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Hong Kong's last opposition party votes to disband under China pressureThe Democratic Party has been Hong Kong's flagship opposition since its founding three years before the financial hub's return to Chinese r...15 Dec, 2025, 12.49 AM IST- Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai's legal woes: key datesJimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, faces national security law charges. Apple Daily launched in 1995 amid Hong Kong's handover anxieties. L...28 Aug, 2025, 11.30 AM IST
- National security trial of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai: what's happened so farHong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai testified in his national security trial, denying charges of colluding with for...20 Nov, 2024, 05.55 PM IST
- British PM Keir Starmer raises human rights violations in China with Xi Jinping; this is what happened to journalists after that, watch videoAt the G20 summit in Brazil, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stood firm before Chinese President Xi Jinping, addressing human rights vi...20 Nov, 2024, 09.56 AM IST
- A billionaire farmer fights his jailing as tycoons face crackdown in ChinaChinese billionaire Sun Dawu, serving an 18-year sentence for corruption, warns that his company's collapse could impact over ten thousand ...10 Sep, 2024, 03.08 PM IST
- Hong Kong court rejects bid to drop sedition charge against pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy LaiA Hong Kong court rejected a bid to drop sedition charges against pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai. The founder of the now-shuttered newspape...22 Dec, 2023, 10.11 AM IST
- Lies, damned lies, and Jimmy LaiThe 76-year-old Lai has been in and out of jail since December 2020. The latest charge against him is 'conspiring to collude with foreign f...18 Dec, 2023, 11.31 PM IST
- Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai loses appeal against phone searchLai, 75, is the founder of the now shut pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and is due to face trial in September on three charges under th...19 Jun, 2023, 07.48 PM IST
- Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai jailed over five years on fraud chargeHong Kong's most prominent China critic, Lai has been behind bars since December 2020 and has served 20 months for unauthorised assemblies....10 Dec, 2022, 12.19 PM IST
- China: A year in review and previewIt is understandable why China is attempting a zero-cases policy, since domestic vaccines are not effective against emerging variants like ...27 Dec, 2021, 04.46 PM IST
- China draws up list of 100 instances of US "interference" in Hong KongUnited States' politicians and officials have denounced China over its tightening control of the former British colony of Hong Kong, especi...24 Sep, 2021, 03.34 PM IST
- Hong Kong protester given nine-year term in first case under national security lawTong Ying-kit, 24, was convicted of inciting secession and terrorism for driving his motorcycle into a group of police officers at a July 1...30 Jul, 2021, 01.31 PM IST
- Hong Kong pro-democracy paper Apple Daily confirms closureThe decision is the latest blow to Hong Kong's freedoms and will deepen unease over whether the international finance centre can remain a m...23 Jun, 2021, 05.25 PM IST
- A timeline of the impact of the national security law on Hong KongMedia tycoon Jimmy Lai is given a new prison sentence of 14 months over his role in an unauthorised assembly on Oct. 1, 2019, and 47 activi...31 May, 2021, 05.10 PM IST
- 7 convicted in Hong Kong over 2019 pro-democracy protestsThe seven include media tycoon and founder of the Apple Daily tabloid Jimmy Lai, as well as 82-year-old Martin Lee, a veteran of the city's...01 Apr, 2021, 11.23 AM IST
- Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under security law, bearing out 'worst fears'Lai, 71, has been one of the most prominent democracy activists in the Chinese-ruled city and an ardent critic of Beijing, which imposed th...10 Aug, 2020, 02.41 PM IST
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