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American newspaper The Wall Street Journal has terminated Hong Kong-based reporter Selina Cheng weeks after she was elected chair of the city’s embattled Hong Kong Journalist Association (HKJA), which has met with increasing pressure from authorities. Reporters on Wednesday afternoon received an invitation to a press conference at 5.30 pm about the “unreasonable decision to terminate the employment of HKJA chair Selina Cheng.” The newspaper announced in early May that it planned to move its Asia headquarters to Singapore, with layoffs of Hong Kong staff. According to Hong Kong’s Employment Ord...
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The names of companies behind critical computer systems to be covered under a proposed cybersecurity legislation will not be publicised to prevent them from being targeted, Hong Kong’s security minister has said. Authorities last week proposed a bill to fine critical computer system operators up to HK$5 million for lapses in cybersecurity. The Protection of Critical Infrastructure (Computer System) Bill is expected to cover eight sectors: energy, information technology, banking and financial services, land transport, air transport, maritime, communications and broadcasting, and healthcare serv...
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The principle of One Country, Two Systems – while “tested on all fronts” since China resumed sovereignty in 1997 – remains the “best institutional arrangement” for Hong Kong’s long-term prosperity and stability, Chief Executive John Lee has said on the 27th anniversary of the Handover. The policy that allowed Hong Kong to maintain a capitalist system while being part of socialist China was a “great innovation of socialism with Chinese characteristics” and the “best solution” to the historical issues of Hong Kong, Lee wrote in a 6,574-word article published on Monday. Monday marked 27 years sin...
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What is it, one wonders, about Secretary for Security Chris Tang and the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA)? Tang, after all, has a lot on his plate. He is responsible for repelling every threat to peace, order and national security in Hong Kong. The latter, we are often told, needs constant alertness and attention. Yet it seems Tang is never too busy to have a go at the HKJA. The HKJA is a small voluntary body aiming to serve and protect the interests of people working in journalism. It does the usual things: seminars, workshops, occasional dinners and the odd press release on relevant ...
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The government has not violated a UN human rights treaty that protects people’s freedom of movement by cancelling the passports of six UK-based Hong Kong activists, the city’s security chief has said. Security for Security Chris Tang on Wednesday defended the authorities’ move to axe the passports of Nathan Law, Christopher Mung, Finn Lau, Simon Cheng, Johnny Fok and Tony Choi. The six are wanted by authorities under the national security law. He said UK politicians had been “slandering” the Hong Kong government since the national security law was enacted, and that the UK had been offering pro...
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Five years since the first arrests linked to Hong Kong’s 2019 protests were made, only 28 per cent of the more than 10,000 people arrested have been prosecuted, leaving question marks over what will happen to the remaining 72 per cent. From June 9, 2019 – when over a million Hongkongers took to the streets opposed to a proposed amendment to an extradition bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be sent to China – until March this year, 10,279 people had been arrested in connection with the protests. Over the months that followed that first mass march, demonstrations escalated into so...
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