Community & Education • Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Remaining pro-democracy lawmakers ‘willing to examine’ HK$3.6bn education funding proposal 19 July 2017 12:52
Hong Kong • Law & Crime 3 men given 2-month jail terms for following lawmaker Eddie Chu on election day 19 July 2017 00:07
Community & Education • Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Ousted lawmaker returns to LegCo as a private citizen to advocate welfare for poor families 18 July 2017 17:23
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Pro-Beijing heavyweight supports holding single by-election to fill all 6 seats of ousted lawmakers 18 July 2017 15:52
Business • Hong Kong • Politics & Protest New Next Magazine owner says employees biased against him cannot stay 18 July 2017 14:39
Business • Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Labour union fears outspoken Next Magazine may face censorship after HK$500m sale 18 July 2017 00:06
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Hong Kong’s 4 ejected lawmakers ask for donations after being ordered to pay gov’t legal costs 17 July 2017 19:19
Business • Hong Kong Apple Daily owner sells off tabloid Next Magazine for HK$500m 17 July 2017 15:31
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Chief exec. Carrie Lam says she currently has no plans to oust more lawmakers 17 July 2017 11:17
Hong Kong • Law & Crime • Politics & Protest Pro-Beijing lawmaker ‘welcomes’ ruling to oust 4 pro-democracy lawmakers 14 July 2017 17:06
Hong Kong • Law & Crime • Politics & Protest 4 more elected pro-democracy lawmakers to be ousted following Hong Kong court ruling 14 July 2017 15:11
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Media round-up: News of Liu Xiaobo’s death buried in Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing papers 14 July 2017 12:50
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Hundreds gather at vigil in Hong Kong to mourn Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo 14 July 2017 02:00
Science & Technology • SinoBeat Chinese IT Ministry denies reports it will block access to VPNs by 2018 13 July 2017 15:37
Animals • Community & Education • Environment & Health • Hong Kong Rare butterfly species found near country park proposed for housing development 13 July 2017 15:06
Arts, Lifestyle & Events • Hong Kong In Pictures: ‘This Town Needs Live’ – Hidden Agenda’s marathon farewell show 8 July 2017 19:00
Community & Education • Hong Kong New Hong Kong education chief defends enrolling own children in int’l school 7 July 2017 08:00
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Asia Society faces backlash as Joshua Wong demands explanation over ‘blocked’ book launch 6 July 2017 11:12
Hong Kong • Law & Crime • Politics & Protest Community service for District Council candidate who made false claims during 2015 campaign 6 July 2017 08:50
Community & Education • Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Carrie Lam brushes aside plea to ‘rectify’ Wang Chau housing controversy 5 July 2017 14:30
Community & Education • Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Video: Carrie Lam lays out HK$3.6bn education plan at legislature 5 July 2017 11:15
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest ‘Failure to honour your promise’: Journalism watchdog lambastes Carrie Lam’s continuing digital media ban 4 July 2017 14:43
Hong Kong • Travel & Transport Gov’t probe into HK-Zhuhai-Macau bridge deaths complete, but results not yet released 4 July 2017 14:40
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Hong Kong July 1 democracy march: HK$540k raised for prosecuted Occupy activists 3 July 2017 17:36
Community & Education • Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Chief Exec. Carrie Lam confident HK$5bn education pledge will be passed at legislature 3 July 2017 11:05
Hong Kong • Law & Crime • Politics & Protest • Video Video: ‘Dare me to pull out a gun’, policeman reportedly tells Demosisto activists at democracy rally 3 July 2017 11:03
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Carrie Lam inaugurated as Hong Kong’s first female leader 1 July 2017 09:16
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Pro-independence party’s Handover eve vigil relocated to Baptist University due to heavy police presence 1 July 2017 08:55
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Hong Kong police release localist graffiti artist and two ‘family members’ on bail 1 July 2017 00:10
HKFP Features • Hong Kong • Law & Crime • Politics & Protest Goodbye CY: Ten unprecedented events under Hong Kong’s outgoing leader, Part I 30 June 2017 17:50
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Appeals board upholds police ban on Hong Kong pro-independence party’s Handover eve vigil 30 June 2017 17:24
HKFP Features • Hong Kong • Law & Crime • Politics & Protest Goodbye CY: Ten unprecedented events under Hong Kong’s outgoing leader, Part II 30 June 2017 12:28
Environment & Health • Hong Kong 529 syringes: Activists submit newest and largest batch of medical waste found on beach to gov’t 30 June 2017 11:50
