US and UK authorities unveiled sanctions this week against Chen Zhi, a British-Cambodian tycoon accused of running cyberscam operations where workers, some trafficked, carry out transnational fraud…

Diplomatic tensions escalate amid rows over planning hold-ups and collapse of spying trial

A Hong Kong court has sentenced a man to six months in prison for making false bomb threats in May to frame his girlfriend’s Taiwanese ex-boyfriend and attempting to pervert the course of justice a…

Hong Kong-based photographer Derry Ainsworth’s debut photobook, Highs & Lows, documents top-down views of the city over a span of more than a decade. An aerial photograph of North Point, taken …

Welcome back to HKFP Monitor. This week, 15 members of the “patriots only” Legislative Council (LegCo) announced they would bow out of the upcoming race – including eight who are in their 70s…

By Isabel Kua with Matthew Walsh in Lincang, China; Nalini Lepetit-Chella in Paris; and AFP teams in Mae Sot, Thailand They said they had smashed them. But fraud factories in Myanmar blamed for sca…

At least 100 people are feared dead following the collapse of a gold mining pit in Nigeria's Zamfara State, survivors and residents said on Friday.

That pitter-patter of little feet you heard after the policy address came from a herd of hogs heading for the public money trough, which naturally follows the announcement of a new hub. Consider th…

By Sam Davies With thousands of dedicated courts and more than a million recent cases, environmental and climate litigation is booming in China, but it often looks different to the trend seen elsew…

Four people were hospitalised and dozens were evacuated after a fire ripped through a building’s scaffolding in Central on Saturday. A blaze at Chinachem Tower on Connaught Road Central on Sa…

China on Sunday accused the United States of conducting cyberattacks on Beijing’s national time centre that could have caused severe damage to critical financial and telecommunications infras…

Vijay, one of Tamil cinema's biggest actors for three decades, has drawn massive crowds to his public meetings since launching his political party in 2024.

The managing body of the West Kowloon Cultural District cancelled an LGBTQ-themed play on Saturday, hours before tickets went on sale, after complaints alleging the drama “defames Hong Kong.” The X…

A cargo plane veered off the runway and into the sea at Hong Kong’s airport on Monday, leaving two ground workers dead. Emirates SkyCargo Flight EK9788 crashed into the sea on October 20, 202…

Airport officials did not receive a distress signal from a cargo aircraft that veered off the runway into the sea during landing at Hong Kong International Airport on Monday, killing two ground wor…

Senior Chinese trade negotiator Li Chenggang has been removed from his post as China’s permanent representative to the World Trade Organization, state media reported on Monday, just days afte…

The Buildings Department has said the Chinachem Tower in Central is structurally safe, after a fire left four people hospitalised on Saturday. A blaze at Chinachem Tower on Connaught Road Central o…

Hong Kong education authorities have ordered a school to probe an alleged incident involving a teacher who reportedly invited a student to a hotel for sex, after a social media post went viral. St.…

Management from chipmaker Nexperia’s Chinese unit told employees they can ignore instructions from overseas, according to a company statement, escalating a recent row over control of the Dutc…