Hong Kong’s first astronaut in China’s space programme could start serving in missions as early as next year, a national agency has said. The China Manned Space Agency picked the Hong Kong resident in July last year as part of the fourth batch of preparatory astronauts. The local specialist and another one from Macau were…
A British member of parliament has been denied entry to Hong Kong, in what she has called the first incident of its kind since 1997. Wera Hobhouse, the MP for Bath and a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), which has been critical of Beijing’s handling of human rights issues, said she was…
A British member of parliament has been denied entry to Hong Kong, in what she has called the first incident of its kind since 1997. Wera Hobhouse, the MP for Bath and a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), which has been critical of Beijing’s handling of human rights issues, said she was…
A Hong Kong rescue team received a hero’s welcome upon its return to the city on Wednesday night after spending 11 days in earthquake-stricken Myanmar searching for survivors. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu and the top Myanmese diplomat in Hong Kong joined a welcome ceremony at Hong Kong airport, along with family members of the…
A Hong Kong rescue team has continued the search for survivors in the earthquake-stricken city of Mandalay in Myanmar as part of an overnight mission. As of 8.30am on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Security Bureau said rescuers were still continuing their mission near the Mandalay Palace with search and blasting tools, in an operation…
Hong Kong’s legislature has approved the city’s first bill targeted at cybersecurity for computer systems needed for critical infrastructure, with operators facing fines of up to HK$5 million (US$643,000) for failing to keep them up to date. The Legislative Council on Wednesday passed the Protection of Critical Infrastructure (Computer System) Bill amid a spate of…
Hong Kong’s legislature has approved the city’s first bill targeted at cybersecurity for computer systems needed for critical infrastructure, with operators facing fines of up to HK$5 million (US$643,000) for failing to keep them up to date. The Legislative Council on Wednesday passed the Protection of Critical Infrastructure (Computer System) Bill amid a spate of…
The last of the six Hongkongers rescued from a scam farm in Myanmar this week has returned to the city, with the Security Bureau pledging to save the three remaining residents on its case list as soon as possible. Authorities said the sixth member of the group arrived home on Saturday morning. The person had…
An undergraduate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong has been suspended for forging sick notes to apply for an absence from an exam and a death certificate to secure an exemption from scholarship renewal requirements. The university on Sunday cited privacy concerns in declining to provide further details on the case, which came to…
Hong Kong authorities have been urged to provide a clear answer on their plan to rescue residents forced to work at scam farms in Southeast Asia, after the families of some victims went through the start of Lunar New Year without news about their loved ones, a situation they said was worryingly “abnormal”. Former district…