20 h. ago Hong Kong’s National Day fireworks to feature Ne Zha, National Games themes

The coming National Day fireworks in Hong Kong will feature themes inspired by Chinese animated blockbuster Ne Zha and the National Games, but a drone show expected to precede the display will be excluded after last year’s performance cancellation due to meteorological factors, the organiser has said. The HK$18 million (US$2.3 million) display, set on October 1 to celebrate the 76th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, will last 23 minutes and portray eight scenes, said...

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29 h. ago ‘Prosperity for generations’: Malaysia urges Hong Kong to tap Asean ‘as a bloc’

Business leaders and governments should think of Asean as a bloc with nearly 700 million people and an emerging middle class instead of individual countries when considering the vast trade potential of the region, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said on Tuesday. While Hong Kong was essential to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as an international financial hub that promoted technological innovation with a well-regarded legal system, the bloc could also offer great...

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4 d. ago China Refocuses Hong Kong Labs on Quantum and National Priorities

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9 d. ago Macau spending scheme aims to generate 2 billion patacas in consumption

Macau will launch a HK$470 million (US$60.3 million) citywide consumption campaign on Monday, lasting three months to stimulate local spending and support small businesses during the off-peak tourist season. The scheme, which will continue until the end of November, is also intended to mark the coming 15th National Games, co-hosted for the first time by Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau, according to the latter’s government on Sunday. Officially titled “National Games Cohesion, Community...

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1 week ago How China streamlines national labs into tech war machines: the Hong Kong case

Hong Kong’s once sprawling and diffuse network of state-backed research labs has undergone a surgical transformation – streamlined, repurposed and laser-focused on Beijing’s strategic technology ambitions. In a move emblematic of China’s broader overhaul of its national scientific apparatus, the city has dismantled underperforming labs, rebranded legacy institutions and launched three cutting-edge facilities dedicated to quantum materials and climate resilience – all under tightened alignment...

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1 week ago Key takeaways from Jimmy Lai’s national security trial and what comes next

After more than 1,700 days in custody and a trial that spanned more than 1½ years, former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying is now waiting for a verdict to be delivered in his marathon national security trial. The 77-year-old businessman turned opposition activist, who founded the now-defunct Apple Daily tabloid, is the most prominent figure yet to be prosecuted under the Beijing-decreed national security law. Western politicians have repeatedly condemned his prosecution as an attack on press...

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1 week ago SenseTime’s AI growth surges, as China advances nationwide initiative

SenseTime has significantly narrowed its losses while achieving robust growth in its generative artificial intelligence business in the first half of 2025, as China pushes a nationwide initiative to advance the AI industry. The Hong Kong-listed company on Thursday posted revenue of 2.36 billion yuan (US$330 million) for the six months ended June 30, marking a 35.6 per cent increase from a year earlier. Gross profit rose 18.4 per cent year on year to 907.8 million yuan, although gross margin...

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1 week ago Trial of Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai ends after 1½ years, with verdict at later date

Former Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s marathon national security trial has come to a close after more than 1½ years, with the judges expected to hand down their verdict before mid-November. After sitting for 156 days, the curtain came down on Thursday on the Apple Daily tabloid founder’s trial, following a decision by the three presiding High Court judges on how to handle certain evidence immaterial to determining guilt in the high-profile case. Madam Justice Esther Toh Lye-ping, who...

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1 week ago Hong Kong police bring in father of wanted activist Tony Lam for questioning

Hong Kong national security police have brought in the father of a wanted activist to assist with an investigation, the latest action in a widening probe into an overseas group authorities have labelled a subversive organisation. A source familiar with the matter told the Post that the father of Tony Lam was taken to Tai Po police station on Thursday morning. The source added that the 67-year-old, who was wearing a grey shirt and black trousers, was expected to remain there until around...

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1 week ago National Games ticket sales open in Hong Kong, online portal lacks English option

Tickets for National Games events, including those held in Hong Kong, went on sale on Thursday morning, but the Post found that the online purchasing system did not offer an English-language interface. A Post reporter also visited a designated outlet in Causeway Bay and spotted a small group of residents gathered there to buy tickets. The first round of ticket sales for the 15th National Games and National Games for Persons with Disabilities began at 10am, available through the online portal and...

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2 w. ago Jimmy Lai’s lawyers ask Hong Kong judges to discard testimony of ‘serial liar’

Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s lawyers have asked Hong Kong judges hearing his national security trial to discard prosecutors’ evidence that the tabloid founder devised an anti-China lobbying strategy, saying the witness making the allegation was an “admitted serial liar”. Defence lawyers on Wednesday wrapped up their closing arguments at West Kowloon Court for the former media boss’s national security trial, in which Lai is contesting charges of conspiracy to print seditious articles and collude with...

