China is no longer welcome in Britain’s steel sector after the government had to pass emergency legislation on Saturday to ensure control of Chinese-owned British Steel, British Secretary of State for Business and Trade Jonathan Reynolds said on Sunday. Reynolds said the refusal of China’s Jingye Group (敬業集團) to accept a roughly 500 million pound…
UPCOMING ELECTIONS : The last major opposition party was told by Chinese officials or people close to Beijing that it should be ‘gone’ before December Five senior members of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party, the territory’s biggest and last remaining major opposition party, said that Chinese officials or intermediaries have warned the party to disband or…
The famously raucous Hong Kong Sevens are to start today in a big test for a shiny new stadium at the heart of a major US$3.85 billion sports park in the territory. Officials are keeping their fingers crossed that the premier event in Hong Kong’s sporting and social calendar goes off without a hitch at…
In a shake-up of long-standing travel rules, European nationals heading to the UK would from tomorrow need a mandatory entry permit, which the British government says would strengthen border security. The electronic travel authorization (ETA) can be bought online in the next few days for ￡10 (US$13), but the price is to rise swiftly from…
Britain’s Labour Party government on Tuesday announced an overhaul of the welfare system that it says would save the cash-strapped administration ￡5 billion (US$6.5 billion). The government said that the shakeup would help people to find jobs who are currently “written off.” British Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall told lawmakers in…
At first glance, the office desk could belong to any Chinese executive — an ashtray, mini-flags, a golden sculpture inscribed with the character for “integrity” and a picture of a local celebrity. Instead, it is part of a defiant art show challenging Hong Kong’s stuffy power structures, held in an office tower at the heart…
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) yesterday confirmed the detention of a Taiwanese in Hong Kong, a member of a delegation “led by” opposition Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislative caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (傅崐萁) to the territory last month. The detained person, a travel industry operator from Hualien County, was a member of a delegation organized…
By Chen Cheng-yu, Jonathan Chin and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writers Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (傅?萁) drew ire from Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers yesterday, after he took a sick leave from a legislative negotiation on Tuesday, but was later revealed to be in Hong Kong. Fu skipped…
UNITED STATES No survivors in Alaska crash The Coast Guard in Alaska on Friday found the wreckage of a small plane atop frozen sea ice, after the aircraft suddenly lost altitude a day earlier in a crash that killed all 10 people on board, officials said. Two Coast Guard rescue swimmers could see three bodies…
By Chen Yu-fu and Jason Pan / Staff reporters Taiwanese traveling abroad during the Lunar New Year holiday should remember that Hong Kong and Macau are still under an “orange” travel alert, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said yesterday, adding that people should not attempt to take pepper spray or other personal protection items forbidden…