China's embassy hits back against U.S. criticism of Hong Kong's new national security law, urging the U.S. to "respect China's sovereignty."
Hong Kong’s homegrown Safeguarding National Security Ordinance has come into effect, four days after the legislation was unanimously approved at the city’s opposition-free legislature. Separate to the 2020 Beijing-enacted security law, the new legislation – gazetted midnight on Saturday – targets treason, insurrection, sabotage, external interference, sedition, theft of state secrets and espionage. It allows for […]
A trial run for Hong Kong’s pay-as-you-throw waste tax will inform the government of how the public understands the new policy, the city’s leader John Lee has said. Lee’s comments came after the Environment and Ecology Bureau announced that a demonstration scheme, involving 14 premises, will be in place from next Monday to preview the […]
Authorities may make changes to a HK$500,000 government-funded white rose installation amid comments the display resembled flowers in a funeral hall, a Hong Kong district councillor has said. Jack Cheung, a Kwun Tong district councillor, said on Commercial Radio on Thursday that he knew the Home Affairs Department and the installation’s contractors were in discussion. […]
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China and Australia claimed to have stabilised long-strained relations after talks in Canberra on Wednesday, despite tensions over a high-profile prisoner, trade and China’s crackdowns in Hong Kong and elsewhere remaining evident. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Australia for the first time since 2017, marking a diplomatic thaw between two trading partners who have […]
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The foreign ministry is sending aid to 20,000 residents of war-torn Kayin state.
Congratulations are in order for Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse, who
Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse are officially parents! The couple recently welcomed their first child together and are now enjoying life as a family of three. Though we don't know for sure when the baby was born, or its sex, photos have surfaced this week of the couple taking a walk with their stroller. In the pics, obtained by the Daily Mail, Waterhouse wears a full-length black coat and baseball cap, while Pattinson dons shorts, a gray MoMA hoodie, and a Patagonia puffer jacket. (The...
Suki Waterhouse and Robert Pattinson have welcomed their first child together; the couple was spotted out together pushing a stroller