This is the 52nd instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades. For an acclaimed movie star whose accolades include best actress at the Venice Film Festival, Deanie Ip Tak-han has surprisingly little regard for fame and fortune. Known for standing up for her views even if it…
Hong Kong national security police have charged the father of wanted activist Anna Kwok Fung-yee for allegedly handling the funds or financial assets of an absconder, the Post has learned. A police source said on Friday that national security officers also arrested the brother of the United States-based Kwok for the same offence during an…
For Chan Po-ying of the League of Social Democrats, the immediate impact of Hong Kong’s local version of the national security law when it came into force a year ago came like a punch to her gut. With the passage of the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance last March, she would have to wait 2¼ years…
Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has denied stirring up opposition against the Hong Kong government at a former American diplomat’s behest in the lead-up to the 2019 social unrest. Lai on Tuesday told his marathon national security trial that he did not beg for advice from James Cunningham, a US consul general in Hong…
Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has denied stirring up opposition against the Hong Kong government at a former American diplomat’s behest in the lead-up to the 2019 social unrest. Lai on Tuesday told his marathon national security trial that he did not beg for advice from James Cunningham, a US consul general in Hong…