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Hong Kong has again ranked low in a global press freedom index, as a watchdog cited an “unprecedented series of setbacks” including newsroom closures and journalist arrests under Beijing’s national security law. The city placed 135 out of 180 countries and territories in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF)’s annual press freedom ranking, released on Friday to mark World Press Freedom Day. Sandwiched between the Philippines and South Sudan in the ranking, Hong Kong continued to be among the few developed places to place poorly. Its press freedom ranking rose five places from last year’s 140. Bu...
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Dear readers, On International Press Freedom Day, the HKFP team remains committed to reporting, on-the-ground, in one of the world’s most challenging, and rapidly-changing media environments. Nevertheless, our newsroom is facing a funding situation in 2024 whereby our expansion to nine team members coincided with a decline in regular Patron backers, resulting in two years of record losses. During this time, we’ve widened coverage of key court cases, deepened original reporting, launched a podcast, hired our first photographer, won several awards, and gained the Trust Project hallmark. HKFP now...
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Hong Kong Free Press has been shortlisted for the International Press Institute’s (IPI) 2024 Free Media Pioneer award. The list showcases the “power and resilience of the free press,” according to the IPI – a 73-year-old global press freedom organisation with consultative status at the UN, UNESCO and the Council of Europe. “These outstanding organisations from around the globe are meeting the moment by defending press freedom, filling crucial gaps in quality, investigative reporting, or driving media innovation,” the IPI said in an announcement on Thursday. “Amid growing threats to independent...
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Seventy per cent of Hong Kong’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) say their income has dropped below pre-pandemic levels, despite Covid-19 restrictions being lifted a year ago, a survey has found. The Hong Kong Small and Medium Enterprises Association and Junior Chamber International Hong Kong conducted a survey in April, interviewing 568 SMEs from sectors ranging from food and beverage to retail. Results released on Thursday showed only 4.4 per cent of the respondents had reported growth since early 2023. “Factors such as the rising trend of northbound travel among Hongkongers, international...
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Hong Kong must improve communications to manage tourists’ expectations of fireworks displays, a tourism veteran has said after visitors from mainland China aired complaints about a scaled-down pyrotechnics display on Labour Day. It came as Hong Kong saw more than 181,000 arrivals from the mainland on the first day of the May 1 “golden week”. Timothy Chui, executive director of the Hong Kong Tourism Association, told RTHK that he was “pleasantly surprised” to know that some mainland tourists had come to Hong Kong specifically for the scaled-down fireworks display. However, some Chinese netizens...
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Pro-democracy Cantopop star Denise Ho has said she will perform an online gig this month having been unable to secure a live venue. “Apart from the fact that it’s so difficult for me to do a ‘normal’ show in this abnormal place (I should say it’s impossible, I can’t book a show, I can’t go out of town for a tour)… I think this situation of being stripped down is probably the best time for me to learn how to be a singer again,” Ho said in a Facebook post to fans on Monday. Police are currently in possession of the singer’s passport as she was arrested on charges of sedition in connection with t...
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It is “extremely regretful” that Hong Kong has not seen any labour rights marches since 2019, the chairperson of one of the last remaining opposition parties has said as the city marked its fifth Labour Day without protests. Chan Po-ying, leader of the League of Social Democrats (LSD), told HKFP on Thursday that the government tended to side with employers on labour issues and was slow to respond to workers’ demands. She added that the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU), a pro-establishment group and the city’s largest union, was not doing enough on behalf of the city’s low-wage earner...
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A 37-year-old man, suspected to be linked to several burglaries at Lantau’s Sea Ranch, has died following a suspected blow to the head. The mainland man was found unconscious at the isolated resort’s pier in the early hours of Wednesday, police told HKFP on Thursday. At 5:39am, a passer-by reported to police that a man was lying at Sea Ranch pier unconscious. He was sent to Cheung Chau’s hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Shortly afterwards, at 7:15am, police received a report about a Sea Ranch flat being ransacked, with HK$3,000 in cash and a bank card stolen. Police said another ca...
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The Court of Appeal will hear an appeal by the Department of Justice (DoJ) in November, as they challenge an earlier decision to clear Democratic Party Lo Kin-hei of an unlawful assembly charge linked to the 2019 protests and unrest. According to the court diary, the case will be heard on November 20, with proceedings expected to last one day. Following his acquittal by the District Court in November 2022, the DoJ launched a bid to appeal on December 5, 2022. Two days later, on December 7, Lo was re-arrested and brought to the High Court. The High Court judge granted bail to Lo with a cash amo...
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A Hong Kong court will hear an appeal from the head of the city’s largest journalist group Ronson Chan in November, more than a year after he was sentenced to five days in prison over obstructing a police officer while reporting. Chan, the chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), is scheduled to challenge his conviction and sentencing at the High Court on November 19, according to the Judiciary’s website. The veteran journalist’s case relates to an incident in September 2022, when Chan was reporting on a homeowners’ committee meeting at MacPherson Stadium in Mong Kok. He was stop...
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