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Hong Kong releases all democracy activists arrested at protest against Pres. Xi Jinping 30 June 2017 10:13
HKFP Reports • Hong Kong • Politics & Protest In Pictures: Hongkongers hold vigil for terminally-ill Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo 30 June 2017 00:02
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Pro-independence party to go ahead with Handover eve vigil, calls police ban ‘unconstitutional’ 29 June 2017 17:52
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Democracy activists say they received constant nuisance calls during Golden Bauhinia protest 29 June 2017 12:24
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Chief Exec. CY Leung’s media aide to open a PR firm and write columns after leaving gov’t 29 June 2017 00:02
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Hong Kong police bans pro-independence group’s Handover eve vigil 28 June 2017 20:08
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Hong Kong pro-democracy activists stage sit-in at Golden Bauhinia, surrounded by police 28 June 2017 18:03
Domestic Workers • Hong Kong • Law & Crime Hong Kong stays on annual US human trafficking watchlist as gov’t rejects criticisms 28 June 2017 14:56
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Student unions of 12 Hong Kong colleges opt out of July 1 democracy march 28 June 2017 13:04
HKFP Reports • Hong Kong • Interviews • Politics & Protest HK20 Interview: Handover series authors Ben Bland and Antony Dapiran on protest and identity 27 June 2017 17:30
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Macau pro-democracy party slams Hong Kong gov’t after two of its leaders barred from entering 27 June 2017 17:25
Law & Crime • Politics & Protest • SinoBeat 12 reactions from NGOs, China and the int’l community as Beijing releases Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo 27 June 2017 12:45
Hong Kong • Law & Crime I was finding a place to eat, says man on trial for following ‘threatened’ lawmaker Eddie Chu 27 June 2017 00:01
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Macau pro-democracy activist refused entry into Hong Kong ahead of Handover anniversary 26 June 2017 18:40
HKFP Reports • Hong Kong • Interviews • Politics & Protest HK20 Interview: Handover series authors Chris DeWolf and Xu Xi on urbanism and creativity 26 June 2017 18:35
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Chinese official denies Beijing vetoed incoming leader Carrie Lam’s ministerial choices 26 June 2017 14:01
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest New Hong Kong gov’t can ask Beijing for help ‘any time’, State Council official cited as saying 26 June 2017 12:01
HKFP Law Blog • HKFP Reports • Hong Kong • Interviews • Law & Crime • Politics & Protest HK20: Interview – Beijing’s restraint with Hong Kong’s rule of law has expired, says law prof. Johannes Chan 25 June 2017 21:00
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Pro-independence party says gov’t blocked Handover anniversary vigil due to ‘maintenance works’ 23 June 2017 15:50
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Hong Kong may enact anthem law, but performing it badly is OK, says Priscilla Leung 23 June 2017 13:45
Business • Hong Kong After Taiwan, staff at Hong Kong’s Apple Daily also urged to leave and become freelancers 23 June 2017 11:37
Business • SinoBeat Apple Daily Taiwan encourages reporters to leave and become freelancers 22 June 2017 16:00
Community & Education • Hong Kong • Politics & Protest 3,000 petition against rumoured appointment of pro-Beijing teacher as education undersecretary 22 June 2017 15:16
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Centrist former lawmaker Ronny Tong named adviser to Hong Kong’s incoming leader Carrie Lam 22 June 2017 12:22
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Pro-democracy veteran hits out at Facebook fans amid controversial nomination for LegCo by-election 21 June 2017 14:00
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest ‘New style of governance’? Democrats criticise lack of new faces in Carrie Lam’s cabinet 21 June 2017 13:36
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Hong Kong’s next leader Carrie Lam reveals cabinet, top 3 officials stay 21 June 2017 10:40
Community & Education • Hong Kong Concern group slams gov’t plan to redevelop Sheung Wan site ahead of deliberation 20 June 2017 13:05
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Social worker board finds pro-democracy activist Ken Tsang guilty of misconduct – reports 20 June 2017 10:50
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest ‘Hong Kong is a Chinese colony’: Pro-independence party to hold vigil on eve of Handover anniversary 19 June 2017 17:52
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Pro-Beijing camp defends its 2008 trip to Taiwan, after attacking pro-democracy lawmakers for recent visit 19 June 2017 11:37
Arts, Lifestyle & Events • Community & Education • Hong Kong Video: 9-year-old’s America’s Got Talent appearance reignites parenting debate in Hong Kong 19 June 2017 11:10
