WEYMOUTH, Mass — Police were called to Weymouth High School Friday night
The Grammy-winning singer will be back to bewitch Hong Kong later this year.
Iowans for Palestine and several other activist groups took part in a demonstration to demand a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas War at the Courtyard by Marriott in Iowa City, Iowa, on Sunday. About two hundred pro-Palestinian supporters demonstrated outside while U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, spoke inside the
A Hong Kong judge sided with a teacher who was fired over online comments about police in 2019, ruling that the authorities’ decision to dismiss her was “oppressive.” Toffee Tam, a veteran teacher, won her case against the Civil Service Bureau at the High Court on Friday. She lodged a judicial review last October, three […]
Henry Tse was recognized in 2023 as a TIME Next Generation Leader for his yearslong advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community, and he vowed on Monday to continue working for equality.
The Kowloonbay International Trade & Exhibition Centre (KITEC) will close on June 30. It follows a HK$10 billion purchase by a consortium led by Billion Development and Project Management in 2021. E-max, a mall within KITEC, notified commercial tenants of the closure. Last March, the government approved the reconstruction of the site into three commercial […]
The owner of a Michigan company that exploded in March, killing a 19-year-old and injuring a firefighter, was charged with involuntary manslaughter on Thursday, after authorities received an alert that he attempted to leave the country with a one-way ticket to Hong Kong. The Clinton Township Police Department said during a press conference Friday morning that Noor Noel Kestou, 31, attempted to flee the U.S. after the fatal explosion at his vape and smoke business, Goo Smoke Shop/Select...
PRESS RELEASE. As a part of Bitcoin Asia Week 2024, the “Scaling Bitcoin Together” event will take place on May 11, 2024, in Hong Kong. This event will bring together top blockchain experts to discuss how to grow the Bitcoin ecosystem. The “Scaling Bitcoin Together” aims to foster discussions that propel the development of the […]
Hong Kong transgender activist Henry Tse has received a new identity card, after he successfully updated its gender marker following a series of “incredibly difficult” lawsuits over a span of seven years against the city’s administration. Tse celebrated outside Immigration Tower in Wan Chai on Monday morning after obtaining a new ID card from the […]
Pro-Beijing groups in Hong Kong are seeking to organise a carnival in part of Causeway Bay’s Victoria Park, where annual vigils were held for decades to mark the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. The event period is set to cover the crackdown’s 35th anniversary on June 4. The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) told HKFP on […]
More suspected cocaine has washed ashore in Hong Kong with police seizing seven packages, weighing roughly 15 kilograms, from a Sai Kung beach on Sunday. Officers responded to a report from a hiker at around 2.45 pm, police told HKFP on Monday. The estimated value of the packages, found around Nam She Wan, totalled HK$15 […]
Hong Kong’s largest trade union federation has confirmed that it will not organise a march for Labour Day, as its chairman said workers’ issues can be raised through “celebrations.” The Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (HKFTU) announced on Sunday that it would hold a series of events ahead of Labour Day next Wednesday to […]