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Luxury yacht owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch docked in Hong Kong

A luxury yacht worth over half a billion U.S. dollars belonging to sanctioned Russian oligarch Alexey Mordashov has docked in Hong Kong waters, according to shipping records, after a week-long voyage from Russia.

Reuters · Oct 7, 2022

Hong Kong's Cardinal Zen goes on trial over protest charity fund

Cardinal Joseph Zen, 90, one of the most senior Catholic clerics in Asia, and five others were accused on Monday by government prosecutors of using a now-disbanded charity fund for pro-democracy protesters as a front for "political activities".

Reuters · Sep 26, 2022

Five Hong Kong speech therapists jailed for conspiracy to "brainwash" children with cartoons

Five Hong Kong speech therapists were sentenced on Saturday to 19 months in jail for conspiracy to publish seditious children's books, featuring cartoons of sheep and wolves that prosecutors had deemed anti-government.

Reuters · Sep 10, 2022

Hong Kong police file complaints to lawyer groups over national security case

Hong Kong police said on Thursday they had filed complaints to the city's main professional legal bodies over a national security case involving a fund that had assisted pro-democracy protesters to pay for legal services.

Reuters · May 12, 2022

Hong Kong police bail Catholic cardinal arrested on national security charge

Cardinal Joseph Zen, one of the most senior Catholic clerics in Asia, and three others who helped run a now-disbanded Hong Kong fund for protesters were arrested on charges of "collusion with foreign forces," and later released on bail.

Reuters · May 11, 2022

Hong Kong plunges to 148th in world press freedom rankings

Asia’s one-time bastion of free speech has been battered by national security legislation, says media watchdog.

Al Jazeera · May 3, 2022

Hong Kong's mandatory COVID testing in schools fuels plastic waste woes

A Hong Kong government rule that all school students and staff take daily COVID-19 tests will add massively to the city's plastic waste problem, environmental activists say, with some 20 million kits a month set to be dumped at bursting landfills.

Reuters · Apr 29, 2022

Hong Kong zero-COVID policies create mountains of plastic waste

Hong Kong arrivals meet plastic everywhere in quarantine hotels: Remote controls are wrapped in cellophane, pillows are encased in plastic bags, food comes with plastic cutlery. 

Reuters · Apr 19, 2022

Hong Kong hopes to 'resolve' COVID flight-ban rule as cases ease

Hong Kong is looking to resolve a problem over a ban on airlines which bring in COVID-positive passengers as it eases travel curbs that have sealed off the city for two years, its leader said on Wednesday.

Reuters · Mar 23, 2022

Hong Kong leader calls for calm, after supermarkets emptied ahead of mass COVID testing

Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam called for calm on Tuesday after residents emptied supermarkets, stocking up on produce ahead of reports of compulsory mass COVID-19 testing and rumours of a city-wide lockdown.

Reuters · Mar 1, 2022