministers of Australia, the United States, Great Britain and Canada on Sunday jointly expressed “serious concern” about last week’s arrest of 55 democracy activists and supporters in Hong Kong.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday compared Wednesday’s riot at the Capitol with the Hong Kong protest movement, essentially arguing that Americans should now understand why it was correct and lawful for the Chinese Communist Party, and its proxies in Hong Kong government, to use force to crush the pro-democracy movement.
China’s state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times gloated on Thursday in its coverage of a pro-Trump mob attacking the U.S. Capitol the day before, describing it as “karma” for Washington and a sign that American democracy has begun to collapse.
In response to the mass arrests of pro-democracy activists and politicians in Hong Kong, British politicians called on the European Union to abandon the investment pact it struck with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including Brexit leader Nigel Farage who said that “Brussels’ greed is helping the regime to take over the world.”
Hong Kong police raided 72 locations and made at least 53 arrests in a massive crackdown on pro-democracy advocates Wednesday morning.
A Chinese court on Wednesday sentenced ten of the so-called “Hong Kong 12” — a group of pro-democracy activists detained by Chinese authorities on August 23 as they tried to flee the city for Taiwan — to up to three years in jail on charges linked to “illegally crossing a border.”
Former Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey now claims that he stands behind the pro-democracy tweet that brought such turmoil to the NBA.
The U.S. State Department updated its travel advisory for Hong Kong, merging it with its advisory regarding China, on Thursday, warning that visitors may face arbitrary arrest and other human rights violations.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin unleashed a tirade against the British on Tuesday, railing that the current U.K. government has no right to criticize China for extinguishing liberty and autonomy in Hong Kong because the British allegedly granted the island no freedom or dignity during their 150 years of colonial rule.
The Hong Kong Department of Justice (DoJ) said on Saturday it was “appalled” by overseas government officials demanding the release of pro-democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai.
The owner of Hong Kong anti-communist newspaper Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai, is facing a minimum of a decade in prison after being charged on Friday with violating the city’s new, and illegal, law against “national security” trespasses.
China imposed sanctions Thursday against U.S. officials who allegedly “performed badly” over Hong Kong issues in response to the restrictions on Chinese officials over Beijing’s illegal crackdown on the supposedly autonomous region.
As roughly 24.5 million Americans remain jobless or underemployed, Republican and Democrat lawmakers in Washington, D.C. are advancing legislation to aid foreign nationals and their quest to permanently resettle in the United States.
A church in Hong Kong has had its bank account frozen after it provided humanitarian support for protesters during the city’s recent pro-democracy demonstrations, its pastors revealed on Monday.
House Democrats and Republicans on Monday approved a mass immigration pipeline that will provide expedited entry into the United States for Hong Kong residents.
Hong Kong canceled its annual New Year’s fireworks display for 2021 on Friday in an attempt to contain the region’s recent outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus.
A court sentenced Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy leader, Joshua Wong, on Tuesday to 13.5 months in prison after pleading guilty to charges of organizing “unauthorized assembly” during last year’s demonstrations against illegal Chinese interference in the region’s affairs.
Officials in Hong Kong accused imprisoned pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong on Tuesday of smuggling drugs in his stomach after finding an alleged “foreign object” through an X-ray.
Authorities in Hong Kong will tighten the city’s lockdown measures in response to a recent surge in cases of the Chinese coronavirus, the region’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on Monday.
Hong Kong’s Education Bureau said on Thursday it will introduce drastic changes to the curriculum of a liberal studies course taught in the city’s public high schools next year, including a new focus on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s constitution and implementation of the rule of law.
Georgia Senate Democrat candidate Jon Ossoff’s campaign said its omission of a payment from the CCP was a result of a “paperwork oversight.”
Hong Kong pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong is in solitary confinement with lights on 24 hours a day, friends denounced.
Hong Kong pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong and two other prominent activists pleaded guilty Monday morning to inciting and organizing “unauthorized assembly” at the height of last year’s demonstrations, a charge that could leave them facing up to five years in prison.
Chinese state media on Thursday derided the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance for daring to criticize China’s ugly crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong, spraying extra venom at Australia, which the state-run Global Times sneeringly dismissed as a “vassal of the U.S.”
Police in Hong Kong raided the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) on Friday to collect evidence after more than 100 graduating students participated in a rally in support of the region’s pro-democracy movement.
Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) continues to circumvent U.S. sanctions by operating via a network of shell companies registered in Hong Kong, an investigation by Radio Free Asia (RFA) revealed on Wednesday.
The Villa Villa Cafe and Bar in Hong Kong published a photo of a custom cake it baked for a customer this week depicting American presidential candidate Joe Biden sniffing the hair of a distressed cartoon girl drawn in the Japanese anime style.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Thursday issued a stern warning to the Five Eyes intelligence group — an international intelligence-sharing bloc consisting of Australia, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States — after it condemned Beijing’s move to disqualify four opposition leaders in the Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo).
The Beijing-controlled government of Hong Kong banned four pro-democracy legislators on Wednesday, branding them as threats to national security.
Hong Kong police notified organizers of the city’s annual LGBT pride parade that they would not receive a permit to hold the event this year, allegedly to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.
The Hong Kong police established a hotline this week where residents can snitch on their neighbors for violating the “national security law” imposed on the island by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in June.
Authorities in Hong Kong arrested a filmmaker on Tuesday in relation to her production of a recent TV documentary that detailed how pro-China mobs brutally attacked civilians during a peaceful anti-communist protest last year.