NEW YORK — A man convicted in the first trial highlighting U.S. claims that China harasses its critics overseas was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for his role in a creepy campaign to get a former official to return to his homeland. Zhu Yong, a Chinese retiree who faces likely deportation from the…
Hong Kong has long been aware of its potential to be a widely recognised medical hub, largely on the strength of an internationally respected healthcare system. But the focus, rightly, has remained on a local population heavily dependent on a public health sector. Medical tourism has never really got off the ground. Meanwhile, the city…
Beijing’s foreign ministry’s arm in Hong Kong is conducting a “rare” survey among diplomats in the city to find out whether they have faced obstacles reaching local and mainland Chinese authorities, the Post has learned. One European diplomat described the outreach as part of a “style change” by the Beijing office that involved closer supervision…
Rapper Lil Durk has been arrested on federal charges, alleging that he orchestrated a 2022 murder-for-hire plot against fellow rapper Quando Rondo in Los Angeles. After Rondo’s cousin Saviay’a Robinson was fatally shot outside an L.A. gas station on Aug. 19, 2022, the Grammy winner was arrested late Thursday night near Miami International Airport as…
Hong Kong’s leader has brushed aside a former minister’s suggestion that encouraging protests can help the city’s image abroad, calling the argument that demonstrations prove political inclusivity “narrow-minded”. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu made the remarks on Sunday, two weeks after former housing and transport minister Anthony Cheung Bing-leung told a newspaper that encouraging groups…