Kenneth Tsang, a stalwart of the “Golden Age” of Cantonese cinema, was found dead in a Hong Kong hotel room on Wednesday while undergoing mandatory quarantine after returning from overseas, local media reported.
Despite Conservative Party talk of securing the border, 2022 is likely to see record immigration when compared to pre-Brexit Britain.
Hong Kong health officials confirmed this week that 1,100 cadavers remained in municipal cold storage facilities unclaimed because local funeral parlors have failed to keep up with the surging demand for funerals caused by Hong Kong’s latest epidemic of the Chinese coronavirus, the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Friday.
The future of Florida’s Disney World is the subject of much speculation this week after its parent corporation decided to meddle in politics and met unexpectedly stiff resistance, but Disney can take some solace in knowing its Hong Kong park reopened on Thursday after three months of coronavirus shutdown, and the response from Hong Kong patrons was very enthusiastic.
Prominent Chinese neurologist Rao Yi, president of Capital Medical University in Beijing, on Wednesday criticized the government’s decision to ship millions of doses of a traditional Chinese herbal cure to Shanghai, even as the city’s captive population struggles to find food and medicine during a grueling coronavirus lockdown.
Two Hong Kong pro-democracy activists arrested for opposing communism told Voice of America in a report published Tuesday that they faced extreme indoctrination while in prison consisting of Chinese communist propaganda films meant to encourage them to abandon their identity as Hongkongers.
According to a report, the Brooklyn Nets tried to ban former Rockets GM Daryl Morey after his support of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy groups
Carrie Lam, the massively unpopular chief executive for the Beijing-controlled government of Hong Kong, announced on Monday morning she will not run for a second five-year term in May.
China Central Television (CCTV) on Wednesday night aired the first National Basketball Association (NBA) game in 17 months, seemingly concluding a blackout that began soon after Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey shared an image supportive of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement.
After days of touting the multi-stage quarantine and testing strategy deployed in Shanghai as a pioneering experiment in soft-touch pandemic control techniques, Chinese state media abruptly reversed itself on Wednesday and hailed dictator Xi Jinping for demanding nothing less than total lockdowns in response to every outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus.
Britain said Wednesday that it is withdrawing its judges from Hong Kong’s top court because keeping them there would “legitimize oppression”.
Hong Kong’s government announced Thursday it had asked China’s ruling Communist Party to send “experts” in “Traditional Chinese Medicine” (TCM) to Hong Kong in an effort to help treat certain symptoms of the Chinese coronavirus in elderly Hong Kong patients, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) reported.
The Singapore government announced Thursday from April 1st it will no longer require mandatory quarantines for vaccinated travellers – providing they have a negative coronavirus test – on arrival.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) stated that he thinks China “believes that we need to respect the sovereignty of its own country and of other countries.” And maintained that China’s actions towards Tibet, Hong
Just 300 coffins remained in Hong Kong as of March 17 due to a recent surge in coronavirus deaths, a funeral industry spokesman said.
Chinese state media on Monday celebrated dictator Xi Jinping’s allegedly brilliant “insights” for guiding China through the coronavirus crisis – but Xi has been conspicuously invisible during the massive coronavirus wave sweeping across China for the past few months, just as he disappeared during the initial outbreak in early 2020.
Senior Chinese Politburo member Yang Jiechi berated U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan over America’s support for Taiwan and opposition to genocide in an “intense” meeting on Monday that lasted seven hours, according to Chinese state media.
Iranian authorities said Monday they have arrested several operatives allegedly linked to Israel who attempted to sabotage an Iranian nuclear facility.
UK activist Benedict Rogers told Breitbart News he will “not be silenced” after the Hong Kong government threatened him with life in prison.
China’s southern economic hub of Shenzhen was placed into coronavirus lockdown on Monday, jeopardizing major foreign business operations and trapping some 24 million residents inside the surrounding province. The industrial hub city of Changchun was locked down on Friday, trapping 9 million citizens inside their homes and halting most corporate activity.
