Feb 25 Hong Kong’s new COVID cases top 10,000 By News Desk Hong Kong has reported another sharp jump in new COVID-19 cases to more than 10,000 in the latest 24-hour period. Continue reading
Feb 22 Hong Kong says it will test its entire population as COVID-19 outbreak grows By Zen Soo, Alice Fung, Associated Press Hong Kong's leader says the city will test its entire population for COVID-19 in March as it grapples with its worst outbreak driven by the omicron variant. Continue reading
Feb 16 Hong Kong faces its worst outbreak of the pandemic even as sticks with ‘zero-COVID’ strategy By Alice Fung, David Rising, Associated Press Hospitals in Hong Kong are struggling to keep up with an influx of coronavirus patients amid record numbers of new infections as the city doggedly adheres to its "zero-COVID" strategy. Continue reading
Jan 18 Hong Kong to euthanize thousands of small animals after several test positive for coronavirus at pet store By Zen Soo, Associated Press Hong Kong authorities say they will kill about 2,000 small animals, including hamsters, after several tested positive for the coronavirus at a pet store where an employee was also infected. Continue reading
Dec 30 Hong Kong journalists charged with sedition following raid By Zen Soo, Associated Press Two former editors from a Hong Kong online pro-democracy news outlet have been charged with sedition and denied bail. Continue reading
Dec 29 Watch 5:34 Hong Kong’s pro-democracy leaders urge the West to ‘step up’ amid raids on free press By Nick Schifrin, Dan Sagalyn One of the largest remaining independent media outlets in Hong Kong shut itself down Wednesday. The closure came after police raided its offices, arrested editors and board members, and accused them of “sedition.” As Nick Schifrin reports, the death of… Continue watching
Dec 24 Universities remove more Tiananmen massacre memorials in Hong Kong By News Desk Universities in Hong Kong are removing memorials to the bloody suppression of the 1989 Chinese pro-democracy movement centered on Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Continue reading
Dec 23 Citing ‘legal risks’, last monument for Tiananmen massacre removed in Hong Kong By Zen Soo, Associated Press A monument at a Hong Kong university that was the best-known public remembrance of the Tiananmen Square massacre on Chinese soil was removed early Thursday, wiping out the city's last place of public commemoration of the bloody 1989 crackdown. Continue reading
Nov 18 Hong Kong declares wild boars fair game after animal attacks By Zen Soo, Associated Press Hong Kong authorities have had enough of wild boars. An increasing number of attacks by the animals including one that bit a police officer last week have triggered an operation in a district less than half an hour's drive from… Continue reading
Jul 30 Watch 7:07 Hong Kong residents worry vague new immigration law could let China ban them from leaving By Richard Kimber A pro-democracy protester in Hong Kong was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison, the first prosecution under Beijing's national security law. Now a new amendment to the city’s immigration law takes effect Sunday that China says targets illegal refugees. Continue watching