Trip will be president’s first known visit outside mainland China since January 2020 after Covid outbreakThe Chinese president, Xi Jinping, will visit Hong Kong for the 25th anniversary of the city’s handover to mainland China, the state news agency Xi…
Loss-making business still afloat but rescue work extremely difficult due to depth of water, say ownersHong Kong’s distinctive Jumbo Floating Restaurant led a storied life in the decades after it was established in 1976 by the smuggler turned gambling …
City authorities on high alert amid preparations for 1 July and possible visit by China president Xi JinpingHong Kong police have arrested five people for sedition as the city prepares to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the British handover and a pot…
Region now on par with Saudi Arabia in some indicators – and coming closer to converging with ChinaHong Kong has plunged further in a human rights ranking report, bringing it on a par with Saudi Arabia in some indicators, and closer to converging with …
Jumbo Floating Restaurant, which closed in 2020, capsized in the South China Sea after being towed from the city. The sinking triggered nostalgia for a happier period of Hong Kong history.
Jumbo Floating Restaurant encountered ‘adverse weather’ after being towed away from territory’s harbourOne of Hong Kong’s most iconic restaurants – the Jumbo Floating Restaurant – has capsized in the South China Sea days after it was towed away from it…
School books will reportedly say China never recognised the treaties that ceded it to colonial powers during opium warsNew Hong Kong textbooks will teach students that the city was never a British colony, after an overhaul of a school subject that auth…
Authoritarian measures are widened to meet Chinese loyalty requirements, despite fears it will worsen teacher shortagesForeign English-language teachers working in Hong Kong government schools will need to swear allegiance to the city, officials have o…
Plus Hindus try to flee Kashmir and Taipei commemorates Tiananmen Square.
Taipei takes on the role of commemoration from Hong Kong as the only Chinese-speaking country to hold vigilsOn a steamy summer’s night several hundred people gathered at the foot of Taipei’s grand Chiang Kai-shek memorial for one of dozens of vigils be…