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‘Obey the Party’: CCP emerges from the shadows of Hong Kong Political News Hong Kong, China – It is the ruling party that has maintained the underground organization in part of its territory as well, but as the Chinese Communist Party celebrates its centenary this week there are signs that it is emerging from the shadows of Hong Kong, a former British colony. It became the quietest city in China. What’s more, the party – fear and hatred for many people in Hong Kong – demands their love and absolute loyalty. “It is crucial for the PCK that the people of Hong Kong recognize China�...

AFP Authorities in Hong Kong on Friday froze the personal assets of jailed pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, under new powers granted to police under a national security law, and amid an ongoing crackdown on public dissent and political opposition in the city. Lai, who is currently serving a 14-month jail term for taking part in "illegal assemblies" during the 2019 protest movement, is also awaiting trial on charges of "collusion with foreign powers" under the law. Lai's 71-percent stake in the Next Digital media conglomerate he founded, along with property in local banks of ...

Timeline: Two Months of Turmoil at Hong Kong Public Broadcaster RTHK Posted by John Chan | May 3, 2021 Over the weekend, the embattled Hong Kong public broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) announced that it would begin deleting its own programming from the internet, including all content over a year old. It is a chilling move by the broadcaster, which has been embroiled in turmoil following a change of management with the appointment of civil servant Patrick Li as its Director of Broadcasting in February. On Monday, the broadcaster also formally fired Nabela Qoser, an outspoken RTHK ...

AFP Hong Kong was ranked in 80th place in a global press freedom index on Tuesday, with the Paris-based media watchdog citing "totalitarian control of information" from the ruling Chinese Communist Party in Beijing. Releasing the 2021 Press Freedom Index, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said the past year had seen examples of authoritarian regimes using the COVID-19 pandemic to "perfect their methods of totalitarian control of information." "The censorship virus -- at which China is the world’s undisputed specialist -- gradually took hold in much of the region," RSF said. "Th...

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 train station that included people returning home from the protests. The police, claiming to be bus...