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Hong Kong's largest union disbands citing crackdown
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
Founded in 1973, the Professional Teachers' Union (PTU) was the city's single largest union with some 95,000 members and was a prominent player in the democracy...
Hong Kong leader says city set to adopt China's anti-sanctions law
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
Beijing's rubber-stamp legislature passed the law in June in response to Western penalties that were imposed following crackdowns in Hong Kong and Xinjiang. Its...
China demands recall of Lithuanian envoy over Taiwan recognition
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
The self-ruled island, which China considers part of its territory, last month said it was setting up a representative office in Vilnius under the name "Taiwan"...
Singapore PM warns US against hard line toward China
Aug 03, 2021 (AFP)
He said the United States had moved from an approach of healthy competition with China to the view that America "must win, one way or another." "There is (US) b...
Hong Kong Cantopop star charged as artist and media workers flee China
Aug 02, 2021 (AFP)
Anthony Wong Yiu-ming, a local Cantopop singer and one of the city's most visible LGTBQ activists, was arrested by the Independent Commission Against Corruption...
US condemns 'harassment' of foreign journalists in China
Jul 30, 2021 (AFP)
His remarks came less than 24 hours after Beijing accused the BBC of broadcasting "fake news" about last week's devastating flooding in the central province of ...
School's out? Tuition curbs pile on the anxiety for China's parents
Jul 30, 2021 (AFP)
As they scythe down oversized businesses, Chinese authorities say the vast tutoring sector has to turn non-profit, effectively wiping out the business models of...
First Hong Konger convicted of national security crime jailed for nine years
Jul 30, 2021 (AFP)
Tong Ying-kit, 24, on Tuesday was found guilty of terrorism for driving a motorbike into three police officers, and secession for flying a protest flag during a...
Hong Kong radio host in first 'sedition' trial since China handover
Jul 29, 2021 (AFP)
Tam Tak-chi, 48, is among a growing number of activists charged with sedition, a little-used decades-old law that prosecutors have dusted off in the last twelve...
China court jails billionaire Sun Dawu for 18 years for 'provoking trouble'
Jul 28, 2021 (AFP)
The court in Gaobeidian near Beijing said Sun was found guilty of crimes including "gathering a crowd to attack state organs," "obstructing government administr...
Hong Kong court convicts man in first national security trial
Jul 27, 2021 (AFP)
The watershed ruling lays down a new marker in the city's changing legal landscape and confirms certain slogans are now outlawed in the international finance hu...
China forces tutoring companies to go non-profit
Jul 24, 2021 (AFP)
The new rules, aimed at reducing pressure on children, parents and teachers in China's cut-throat education system, are a major blow to the country's multi-bill...
Airport echoes with sobs and farewells in Hong Kong exodus
Jul 23, 2021 (AFP)
London flights tend to leave in the afternoon and late evening, and for a few hours it briefly feels like the pandemic no longer exists as the airport comes to ...
China sanctions US citizens, entities over Hong Kong
Jul 23, 2021 (AFP)
Tensions between Beijing and Washington have soured on a number of fronts, including human rights, trade, cybersecurity and the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic...
Hong Kongers arrested for sedition over children's books; 7 jailed for riot
Jul 22, 2021 (AFP)
The arrests by the new national security police unit, which is spearheading a sweeping crackdown on dissent, are the latest action against pro-democracy activis...
Hong Kong police arrest another Apple Daily editor under security law
Jul 21, 2021 (AFP)
A police source told AFP that former executive editor-in-chief Lam Man-chung had been detained. In a statement, police said they had arrested a 51-year-old form...
Hong Kong police detain three former Apple Daily editors under security law
Jul 21, 2021 (AFP)
Local media reported that the paper's former deputy chief editor Chan Pui-man and managing editor Fung Wai-kong, who had already been arrested for "colluding wi...
Pandemic and politics leaves Hong Kong's poor languishing
Jul 21, 2021 (AFP)
For much of the last year, Rainbow's electrician husband left their 290 square-foot (27 square-meter) studio flat each morning to look for work. Most days he re...
Taiwan to use its own name at new Lithuania office
Jul 20, 2021 (AFP)
Taiwan's first diplomatic outpost in Europe in 18 years will be called the Taiwanese Representative Office in Lithuania, not the Taipei Office. The self-ruled d...
Hong Kong police raid top university in security law probe
Jul 16, 2021 (AFP)
Anti-police sentiment has been running high in Hong Kong, a deeply polarised city since huge, often violent pro-democracy protests that took place in 2019. On J...
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