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Will Hong Kong become like tightly-ruled but stable Singapore
Jul 23, 2020 (AFP)
The two trading centres have long been compared but recent events have brought the issue into sharper contrast as Hong Kong faces a new era of curtailed civil l...
UK suspends extradition treaty with Hong Kong
Jul 21, 2020 (AFP)
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab confirmed the widely expected move in parliament, despite Chinese warnings that Britain was making a grave foreign policy error a...
Hundreds chip in to support sacked Xi critic
Jul 21, 2020 (AFP)
Xu Zhangrun, who taught at Tsinghua University for over 20 years, wrote an open letter to thank almost 600 alumni of the Beijing institution for their backing. ...
UK says China committing 'gross' abuses against Uighurs
Jul 19, 2020 (AFP)
Rights groups and experts estimate that more than one million ethnic Uighurs and other Turkic-speaking minorities have been rounded up into a network of internm...
Hong Kong security law sends jitters through city's feisty press
Jul 19, 2020 (AFP)
For decades the former British colony has been a shining light for journalists in Asia, lying on the fringes of an authoritarian China where the ruling Communis...
New York Times moving some Hong Kong staff over security law
Jul 15, 2020 (AFP)
It is the first major relocation by an international news organisation since authoritarian China enacted its sweeping security law late last month, ramping up i...
Hong Kong academics fear for freedom under new security law
Jul 15, 2020 (AFP)
Just a week after the sweeping legislation was imposed on the territory, staff at some institutions have already been warned by their administrators to be caref...
Detained Chinese professor who criticised Xi is freed, friends say
Jul 13, 2020 (AFP)
Xu Zhangrun, a law professor at Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University, was taken from his home in the capital by a group of more than 20 people on July 6, a...
Prison terms for French ex-spies who shared secrets with China
Jul 12, 2020 (AFP)
Following a trial in Paris conducted in the utmost secrecy, the former officers with France's Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) were convicted Fr...
Mixed reaction from Hong Kong expats to UK visas offer
Jul 12, 2020 (AFP)
But they warned this "message of hope" would not help many, including those born after Hong Kong's 1997 return to Chinese rule and now aged over 18 -- people at...
US warns of 'arbitrary detention' risk in China
Jul 11, 2020 (AFP)
US citizens in China "may be subjected to prolonged interrogations and extended detention for reasons related to 'state security'", the State Department warned ...
No regrets: wounded Hong Kong police vow to keep enforcing law
Jul 10, 2020 (AFP)
Officers like Ling have formed the spear tip of Beijing's pushback against huge and often violent pro-democracy protests in the restless finance hub. Seven mont...
Sweden ex-envoy faces verdict in China dissident case
Jul 10, 2020 (AFP)
Anna Lindstedt, Beijing envoy between 2016 and 2019, is accused of brokering an unauthorised meeting in January last year to get a Chinese-Swedish publisher fre...
China opens Hong Kong headquarters for its secret police
Jul 08, 2020 (AFP)
The new base is located in a rapidly converted hotel overlooking the city's Victoria Park, a location that has hosted pro-democracy protests for years, includin...
Hong Kong leader says will 'vigorously implement' security law
Jul 07, 2020 (AFP)
Speaking at a press conference a week after China imposed the law on the semi-autonomous city, Chief Executive Carrie Lam combined warnings with assurances to H...
Hong Kong set to become a new Tibet, says exiled leader
Jul 07, 2020 (AFP)
Lobsang Sangay said China was deceiving Hong Kong the same way it cheated Tibetan people in 1951 when it promised autonomy. Sangay said China promised to uphold...
HK govt tells schools to remove books breaching security law
Jul 06, 2020 (AFP)
"In accordance with the four types of offences clearly stipulated in the law, the school management and teachers should review teaching and learning materials i...
China crackdown sparks Western offers of asylum for Hong Kongers
Jul 03, 2020 (AFP)
The United Kingdom is leading allies in offering nearly half the city's 7.5 million people a potential pathway to British citizenship, with strong indications A...
China appoints hardliner as head of Hong Kong national security agency
Jul 03, 2020 (AFP)
Zheng Yanxiong will take the helm of the controversial national security agency, a new office set up under the legislation that empowers mainland security agent...
China clashes with US over new Hong Kong security law
Jul 02, 2020 (AFP)
Beijing has faced a groundswell of criticism from primarily Western nations over its decision to impose a law outlawing acts of subversion, secession, terrorism...
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