The Chinese state propaganda newspaper Global Times elevated the Russian government’s claims that its ongoing invasion of Ukraine is necessary to “de-Nazify” the country on Monday by accusing Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion militants of “involvement” in the 2019 Hong Kong anti-communist protests.
Government officials in China’s southern city of Shenzhen recently launched “blanket searches” for people who may have recently traveled to the city from neighboring Hong Kong in an effort to contain allegedly imported cases of the Chinese coronavirus, the South China
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam urged Hongkongers to remain “calm” on Monday after rumors of an imminent citywide lockdown for mass Chinese coronavirus testing spurred people to panic buy and strip some local supermarket shelves bare, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) reported.
The number of new births in Hong Kong fell to a record low in 2021, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Monday, noting the figure dropped below 40,000 for the first time in 56 years.
Authorities in charge of a public Hong Kong hospital separated an 11-month-old baby from her mother this week after the mother admitted her infant daughter to the facility for an unknown illness and the baby subsequently tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Wednesday.
The Chinese Embassy in Ottawa on Tuesday lectured Canada on its hypocrisy for denouncing China’s ruthless suppression of the Hong Kong democracy movement in 2019, but using similar iron-fisted tactics to smash the Freedom Convoy protest movement in 2022.
Hong Kong’s government recently banned all “nonessential” people from attending live births at public hospitals across the city — including the baby’s father — citing a recent surge in local Chinese coronavirus infections, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Sunday.
Chinese officials on Thursday admitted the massive lockdowns imposed against coronavirus outbreaks in major cities across China are inflicting significant damage upon the Chinese economy.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, who has been rather quiet on the pandemic front since the supposedly vanquished Wuhan coronavirus began rampaging through Chinese cities again, on Wednesday gave “important instructions” to the nominally autonomous Hong Kong government to get its coronavirus outbreak under control.
Hong Kong is currently facing its “worst coronavirus outbreak” while under increasing rule by pro-Chinese Communist Party forces in the city’s government, the local news outlet Coconuts Hong Kong reported Tuesday.
U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Brian Leung denounced mainstream corporations for supporting Beijing’s hosting of the 2022 Winter Olympics at a “#NoBeijing2022” rally on Thursday in Washington, DC, saying their sponsoring of the event equates to tacit approval of the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights violations.
UK lawmakers joined activists from Hong Kong, Tibet and Xinjiang to condemn the “Genocide Games” Olympics being held in Communist China.
A Hong Kong newspaper owned by the Chinese Communist government fired off a string of articles last week accusing Christian churches of fomenting unrest during the 2019 popular uprising, strongly hinting at a crackdown on Hong Kong Christians under the tyrannical “national security law” imposed by Beijing to crush the 2019 protest movement.
British MPs are planning to visit Taiwan in February in open defiance of China’s demand that other nations not engage with the country.
Some 2,000 small animals, including hamsters, will be killed in Hong Kong after several tested positive for the coronavirus Monday at a pet store where an employee was also infected.
An Asian hate crime forum for London’s Metropolitan Police has been tied to the alleged Chinese spy operating in Westminster.
The Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) has been ordered to adopt Chinese goose-stepping drills in place of its traditional UK military step, as inherited after the transfer of sovereignty to Communist China in 1997.
Chinese state media announced on Monday that Maj. Gen. Peng Jingtang of the People’s Armed Police Force (PAP) has been named as the new commander of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) garrison in Hong Kong. Peng’s experience “fighting terorrism in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region” was ominously touted as one of his major qualifications.
Students for a Free Tibet said on Saturday that Tibetan, Uyghur, and Hong Kong activists are meeting with Olympic athletes at the final qualifying events for the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics to talk about China’s human rights abuses.
2021 was the year Communist China smashed the dream of freedom and democracy in Hong Kong, with only modest opposition from the civilized world.
