Chris Lau
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Hong Kong chief executive to make whistle-stop tour of key Greater Bay Area cities to cement ties and boost economy
John Lee expected to meet top officials in Shenzhen and Guangzhou on Thursday. → Read More
Hong Kong leader John Lee shrugs off concerns over slump in property stocks, says security clauses in land sales documents not an issue
Chief Executive John Lee says government has been selling land as usual since the clauses were put in place in November. → Read More
Coronavirus: Hong Kong leader says no to probe of government’s pandemic response, so how will city learn from missteps?
Some experts say key aspects of pandemic, including city’s high death toll, deserve investigation. → Read More
Hong Kong leader raises legal grounds for request to fix anthem search results on Google, points to insult and misrepresentation
City’s leader ramps up pressure on search engine saying it has the means to change results. → Read More
John Lee’s biggest move in his first 100 days as Hong Kong’s leader was to end Covid quarantine. Now comes the hard part – winning on economy and talent
The heat is on for the chief executive to roll out game-changing initiatives in his coming policy address on October 19. → Read More
Mother arrested on suspicion of murdering 5-year-old boy in Hong Kong, China News
Hong Kong police on Saturday (Sept 3) arrested a pregnant woman on suspicion of murdering her five-year-old son after she threatened to throw herself off a building in Sham Shui Po and was grabbed by officers and firefighters in a dramatic rescue. The force later also detained another woman, 40, who is the aunt of the victim and suspected of... → Read More
Plug Hong Kong's brain drain or Singapore will poach top talent, experts warn, Asia News
Hong Kong needs better policies to encourage talent to stick with the city if it is to retain its position as a regional financial centre in the face of stiff competition for top notch staff from Singapore, human resources experts have warned. They said the city's methods for attracting high-quality staff had been built up piecemeal and that incentive schemes... → Read More
‘Asia’s World City’: how did Hong Kong get its iconic label?
Branding experts behind the phrase recount their experience creating a logo that has come to represent Hong Kong in the past two decades. → Read More
Mirror concert mishap caused by snapped metal cord, Hong Kong officials reveal after giant screen crashes onto dancers on stage
One of two metal cords suspending a massive screen had snapped at the concert of popular Hong Kong boy band Mirror, causing the structure to crash onto the stage below and hit two dancers in a horrific mishap that has shocked the city. → Read More
Data on asylum seekers detained in Hong Kong should be disclosed more proactively, legal expert says
Legal scholar Surabhi Chopra says research efforts showed public information on immigration detainees was harder to find than data for prisoners. → Read More
Hong Kong chief executive election 2022: John Lee recruits 150 political, business heavyweights to steer final campaign push
Hong Kong chief executive candidate John Lee Ka-chiu has recruited about 150 political and business heavyweights to steer his campaign in the final stretch of his run for the city’s top job, putting together a team triple the size that advised the current leader during her bid five years ago. → Read More
‘It’s not about politics’: Hong Kong migrant aims to bring pages of history to UK in library project sporting sensitive titles banned in city, among other tomes
Chinese history teacher Kenneth Cheng spent HK$40,000 shipping his personal collection of books and donated ones from others to Cheshire in northwest of England. → Read More
Hong Kong media outlet 'sorry' for question on mainland medical staff complaints, China News
A leading media outlet has apologised for a reporter’s question to Hong Kong’s leader about how Covid-19 patients should lodge complaints over mainland Chinese medical professionals after pro-Beijing figures and media accused the journalist of spreading hate speech. One pro-establishment group on Thursday (March 18) asked whether the reporter for Now News had breached the national security law… → Read More
Hong Kong media and the closures of Stand News and Citizen News: where do the rest go from here?
Many industry veterans are sceptical about the future of press freedom in the city, but some academics say there is still room for professionals to do their work – the question is how. → Read More
Anger, apologies as top Hong Kong officials caught in Covid-19 party scandal, China News
Hong Kong’s leader has expressed “deep disappointment” at some of her top officials for blatantly ignoring the government’s own advice on avoiding large gatherings in the middle of a worrying Omicron outbreak to attend a birthday party that exposed them to a guest suspected to be infected with Covid-19. Confirming an exclusive Post report that home affairs chief Caspar Tsui... → Read More
Hong Kong’s top prosecutor defends colleagues against ‘baseless and biased’ allegations that actions are politically motivated
Director of Public Prosecutions Maggie Yang uses annual report to defend colleagues against accusations that some cases are politically motived and tells them not to yield to ‘political, media or public pressure’. → Read More
Hong Kong elections: votes cast at border will not hit ‘anywhere near 100,000’, Carrie Lam concedes, as just over 18,000 in mainland China have registered
Registration for voting at the Heung Yuen Wai, Lo Wu and Lok Ma Chau Spur Line border-control points closes on Wednesday at 6pm. → Read More
Centrist candidates say cross-border campaigning ahead of Hong Kong Legco poll nearly impossible and new voting scheme only benefits rivals
The candidates say they have almost no chance of reaching Hongkongers over the border, pointing to short advance notice of the new voting scheme, pandemic restrictions and mainland censorship concerns. → Read More
Hong Kong’s comeback queen? Carrie Lam on leadership and legacy after 2019 protests, China News
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor says her administration is firmly in charge of running the city, regardless of how hands-on Beijing’s representatives have become with local affairs under the national security law, and the mass protests of 2019 against her governance have effectively placed her in a stronger position to lead. Lam has yet to confirm whether... → Read More
Hong Kong’s chief justice condemns recent threats against judges and urges respect for rule of law
Andrew Cheung calls for greater public tolerance after two judges were sent letters containing corrosive substances and stresses need for public access to courts at a time when Legal Aid Department is considering restricting assistance. → Read More