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Chinese leader Xi says Hong Kong 'reborn of fire' as visit to city begins
Jun 30, 2022 (AFP)
Xi's trip is a chance for the Chinese Communist Party to showcase its control after huge protests engulfed the city in 2019, prompting Beijing to impose a harsh...
In first, NATO lays out 'challenges' from China
Jun 29, 2022 (AFP)
"The People's Republic of China's (PRC) stated ambitions and coercive policies challenge our interests, security and values," NATO's strategic concept published...
Far-flung Hong Kong diaspora linked by 'shared destiny'
Jun 29, 2022 (AFP)
"We just didn't trust the Chinese government," she told AFP, using a pseudonym. She was not the only one. Government estimates show hundreds of thousands of peo...
China's image slips further in developed world: survey
Jun 29, 2022 (AFP)
A 19-nation survey by the Pew Research Center showed a further deterioration of China's reputation over the past several years, as concerns grow about Beijing's...
Hong Kong's blurring border with China a sign of things to come
Jun 29, 2022 (AFP)
Friday is the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's transition from British to Chinese rule. While the view from the hilltops of Lok Ma Chau suggests Hong Kong remain...
A promise kept or betrayal? Hong Kong 25 years on from handover
Jun 28, 2022 (AFP)
Hong Kong will mark the 25th anniversary of the handover on Friday and the halfway point of One Country, Two Systems -- the governance model agreed by Britain a...
Chinese leader Xi Jinping to attend Hong Kong handover celebration
Jun 25, 2022 (AFP)
If Xi attends in person, the trip would be his first outside of the Chinese mainland since the pandemic began. But state media and Hong Kong officials did not e...
Protesters heckle Chinese ambassador to Australia
Jun 24, 2022 (AFP)
Xiao Qian, who has only been in the role since January, had just begun his speech when the first protesters interjected, calling for freedom for Tibet and Hong ...
Hong Kong arrests 5 for sedition before China rule anniversary
Jun 23, 2022 (AFP)
Two men, aged 28 and 30, were arrested and charged Wednesday with "doing an act or acts with seditious intention", which carries a maximum penalty of two years ...
Patten hits outs at China's 'vengeful' acts in Hong Kong
Jun 21, 2022 (AFP)
The 25th anniversary is approaching of that rainy day and the midnight handover to China on July 1 that the BBC at the time called "the epilogue of empire". For...
New Hong Kong cabinet includes four under US sanctions
Jun 19, 2022 (AFP)
The United States hit 11 Hong Kong and Beijing officials with sanctions two years ago after a sweeping national security law was imposed to snuff out dissent in...
China's Xi to host virtual summit for BRICS emerging economies
Jun 17, 2022 (AFP)
The influential club of BRICS emerging economies formed in 2009 is home to more than 40 percent of the global population and accounts for nearly a quarter of th...
China's middle class looks to flee as Covid policies bite
Jun 15, 2022 (AFP)
He has given up hope of a return to normal after months of lockdowns in Shanghai, and now plans to close his firm and move to Hungary, where he sees better oppo...
Bloomberg News says 'encouraged' by reported bail for detained China staffer
Jun 14, 2022 (AFP)
A Chinese member of staff at the US news outlet's bureau in Beijing, Fan was detained in December 2020, a few months after Australian TV anchor Cheng Lei was de...
Australian defence minister introduced to Chinese counterpart
Jun 12, 2022 (AFP)
Marles, who also serves as Australia's deputy prime minister, told Sky News Australia the pair had shaken hands at the high-level security summit "but there's b...
Foreign teachers in Hong Kong govt schools ordered to swear allegiance
Jun 11, 2022 (AFP)
Hong Kong's Education Bureau said that Native-speaking English Teachers (NETs) and advisors working in government-run schools must sign a declaration by June 21...
FactWire becomes latest Hong Kong media outlet to close
Jun 10, 2022 (AFP)
The announcement came a month after Hong Kong recorded its worst-ever ranking in a press freedom index compiled by rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders, wi...
China, US defence ministers hold talks in Singapore
Jun 10, 2022 (AFP)
The relationship between the two countries has deteriorated due to myriad issues in recent years. As well as Taiwan and the South China Sea, they have clashed o...
Hong Kong leader delivers defiant swansong speech
Jun 09, 2022 (AFP)
Carrie Lam's five-year tenure as chief executive coincided with massive and often violent pro-democracy protests, Beijing's imposition of a draconian national s...
Taiwan's Apple Daily finds buyer after Hong Kong edition shuttered
Jun 08, 2022 (AFP)
Popular news outlet Apply Daily shut down in Hong Kong last year after its newsroom was raided and assets frozen under a sweeping national security law Beijing ...
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