Hong Kong’s largest independent trade union disbanded on Sunday. Vice chairman Leo Tang said that members of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions voted to break up because “political uncertainty” had made it difficult to continue.
BEIJING—The Chinese regime published new draft measures on Thursday aimed at bolstering its new data security law, including definitions of what it considered “core” and “important” data. The Chinese regime implemented the Data Security Law on Sept. 1. which requires all companies in China to classify the data they handle into several categories and governs […]
HONG KONG—For his last class in Hong Kong in July, liberal studies teacher Fong showed his students calligraphy by the territory’s late democratic activist Szeto Wah: “Choose the right path and stick to it.” He emigrated to Britain days later. Fong is one of many teachers that left Hong Kong before the school year began […]
HONG KONG—The trial of the first person charged under Hong Kong’s national security law is set to wrap up on Tuesday, with the defendant denied bail and a jury in a landmark case that critics say is a departure from common law. Former waiter Tong Ying-kit, 24, has pleaded not guilty to charges of terrorism, […]
HONG KONG—Hong Kong authorities on Friday froze assets belonging to jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai., including all shares in his company, Next Digital—the first time a listed firm has been targeted by national security laws in the financial hub. Also among assets targeted were the local bank accounts of three companies owned by him, Hong […]
China announced that it will hold another three-day meeting at the end of this month, a day after it gave more details about a new national security law for Hong Kong. The standing committee of China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), will convene for three days beginning on June 28 in the capital […]
Hong Kong and Chinese officials have resorted to strong-worded rhetoric against the Trump administration in response to the president’s decisions on Friday to curtail ties with the former British colony. Trump’s decisions came after Beijing adopted a national security law for Hong Kong on Thursday, that would grant China’s security apparatus legal status in the […]
