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U.S. to blacklist Chinese AI company SenseTime ahead of IPO
The U.S. plans to blacklist SenseTime, the Chinese AI and facial recognition software developer, ahead of its Hong Kong IPO on December 10.
Hong Kong Jails Activist for 3 Years, 7 Months in Secession Case
“Hong Kong jailed a student activist for three years and seven months after pleading guilty to secession, as authorities use a Beijing-drafted national security law to crack down on political dissent,” reports Bloomberg.
Pro-democracy clothing brand Chickeeduck to quit Hong Kong
A Hong Kong clothing company that supported democracy with colourful, tongue-in-cheek cartoon designs announced Thursday it will shutter its shops next year citing "unprecedented harassment" from officials and political opponents.
Huobi subsidiary launches Bitcoin, Ether, crypto mining funds in Hong Kong · TechNode
Wealthy Chinese citizens have a new way to invest in crypto, despite the practice being banned across the mainland. Huobi’s asset management subsidiary just set up four new crypto funds for high-net-worth investors.
Beijing denounces report to US Congress on Hong Kong as ‘pack of lies’
Local office of foreign affairs ministry slams experts’ report that claims Hong Kong has effectively become a police state serving Communist Party.
China’s debt crisis unlikely to infect global markets, JP Morgan boss says
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is unbothered by real estate contagion risk in China, “geopolitical winds” in the U.S.-China relationship, and, apparently, COVID-19 protocols. In a visit to Hong Kong, Dimon “expressed confidence in mainland China’s economy” and “was exempted from the city’s stringent quarantine measures,” the SCMP reports. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam (林鄭月娥 Lín Zhèng Yuè’é) brushed off criticism of the quarantine exemption: “After all, it is a very large bank, which has important business in the city.”
Hong Kong jails protester for chanting political slogans
Another strict sentencing in Hong Kong: Ma Chun-man (馬俊文 Mǎ Jùnwén), a 31-year-old former food delivery worker in Hong Kong, received a sentence of five years and nine months in jail for chanting slogans, including “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times,” in what one legal expert told the Financial Times indicated an “almost zero-tolerance approach” to dissident voices. Back in July, the first conviction under the city’s National Security Law had rejected the argument that slogans like this could mean different things to different people, as the court ruled that the slogan “was capable of inciting others to commit secession.”
Hong Kong independence activist with ‘clear conscience’ admits secession
Hong Kong under the National Security Law: Activist Tony Chung (鍾翰林 Zhōng Hànlín), 20, became the “youngest person convicted under national security law [but told the] judge he has no regrets for continuing his independence campaign,” while Hong Kong filmmakers see their future being censored.
Hong Kong takes risk in shutting itself off to the world
Opening up to China while keeping its international border closed is an unprecedented experiment
Hong Kong magistrate questions legality of prosecuting disbanded alliance
The legal status of the alliance behind the city’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil is murky after it was ordered to be struck from the city’s Companies Registry, magistrate says.
With New Conviction, Hong Kong Uses Security Law to Clamp Down on Speech
An activist, Ma Chun-man, was convicted of inciting secession after, he said, he chanted slogans to test the limits of the law.
Hong Kong's new rules on accessing gov't records put journalists at 'unnecessary' risk, press group says - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
Journalists in Hong Kong may face “unnecessary legal risks” when searching for government records, a local press union has warned, after two registries announced new rules tightening public access to step up the protection of personal data privacy. The Companies Registry and Land Registry said on Monday that they will roll out new measures requiring […]
Hong Kong to tighten COVID-19 rules, hopes China reopens
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will tighten COVID-19 restrictions despite a lack of local outbreaks to better align with China’s policies and increase chances of quarantine-free travel between the territory and mainland, leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday.
Hong Kong’s Covid-Zero Strategy to Stay Despite Global Banks Pleas
Hong Kong’s government said it will stick to its “zero infection” strategy on Covid-19, rebuffing a plea from global banks for the city to ease its strict quarantine policy and set a clearer time-line for a return to normal or risk its status as a center for international business.
Amnesty International Exits Hong Kong, Citing National Security Law
The organization plans to pull out of the city by the end of the year, marking one of the most prominent departures of a rights group since China’s imposition of the law.
Hong Kong Convicts Second Person Under National Security Law
A Hong Kong court convicted a second person under a Beijing-drafted national security law, reinforcing fears the legislation will be strictly interpreted amid a sweeping crackdown on political dissent.
As Hong Kong’s Civil Society Buckles, One Group Tries to Hold On
Unions and other organizations have dissolved after facing pressure under a new security law. The Hong Kong Journalists Association is hoping it can avoid that fate.
Court rulings free Hong Kong police to probe older offences under security law
Retroactive justice in Hong Kong: Reuters reports that police in the city “have launched investigations into acts that took place before the national security law was imposed a year ago, despite assurances by Beijing and Hong Kong that the financial hub’s legislation would not be retroactive.”
Hong Kong National Security Police Freeze Tiananmen Campaign Group's Assets
A second person stands trial under the national security law, while nine more people are charged under it.
