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Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London, located in Westminster. On 13 May 2024, the Metropolitan Police of London, United Kingdom, announced three men (Bill Yuen, Peter Wai, and Matthew Trickett) had been charged with national security offences for assisting Hong Kong intelligence service and foreign interference, including spying on Nathan Law and other exiled activists of Hong Kong.
A Hong Kong court found 14 people guilty of subversion on May 30 at the start of a verdict hearing in the city's biggest case against the pro-democracy bloc since China imposed a national security ...
A 24-hour news, financial and infotainment channel. 21 Nov 2022 81 TVB Jade: 翡翠台: TVB's main general entertainment channel. Cantonese 1080i HDTV Terrestrial 19 November 1967 TVB: 82 TVB Plus [7] A youth-oriented entertainment, financial news and sports channel. 28 January 2008 83: TVB News Channel: 無綫新聞台: A 24-hour news channel ...
Fourteen pro-democracy activists were convicted in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case on Thursday by a court that said their plan to effect change through an unofficial primary election ...
Hong Kong[ e ] is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. With 7.4 million residents of various nationalities [ f ] in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty ...
Hong Kong generates the largest horse race gambling turnover in the world. The Hong Kong Jockey Club founded in 1884, holds a monopoly on horse racing wagers, lotteries and football betting and is the largest taxpayer to the government. [3] In 2009, Hong Kong generated an average US$12.7 million in gambling turnover per race 6 times larger than ...
Rowena He or He Xiaoqing (Traditional Chinese: 何曉清; Simplified Chinese: 何晓清) is a China specialist and historian of modern Chinese society and politics. The Wall Street Journal called her as a "lead scholar on the Tiananmen Movement." [1] Her first book, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggles for Democracy in China was named Top ...
Protesters in front of the Legislative Council Complex. On 1 July 2019, as Hong Kong marked the 22nd anniversary of its 1997 handover to China, the annual pro-democracy protest march organised by CHRF claimed a record turnout of 550,000; police placed the estimate at around 190,000, [4] [5] while independent organisations using scientific methods calculated that participation was in the region ...