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The Philippine military released video of what it said was a nearly hour-long attack off Second Thomas Shoal in the contested South China Sea, where Chinese ships have unleashed water cannon and collided with Filipino vessels in similar stand-offs in recent months....

One of the best-known faces of the city’s protest movements, Chow disappeared from the spotlight in June 2021 after serving a 10-month sentence over an unauthorised assembly in 2019....

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Data this week out of Beijing showing GDP growth at its weakest since 1990, outside the pandemic years, added to concerns officials are not doing enough to provide support.

Hong Kong police have questioned the parents of pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow after she announced she had fled to Canada, local media reported on Friday citing sources. Chow failed to report to authorities this week, as per the bail conditions surrounding her national security allegation.

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Chow was jailed for her role in Hong Kong’s massive 2019 pro-democracy protests, but was later allowed to go abroad to study on condition that she reported in person to police at specified times....

Gao moved to New York in 2009, after years of harassment by Chinese officials believed to be nursing grudges after she exposed a cover-up of the true extent of the AIDS epidemic in central Henan province.

Some US-based executives at accounting giants Deloitte and KPMG have been advised not to use their usual work phones in Hong Kong, the Financial Times has reported, citing unidentified sources with knowledge of the matter. According to the report, some executives said their organisations were “concerned about the risk of hacks...

"The Hong Kong Journalists Association deeply regrets the media arrangements for the International Financial Leaders Investment Summit hosted by the authority on November 7, 2023,” the Chinese statement read....

The pro-democracy Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union (HKPTU) – the city’s largest single-industry union with more than 95,000 members – passed a special resolution in September 2021 to dissolve after Chinese state-run People’s Daily and news wire Xinhua denounced it as a “poisonous tumour” that must be...

Yuen Ching-ting, a 23-year-old student, was publishing ‘online speech with seditious intent in relation’ to a number of social media posts, made from September 2018 to March 2023....

Student Tsang Chi-kin was caught up in clashes between protesters and police on October 1, 2019, when the city saw widespread demonstrations to “mourn” National Day amid protests sparked by a controversial amendment to the city’s extradition bill....

China rejects State Dep’t report claiming Beijing spends billions to spread disinformation globally The State Department report alleged that China suppresses information that goes against its position on contentious issues such as its human rights record, especially in Xinjiang....

The number of Hongkongers registered to vote in direct elections – for District Councillors during the District Council elections, and for lawmakers representing geographical areas in the Legislative Council elections – stood at 4.33 million this year. The figure marked a decrease of 79,309 from last year, the Registration...

A new foreign relations law aimed, in part, at combating foreign sanctions and a recent update to China’s tough anti-espionage regulations are of “great concern to our business community”, EU Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis Dombrovskis said. “Their ambiguity allows too much room for interpretation,” he warned....

Calls to the court where they were expected to appear went unanswered. The case shows how “the Chinese government has to a large extent eliminated the space for civil society activism”, says Yaqiu Wang, China research director at Freedom House....