Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-Fat, asnd most recently, Best Actress Oscar Ź Michelle Yeoh were the icons of Hong Kong’s heyday as the Hollywood of Asia. Despite stricter controls and censorship, Hong Kong is reportedly experiencing a film revival despite the industry’s decline over the past 20 years.
Hong Kong’s national security police used a fake social media account to troll pro-democracy activists for years, according to information revealed during a “subversion” trial of 47 pro-democracy activists who took part in a 2020 democratic primary and further investigated by Radio Free Asia.
The United Nations has called on Hong Kong authorities to release veteran rights activist and lawyer Albert Ho, who was returned to custody to await trial for “subversion” under a national security law after his bail was revoked earlier this month.
A group representing Hongkongers in the United Kingdom has called on the government to slash university tuition fees for holders of the British National Overseas passport and visa scheme, which offers a pathway to citizenship to people fleeing a political crackdown under a draconian security law.
Hong Kong author Muk Yu never took part in the 2019 protest movement.But his debut book of eight short stories — titled “Smoke on the Streets” — set in the aftermath of mass resistance to the ongoing erosion of the city’s freedoms under Communist Party rule has already garnered a literary award on the democratic island of Taiwan.
Since it was reverted to Chinese control in 1997, Hong Kong has had its biggest exodus of residents over the past three years. The opportunity to become a citizen of the United Kingdom is one of the reasons, along with strict COVID restrictions and a strict national security law.
As world leaders congratulated China on its Oct. 1 National Day, protesters gathered in cities around the world to protest against the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s ongoing persecution of ethnic minorities and dissidents
Press freedom in Hong Kong has declined for yet another year, with most local outlets now hesitant to criticize the Chinese government, according to a recent survey by the city’s journalists
Pro-democracy media magnate Jimmy Lai will plead not guilty to ‘colluding with foreign forces’ under Hong Kong’s draconian national security law, court documents revealed on Monday, as a U.S.-based rights group called on the government to drop charges against 47 former lawmakers and activists for “subversion.”
Hong Kong police arrested four people for “seditious” social media posts in connection with a Facebook page titled “Civil servant secrets,” after the page was denounced by a newspaper backed by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for “inciting civil servants” and “smearing government policies and operations”