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AFP Authorities in Hong Kong are researching proposed new legislation banning "fake news," amid an ongoing crackdown on public dissent and peaceful political opposition under a national security law imposed on the city by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). "There were five areas [in] which we will need to look at legislation ... its not just about [a] fake news law, its [also] about privacy and so on," chief executive Carrie Lam told journalists on Tuesday. "The fake news l...

Reuters Cambodias assault on Mother Nature Hong Kongs government broadcaster fired an outspoken journalist and began deleting online programming on World Press Freedom Day on Monday, amid an ongoing crackdown on critical voices in the city. Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), a government department that had enjoyed editorial independence before a draconian national security law banned criticism of the authorities, said it wouldnt renew the short-term contract of Na...

Hong Kong has fined a journalist for ticking a box. That shows the city’s media freedoms are in jeopardy Last Wednesday, Hong Kong journalist Bao Choy was honored for her investigative work. The following day, she was convicted for it. In essence, Choy was prosecuted for ticking a box: She had used a government registry to trace license plates connected to a mob that had attacked pro-democracy protesters in a subway station in 2019. In the past, journalists had been able to specify “media�...

Guilty Verdict for Hong Kong Journalist as Media Faces ‘Frontal Assault’ As China stifles dissent in the city, news outlets have found themselves in the authorities’ cross hairs. Choy Yuk-ling, a producer for Radio Television Hong Kong, was found guilty on Thursday of making false statements to obtain public records for a report that was critical of the police.Credit...Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times April 22, 2021Updated 6:23 a.m. ET HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s police ...

Jimmy Lai has described himself as Beijing’s number one enemy Credit: Chan Long Hei/Bloomberg Hong Kong’s pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has told his staff in a letter from jail that “freedom of speech is a dangerous job” and to “stand tall” just days before he is sentenced in two cases against him. It comes as fellow democracy activist Joshua Wong received a second jail sentence under the territory’s strict new national security law. Mr Lai, the 72-year-old founder of Appl...

Will Hong Kong’s Free Press Survive? In the summer of 2019, Nabela Qoser, a broadcast reporter, became the face of Hong Kong’s adversarial press. The city was in deep political crisis. Anti-Beijing protests numbering in the hundreds of thousands of people had erupted over a government push to allow the extradition of suspected criminals to mainland China. Then, one evening during an unusually hot July, a mob of men dressed in white, bearing metal rods and bamboo poles, attacked a crowd in a...

Months-long review comes as the government replaces the broadcaster’s director six months before his term expires.

Pro-Beijing supporters regularly file complaints against RTHK, accusing it of antigovernment bias

RFA Amid a citywide crackdown on peaceful dissent and political opposition under a draconian national security law imposed by Beijing, authorities in Hong Kong are replacing the head of the citys public broadcaster and reforming its editorial structure to "ensure it complies" with government directives. In a move likely to call into question the editorial independence of Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), the government announced on Friday that career bureaucrat Patrick Li would t...