
Asia Pacific / Science & Health Feb 17, 2022
Hong Kong can’t live with the virus. It can’t stop it, either.
With hospital beds on sidewalks and testing lines winding through parks, the city’s flailing response has exposed crucial weaknesses.
For Austin Ramzy's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
With hospital beds on sidewalks and testing lines winding through parks, the city’s flailing response has exposed crucial weaknesses.
The flight bans will deepen the city’s isolation from the outside world and mark a return to the tough restrictions imposed in the early days of the pandemic.
Authorities have used the national security law, passed last year amid widespread protests, to silence dissent and force dozens of groups to disband.
The Asian film capital has cracked down on documentaries and independent productions that it fears could glamorize the pro-democracy movement.
The landslide victory of pro-democracy politicians in local elections in 2019 was a stunning rebuke of Beijing. Now, fear of retaliation has driven them to quit.
One year ago, the city’s freedoms were curtailed with breathtaking speed. But the clampdown was years in the making, and many signals were missed.
To many, Apple Daily was a symbol of the civil liberties that have been lost as Beijing has tightened its grip over the city.
As the Chinese Communist Party extends its grip over Hong Kong, pro-Beijing forces are increasingly targeting the city’s independent judiciary.
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers said Wednesday that they would resign en masse to protest Beijing’s growing control over the local legislature, one of the last remaining centers of dissent in the Chinese city. The 15 resignations were set off by a decision earlier in the ...
Wong's detention was a reminder of what had brought many to the streets in the first place: an extradition bill to mainland China, where courts are controlled by the Communist Party.