Archive - February 2019
Hong Kong’s ban on pro-independence National Party upheld, as gov’t rejects appeal
Singapore activist sentenced to jail after refusing to pay HK$11,600 fine for hosting Joshua Wong Skype talk
Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam hails southern China integration plan, but says city ‘will not be assimilated’
Taiwan gov’t approves draft same-sex marriage bill following referendum
Hong Kong Labour Tribunal allows foreign domestic workers to testify by video when seeking compensation
‘The party will go wherever the people are.’: Xi Jinping ‘cult’ app is China’s red hot hit
‘No time to waste’: Hong Kong gov’t to take back 32 hectares of Fanling golf course for public housing
No peace deal with China unless force is ruled out, says Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen
Int’l Mother Language Day: Dear Xi Jinping, embrace cultural and linguistic diversity
‘I am a Hongkonger’: Localist Edward Leung testifies in Mong Kok unrest retrial
More foreign doctors applying to work in Hong Kong, says health chief after medics protest manpower shortage
Chief Exec. Carrie Lam defends plan to transfer Hongkongers who fall ill in Greater Bay Area to local hospitals
Gov’t says 42,300 one-way permit holders moved from mainland China to Hong Kong in 2018, as Lam urges inclusion
Social Justice Day: How we can promote equality and human rights through small everyday acts
Former New Zealand PM Jenny Shipley denies writing glowing China op-ed in People’s Daily
‘They have no clue about network security’: China data leak exposes mass surveillance across Muslim Xinjiang
Long hair’s legal bid to win back his legislative seat: A long judgement with long delays
Mixed reactions in Hong Kong as Beijing sets out strategic integration plan for southern China ‘Bay Area’
Hong Kong’s new one-off China extradition plan seeks to plug legal loophole, says Chief Exec. Carrie Lam
Hong Kong chief Carrie Lam blasts claim that new immigrants from China are burdening health system
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen confirms she will seek reelection in 2020
Lawmakers raise security concerns over gov’t proposal for advance voting in next year’s legislative election
Huawei’s founder claims world can’t live without it, as UK says risk can be ‘managed’
China province defends ban on Tibetan lessons
UK schools should halt further deals with China’s Confucius Institutes until review completed, Conservative Party watchdog says
Democrats will not attend reception at China’s office in Hong Kong, convener Claudia Mo says
Evidence against democrat Howard Lam’s kidnap claim ‘clear as crystal ball,’ court hears
In Pictures: Hong Kong activists decry ‘brutal’ fur industry at fair, as organisers tout ‘biodegradable’ product
Green group blames organisers for masses of paper cups discarded at Hong Kong marathon
Event: Talk – Author and China correspondent Johan Nylander on the rise of China’s Silicon Valley
Australia says a ‘sophisticated state actor’ hacked parties, parliament week before election
China-US trade dispute and retail woes dragged down Hong Kong economy, finance chief Paul Chan says
Big brands at Davos are eager for solutions to the plastic waste crisis… which they created
Why Hong Kong’s proposed e-cigarette ban is wrong in principle – as well as stupid
Meet the grassroots organisation fighting for recognition of ageing Hong Kong women’s needs
Male privilege: The rural Hong Kong men who have special rights
Explainer: Why Australia revoked Chinese tycoon’s citizenship citing ‘political interference’
Whose hearts, livers and lungs are transplanted in China? Origins must be clear in human organ research
Thai woman with dementia returns home after 400-mile detour into China
UK finance minister Philip Hammond forced to axe trip to China: reports
Extradition to Taiwan: why is Hong Kong ignoring an obvious solution?
New rules would not enable extradition to mainland China over political cases, says Hong Kong security chief
A strange first for Regina Ip: a plan to control a real estate firm makes you a Communist?
The dawn of the little red smartphone and China’s digital dictatorship
Turkey should back a UN fact-finding mission to Xinjiang amid China’s repression of Uyghurs
‘Long Hair’ Leung Kwok-hung to take case to highest court, after Court of Appeal affirms 2016 lawmaker disqualification
Yau Ma Tei ‘homicide tour’ lets the dead tell their stories about Hong Kong
Hong Kong gov’t knew about late mega-bridge work records in 2016, but maintains structure is safe
