Bridget Wing & Georgina Lam, BBC Eye Investigations Innes Tang Innes Tang says he set up a hotline with his own money to receive reports of alleged national security infringements From a woman waving a colonial-era flag in a shopping mall, to bakery staff selling cakes with protest symbols on them – dozens of Hongkongers…
Three of Hong Kong’s biggest developers – Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP), CK Asset Holdings and Henderson Land – are expected to dominate the housing market, as homebuyers increasingly prefer smaller flats amid economic jitters, according to JLL. The trio were set to deliver 60 per cent of new residential units in 2025 and 2026,…
Hong Kong lawmakers on Thursday unanimously passed a motion calling for unity in countering US tariffs, with some calling on tycoon Li Ka-shing’s CK Hutchison Holdings not to go ahead with selling its Panama ports. The motion, put forward by lawmaker Ma Fung-kwok, urged authorities and the city’s industries to “resolutely dovetail with our country’s…
WHITINGHAM — A settlement agreement between the U.S. Department of Justice and Twin Valley was resolved early. The three-year agreement was entered in March 2023 to resolve noncompliance issues related to Title 4 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 after the DOJ found the district “failed to respond adequately to known complaints of peer…
Beijing’s point man on Macau affairs has embarked on a six-day fact-finding trip to the city and has acknowledged the “good start” made by the new administration. Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO), arrived in the city on Thursday afternoon for a visit that runs until Tuesday. “Upon his…
On april 30th Hong Kong police unleashed a new weapon in their attempt to punish those who have fought for freedoms in the former British territory since 2019. The father and brother of one activist who took part in mass protests that year, Anna Kwok (who fled to America in 2020), were detained on suspicion…
This Dec 3, 2024, file photo shows the signage of the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong. (SHAMIM ASHRAF / CHINA DAILY) HONG KONG – Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu has accepted the recommendation of the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission (JORC) on the appointment of Sir William Gillow Gibbes Austen Young as a non-permanent…
A former bus technician has been jailed for a year under Hong Kong’s domestic national security law for publishing derogatory comments on social media, including depicting police officers as “rogue cops” and the city as an “international hub of false imprisonment”. Li Chun-kit, 36, on Thursday pleaded guilty at West Kowloon Court to one count…
The abrupt closure of a three-decade-old congee restaurant chain in Hong Kong has left around 20 imported workers from mainland China facing eviction from their dormitory and worried about being sent home without collecting unpaid wages. The mainland workers, who arrived in Hong Kong through the city’s supplementary labour scheme in May last year, were…
Research from Randstad finds one in three millennials refuse to go into the office when they feel dissatisfied with their jobs, compared to 21% of Gen Z and 18% of Gen X workers. By Maggie Mancini Millennials are the most likely to “quiet quit” in Hong Kong, as 45% have done so due to…