Government talent programs have yet to bear fruit, as brain drain from once-prestigious jobs persists.
Hong Kong police on Thursday checked the identity cards of fans queueing outside an event for pro-democracy singer Anthony Wong, citing crowd control. Wong and lyricist Chow Yiu-fai were holding an autograph session organised by art group The House of Hong Kong Literature in in Sham Shui Po on Thursday evening when police officers arrived, […]
Analysts say the decline is clearly visible, blaming the loss of status as a free port separate from China.
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) will soon require tourists to register ahead of entering the campus, amid student and staff complaints over an increasing number of visitors coming to the school to take photos and sight see. Starting from May, all tourists must register in advance to visit the campus on Monday to Saturday […]
A Reporters Without Borders representative was refused entry to the city after arriving to monitor the trial of former media mogul Jimmy Lai, the group said.
Hong Kong’s leading press group can mount a legal challenge to the Transport Department’s new policy restricting media access to vehicle ownership records, a High Court judge has ruled. Judge Russell Coleman handed down his judgement on Wednesday, approving the application by the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) for a judicial review of the policy. […]
A pro-Palestinian student group at the University of Regina says many already plan to boycott a recently announced full-service Starbucks.
A government advisory body has conditionally approved a report on the environmental impact of building a technology hub near the city’s border with mainland China, despite criticism from green groups. The Advisory Council on the Environment (ACE), a government-appointed body, on Monday unanimously endorsed the government’s environmental impact assessment for the San Tin Technopole. See […]
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 […]
A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to four years and seven months in jail over rioting and wounding others during the Yuen Long mob attack at the height of the 2019 protests and unrest. Tang Siu-hung, a 42-year-old driver, was prosecuted last July along with three others, four years after an incident on the night of […]
Nearly six months after Hamas' horrific Oct. 7 attack, the crisis in Israel
Wisconsin Family Action and the DOJ pushed for a stronger punishment against Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury, who never showed remorse for his pro-abortion terrorism until asked by the judge, according to the pro-life group.