Hong Kong

The former executive Editor-In-Chief was arrested and two former journalists from Apple Daily, were detained following their bail being revoked.

A Cabinet advisory said U.S. businesses should "be aware of potential reputational, regulatory, financial, and, in certain instances, legal risks associated with their Hong Kong operations."

The last meeting between senior Chinese and U.S. officials was in Alaska in March and ended in a row.

The Hong Kong Journalists Association said it is concerned with "the erosion of freedom and the damage done to the diversified media scene."

"Their actions are rooted in the American anxiety that China's development will one day threaten U.S. hegemony," a column published by Xinhua News Agency said.

The group was trying to target public areas in the city "to maximize damage caused to the society," Hong Kong police said.

"We must not let their methods become the new normal," RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said in the report.

Police in Hong Kong are preventing pro-democracy rallies in Victoria Park on the anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China by the U.K.

Nobody should forget the long history of the CCP's atrocities and the persistent dark side of its heavy-handed rule.

After Apple Daily's closure last week, another pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper said it would stop accepting new subscriptions due to national security laws.

Hong Kong will ban all passenger flights coming in from the U.K. to help prevent to spread of new variants of the coronavirus.

"This will likely get little international media attention but it is a very, very dark moment for press freedom in HK," an Apple Daily columnist tweeted.

Police froze $2.3 million of Apple Daily's assets and searched its office, charging founder Jimmy Lai under the national security law of foreign collusion.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach's comments come as tensions simmer between Beijing and the West over trade, military aggression and cyberespionage.

"Any media outlet that has gained inciting power to oppose the mainstream will not be spared," the Global Times said in an editorial.

The last edition of Hong Kong's Apple Daily, the last pro-democracy paper in the metropolis, sold out all one million copies within hours of hitting newsstands Thursday.

The paper's closure should be viewed as the end of freedom in the territory, now part of the People's Republic of China.

Germany's Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Apple Daily's shutdown is another "hard blow against press freedom in Hong Kong."

An American lawyer in Hong Kong was convicted of assaulting a police officer after attempting to break up an altercation he witnessed on the subway two years ago. Under a new national security law, China's judicial system appears to have tightened its restraints.

The banner's slogan, "Liberate Hong Kong; revolution of our times," is in violation of Hong Kong's national security law.

"Today's Hong Kong feels unfamiliar and leaves us speechless. It feels as though we are powerless to stop the regime from exercising its power as it pleases," the Apple Daily newspaper said in a letter.

Police claim an officer thought the reporter was a man trying to take photos inside a woman's restroom. The reporter, Ho Ka-yan, was sentenced to four weeks in jail.

A new amendment to Hong Kong's Film Censorship Ordinance gives the government the ability to censor films seen as a threat to national security. The move further aligns Hong Kong with the practices of Beijing and the Chinese mainland.

Large parts of Victoria Park, where people have gathered in past years, were cordoned off ahead of the vigil. Police told people not to participate in unauthorized assemblies, which could mean a five-year penalty.

A Hong Kong pro-democracy site was removed by the web hosting company after authorities threatened prosecution.

Hong Kong is the world's most expensive city, and a parking spot recently sold for $1.3 million. The disparity between the rich and the poor in the city is the worst wealth gap in 45 years, reports say.

"Once you are on the Chinese government's blacklist, you will be tracked for life, Fan Baolin told the Associated Press.

A Hong Kong museum commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen protests was closed three days after opening by the ruling Communist Party of China.

"Instead of caring about Hong Kong's democracy and Hong Kong people's rights, what it is doing is to meddle in Hong Kong's politics and China's internal affairs," a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said.

Hong Kong security authorities have banned citizens from gather in the city's Victoria Park for the second year in a row, citing public health issues due to COVID.