Archive - February 2019
#FridaysforFuture: Schools warn against class boycott as Hong Kong students plan climate change strike
Men jailed for 19-years after stabbing Hong Kong journalist Kevin Lau lose sentence appeal
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong to appeal after court throws out claims of abuse by prison guards
In Pictures: Trump and Kim exchange warm greetings ahead of nuclear talks in Vietnam
China’s TikTok app fined in US for illegally gathering children’s data
Hong Kong Budget 2019: Democrats and pro-Beijing camp bemoan ‘disappointing’, ‘conservative’ spending plan
‘Social credit’ scoring: How China’s Communist Party is incentivising repression
Hong Kong Budget 2019: Tax cuts but fewer one-off sweeteners, as surplus set to drop to HK$16.8 billion
Hong Kong Budget 2019: Gov’t allocates HK$20bn to purchase 60 private properties for new welfare facilities
Hong Kong Budget 2019: Gov’t ‘financially capable’ of realising HK$500bn mass land reclamation plan, says finance chief
Photos and poems by Liu Xia, widow of Chinese dissident, to be exhibited in Taiwan
Hong Kong Budget 2019: HK$5.5bn set aside for IT development at Cyberport; HK$16bn for university campus tech refurb
China considers bans and fines for rogue scientists following gene-editing uproar
LIVE: Hong Kong Budget 2019
Debate over ‘vague’ definition of computer use offence reaches Hong Kong’s top court
Video: Beijing requests report on Hong Kong independence party ban, as chief exec. denies ‘interference’
Executive Councillor Ronny Tong ‘very shocked’ as Taiwan rejects Hong Kong govt’s extradition proposal
Chinese authorities halt fracking in Sichuan after residents protest
McDonald’s Hong Kong still producing plastic waste and violating its own no-straw policy, environmentalists say
Hong Kong’s export rules for baby milk formula to stay in place, as parallel trading persists
Thermo Fisher’s necessary, but insufficient, decision to halt genetic ID tech to China
Two US Navy ships sail through Taiwan Strait
World’s largest monument to the 1989 Tiananmen massacre unveiled ahead of 30th anniversary
Taiwanese Students’ Association stall vandalised at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Pro-Beijing activist Leticia Lee handed bind-over order over election corruption case
Social media blackout in China as Kim Jong-un’s train trundles south
Censored on WeChat: As tensions in China-US trade conflict rose, so did WeChat censorship
‘The US market can be ignored by us’: Huawei shrugs off threat of US ban
Colleges should punish int’l students who engage in threats, racial hatred and intelligence gathering for Beijing
Getting to the bottom of prison life
Activists urge primary school to apologise over reports it punishes students for speaking Cantonese
‘Just lie on the grass!’ – Hong Kong’s HK$2.3m ‘stargazing terrace’ at rural Sai Kung beauty spot fails to dazzle
Video: Google vs. Baidu – Artist Joyce Yu-Jean Lee examines cultural and political bias online… and in ourselves
Comparison of Winnie the Pooh with Xi Jinping too much for China gamers to bear
‘I won’t stop’: Kazakh man seeks justice for family caught in China’s Xinjiang crackdown
China’s blacksmiths create alternative fireworks using molten steel
EXCLUSIVE: Stranded Saudi sisters fear for their safety in Hong Kong, as clock ticks on hopes for asylum
For Hong Kong democrats, a time to reflect: is there a way forward?
In Pictures: Trump lookalike and Hong Kong’s Kim impersonator held for questioning by police in Vietnam
HKFP Lens: Bamboo Scenes presents ‘Made in Home Kong’ – street photography from unusual perspectives
As China tightens its grip on Hong Kong, Taiwan emerges as Asia’s hub for foreign media
Statue of ex-Taiwan dictator Chiang Kai-shek vandalised in Taipei
News outlet HK01 fires 70 employees to ‘improve efficiency’ as part of restructuring
Legislature rejects bid to use special powers to investigate MTR’s Hung Hom construction scandal
News outlet HK01 blacklists pro-Hong Kong independence groups from ad deals and partnerships
Top police officer to become new Ombudsman, marking a first
US firm Thermo Fisher to stop selling equipment to China for Uighur minority DNA database
‘We dream of being free from violence & oppression’: Saudi sisters stuck in Hong Kong after fleeing kingdom