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Gov’t applies glue on pavement bricks near Liaison Office ahead of handover anniversary 16 June 2017 15:02
Community & Education • Hong Kong Legislature rejects non-binding motion to set up HK$100bn ‘baby fund’ 16 June 2017 14:33
HKFP Reports • Politics & Protest • SinoBeat Not just officials: Taiwan students blocked from visiting UN public gallery in Geneva 15 June 2017 17:39
Community & Education • Hong Kong • Law & Crime Elderly woman faces up to HK$5k fine and jail after selling cardboard to domestic worker for HK$1 15 June 2017 16:00
Hong Kong • Law & Crime • Politics & Protest ‘King of judicial review’ files new legal challenge, despite gov’t ban on receiving legal aid 15 June 2017 14:44
Politics & Protest • SinoBeat Pressure intensifies as unofficial Taiwan consulates in 5 countries ordered to remove names 15 June 2017 14:42
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Handover anniversary: Hong Kong gov’t may pass journalists’ personal data to police 15 June 2017 09:41
Environment & Health • Hong Kong Hong Kong will be 1,000 doctors, 1,700 nurses short by 2030, says gov’t 15 June 2017 00:03
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest 2014 Occupy protests were the most difficult challenge of my tenure, says Hong Kong chief CY Leung 14 June 2017 18:28
Politics & Protest • SinoBeat Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong criticised by siblings in strongly-worded statement 14 June 2017 11:56
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Protest leader Edward Leung calls for unity between Hong Kong’s localists and pan-democrats 13 June 2017 16:23
Hong Kong • Law & Crime • Politics & Protest Top official apologises for loss of laptops containing Hong Kong voters’ private details 13 June 2017 16:03
Hong Kong • Law & Crime Hong Kong juvenile inmates forced to lick urine, burned with boiling food – report 13 June 2017 15:09
Community & Education • Hong Kong • LGBTQ & Gender Just over half of young Hongkongers want children – study 13 June 2017 00:03
Hong Kong • Law & Crime • Politics & Protest Lawmaker ‘Long Hair’ denies contempt charges for taking files from official 12 June 2017 19:00
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest ‘The public are idiots’: Lawmaker admits faking friendship with disqualified localist duo 12 June 2017 12:13
Politics & Protest • SinoBeat ‘We face a similar problem’: Taiwanese lawmakers set up Hong Kong democracy concern caucus 12 June 2017 11:09
Community & Education • Hong Kong Petition launched to list historic Mid-levels church facing demolition as monument 10 June 2017 10:05
Business • Hong Kong • Science & Technology ‘Deliberately breaking the law’: Hong Kong gov’t bureau slams Uber in strongly-worded statement 9 June 2017 20:45
Community & Education • Hong Kong Hong Kong household income inequality rises to record high, census shows 9 June 2017 18:21
Hong Kong • Travel & Transport Langham mall escalator accident: Technicians banned for 6 months 9 June 2017 16:33
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Fake news: Hong Kong Journalists Association condemns impersonator’s attack on media boss 9 June 2017 11:29
Environment & Health • Hong Kong Gov’t significantly underestimates Hongkongers’ exposure to pollution, says think tank 9 June 2017 08:30
Hong Kong • Politics & Protest Video: In surprise move, pro-Beijing lawmaker Junius Ho votes to ‘never forget June 4’ Tiananmen massacre 8 June 2017 20:04
Hong Kong • Law & Crime • Politics & Protest Pro-Beijing lawmakers block motion to impeach Hong Kong’s leader, following fierce debate 8 June 2017 14:08
HKFP Reports • Hong Kong • Law & Crime • LGBTQ & Gender Hong Kong court rejects banks’ application to intervene in gay rights case 8 June 2017 13:09
Law & Crime • SinoBeat Chinese village chief candidate ousted after wife sends digital ‘red packet’ gift worth HK$11 8 June 2017 08:20
Hong Kong • Law & Crime • Politics & Protest Falun Gong member cleared of hitting ‘unreliable witness’ pro-Beijing activist 8 June 2017 08:15
Hong Kong • Law & Crime • Politics & Protest ‘Unfair’ to convict Mong Kok protesters of illegal assembly if cleared of rioting, says defence 7 June 2017 17:30
Environment & Health • Hong Kong Hong Kong melts: Hottest day of 2017, as scorching weather set to continue into weekend 7 June 2017 16:08
Animals • Environment & Health • Hong Kong Train squads of feral cats to catch mice, suggests lawmaker Ann Chiang 7 June 2017 13:14
Politics & Protest • SinoBeat Mourners blocked from visiting grave of Tiananmen activist Li Wangyang in China, sister says 6 June 2017 18:09
Defence & Foreign Policy • Politics & Protest • SinoBeat ‘Not worth refuting’: Beijing dismisses investigative reports on Chinese influence in Australia 6 June 2017 15:26
Arts, Lifestyle & Events • Hong Kong • Law & Crime Hidden Agenda saga: Bail for foreign bands arrested in Hong Kong extended to July 6 June 2017 00:01
Domestic Workers • Hong Kong • LGBTQ & Gender Hours left for Hong Kong LGBT migrant workers care group to fundraise HK$4.5k rent 5 June 2017 17:00