Seven Hongkongers that attempted to flee to Taiwan were sentenced to between seven and ten months of imprisonment earlier this week, for an escape attempt that took place in August 2020. On the same day, four Hongkongers were arrested for an attempt to flee to Taiwan...
Reports from Hong Kong’s Ming Pao and local media outlets suggest that the Apple Daily Taiwan has a buyer. This is reported as being Hong Kong businessman Kenny Wee and Singaporean 17LIVE co-founder Joseph Phua...
Civil society groups marked the third anniversary of the 2019 Hong Kong protests in Taipei yesterday, with a rally that took place in front of the Bank of China building in Xinyi...
On December 25th, 2021, just two days after the University of Hong Kong plastic-wrapped and removed the Pillar of Shame from its campus, Taiwan’s New School For Democracy held a press conference at the Legislative Yuan in response to the university administration’s actions...
Hongkongers—whose freedoms were crushed by the same party who entered into an agreement of ‘no limits’ with Russia in February—are well aware of the fight against authoritarianism currently being waged in Ukraine...
Hong Kong held its first “patriots-only” election for the Legislative Council (LegCo) yesterday in an election that was marked by record low turnout. The election only saw 30.2% participation, or 1.35 million ballots cast. This was nearly half of the turnout in 2016, when LegCo elections were last held, which saw 58% turnout...
The fate of the Taiwan edition of the Apple Daily continues to be up in the air, with moves by a Hong Kong liquidator to try and take control of the Apple Daily’s Taiwan assets...
Groups rallied today in front of the legislature to call attention to the Chinese government’s authoritarianism and to call on the Taiwanese government to take stronger action for Hongkongers in need of assistance. The rally took place today because October 1st is Chinese National Day...
Tong Ying-kit was sentenced to nine years in jail today by Hong Kong courts. Tong was sentenced on charges of secession and terrorism for riding into the police with a flag reading “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times” on his motorcycle, resulting in his arrest last year on July 1st, 2020...
A wave of Hong Kong district councilors have quit their positions, with over 70 announcing that they would be leaving their jobs as of yesterday. 123 of 392 pro-democracy district councilors that took office in 2019 have quit, many apologizing to their constituents...
