nationalsecurity
David Lammy, Foreign SecretaryA Member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenham since 2000, the 51-year-old Labour politician is poised to be Britain’s new Foreign Secretary and the first man of colour handling UK international relations at a time of unprecedented global tensions. Graduating from Harvard Law School in 1997, Lammy occupied ministerial positions under Tony Blair’s government between 2002 and 2005 covering health, culture, media and sport. In 2003, he endorsed Britain’s invasion of Iraq following the policy of the New Labour. In 2007, under Gordon Brown’s administration, Lammy covered in...
Euronews (English)
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) students’ union has begun the process of disbanding, becoming the latest student group to do so after the unions at Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Hong Kong Baptist University Students’ Union passed a motion to dissolve the group during a meeting on Monday evening, local media outlets reported. Members of the student organisation will soon vote on the motion to decide whether or not to dissolve. Citing sources, Ming Pao reported that the student union decided to dissolve the group after HKBU did not offer a booth for th...
Hong Kong Free Press
Former Democratic Party chairman Wu Chi-wai has submitted mitigation letters from three ex-officials in pleading for a lighter sentence in the landmark national security case involving 47 pro-democracy figures. Wu appeared before three designated national security judges on Monday morning, when his lawyer argued that the 61-year-old former legislator was “at best an active participant” in a conspiracy to commit subversion. The court also heard mitigation pleas from the legal representatives of activists “Fast Beat” Tam Tak-chi and Sze Tak-loy. The trio were among dozens of democrats convicted ...
Hong Kong Free Press
The Hong Kong government has selected a new chief for the Social Workers Registration Board, two days after the opposition-free legislature passed a bill that gave government appointees a majority in the licensing body. Chief Executive John Lee on Friday appointed solicitor Herman Hui as the new chairperson of the board that is tasked with issuing qualifications for the city’s social workers. He and other newly appointed members will serve on the board for three years from Friday. Hui is the vice-chairperson of the Hong Kong Social Service Professional Alliance of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau...
Hong Kong Free Press
At last, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a free man. Why was he ever locked up in the first place? Before the Justice Department dropped its request for Assange to be extradited to the U.S. to stand trial, he had toplead guilty to violating the Espionage Act. That cleared the way for Assange to walk out of the maximum-security prison in London where he was being held. But it also sets a legal precedent that threatens free speech and journalism worldwide. Assange isn't a spy. He's a publisher, guilty of embarrassing the U.S. government. "Really anybody who is concerned about press freedom s...
Reason
Two schools have been singled out by Hong Kong’s Education Bureau after their students were said to have sung the national anthem too softly. The Hong Kong and Macau Lutheran Church Primary School in Hang Hau began implementing school-wide patriotic education this academic year, an inspection report for the school read. But while the flag-raising ceremony was “solemn” and the students leading it were “skilled,” the singing of the anthem was weak. At the Yan Chai Hospital Lim Por Yen Secondary School in Tsuen Wan, students were said to have “actively [taken] part in patriotic activities” such a...
Hong Kong Free Press
A Hong Kong man was denied bail under the city’s new domestic security law after he allegedly wore a t-shirt with a banned protest slogan and a yellow mask. Defendant Chu Kai-pong, 27, was brought to the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Friday to face one count of “doing with a seditious intention an act or acts that had a seditious intention.” He was also charged with failing to show his proof of identity to the police and loitering with intent. Hatred and contemptAccording to the charge sheet, Chu was intercepted by the police on Wednesday near Shek Mun MTR station. He was said to have wo...
Hong Kong Free Press
The verdict in Hong Kong’s largest national security case to date – which saw 14 pro-democracy figures convicted of conspiring to commit subversion and two acquitted – demonstrated that the city’s common law system was intact and effective, a government advisor has said. Ronny Tong, a member of the city’s top advisory body the Executive Council, said on Friday the court had “set an unprecedentedly high threshold” for the conviction of subversion under the Beijing-imposed national security law. The acquittals were proof of the rigorous legal processes in Hong Kong, he added. The 16 who stood tr...
Hong Kong Free Press
Deputy Secretary for Security Apollonia Liu will head up the government’s PR department from Friday, replacing Fletch Chan as the Information Services Department (ISD) chief. Liu does not have a background in media, communications or PR. She has been serving as a deputy security chief since 2018, following a seven-year stint as the deputy director of administration and development at the Department of Justice. She joined the Administrative Service in August 1990, rising through the ranks and becoming an Administrative Officer in April 1990, according to a government press release on Friday. Du...
Hong Kong Free Press
Turkey is in discussions with US energy giant ExxonMobil regarding a multibillion-dollar deal to buy liquefied natural gas. In an interview with the Financial Times, Turkish energy minister Alparslan Bayraktar said that his country was hoping to diversify its energy providers, therefore bolstering national security. As part of the proposed deal, Turkey would secure up to 2.5 million tonnes of LNG a year from Exxon, at a cost of around $1.1 billion. The agreement could last a decade, although the exact conditions were yet to be determined, Bayraktar said. Watchdog urges caution on reducing Russ...
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