Police will install 15 sets of surveillance cameras in Hong Kong’s busy Mong Kok district next month, the first phase of a plan to place more than 600 devices in crime hotspots by midyear for public safety purposes.The force said...
A newly added paragraph at the beginning of the document states that the inspection work’s “fundamental task is to resolutely safeguard the core status” of Xi, as well as his authority and leadership.Another new section explains that the party’s inspection...
He served as secretary general and vice-chairman of the country’s top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, at the time.Top Beijing official on Hong Kong affairs sets high expectations as visit startsHis appointment came about a month...
The proposed bill, which debuted as the private economy promotion law, has been introduced into the lawmaking process by the country’s top legislature, the justice ministry and top economic planner, China’s state broadcaster CCTV said on Wednesday.The private economy promotion...
Beijing’s top official overseeing Hong Kong affairs arrived in the city on Thursday, kicking off a seven-day fact-finding visit to the financial hub.Without addressing the media, Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO), waved from...
“Some people have regularly used to gain traffic, and even attacked scholars and politicians expressing legitimate views over Article 23,” DAB lawmaker Steven Ho Chun-yin told reporters at the Legislative Council.“I found this absolutely unacceptable.”Joephy Chan, whose attack on veteran...
The review was launched after a row erupted when Argentinian superstar footballer Lionel Messi failed to take the field for his Inter Miami team in a match against a Hong Kong select earlier this month, which left tens of thousands...
Hong Kong authorities anticipate more efforts to smear a home-grown national security law by “external forces and runaways” once the bill is introduced, the security chief has said, while acknowledging residents’ concerns about proposed offences.Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung...
Top Beijing official Xia Baolong will meet tycoons and other business leaders to gauge their views on the city’s economic prospects and discuss the proposed domestic national security law with legal professional bodies during his visit to Hong Kong later...
A 10-member mainland delegation headed by Li Zhaohui, deputy director of the Taiwan Affairs Office in Quanzhou, arrived in Quemoy on Tuesday to retrieve the men and was greeted by a group of Taiwanese officials. 02:20Two mainland Chinese fishermen drown...
