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The latest government figures show more than 4,000 teachers left their jobs in the past school year, a five-year high and a 70 percent spike from the year before.
As Hong Kong students return for the new academic year, veteran teacher Wong is counting down the days until the political (...)
Trial by jury has been used by Hong Kong’s common law legal system for 177 years but legislation imposed by China in 2020 to curb dissent allows cases to be heard by dedicated national security judges.
Hong Kong’s justice minister has ordered a non-jury trial for the city’s largest national (...)
Former chairman of Hospital Authority Employees Alliance confirms group voted to disband after special general meeting Hong Kong Journalists Association head says organisation has no plan to disband but amendment will give group ‘flexibility’
Hospital Authority Employees Alliance (HAEA)
Hong (...)
News Highlights, May 2022
1. Amendments to Laws and Updates on Administrative Measures
2. The State of Civil Society 2.1 The Courts 2.2 Political Figures and Activists 2.3 Media 2.4 Educational Institutions 2.5 Arts and Culture 2.6 Law (...)
Former district councillor Tiffany Yuen and ex-chairwoman of the now-defunct Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions Carol Ng saw their case moved from the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts to the higher court on Tuesday.
Two more defendants in the high-profile national security case involving (...)
Hong Kong’s one-man election drives home Beijing’s broken promises to the territory.
After weeks of speculation, on April 8 the Chinese government unveiled its pick of Hong Kong’s next leader—John Lee, a former senior police official.
Hong Kong used to be the only territory under Chinese (...)
On March 8, public hospital unionist Winnie Yu is being sent back to prison.
Placed in pre-trial detention in February 2021, she had been granted bail five months later. Her bail has now been arbitrarily revoked on the grounds that Winnie Yu sold handicrafts and coffee at Lunar New Year in (...)
Winnie Yu is awaiting trial for ’subversion’ after taking part in a democratic primary in the summer of 2020.
Authorities in Hong Kong have revoked bail for former healthcare union chief and democracy activist Winnie Yu, putting her back behind bars on International Women’s Day.
Yu, 34, had been (...)
With a Tsarist Russia dream and for the purpose of competing for global hegemony, the Kremlin Putin officially launched an imperialist invasion war against Ukraine on Thursday (February 24). Since the Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe, the world has once again entered a crossroads: either (...)
On 21 December 2021, the Chinese State Council Information Office released its White Paper “Democratic Progress Under the Framework of One Country, Two Systems”, insisting that what Beijing has done to Hong Kong is simply to uphold its promise concerning Hong Kong’s autonomy. Just eight days after (...)
The Hong Kong White Collar (Administration and Clerical) Connect Union said the scope of unions is “not confined to the narrow definition of employment relationships.”
An independent Hong Kong trade union has defended its actions and comments made in opposition to the city’s national security (...)
“All the promises of 1997 will continue to be honoured and called by the same names as before. Except that there has now been, in Beijing’s view, a rectification of names. ” Suzanne Pepper writes.
The day after Hong Kong’s re-vamped Legislative Council election was held on December 19, the central (...)
• While some jobs and expats in law and banking are heading to Singapore, the city state is facing domestic demands to prioritise local workers
• Relocation firms have seen a marked rise in moves from Hong Kong to Singapore, with others heading to Britain, Australia and Canada
British (...)
On Tuesday, January 4, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said that the Hong Kong authorities do “not seek to crackdown on press freedom.” HKFP rounds up media industry incidents since the onset of the national security law.
July 2020
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club issued an open letter to Chief (...)
Deputy assignment editor Ronson Chan – who also chairs the Hong Kong Journalists Association – and former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen were among those apprehended.
Over 200 national security police officers were deployed on Wednesday 29 to raid the offices of non-profit online news outlet (...)
Police have confiscated computers and taken away boxes of material from the Stand News offices, as features disappear from the website.
The head of a Hong Kong press group and editor at Stand News Ronson Chan has been released by police, hours after he was taken into police custody early on (...)
Assets totalling HK$61 million have been frozen by the authorities as the website disappears from the internet.
Stand News has said it is halting operations after seven years and removing all content, following a police raid and seven arrests on Wednesday 29. Meanwhile, assets totalling HK$61 (...)
Since Beijing’s national security law for Hong Kong came into force, at least 50 organisations — including unions, churches, media groups, and political parties — have disbanded this year alone. The trend accelerated in the second half of 2021, with bastions of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement (...)
• Members from such bodies say risks are too great, referencing fall of major unions accused by state media of foreign collusion or dabbling in politics, as well as the demise of Apple Daily
• For now, most have withdrawn to reflect, but observer says their disappearance does not guarantee (...)
« If the police endorses the non-violent struggle led by Gandhi, why should it not respect the right of the people of Hong Kong, » writes veteran democrat Lee Cheuk-yan in his mitigation.
Lee Cheuk-yan, former chairperson of the now-defunct Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic (...)
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