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The now-defunct Apple Daily tabloid newspaper turned “radical” after its founder Jimmy Lai Chee-ying met top US leaders such as Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo to seek their support for [...]

An English language edition of the now-closed Apple Daily tabloid was created at founder Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s request in a bid to drum up international support and head off a [...]

China has hit out at United States-led tech curbs in its latest position paper to the United Nations, calling for an “open, fair, equal and non-discriminative” environment for all countries [...]

The White House and Pentagon called media reports on Thursday of Chinese plans to build a spy facility in Cuba inaccurate, capping a day in which new concerns about national [...]

The chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association has said the profession’s independence will assume greater importance as the rule of law continues to be challenged, and appealed to the [...]

Authorities have proposed ­allocating HK$100 million to social welfare organisations to arrange national study ­programmes and exchange tours to the mainland. But social welfare sector lawmaker Tik Chi-yuen expressed scepticism [...]

President Xi Jinping sent a message of condolence to his counterpart Vladimir Putin following the terrorist attack in Moscow, state broadcaster CCTV reported yesterday. Xi expressed his shock about the [...]

Auditors in Hong Kong need more legal assurances that a domestic national security bill will not place an onerous burden on them as they handle confidential corporate information that could [...]

Mainland and Hong Kong ­authorities have slammed three foreign media outlets over ­“misleading” remarks about the city’s proposed domestic national security law including an article in UK newspaper The Times [...]

The consultation on proposed new national security laws for Hong Kong lasted only 30 days, but generated much feedback and food for thought. There were more than 13,000 submissions, with [...]

The Hong Kong Bar Association has called for clearer provisions in the city’s home-grown national security legislation, warning that greater uncertainty about its implementation may increase the likelihood of “a [...]

Authorities anticipate more efforts to smear a home-grown national security law by “external forces and runaways” once the bill is introduced, Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung says, while acknowledging [...]

Media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying asked a senior executive of the now-closed Apple Daily ­tabloid he owned to help a British-based rights group that later called on foreign sanctions against [...]

Certain overseas national security­-related laws referenced by the Hong Kong government in a proposal for the city’s Article 23 legislation are considered “overbroad” and “excessive” in their home countries, legal [...]

Judges overseeing Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s national security trial have questioned whether a ­campaign launched by the tycoon to seek then US president Donald Trump’s intervention in Hong Kong affairs could [...]

China’s finance ministry has proposed that auditors undergo or conduct additional cybersecurity reviews when their work involves national security, as Beijing steps up efforts to ensure data security. The proposal [...]

In a world where decoupling, de-risking, near-shoring and a range of other national security measures are seen as needed to fend off the existential challenge from China, it is perhaps [...]

A former civil servant has lost a judicial challenge over his forced retirement after he failed to ­submit a signed declaration pledging allegiance to the city on time. The High [...]

At least 16 people were taken away by police patrolling an area that previously hosted the June 4 ­candlelight vigil marking the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing more than three [...]

Prosecutors will be allowed to appeal against an acquittal by High Court judges over their understanding of the law concerning national security cases, which were tried without a jury, under [...]

A proposed major upgrade of police digital communications systems would come with a hefty price tag. The force wants HK$5.2 billion for a new 5G system that can handle the [...]

Police have sought HK$5.2 billion in funding to build a new 5G communications system to handle a “massive amount” of texts, images, videos and other data gathered by frontline officers, [...]

Television and radio programmes promoting patriotism and national security should be lighthearted, funny and creative to win over audiences, analysts have suggested after authorities made such content compulsory for broadcasters [...]

When Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said he would invite the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee to interpret the national security law for Hong Kong in relation to the [...]

Japan will upgrade China to an “unprecedented strategic challenge” in its revised National Security Strategy, with analysts saying the move that took nearly a decade of discussions is long overdue [...]

Private practice lawyers who ­prosecute cases on behalf of the Hong Kong government have been asked to sign a new form to confirm their role in safeguarding national security, among [...]

Three men have been jailed for up to 34 months after they admitted a “brutal” assault on a Hong Kong lawyer who confronted protesters vandalising a shop during a demonstration [...]

As a policy statement, the long-awaited National Security Strategy from the Joe Biden White House is intellectually incoherent and self-contradictory. On these, I will point out below. But let’s just [...]

Jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has launched a fresh round of legal action in a bid to block police from inspection of his mobile phones on national security grounds. [...]

In an escalating war of words, Beijing has fired back at Britain and the United States over two official reports that were highly critical of Hong Kong’s political and legal [...]

Four one-time leaders of what was formerly the city’s biggest opposition-leaning trade union have been taken in for questioning by national security police after the disbanded group was accused of [...]

A recent strike by food couriers against delivery giant Foodpanda might not have caught the eye of customers with many other options for meal orders, but for several of Hong [...]

Candidates sitting the university ­entrance exams in Hong Kong can score full marks for questions on national security by citing ­government statements supplied as ­reference materials under a ­liberal studies [...]