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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...

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 city's 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 take over from Leung Ka-wing as editor-in-chief from March 1. Leung has resigned six months ahead of...