Owning a home is a distant dream for many in HongKong, one of the world's most expensive housing markets and where residential rents are hovering around record highs.
($1 = 7.7779 HongKong dollars)
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The World HongKong Forum was held on April 26 in Toronto as a gathering of conscience, remembrance, and solidarity in support of Jimmy Lai and other political prisoners of HongKong.
A Chinese businesswoman who frequently travels between HongKong and mainland China for business told the publication that users often choose HongKong-issued SIM cards because they can be used in both regions.
HONGKONG, Jan 12—Hong Kong's High Court heard on Monday the mitigation plea of pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai, the final step before sentencing in a landmark national security trial that has drawn international condemnation and could see Lai jailed for
HONGKONG—The Turkish-operated cargo plane that skidded off the runway at Hong Kong’s international airport last month, killing two airport workers, experienced an acceleration in one of its four engines after landing, an initial investigation has found
Additionally, Hong Kong’s Department of Justice lost its appeal against Lawrence Lau, a former district councilor who was one of the two acquitted in the “HongKong 47” case.
The 10 HongKong democracy groups say the announcement of formal cooperation with China’s ministry of public safety has “caused deep fear and anxiety within HongKong diaspora communities in Canada and worldwide.”
HKT is a subsidiary of HongKong-based telecoms giant PCCW, which is majority-owned by HongKong tycoon Richard Li, son of billionaire Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong’s richest man, according to Forbes.
Tang Ngok-kwan (R), a Tiananmen vigil activist and former committee member for HongKong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, is queueing for the start of the trial of the now-disbanded HongKong Alliance at the West Kowloon
Phone messages showed the two conducted surveillance of former HongKong lawmaker Nathan Law and that their interest extended beyond HongKong activists, who they referred to as “cockroaches.”
The legal battle began in December 2024, when the three half-siblings filed suit in HongKong against Kelly Zong and Jian Hao Ventures Limited, a company associated with the Wahaha chairwoman.
Kwok's daughter, Anna Kwok, left HongKong in 2020 and currently works as the executive director of the HongKong Democracy Council, a Washington-based human rights group.
Authorities in HongKong now want to bring the 29-year-old Kwok back.
The National Security Department of the HongKong Police Force said in a statement that the individuals are suspected of organizing, establishing, or taking part in a group called the "HongKong Parliament."
And we must remember those who sacrificed their freedom.
2 HongKongs: 1 Territory, 1 Spirit
Perhaps the future requires two parallel HongKongs. One is geographical: HongKong in the Pearl River Delta.
Teresa Lai, wife of HongKong media mogul Jimmy Lai, arrives at the West Kowloon court where Lai's national security trial is being held in HongKong on Aug. 28, 2025.
In a statement on May 1, HongKong authorities defended the punishment of Lai, accusing him of using journalism “as a guise to commit acts that brought harm to [the] country and HongKong.”
CCP Pressures Democratic Parties to Dissolve
After the CCP implemented the National Security Law in HongKong on June 30, 2020, political groups in HongKong have been disbanded under pressure.
