# hong-kong - Saturday 11 June, 2022
# Teacher Training
# Teacher Training
Hong Kong is a popular destination for teachers teaching English as a second language, including from Ireland.
# hong-kong - Saturday 4 June, 2022
# 4 June
# 4 June
Chinese troops opened fire on protesters demanding greater democracy in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989.
# hong-kong - Wednesday 11 May, 2022
# Joseph Zen
# Joseph Zen
Joseph Zen was released shortly before the White House issued a statement demanding he be freed “immediately”.
# hong-kong - Monday 9 May, 2022
# Hong Kong
# Hong Kong
Carrie Lam spoke after her successor John Lee was elected unopposed by a pro-Beijing committee.
# hong-kong - Sunday 8 May, 2022
# China
# China
John Lee, who oversaw the crackdown on Hong Kong ’s democracy movement, was appointed Hong Kong leader on Sunday by a small committee of Beijing loyalists.
# hong-kong - Thursday 5 May, 2022
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
Deaths from Covid-19 in Hong Kong have fallen from a high of almost 300 per day in March to zero in recent days.
# hong-kong - Monday 4 April, 2022
# China
# China
Lam’s five years in office saw massive pro-democracy protests and the implementation of a controversial national security law.
# hong-kong - Wednesday 16 March, 2022
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
The city has recorded nearly a million infections and more than 4,600 deaths in the last three months.
# hong-kong - Thursday 17 February, 2022
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
The city is struggling to cope with a record number of cases and healthcare facilities are beginning to overflow.
# hong-kong - Friday 21 January, 2022
# China
# China
The cull was approved after a number of hamsters in a pet shop tested positive for Covid-19.
# hong-kong - Wednesday 12 January, 2022
# Hong Kong
# Hong Kong
Chief Executive Carrie Lam made the announcement, but did not outline what the new crimes would be.
# hong-kong - Wednesday 5 January, 2022
# Hong Kong
# Hong Kong
The Royal Caribbean’s Spectrum of the Seas ship was forced to return a day early from a cruise.
# hong-kong - Monday 3 January, 2022
# CitizenNews
# CitizenNews
Reporters made clear their decision was fuelled by fears caused by a national security police raid last week on Stand News.
# hong-kong - Thursday 30 December, 2021
# Stand News
# Stand News
Police raised the Stand News office on Wednesday.
# hong-kong - Wednesday 29 December, 2021
# Hong Kong
# Hong Kong
More than 200 officers were deployed to search the Stand News newsroom.
# hong-kong - Thursday 23 December, 2021
# Pillar Of Shame
# Pillar Of Shame
The eight-metre high “Pillar of Shame” has sat on the University of Hong Kong ’s campus since 1997.
# hong-kong - Sunday 19 December, 2021
# Hong Kong
# Hong Kong
It is the first legislature poll under the new political blueprint China imposed on Hong Kong following massive pro-democracy protests two years ago.
# hong-kong - Monday 13 December, 2021
# Jimmy Lai
# Jimmy Lai
Jimmy Lai has already been jailed for taking part in pro-democracy protests.
# hong-kong - Thursday 9 December, 2021
# Pro-democracy
# Pro-democracy
Lai, the 74-year-old owner of the now-shuttered pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper, was found guilty of unlawful assembly charges.
# hong-kong - Saturday 25 September, 2021
# Hong Kong
# Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China was under investigation.
# Colombia
# Colombia
Colombian authorities seized 3,493 shark fins and 117 kilos of fish bladders that were en route to Hong Kong .
# hong-kong - Tuesday 10 August, 2021
# Democracy
# Democracy
Carrie Lam said the anti-foreign sanctions law should be adopted in Hong Kong through local legislation
# hong-kong - Friday 6 August, 2021
The move comes as China and the United States are at odds over a range of foreign policy and trade issues.
# hong-kong - Saturday 31 July, 2021
# Public Screening
# Public Screening
Police are investigating Olympic Games fans who booed China’s national anthem during a public screening at a shopping centre.
# hong-kong - Tuesday 6 July, 2021
# Hong Kong
# Hong Kong
The arrests come after months of massive anti-government protests rocked the territory.
# hong-kong - Wednesday 23 June, 2021
# Hong Kong
# Hong Kong
Apple Daily was founded by tycoon Jimmy Lai in 1995.
# hong-kong - Thursday 17 June, 2021
# Hong Kong
# Hong Kong
Police searched the newspaper’s offices in another move sparking concern about the future of the free press in the territory.
# hong-kong - Wednesday 2 June, 2021
# Hong Kong
# Hong Kong
Organisers of the June 4 Museum said they were seeking legal advice.
# hong-kong - Friday 28 May, 2021
# Hong Kong
# Hong Kong
The 73-year-old is currently serving a separate 14-month jail term for convictions related to other unauthorised rallies in 2019.
# hong-kong - Wednesday 28 April, 2021
# China
# China
So-called “exit bans” are often used in mainland China against activists who challenge authorities and have impacted business figures like Irishman Richard O’Halloran.
# hong-kong - Friday 16 April, 2021
# Hong Kong
# Hong Kong
1.7 million people turned out for the demonstration in 2019.
# hong-kong - Tuesday 30 March, 2021
# Pro-Beijing
# Pro-Beijing
The amendments to Hong Kong ’s constitution will give Beijing more control over the make-up of the city’s legislature.
# hong-kong - Sunday 28 February, 2021
# Raids
# Raids
Police arrested 55 of the city’s best-known pro-democracy campaigners last month.
# hong-kong - Thursday 18 February, 2021
# Crackdown
# Crackdown
Jimmy Lai is one of several activists facing long-jail terms over new laws prompted by the Hong Kong anti-government protests.
# hong-kong - Saturday 12 December, 2020
# Jimmy Lai
# Jimmy Lai
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the law “makes a mockery of justice”.
# hong-kong - Thursday 12 November, 2020
# Hong Kong
# Hong Kong
One pro-democracy lawmaker said the removal of their colleagues could sound the “death knell” for Hong Kong ’s democracy.
# hong-kong - Wednesday 11 November, 2020
# Hong Kong
# Hong Kong
The move follows a resolution passed in Beijing partly aimed to combat supporters of Hong Kong independence.
# hong-kong - Sunday 1 November, 2020
# Hong Kong
# Hong Kong
Those arrested include current and former opposition legislators.
# hong-kong - Thursday 29 October, 2020
# Tony Chung
# Tony Chung
He’s the first public political figure to be prosecuted under a new national security law imposed on the city.
# hong-kong - Thursday 1 October, 2020
# Democracy
# Democracy
Irish journalist Aaron Mc Nicholas has returned from the territory and here, he documents the daily challenges faced by journalists and other activists in a politically tense Hong Kong .
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