The city’s economic prosperity lies with the mainland,says the finance minister,as Western investment and those qualifying to live abroad head for the exits.
Australia is right to join with other nations to call out the deterioration of democratic freedoms in Hong Kong.
Inside the Lucky Dumpling Market on the Moon Lantern Trail in Adelaide,Janet Leung wanted to put up some umbrellas. That’s when the trouble started.
Its founders and June 4th vigil organisers appeared in court on Friday charged with subversion under new national security laws imposed by Beijing.
Filming her new Expat series in Hong Kong,the Australian actor has been accused of passively endorsing the Chinese Communist Party.
China’s Foreign Ministry said Biden’s asylum offer “slandered and smeared Hong Kong’s national security law...and blatantly trampled on international law”.
If convicted,Hong Kong singer and prominent pro-democracy activist Anthony Wong could be jailed for up to seven years.
Under Hong Kong’s strict new security laws,the man faces up to nine years in prison
The sentence sets a precedent as to how similar cases will be dealt with by the city’s traditionally independent courts,as dozens arrested under the legislation await their fate.
Tong Lim,who has been held without bail for almost a year,pleaded not guilty after he drove a motorcycle into a group of police officers at a protest in 2020.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said “ideologies” posed risks to national security and urged parents,teachers and religious leaders to observe the behaviour of teenagers and report those who break the law to the authorities.