Canada’s current immigration and refugee policies need to include a dedicated pathway for Hongkongers fleeing persecution, a parliamentary committee heard on Feb. 1.  “This is not a conventional humanitarian crisis, so conventional solutions are not effective for those who need our help,” said Cherie Wong, the executive director of pro-democracy group Alliance Canada Hong Kong. […]

Moderna announced on Jan. 25 that it had developed a new  CCP virus vaccine to combat a new South African variant of the virus, with plans to advance it into a phase one study. First detected in South Africa, the B.1.351 variant spreads faster and is more contagious, but there’s still no concrete evidence suggesting that it is deadlier. […]

Top Republican lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to take forceful measures against the Chinese regime, after Beijing slapped sanctions on former Trump administration officials, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The sanctions were announced on Jan. 20, the same day that President Joe Biden was sworn into office. A Chinese foreign ministry […]

Commentary Hong Kong authorities arrested 53 pro-democracy figures earlier this month, on the grounds that they responded to democracy activist Benny Tai Yiu-ting’s call to challenge the government. The Chinese regime felt emboldened to enforce the national security law in making the arrests, and to use this incident as a warning to those who dare […]

The United States on Jan. 15 sanctioned six Chinese and Hong Kong officials in response to mass arrests of pro-democracy figures in the city last week. Among those sanctioned is a high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official You Quan, who heads the Party agency that oversees foreign influence operations. Hong Kong authorities arrested 53 pro-democracy […]

HONG KONG/SYDNEY—One of the 14 foreign judges on Hong Kong’s highest court has resigned due to concerns over a sweeping new national security law imposed by Beijing on the city, Australia’s national broadcaster reported on Friday. The office of the city’s leader Carrie Lam confirmed the resignation of Australian judge James Spigelman but did not […]

The British government has halted all training for Hong Kong personnel, according to the Ministry of Defence. Historically, the Royal College of Defence Studies has offered one place each year to the Hong Kong Police Force, but no one is attending this year’s course due to the CCP virus pandemic, the Ministry of Defence said. […]

Amid the escalating standoff between the United States and China over Hong Kong, the power of U.S. sanctions is emerging. Chinese state-owned banks have announced their intent to cooperate with recent U.S. sanctions on Hong Kong officials in order to protect financing and access to overseas investments. These banks are among the wealthiest in the […]

A freelance journalist working for Britain’s ITV News has been arrested in Hong Kong under the new national security law. Wilson Li, a former member of pro-democracy student activist group Scholarism, was arrested on Monday for allegedly colluding with foreign forces in violation of the national security law. “We can confirm that Wilson Li works […]

The arrest of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai was the “most outrageous assault yet on what is left of Hong Kong’s free press,” the last British governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten has said. Lai, founder of the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper and the Next Digital media group, was arrested Monday morning under the Hong […]

A group of British lawmakers have urged the UK government to impose sanctions on Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and other senior officials for permitting the police to use excessive violence on pro-democracy protesters. In a report (pdf) on the treatment of aid workers during the protests, the lawmakers said the Hong Kong Police […]

U.S. officials condemned Beijing over the Hong Kong government’s decision to disqualify 12 pro-democracy candidates for the upcoming legislative elections currently scheduled in September. “These actions are further evidence of Beijing’s ongoing evisceration of Hong Kong’s autonomy, as well as of its failure to abide by international obligations under the Sino-British Joint Declaration, a UN-registered […]

Parliamentarians in the House of Lords on Wednesday asked the British government about the lack of Chinese Communist Party officials on its new sanctions regime list, given the “urgent” situation in Hong Kong. During a session on the global human rights sanctions regime, Lord Collins of Highbury, a Labour peer, pointed out, “The current list is […]

China opened its national security office in Hong Kong, turning a hotel near a city-centre park into its new headquarters.

Beijing’s controversial national security law will take effect immediately after two ceremonial votes on June 30 by the standing committee of China’s rubber-stamp legislature. Unusually, neither Beijing nor the Hong Kong government has publicized the text of the law—though the Chinese regime disclosed several additional details last week, such as the Hong Kong leader will […]

In Hong Kong, protests are set to continue following local district council elections that saw pro-democracy camps pick up a resounding victory. Democratic candidates secured more than 380 district council seats out of the 452 seats up for grabs, a gain of more than 260 seats from the previous elections in 2015. Meanwhile, the pro-establishment […]

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy camp has posted huge gains in the city’s district elections on Nov. 24, as final tallies start rolling in. As of around 4:45 a.m. local time, pro-democracy politicians are leading with 254 seats against 27 pro-establishment lawmakers; a total of 170 seats are yet to be declared. Several pro-Beijing lawmakers were unseated […]

U.S. lawmakers recently introduced a bill aimed at curbing Hong Kong police violence against protesters. The Protect Hong Kong Act (H.R. 4270) would prohibit U.S. companies from exporting “non-lethal crowd-control items” and other “defense articles and services” to Hong Kong, where local police have continually used tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and sponge grenades […]

For the first time, the Hong Kong government has confirmed that it is evaluating the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, a sweeping law that many fear would allow the government to declare a state of emergency and clamp down on protests. Since June, millions of Hongkongers have attended nearly 50 marches and rallies against a controversial extradition […]

After Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced on Sept. 4 that the government would formally withdraw an extradition bill that has ignited the city’s largest-ever protest movement, local protesters and pro-democracy activists alike said they would continue to advocate for all their demands to be heard. Meanwhile, U.S. officials and international rights groups said that Lam’s move was welcome, […]

HONG KONG—Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam is expected to announce later on Wednesday the formal withdrawal of a proposed extradition bill that sparked three months of protests in the Chinese-ruled city, the South China Morning Post reported, citing unnamed sources. South China Morning Post reported that Lam had invited all 43 pro-establishments lawmakers, and Hong […]

At a rare press conference on July 29, Beijing’s highest-level agency for managing Hong Kong affairs reiterated its support for the city’s top leadership in its handling of ongoing mass protests, while condemning the protesters’ actions. Large-scale demonstrations against a controversial extradition bill that would allow mainland China to seek extradition of criminal suspects have […]

Pro-democracy lawmakers and rights groups in Hong Kong accused the police of intentionally preventing protesters from dispersing during a pitched running battle on July 14, saying such tactics led to chaos and the violent clashes that ensued. On July 14, a largely peaceful rally—that organizers estimated at 115,000 people—in Hong Kong’s northern town of Sha […]

HONG KONG—Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam has asked to meet with the city’s university students, her office said on July 4, as the embattled leader tries to fend off pressure from a month-long political crisis. Protesters stormed the local parliament on the July 1 anniversary of the city’s return to Chinese rule. This followed […]

Macau's liaison office has long been associated with carrying out subversion campaigns in the former Portuguese colony.

Dozens of pro-democracy activists showed up at the annual Hong Kong Marathon early morning Sunday to call for free elections in the city and demand the resignation of several top officials.

Phu Lam was identified as the suspect in the series of murders that left the Canadian city of Edmonton in shock. Lam’s body was found yesterday at a restaurant. He is suspected in the death of eight people. The CBC identified him as the prime suspect. Story developing…   AP update–Police suspect domestic violence in […]

Here's how the Hong Kong police might clear the Occupy Central demonstrators.

Hong Kong student groups are calling on Chinese leader Xi Jinping to remove Hong Kong's chief executive and resolve the crisis.

A group of men assailed the camps of protesting students in two places in Hong Kong today, pulling apart some of their makeshift structures and bashing the protesters about the heads. Police mostly stood by, according to witnesses.