“Return the money”: in Hong Kong, angry football fans did not wait for Messi to take the field
Tickets for a friendly match between the local team and the Argentine star’s new club cost up to $630. Lionel Messi did not take part in the…
Even more pro-Beijing: former security official John Lee "elected" new head of Hong Kong administration
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It’s too late for Hong Kong to regain expats’ trust
Others don’t particularly fancy waiting around to find out what the next song sounds like, given that Lee oversaw the government’s crackdown on protesters in 2019. Opposition…
UK to withdraw judges from Hong Kong because of ‘systematic erosion of democracy’
The UK is to withdraw its judges from Hong Kong’s courts, as Liz Truss warns their continued participation would “legitimise oppression”. The Foreign Secretary announced the move…
China and Covid are killing free Hong Kong
A recent email from a British citizen working in Hong Kong begins: “I am writing this from a quarantine hotel in HK. Due to the HK government’s…
Banks ‘losing patience’ after Hong Kong’s zero-Covid policy fails
Hong Kong’s leader has admitted that banks in the Asian financial hub are “losing patience” after the failure of its unpopular zero-tolerance approach to Covid. Bank bosses…
Liz Truss attacks China’s ‘attempt to silence’ UK-based Hong Kong human rights group
Since it came into effect in July 2020, a number of politicians, activists, lawyers, doctors and other professionals have fled Hong Kong out of concern that they…
Liz Truss condemns Chinese government’s ‘attempt to silence’ UK-based human rights group
“Attempting to silence voices globally that speak up for freedom and democracy is unacceptable and will never succeed,” Ms Truss said. Hong Kong Watch was accused of…
Beijing is stepping up its war on freedom
I am on the Chinese Communist Party’s hitlist. I have been for the past five years, but now the situation has escalated. I have received a letter…
Hong Kong threatens British human-rights activist with jail time over website
The UK accused the authorities in China and Hong Kong of an unjustified assault on free speech after a British human rights organisation was threatened under a…
Hong Kong bankers plot escape from zero-Covid nightmare
Annie left Hong Kong to spend Christmas with her family in Britain and never went back. With flights from the UK banned in early 2020, the finance…
Hong Kong earmarks 20,000 hotel rooms for Covid quarantine as hospitals overflow
But the city’s tight policies have not been enough to stave off more contagious variants. The mushrooming outbreak is the latest challenge for embattled city leader Carrie…
Toddler becomes youngest victim of coronavirus in Hong Kong as city rushes to vaccinate children
The government said it would set up a new centre dedicated to vaccinating children and the elderly, after extending the vaccination programme to children as young as…
Hong Kong has been left wrecked by zero-Covid Beijing
You can’t blame Prudential chief Mike Wells for wanting to leave. Nor his temporary replacement Mark FitzPatrick for turning down the permanent job. With comically bad timing,…
Western complacency has invigorated Russia and China
Until a fairly recent U-turn, it was even proposed that Huawei, a Chinese telecoms company, should be allowed to run Britain’s 5G network. This was despite it…
Hong Kong is on its knees and China must decide whether it lives or dies
Consumer spending has slowed, many of its biggest factories have been forced to pause production, and there has been a wave of job losses. The timing couldn’t…
Private jets for pets as desperate Hong Kong residents flee the city
“There’s huge demand”, Chris Phillips, who works as a pet and medical charter manager for a private jet broker, told the Financial Times. “People want to get…
You’ll have to kill us first, say Hong Kong’s hamster lovers amid outrage at Covid cull
Hamster lovers in Hong Kong have said that authorities will have to “kill them first”, as the city forges ahead with a cull of 2,000 of the…
Thousands of hamsters to be culled in Hong Kong after they’re accused of spreading Covid
Crews on Cathay Pacific faced a combined total of 73,000 nights in quarantine last year, but Hong Kong’s flagship carrier has been accused of causing the initial…
How on earth do you send a telegram in Chinese?
Telegrams, for instance, could only be sent in Chinese by assigning each character a number between four and six digits long. “Whereas English could be English, and…
‘Trapped’ in Hong Kong: zero-Covid misery casts shadow over financial hub’s future
Frustrated residents’ hopes that Hong Kong might learn to live with coronavirus were dashed this week as flights from eight countries were banned. With the new year…
British schools forced to turn away students from Hong Kong as applications soar
The public has also been advised to snitch on teachers, students or parents who aren’t toeing the line under the national security law. The “political situation in…
The creator of Tiananmen’s Pillar of Shame: ‘When you destroy art, you make it stronger’
“For so many Hong Kongers, like myself, Tiananmen was our political and democratic baptism,” says Chu. “And as the public rituals and symbols around 89 have been…
Hong Kong’s ‘patriots-only’ election sees record low turnout as government loyalists sweep seats
The electoral changes exclude only “those who act against Hong Kong’s interests”, he stressed. “Those traitors who will not be acting for the overall good of Hong…
Hong Kong’s ‘patriots-only’ election set for record low turnout
Hong Kong’s so-called patriots’ election was heading for record low turnout last night as residents appeared to boycott reforms imposed by Beijing. As of 9.30pm on Sunday,…