Category: HK Current Affairs

Police Take Away Hongkongers in Black Shirts Mourning June 4, Sends out Anti-Terrorism Armored Vehicles to Causeway Bay

June 4, 2023, is the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. The government in Hong Kong has stopped all large-scale remembrance events since passing the Hong Kong National Security Law. Still, The Hong Kong Police sent thousands of officers and military armored cars to Victoria Park in Causeway Bay. The police patrolled the streets…


Police Send Anti-Terrorism Armored Vehicles to Remove Hongkongers Mourning June 4

June 4, 2023, is the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. The government in Hong Kong has stopped all large-scale remembrance events since passing the Hong Kong National Security Law. Still, The Hong Kong Police sent thousands of officers and military armored cars to Victoria Park in Causeway Bay. The police patrolled the streets…


China Tightens Access to Tiananmen Square, 32 Detained in Hong Kong on Anniversary of 1989 Massacre

BEIJING—China tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Sunday, the anniversary of the military massacre of 1989 pro-democracy protests that left a still unknown number of people dead and discussions and commemorations forbidden within the country. In Hong Kong, which had been the last Chinese-controlled territory to hold commemorations, eight people, including activists…


China Tightens Access to Tiananmen Square, 24 Detained in Hong Kong on Anniversary of 1989 Protests

BEIJING—China tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Sunday, the anniversary of the military suppression of 1989 pro-democracy protests that left a still unknown number of people dead and discussions and commemorations forbidden within the country. In Hong Kong, which had been the last Chinese-controlled territory to hold commemorations, eight people, including activists…


21-Year-Old Sentenced to Almost Six Years Under National Security Law for a 2021 Bombing Plot

Six members of a post-anti-extradition self-proclaimed “revolutionary” group Returning Valiant appeared for sentencing last week (May 25, 2023) at the High Court for the group’s planning bomb attacks targeting various court buildings in Hong Kong in July 2021. The case has drawn international attention because all six defendants were high-school students when their prosecution began…


Hong Kong Detains 8 People on Eve of Tiananmen Square Anniversary

HONG KONG—Hong Kong police detained eight people, including activists and artists, on the eve of the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a move that signals the city’s shrinking freedom of expression. Police said in a statement late Saturday that four people have been arrested for allegedly disrupting order in public spaces or carrying…


Hong Kong-Born Canadian MP Targeted by CCP

Hong Kong-born Chinese Canadian Member of Parliament (MP) Jenny Kwan Wai-ching recently confirmed to the media that she was briefed by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) that she had become a “target” of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), presumably due to her criticism of the CCP. In an interview with Canadian media, The Globe…


Emigration to UK Reaches New High as Over 110,000 Hongkongers Have Arrived in UK

It has been over two years since the United Kingdom launched The BNO (5+1) visa for Hong Kong people at the end of January 2021. The British Home Office announced that as of the first quarter of 2023, a total of 139,144 people had been approved for BNO visas abroad, of which 113,500 have arrived…


Ophthalmologists Advise Annual Eye Exam to Prevent Blinding Macular Degeneration as 15 Y.o. Becomes the Youngest Patient

Macular degeneration is one of the three major eye diseases that cause blindness worldwide and can result in blurred vision. Although most of the patients are elderly, the youngest macular degeneration patient in Hong Kong is only 15 years old. Patients with high levels of cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar, and stress, as well as…


CUHK Develops Oral Capsule Formula to Help Alleviate Long COVID Symptoms

On May 22, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) released a research report stating that the risk of long COVID sequelae is related to an imbalance in gut bacteria. The university has developed an oral probiotic capsule formula that helps improve the symptoms of long COVID. Previous research conducted by CUHK’s medical school revealed…