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Hong Kongers currently have little clarity on who will be their next leader

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to leave office

Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam has announced that she will step down in June ending a five-year term in office that saw democracy protests squashed.

World • 04 Apr 22

Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index is down 7% since the start of the year

Trade halted in 32 Hong Kong firms on earnings no-show

More than 30 firms, including at least two major Chinese property developers, saw trading in their shares halted in Hong Kong today after they failed to report annual results.

Business • 01 Apr 22

Two senior British judges resigned from Hong Kong's highest court on Wednesday because of the national security law

Hong Kong 'opposes' report on diminishing freedoms

Hong Kong's government has rejected "unfounded and ridiculous" allegations made in policy reports from Britain and the United States of a deteriorating political and legal situation due to the city's sweeping national security law.

World • 01 Apr 22

Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index rocketed 1,672 (9.08%) to close at 20,087 today

Hong Kong stocks soar as China pledges support

Hong Kong stocks rallied more than 9% today after a pledge by Chinese authorities to provide much-needed support to beaten-down markets that has slashed the valuations of some of the country's biggest firms.

Business • 16 Mar 22

ParknShop announced shorter opening hours and rationing

Hong Kong retail chains ration goods amid Covid surge

Two of Hong Kong's largest retail chains have started rationing some food and drug items to curb panic buying that has plagued the city over the past week amid fears of a citywide lockdown as Covid-19 cases soar.

Coronavirus • 04 Mar 22

A passenger is greeted by staff at the Shau Kei Wan Designated Covid-19 Clinic in Hong Kong

Hong Kong to enforce mass Covid testing

Hong Kong will roll outcompulsory testing for Covid-19 starting in mid-March for its 7.4 million residents, leader Carrie Lam said, as university researchers predicted new infections could peak at a staggering 180,000 a day next month.

Coronavirus • 22 Feb 22

Reaction from hamster lovers in Hong Kong was swift - and angry

Hong Kong to cull hamsters after Covid outbreak

Hong Kong will cull hundreds of hamsters after some tested positive for the coronavirus, as the city pushes to maintain its strict "zero-Covid" strategy.

News Lens • 18 Jan 22

Carrie Lam seen on a screen in the chamber of the Legislative Council

Hong Kong to create more 'national security' crimes

Hong Kong will outlaw a host of new national security crimes, the city's leader has said, as she presided over the first session of a new "patriots only" legislature scrubbed of political opposition.

World • 12 Jan 22

Patrick Lam of the Stand News being arrested yesterday

Hong Kong news outlet's editors charged with sedition

Two senior editors of Hong Kong media outlet Stand News were charged with "conspiracy to publish seditious" material today, authorities said, following a raid that drew international condemnation over China's crackdown on press freedom in the city.

World • 30 Dec 21

The 'Goddess of Democracy' on campus at the Chinese University of Hong Kong before it removed today (file image)

Two more Hong Kong universities remove Tiananmen art

Two Hong Kong universities have removed sculptures marking China's 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square democracy protesters, as authorities steadily erase all remaining traces of the deadly event from the southern Chinese territory.

World • 24 Dec 21

HKU said the statue was placed in storage

Hong Kong university dismantles Tiananmen statue

Hong Kong's oldest university has removed a statue commemorating the deadly 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square democracy protesters, the latest step in China's campaign to silence dissent in the city.

World • 23 Dec 21

Crowds behind barricades before the dramatic storming of the city's legislature in July 2019

Democracy campaigners barely visible in Hong Kong poll

Elections are taking place in Hong Kong for its Legislative Council today, but they will not be the once-hoped-for chance for the democratic movement there to demonstrate its popularity.

World • 19 Dec 21

The most dangerous countries were Mexico and Afghanistan, with seven and six journalist deaths respectively

Record 488 journalists imprisoned in 2021: RSF

There are currently 488 media professionals imprisoned around the world, the highest number since Reporters Without Borders began counting more than 25 years ago, the NGO announced today.

World • 16 Dec 21

Police said 13 people were injured before firefighters put out the blaze

More than 100 trapped on roof by Hong Kong fire

A fire broke out in Hong Kong's World Trade Centre, trapping about 150 people on its roof.

World • 15 Dec 21

Standard Chartered earns most of its revenue in Asia

Standard Chartered's Q3 profit doubles as bad loans dip

Standard Chartered saw a recovery in pandemic-hit markets to post a stronger than expected pre-tax profit for the third quarter today, aided by lower credit charges and growth in trade finance.

Business • 02 Nov 21

The statue features 50 anguished faces and tortured bodies piled on one another

Danish artist seeks to reclaim HK Tiananmen statue

The Danish artist behind a Hong Kong sculpture mourning those killed in Tiananmen Square has instructed a lawyer to secure his work and bring it overseas after the city's flagship university ordered its sudden removal.

News Lens • 13 Oct 21

Hong Kong riot police deployed at previous protest

Hong Kong to create more national security offences

Hong Kong will create a host of new national security offences, a senior official has confirmed, building on a law Beijing imposed last year that has criminalised much dissent and transformed the city.

World • 14 Sep 21

Police officers seen asking people to leave Victoria park during this year's Tiananmen anniversary

Hong Kong police arrest Tiananmen vigil organisers

Hong Kong police have arrested four members of the group behind the city's Tiananmen Square vigils, a day after they refused to cooperate with a national security investigation.

World • 08 Sep 21

Police seen at the student union's offices in July

Hong Kong students arrested for 'advocating' terrorism

Four student leaders from Hong Kong's top university have been arrested for "advocating terrorism", police said.

World • 18 Aug 21

The ruling has profound implications for future national security cases

First person jailed under new security law in Hong Kong

A Hong Kong waiter has been jailed for nine years after he became the first person convicted under a sweeping new national security law that Beijing imposed on the city to stamp out dissent.

World • 30 Jul 21

Police confirmed after the attack some of those involved had links to triad organised crime gangs

Hong Kong jails seven over train station mob attack

Seven Hong Kong government supporters who took part in a violent assault on democracy supporters and commuters have been jailed for what the trial judge described as an "indiscriminate attack".

World • 22 Jul 21

Lam Man-chung photographed in June proof reading the final edition of the Apple Daily

Hong Kong police arrest another Apple Daily editor

A former senior editor of Hong Kong's shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily has been arrested by national security police.

World • 21 Jul 21

Apple Daily was forced to shut after its assets were frozen and senior executives arrested

Hong Kong police arrest senior Apple Daily journalist

Hong Kong police have arrested the lead opinion writer of Apple Daily on national security grounds as he tried to fly out of the city, local media reported, days after the pro-democracy newspaper was forced to shut down.

World • 28 Jun 21

Printers at Apple Daily ran for one final time

HK's Apple Daily set for blockchain, free of censors

Hong Kong cyber activists are backing up articles by pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily on censorship-proof blockchain platforms after the newspaper was forced to shut down.

World • 24 Jun 21

Tong Ying-kit is accused of driving his motorcycle into a group of police officers

No jury for Hong Kong's first 'national security' trial

The first trial under Hong Kong's new national security law has begun without a jury, a watershed moment for the financial hub's fast-changing legal landscape.

World • 23 Jun 21