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2 w. ago Hong Kong student given community service for turning back on national anthem

A 19-year-old Hong Kong student has been sentenced to 180 hours of community service for insulting the national anthem by turning his back to the pitch when the song was played at a 2026 Fifa World Cup qualifier match last year. Eastern Court on Wednesday heard that Lau Pun-hei, a second-year political science student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, showed “some remorse” and was unlikely to repeat the offence. Lau, who promised in mitigation not to commit the same mistake again, pleaded...

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2 w. ago Hong Kong student gets community service for insulting national anthem

A 19-year-old Hong Kong student has been sentenced to 180 hours of community service for insulting the national anthem by turning his back to the pitch when the song was played at a 2026 Fifa World Cup qualifier match last year. Eastern Court on Wednesday heard that Lau Pun-hei, a second-year political science student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, had shown “some remorse” and was unlikely to repeat the offence. Lau, who promised in mitigation not to make the same mistake again, pleaded...

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2 w. ago Hong Kong show on Chinese war effort ‘a highlight’ of 80th anniversary events

An exhibition featuring more than 180 artefacts that illustrate Chinese war efforts against the Japanese in the 1930s and 1940s will open in Hong Kong on Wednesday, with a military sabre used in battle among the pieces. Featuring items loaned from the National Museum of China in Beijing, “The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: United in Arms, Standing for Peace – 80th Anniversary of Chinese Victory in the War of Resistance Exhibition” will run at the Hong Kong Museum of History in Tsim Sha Tsui as...

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2 w. ago Woman, 19, arrested over filming videos for subversive ‘Hong Kong Parliament’

Hong Kong national security police have arrested a 19-year-old woman for committing an act with seditious intent after she allegedly filmed a series of promotional videos for a group deemed to be subversive by authorities. Authorities said on Tuesday that Lan Fei was allegedly involved in producing promotional videos for an organisation called the “Hong Kong Parliament” between March and May this year. Police said the suspect was believed to have used social media to urge others to take part in...

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2 w. ago Media misled Hong Kong public on extradition bill, judge in Jimmy Lai trial says

A judge hearing Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s national security trial has argued that the media misled Hong Kong residents into opposing a now-withdrawn extradition bill at the outset of the 2019 anti-government protests. A brief political debate ensued at West Kowloon Court upon the resumption of defence closing submissions in the trial of the Apple Daily founder on Tuesday, in which lawyers sought to justify the newspaper’s unfavourable portrayal of the proposed legal amendment as promoting public...

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2 w. ago Jimmy Lai trial: judge questions defence’s understanding of Hong Kong security law

A judge has argued that an interpretation of Hong Kong’s national security law by Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s defence team may not reflect Beijing’s true intentions, after the former media boss’ lawyers argued that the legislation did not penalise calls for sanctions against select Chinese officials. Lai’s lawyers on Monday argued that a strict literal approach was necessary to decipher the Beijing-imposed legislation as they resumed presenting verbal arguments at West Kowloon Court for the close of...

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2 w. ago Jimmy Lai trial: Hong Kong judge dismisses freedom of expression defence

A Hong Kong judge hearing Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s national security trial has dismissed the defence’s contention that the former media boss was just exercising his right to freedom of expression with his anti-China comments, citing crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests in the West. A protracted debate at West Kowloon Court on the proper reading of Lai’s allegedly offensive statements took a turn on Friday when one of three presiding High Court judges hit out at lawyers’ “la-di-da” defence...

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2 w. ago Hong Kong court challenges Jimmy Lai’s rights claims in national security trial

Two Hong Kong judges hearing Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s national security trial have expressed reservations about the defence characterising the former media boss’s alleged endeavours to trigger Western sanctions and foster hatred towards authorities as a legitimate exercise of fundamental rights. The 77-year-old Apple Daily tabloid founder’s legal team on Wednesday started presenting its closing arguments at West Kowloon Court after the prosecution made their final remarks in his case of...

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3 w. ago Hong Kong 47: Tiffany Yuen freed after over 4 years in prison

Tiffany Yuen Ka-wai, one of 47 Hong Kong opposition figures charged in the city’s largest national security case so far, has been released from prison after serving a sentence of four years and three months. Yuen, a former member of the Southern District Council, left Lo Wu Correctional Institution at around 5.40am on Tuesday. According to local media, two black seven-seaters with their curtains drawn were seen leaving the compound, believed to be transporting Yuen. A source said the 31-year-old...

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