Hong Kong schools recorded a net increase of about 4,500 students for the past academic year, with an industry leader attributing the shift from past trends to the diminishing emigration waves and an influx of young dependants linked to the city’s talent trawl. The city saw more than 80,000 pupils depart its schools between 2019-20…
A Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong’s national security has dismissed calls from foreign groups to pardon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, questioning the need to do so as the former media boss is not “a certain president’s son”. Sun Qingye, deputy director of Beijing’s Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong, also warned on Friday against…
A Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong’s national security has dismissed calls from foreign groups to pardon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, questioning the need to do so as the former media boss is not “a certain president’s son”. Sun Qingye, deputy director of Beijing’s Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong, also warned on Friday against…
As China’s political elite gather for the country’s annual legislative sessions this week, we examine the broader forces likely to influence policies and decision-making for the coming year. The third part of the series delves into how much more investible the nation has become in a short span. As top lawmakers gather in Beijing to…
Hong Kong authorities will thoroughly investigate whether intermediaries luring residents into illegal work in Southeast Asia are being directly controlled by crime syndicates amid a resurgence in such scams, the security minister has pledged. Secretary for Security Tang Chris Tang Ping-keung also said on Saturday that the government would do its “utmost” to rescue 11…
Efforts by New Zealand, the United States and other allies against alleged China-linked espionage activities are “groundless and irresponsible”, Beijing said on Saturday, claiming that it had been a “main victim” of large-scale cyberattacks. The statement was in response to an advisory from New Zealand and its international partners Australia, Canada and the US earlier…
Last week, the two countries’ defence chiefs held talks in Laos and committed to cooperation – the latest in a series of moves that analysts have called a “strategic recalibration” in response to pressures from the West. As Beijing seeks to reform the global economic architecture and New Delhi pursues its multidimensional foreign policy, their…
A Chinese state-owned company has reported a breakthrough in the mass production of almost 100 per cent pure graphite. The feat is expected to consolidate China’s global leadership in producing the strategic material seen as a vital weapon in the country’s hi-tech war with the West. Science and Technology Daily reported on Tuesday that China…
The global aviation industry could benefit from Donald Trump’s re-election if he can end the Russia-Ukraine war and break the airspace deadlock, but Hong Kong’s air cargo business is set to suffer with his increased tariffs against China, industry leaders and analysts have said. Subhas Menon, director general of the Association of Asia-Pacific Airlines (AAPA),…
Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu announced an economic reform blueprint on Wednesday aimed at transforming Hong Kong’s traditional sectors such as finance, trade and shipping, and investing in new technology industries, while rolling out a bigger welcome mat for foreign talent and funds. In his third policy address since becoming Hong Kong’s leader, he also…