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Hong Kong court upholds convictions of Cardinal Joseph Zen and others over protester relief fund
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Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty in national security case
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‘Another worry is that there will be a series of aftershocks in the coming days.’
@LauraWestbrook has an update for @NickFerrariLBC on the deadly earthquake that hit Japan on Tuesday.
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Hong Kong activist allowed to stay in UK after deportation threat bbc.in/3TjftQd
Ex-Hong Kong opposition leader Wu Chi-wai enters UK for asylum after border detention – report
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The jailings of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and former executives at Apple Daily cement a climate of fear and self-censorship in the years since Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law, journalists say.
@AFP story: u.afp.com/S6Jy
ALT A poster (bottom C), with words reading "Hong Kong add oil", is displayed on one of the windows of the shuttered Apple Daily newspaper office in Hong Kong on February 9, 2026. A Hong Kong court sentenced pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai on February 9 to 20 years in prison following his high-profile national security trial that rights groups and Western nations have condemned as a symbol of the city's shrivelling press freedoms. The 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper was found guilty in December on two counts of foreign collusion under a sweeping national security law imposed by Beijing, as well as one count of seditious publication. (Yan Zhao / AFP)
Members of the public queue for the verdict in the Jimmy Lai national security trial in Hong Kong. “No hope” one supporter told me.
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At least 44 people are now known to have died and 279 are still missing, after a major fire spread between high rise flats in Hong Kong. Three people have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
@LauraWestbrook is there for us this morning.
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Tonight, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said: "We will always be a country that offers protection to those fleeing peril, just as we did... when we repatriated Hong Kongers."
"repatriated" has never been used to describe HKers in the past few years -- hinting change in policy?
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"We will inform the parties in good time" as to when the verdict will be reached, judge Esther Toh said.
The trial began in December 2023. Lai took the witness stand in November 2024.
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ALT Chart showing legal cases faced by Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, on trial on national security charges since December 18, 2023. (Nick Shearman, Janis Latvels / AFP)
Back in court for the closing arguments in Jimmy Lai’s national security trial, which was adjourned last week so he could receive medical treatment. People here tell me they are worried about his health.
Closing arguments from the defence and prosecution are set to begin again today in ex media mogul Jimmy Lai’s national security trial, after being postponed due to a black rainstorm warning yesterday
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I do love a #HongKong typhoon live blog: SCMP photogs out there getting the classic shots (sticky taped windows, man stands perilously close to wave smashing on wall) as well as snapping the unmoored vessel that so nearly drifted past the K- Town pier
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China’s national security authorities in Hong Kong and the city’s police launched their first publicly known joint operation, raiding the homes of six people on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security. apnews.com/article/hong-kong…
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For most Chinese, the 36th anniversary of a bloody crackdown that ended pro-democracy protests passed like any other weekday. While the decades-old Hong Kong vigil has vanished, some chose to commemorate in their own ways. apnews.com/article/china-tia…
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A performance artist was forced to leave Causeway Bay and a shop selling small white candles was raided by customs officials on Tuesday (June 3).
One jailed pro-democracy activist, Chow Hang-tung, is staging a 36 hour hunger strike in prison to mark the anniversary.
The world will never forget China's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, Taiwan's president and the top US diplomat said on the 36th anniversary of an event Beijing treats as taboo and allows no public remembrance reut.rs/4kOinEL
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Here's a story about Hong Kong businesses caught between the U.S.-China trade war, and having to work around constantly changing tariff policies
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A Hong Kong judge sentenced former pro-democracy lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting to three years and one month in prison on a charge of riot after an incident in which he was beaten up at a subway station during the city’s anti-government protests in July 2019. apnews.com/article/hong-kong…
