A 3 per cent tax on hotel guests on January 1 and looming troubles from the Trump presidency could undermine the city’s tourism sector.

Forty-five prominent activists in Hong Kong were sentenced to jail for up to 10 years on Tuesday, sparking criticism from foreign governments and rights groups. Beijing defended the decisions.

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People wait outside the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts in Hong Kong Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, ahead of the ...

Hong Kong CNN — Jimmy Lai, the pugnacious Hong Kong media tycoon whose now shuttered tabloid Apple Daily was a regular thorn in Beijing’s side, took the stand Wednesday in his own defense for ...

More than 40 of Hong Kong’s best known pro-democracy figures have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years on subversion charges, in the biggest single blow to the city’s already ...

The national security law was introduced in response to mass pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong In 2020, Hong Kong was transformed when China introduced the controversial national security law (NSL).

Many had already been in jail for years. By Tiffany May Reporting from Hong Kong Anywhere else, it wouldn’t have been controversial: a public vote by pro-democracy activists trying to strengthen ...

By David Pierson and Tiffany May Reporting from Hong Kong As the founder of Hong Kong’s leading pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai cut an unusual figure: a rebellious tycoon who was ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - Pro-democracy protesters march on a street during a protest in Hong Kong, on Dec. 8, 2019. (AP Photo ...

HONG KONG, Nov 22 (Reuters) - (Note language in paragraph 26 that some readers may find offensive) Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai testified this week in court for the ...