Hong Kong court makes landmark ruling allowing registration of gender change without surgery

Hong Kong’s highest court has ruled in favor of allowing transgender people to change their gender identity on government-issued ID cards wi...

Hong Kong campaign to give away over 500,000 plane tickets in bid to revive tourism

Hong Kong is offering free airline tickets, spending vouchers and special events in their efforts to bring travelers back after COVID-19 tra...

Miss Hong Kong slammed online for roasting marshmallows over gas stove

Social media users are criticizing Miss Hong Kong 2022 winner Denice Lam for attempting to roast marshmallows over her gas stove. Lam, the 2...

Hong Kong drops major COVID restrictions amid push for tourism

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Google slammed by Hong Kong leaders for refusing to remove protest anthem from search results

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Journalist jailed for waving British-Hong Kong flag during China national anthem

Paula Leung, a 42-year-old Hong Kong journalist, was jailed after waving a British-Hong Kong flag when China’s national anthem was played a...

‘Expel China!’: UK protesters rally against China after assault of Hongkonger in Manchester consulate

Hundreds in the U.K. gathered in separate local protests on Sunday to denounce China and demand freedom for Hong Kong. The protests came a...

‘He abused my country, my leader’: Chinese diplomat says pulling Hong Kong protester’s hair was his ‘duty’

Chinese Consul-General Zheng Xiyuan admitted to pulling the hair of Hong Kong protester Bob Chan during the scuffle that ensued at the Chin...

‘I fear I may be silenced’: Hongkonger assaulted in Chinese consulate in Manchester denies Beijing’s version of events

Bob Chan, the pro-Hong Kong independence protester who was assaulted in the Chinese Consulate in Manchester, has rejected Beijing’s version...

China’s chief UK diplomat in Manchester involved in assault of Hong Kong protester at consulate

Chinese Consul-General Zheng Xiyuan has confirmed his involvement in the violence that erupted in Beijing’s consulate in Manchester, Englan...

Chinese LGBTQ-plus couples are getting married virtually through weddings hosted in Utah

LGBTQ-plus couples in China and Hong Kong are now getting married via virtual weddings hosted in Utah County, Utah. Since the state does n...

Los Angeles-Hong Kong business class fare reaches $13,000 after quarantine requirements dropped

Hong Kong saw a massive surge of inbound and outbound travelers after Chief Executive John Lee uplifted its mandatory COVID-19 hotel quaran...

Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong lift COVID-19 restrictions on inbound travelers after more than 2 years

On Thursday, Japan’s government announced that the country would be reopening its borders to all individual tourists starting on Oct. 11. ...

Harmonica player at Queen Elizabeth II vigil in Hong Kong arrested for sedition

A 43-year-old man, surnamed Pang, was arrested on Tuesday outside the British consulate in Hong Kong under the British colonial-era seditio...

‘I am Chinese and I love my motherland forever’: Hong Kong opera star apologizes for praising Queen Elizabeth II

Veteran opera star Law Kar-ying publicly apologized after sparking outrage among nationalists in China for praising Britain’s late Queen El...

Hong Kong-based food critic says Japanese omakase ‘treats diners like idiots’

Hong Kong-based food critic Lam Chua is under fire for describing the Japanese omakase dining experience as treating “diners like idiots.” ...

Women who eat preserved foods have increased breast cancer risk, Hong Kong study finds

A study published in Cancer Prevention Research by Hong Kong researchers on Aug. 1 posits that women who consume preserved foods have an in...

Hong Kong’s iconic Jumbo Floating Restaurant is now upside down and trapped on a reef

Hong Kong’s Jumbo Floating Restaurant, which closed its doors in 2020 but made headlines when it began to sink earlier this year, is now al...

Dancer for HK boy band Mirror may be paralyzed after giant screen crashes down on him during show

A dancer for the Hong Kong boy band Mirror may have been paralyzed from the neck down after a giant screen fell and crushed him during a co...

