Tag: Kong
To achieve “zero Covid”, Hong Kong imposes a grueling quarantine on residents returning to the island
LETTER FROM HONGKONG Messages posted on windows by customers quarantined at a Hong Kong hotel on September 26, 2021. PETER PARKS / AFP Since the end of August, residents of…
No trading on the stock exchange: Evergrande securities suspended in Hong Kong
Monday, October 4th, 2021 No trading on the stock exchange Evergrande papers exposed in Hong Kong The Chinese real estate company Evergrande is shaking threateningly. The mountain of debt is…
Even smaller than a parking lot: Hong Kong is building mini-apartments
Thursday, September 23, 2021 Even smaller than a parking lot Hong Kong is building mini-apartments Hong Kong is notorious for extremely high rents and very small apartments. Apartments are now…
Hong Kong elects an electoral committee reserved for “patriots”
Activist Chen Baoying arrested by police during protests against the election of the committee called to elect the next Hong Kong leader, in Hong Kong on September 19, 2021. VINCENT…
In Hong Kong, district councilors must take an oath to prove their “patriotism”
Away from the press, in front of the Chinese and Hong Kong flags, 24 district councilors had to swear their loyalty to the Chinese state and to Basic Law, the…
Hong Kong: allegations against democracy movement – view
The police in Hong Kong accuse leaders of the democracy movement of “inciting to undermine state power”. This devotee supports the movement. Photo: Kin Cheung / AP / dpa The…
In Hong Kong, films already released may be censored under new national security law
Protesters take part in a human rights march in Hong Kong in December 2019. DANISH SIDDIQUI / REUTERS In Hong Kong, the authorities announced on Tuesday August 24 that they…
“Between June 2020 and summer 2021, all the freedoms that were unique to Hong Kong have been removed”
Police disperse pro-democracy protesters during a rally against the postponement of elections in Hong Kong in September 2020. TYRONE SIU TO on the eve of the handover of Hong Kong…
Nine years in prison for first Hong Kong man sentenced by national security law
Tong Ying-kit arriving at West Kowloon Court in Hong Kong on July 6, 2020. ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP The exceptional justice, set up by the national security law a year…
Hong Kong Police Arrest Former Apple Daily Editor
Lam Man-chung, former editor of the “Apple Daily”, at the newspaper’s head office on June 23, 2021, shortly before it was forced to close. KIN CHEUNG / AP China continues…
In Cannes, the Hong Kong revolution makes its voice heard
Director Kiwi Chow, June 18, 2021, in Kwun Tong, a district of Hong Kong. LAM YIK / REUTERS Before the first images, a text warns on the screen that the…
in Hong Kong, censorship goes beyond fiction
At a screening of the anti-Beijing film, Ten Years, on April 1, 2016, in Hong Kong. ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP Until the announcement, not really unexpected, of the new censorship…