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Four years on from the 2019 protests and unrest, Hong Kong was finally able to legally restrict the performance and distribution of the movement’s anthem Glory to Hong Kong – a move that its composer foresaw back in 2020. But why is the song controversial, and where did it come from? How did the government win at the appeals court? Was the song already illegal? And how did YouTube seek to comply with the legal ruling? HKFP examines how the government enacted the ban, and how a city – once a bulwark of free expression in Asia – came to insist that a song was a threat to China, the world’s secon...
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The media can “ask questions” but not provoke conflicts or make slanderous remarks, Chief Executive John Lee has said at an awards ceremony for the city’s news industry. The news industry must abide by professional ethics and provide readers with accurate and comprehensive information, as well as pertinent and unbiased reports, Lee said at the Hong Kong News Awards on Friday. He offered the organiser, the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong, his support for “promoting the development of high quality journalism,” and added that Hong Kong’s economy needed the power of the media to spread the news of ...
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Featuring artists like Fouad Ceet, known for his colorful chicken characters, and Korean artist Jung Chan Boo, who creates sculptures from single-use plastic straws, the fair promotes both creativity and sustainability. With artworks priced between €118 and €11,852, the fair attracts a wide audience. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the event runs from May 16-19, 2025, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. The next stop in Europe is Vienna, where the Affordable Art Fair will be held from May 22-25, 2025, at Marx Halle, Karl-Farkas-Gasse 19, 1030 Wien, Austria.
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Pro-establishment lawmaker Rebecca Chan has urged the government to postpone the waste charging scheme for a second time, citing a survey conducted by the legislator which showed a large percentage of interviewees supported a delay. The online survey, conducted from April 30 to May 6, collected 959 effective responses. Chan said at a press conference on Thursday that, while 58 per cent of people supported recycling and waste reduction, 78.1 per cent said they “agreed” or “highly agreed” to postpone the official roll-out of the waste tax. The waste tax, a policy to encourage recycling by asking...
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Hong Kong officials have warned against thrill-seeking activities such as chasing storms and searching for big ocean waves during extreme weather, saying offenders could face jail time and a fine. Undersecretary for Security Michael Cheuk said on Thursday authorities are considering invoking legislation that would close beaches and country parks under extreme weather. Violators could face a HK$2,000 fine and 14 days in jail. “Do not attempt to defy nature for the sake of thrill-seeking or satisfaction, because you will not succeed,” Cheuk told reporters in Cantonese. Cheuk added that the lives...
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Hong Kong’s government has defended its decision to approve a limited taxi fare increase against criticism from both passengers and drivers, saying it took the views of both sides into consideration. Chief Executive John Lee and the Executive Council on Tuesday approved the increase as of July 14 for taxis servicing the urban areas, the New Territories and Lantau island. Flagfall will rise by HK$2 to HK$29 for urban taxis, HK$25.5 for New Territories cabs and HK$24 for Lantau taxis. Incremental charges will rise as well. The adjustment faced criticism online as passengers complained about poor...
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Hong Kong’s public hospitals expect to hire 250 non-locally trained doctors this year, a senior official said as he expressed confidence in addressing a manpower shortage in the sector through overseas recruitment. Hospital Authority (HA) chairperson Henry Fan said there are currently around 150 non-locally trained doctors working in the city after authorities stepped up international recruitment efforts last year, local media reported. Speaking at the annual Hospital Authority Convention which opened on Thursday at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Fan said the authority planned...
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Zines come in a wide array of shapes and sizes. Among the extensive collection curated by Samantha Chao, a zine librarian at the Asian Art Archive (AAA) in Hong Kong, certain zines were smaller than palm-sized, while others were about as large as ring binders. To properly accommodate the expanding collection within the city’s first formal zine archive, Chao selected three customised shelves to house the self-published medium that often had thin spines. Inspired by the layout of vinyl record stores, the archive features pull-out drawers filled with alphabetically arranged zines, providing reade...
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Google has blocked Hong Kong users from accessing pro-democracy protest song Glory to Hong Kong on YouTube following a court order. It comes days after Secretary for Justice Paul Lam said the government was “anxious” for the tech company’s response to the ruling. Last Wednesday, a court banned people from “broadcasting, performing, printing, publishing, selling, offering for sale, distributing, disseminating, displaying or reproducing” the song with seditious intent. The Court of Appeal sided with the government, overturning last year’s decision by a lower court rejecting the injunction that c...
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The defence should be allowed to call a witness to the stand for a second time “in the interests of justice,” the lawyer for jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai has argued at the landmark national security trial. But his submission drew the ire of the three judges presiding over the case, who questioned the defence’s failure to ask the former CEO of Apple Daily’s parent company about messaging app evidence in the first place. The defence is seeking to ask Cheung Kim-hung about messages on Slack, a workplace messaging app that the paper’s staff used to discuss the newspaper’s editorial direction. The...
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