Hong Kong activist ‘Grandma Wong’ sentenced to 8 months in jail over pro-democracy protests

Veteran activist Alexandra Wong, popularly known as “Grandma Wong,” was sentenced to eight months in jail over her participation in pro-demo...

Man falls to his death while trying to retrieve AirPods outside his window in Hong Kong

A 26-year-old man, only identified as Fan, was declared dead on Tuesday after reportedly falling from his apartment building in Sai Wan, Ho...

Hong Kong to issue over 100,000 electronic tracking bracelets to COVID patients to enforce quarantine

The Hong Kong government will be distributing more than 100,000 electronic wristbands to better track COVID-19 patients amid the city’s fif...

Viral videos of couple having sex outside in private Hong Kong hotel jacuzzi sparks privacy concerns

Two viral videos showing a couple having sex in their private outdoor jacuzzi in a Hong Kong hotel have ignited privacy concerns among socia...

Xi Jinping: ‘True democracy’ in Hong Kong began after British handover to China

In a rare visit to the financial hub on Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping remarked that Hong Kong’s “true democracy” began with its hand...

Fate of Hong Kong’s Jumbo Floating Restaurant takes mysterious turn as owners insist it didn’t ‘sink’

Owners of Hong Kong’s Jumbo Floating Restaurant have denied claims that the iconic craft sank in the South China Sea. The restaurant owner...

Hong Kong’s iconic Jumbo Floating Restaurant sinks while at sea

Jumbo Floating Restaurant, Hong Kong’s iconic landmark, capsized in the South China Sea on Sunday, days after it was towed from Aberdeen Ha...

New Hong Kong textbooks say it was never a British colony, calls 2019 protests ‘terrorist activities’

New Hong Kong textbooks appear to favor Beijing accounts of history, with them now stating that the island was never a British colony and d...

Video of kneeling 12-year-old girl slapped in the face over 20 times by teens goes viral in Hong Kong

A viral video in Hong Kong shows a 12-year-old girl kneeling as a group of teenagers, aged 12 to 19, take turns slapping her across the fac...

Watch: Hong Kong residents bid farewell to Jumbo Floating Restaurant as it is towed to secret location

The Jumbo Floating Restaurant offered Chinese banquet-style fine dining and was known for their Cantonese cuisine and seafood dishes. The v...

Iconic Hong Kong landmark Jumbo Floating Restaurant is sinking — and no one may save it

Hong Kongers are seeking help for the iconic landmark Jumbo Floating Restaurant days after its kitchen barge sank on May 31. Hong Kong Chi...

Dad in Hong Kong forced to pay $4,200 after son knocks over gold Teletubbies figure in toy store

A father in Hong Kong was forced to pay HK$33,600 (approximately $4,255) at a designer toy store after his son knocked over a golden Teletu...

Hong Kong’s next leader: Beijing favorite and ex-security chief John Lee

Sunday marked Beijing loyalist and former security chief John Lee’s election victory for Hong Kong chief executive. An overwhelming majority...

Hong Kong star Andy Lau goes viral for doing housework

Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter and film producer Andy Lau garnered millions of views on Chinese social media after posting a video of h...

Chinese student pleads guilty to attempted murder of 4 Hong Kong women in hopes of death penalty

Liu Yueteng, a 26-year-old former university student at a mainland tertiary institution, reportedly tried to murder four women in Hong Kong...

Hong Kong man arrested after passerby sees him moving rolled-up quilt with legs sticking out of it

Hong Kong police responded to a call from a passerby who witnessed a pair of legs sticking out from a rolled-up quilt being dragged with a ...

Hong Kong student sentenced to 5 years in jail for sending pro-independence messages on Telegram

Lui Sai-yu, a 25-year-old undergraduate student in Hong Kong, was charged with “incitement to secession” in April 2021 under the 2020 Beiji...