As a young, avid collector of luxury watches, Austen Chu said he was scammed “many times” when he bought timepieces from the secondary watch market. “Once, I bought a watch which had a dented dial and the seller told me that the dial got dented during shipping,” Chu recalled. AndContinue Reading
HONG KONG — Public screenings of a slasher film that features Winnie the Pooh were scrapped abruptly in Hong Kong on Tuesday, sparking discussions over increasing censorship in the city. Film distributor VII Pillars Entertainment announced on Facebook that the release of “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” on ThursdayContinue Reading
Hong Kong has traditionally held the world’s largest annual June 4 vigils, as part of wide-ranging freedoms promised when it returned to Chinese rule in 1997, but the last two were banned by police, citing coronavirus curbs. The ruling against media tycoon Jimmy Lai, barrister Chow Hang-tung and former oppositionContinue Reading
Hong Kong tycoon and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai and two others have been convicted for their roles in last year’s banned Tiananmen candlelight vigil, amid a crackdown on dissent in the city and Beijing’s tightening political control By MATTHEW CHENG and ZEN SOO Associated Press December 9, 2021, 4:09Continue Reading
HONG KONG — Three former organizers of Hong Kong’s annual vigil in remembrance of victims of China’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests were jailed Saturday for four and a half months for failing to provide authorities with information on the group in accordance with a national security law. Chow Hang-tung,Continue Reading
The Hong Kong government said on Thursday that it had detected two cases of a new variant identified in South Africa, which scientists have warned shows a “big jump in evolution” and could limit the effectiveness of vaccines. The infections were detected in a man who had returned to HongContinue Reading
Tony Chung, 20, was charged with secession, under a sweeping national security law, and money laundering in October 2020 and was denied bail. Local media reported at the time that he was detained along with two others at a coffee shop close to the United States consulate by unidentified menContinue Reading
Cloud Village, the music streaming arm of NetEase runs the NetEase Cloud Music app which is displayed on a smartphone in this photo. Fan Jianlei | Visual China Group | Getty Images GUANGZHOU, China — NetEase has launched the Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) of its music business CloudContinue Reading
Hong Kong has granted Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, an exemption from one of the toughest pandemic quarantines in the world. Mr. Dimon this week became the first head of a Wall Street bank to visit the city since the beginning of the pandemic. He was inContinue Reading
Hong Kong has said that it will offer free additional doses of Covid vaccines to residents with a higher risk of illness starting on Nov. 11. Cancer patients, organ transplant recipients, patients with advanced stage H.I.V. and people taking active immunosuppressive drugs will be eligible for the extra shots fourContinue Reading