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THE DAY IN PHOTOS: November 29, 2022

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: November 29, 2022

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 30 12:01 AM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Hong Konger gets 15 years in prison after biting off activist's ear

Hong Konger gets 15 years in prison after biting off activist's ear

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 19 05:03 PM

A man was jailed for nearly 15 years after biting off the ear of an activist and attacking 3 others at the height of Hong Kong protests in 2019. Read more »

Pandemic and politics leaves Hong Kong's poor languishing

Pandemic and politics leaves Hong Kong's poor languishing

Yan Zhao, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 21 05:59 PM

Squeezed into a tiny temporary apartment, Rainbow and her family struggle to make ends meet in Hong Kong, where the number of households in poverty has soared during recent political turmoil and the coronavirus pandemic. Read more »

HK tycoon Jimmy Lai's Next Digital to stop operating from July 1 - memo

HK tycoon Jimmy Lai's Next Digital to stop operating from July 1 - memo

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 30 05:58 PM

Hong Kong media group Next Digital, owned by jailed tycoon Jimmy Lai, will cease operating from July 1 after the company's assets were frozen as part of a national security investigation, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters. Read more »

Lights out at Apple Daily: Hongkongers queue for hours to buy newspaper’s last issue

Lights out at Apple Daily: Hongkongers queue for hours to buy newspaper’s last issue

South China Morning Post
Updated as of Jun 24 03:40 PM

Hongkongers rushed overnight to buy one of a million copies of Apple Daily’s last-ever edition, which hit the streets in the early hours of Thursday to close the final chapter of the tabloid-style newspaper’s 26 years in business.   Read more »

Hong Kong's embattled daily to run last print edition June 24 - sources

Hong Kong's embattled daily to run last print edition June 24 - sources

Clifford Lo and Lilian Cheng, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jun 23 06:18 PM

The move follows the morning arrest of lead editorial writer Yeung Ching-kee, 55, under the national security law. Parent company Next Digital had warned the tabloid’s closure was imminent if HK$18 million in assets was not unfrozen by the Security Bureau. Read more »

Spotlight on HK’s Apple Daily columns amid debate on alleged national security law breach

Spotlight on HK’s Apple Daily columns amid debate on alleged national security law breach

Chris Lau and Jeffie Lam, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jun 19 03:46 PM

Hong Kong’s Apple Daily has published at least 17 commentaries by founder Jimmy Lai Chee-ying since 2019, with at least 4 touching on foreign sanctions, a Post study has found.   Read more »

HK national security police arrest Apple Daily executives, seize reporting materials

HK national security police arrest Apple Daily executives, seize reporting materials

Sharon Tam, Reuters
Updated as of Jun 17 11:55 AM

It was the second time for police to raid the Apple Daily headquarters; 200 officers went in last year to arrest its owner Jimmy Lai on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces. Read more »

China’s top legislative body to weigh overhaul of Hong Kong political system next week

China’s top legislative body to weigh overhaul of Hong Kong political system next week

Jeffie Lam and Lilian Cheng, South China Morning Post
Posted at Mar 23 01:29 PM

The apex body of the national Chinese legislature is set to endorse the drastic shake-up of Hong Kong’s electoral system in a two-day meeting starting next Monday.   Read more »

Hong Kong emigration wave takes toll on its least political residents - its pets

Hong Kong emigration wave takes toll on its least political residents - its pets

Yoyo Chow, Reuters
Posted at Mar 18 05:26 PM

Increasing numbers of pets have been abandoned by people in Hong Kong who cannot afford the travel arrangements or are unable to take their companions with them, veterinarians and animal shelter owners say.   Read more »

US lawmakers condemn Beijing’s plans to overhaul Hong Kong elections

US lawmakers condemn Beijing’s plans to overhaul Hong Kong elections

Jacob Fromer, South China Morning Post
Posted at Mar 09 12:42 PM

A group of US lawmakers overseeing congressional China policy condemned Beijing’s recently announced plans to overhaul Hong Kong’s election system and urged President Joe Biden to help the city defend its “autonomy and basic freedoms”.   Read more »

Hong Kong electoral reforms prevent 'dictatorship of the majority,' says pro-Beijing lawmaker

Hong Kong electoral reforms prevent 'dictatorship of the majority,' says pro-Beijing lawmaker

Yew Lun Tian, Reuters
Updated as of Mar 06 10:51 PM

(UPDATED) - China's proposal for Hong Kong electoral reforms could prevent "dictatorship of the majority", a pro-Beijing Hong Kong lawmaker said, calling people who want one man one vote "politically immature". Read more »

China moves to eliminate Hong Kong opposition

China moves to eliminate Hong Kong opposition

Leo Ramirez, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 05 04:23 PM

China moved Friday to grant itself veto powers over selecting Hong Kong's lawmakers, part of a campaign to eliminate dissent and ensure a "patriotic" government in the city following huge democracy rallies in 2019.   Read more »

What is love? Beijing desires unconditional loyalty from Hong Kong

What is love? Beijing desires unconditional loyalty from Hong Kong

Greg Torode and Marius Zaharia, Reuters
Posted at Feb 28 12:24 AM

Xia Baolong, director of China's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, has said the electoral system in the global financial hub needs to be changed to allow only "patriots" to govern.   Read more »

Hong Kong protests: Student, 16, youngest to plead guilty to rioting during 2019 stand-off

Hong Kong protests: Student, 16, youngest to plead guilty to rioting during 2019 stand-off

Jasmine Siu, South China Morning Post
Posted at Feb 11 01:59 PM

The Form Four student admits to hurling a petrol bomb at an officer during a midnight stand-off in Mong Kok on November 16, 2019. District Judge Ernest Lin will pass sentence on March 3, pending reports on the defendant’s background and suitability for a training or detention center. Read more »

Hong Kong protest-related website says users' access blocked

Hong Kong protest-related website says users' access blocked

Reuters
Posted at Jan 11 12:00 PM

A Hong Kong website that publishes material mainly related to anti-government protests in 2019 said its users' access had been blocked by the city's internet service providers (ISPs). Read more »

TIMELINE: The impact of the national security law on Hong Kong

TIMELINE: The impact of the national security law on Hong Kong

Reuters
Updated as of Jan 06 12:02 PM

Here is a timeline of developments since China imposed national security legislation in Hong Kong this year, making anything Beijing regards as subversion, secession, terrorism or colluding with foreign forces punishable by up to life in prison. Read more »

Protests and pandemic: will pent-up resentment, frustration among Hong Kong’s youth explode again into social unrest?

Protests and pandemic: will pent-up resentment, frustration among Hong Kong’s youth explode again into social unrest?

Lilian Cheng and Tony Cheung, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jan 05 01:16 PM

Hong Kong leaders must tackle students’ pent-up resentment against the government and frustration over the coronavirus pandemic, experts have said, warning that anger could explode again into social unrest.   Read more »

2020 Yearender: Top world stories other than COVID-19

2020 Yearender: Top world stories other than COVID-19

Aleta Nieva-Nishimori, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 31 01:17 PM

MANILA -- Here’s a look back at stories that made headlines and captured the interests of news.abs-cbn.com readers here and abroad other than COVID-19. Read more »

More Thai protest leaders charged with royal defamation

More Thai protest leaders charged with royal defamation

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 08 09:28 PM

Thailand has strict lese majeste laws, enshrined in section 112 of the penal code, shielding the ultra-wealthy King Maha Vajiralongkorn from criticism.   Read more »

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