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Hong Kong green group urges ‘decisive action’ after gov’t shelves waste charge scheme
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Hong Kong green group urges ‘decisive action’ after gov’t shelves waste charge scheme
The Hong Kong government should take “decisive action” in waste reduction, a local environmental NGO has said, after the municipal waste charge scheme was shelved following repeated del…
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Hong Kong’s registered voters drop for 4th straight year ahead of ‘patriots-only’ legislative elections
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Hong Kong’s registered voters drop for 4th straight year ahead of ‘patriots-only’ legislative elections
The number of registered voters in Hong Kong has dropped for the fourth straight year ahead of the city’s “patriots-only” legislative elections in December. Election officials opening the first bal…
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Hong Kong gov’t removes decades-old banyan felled by Super Typhoon Ragasa as groups salvage pieces of history
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/26/hong-kong-govt-removes-decades-old-banyan-felled-by-super-typhoon-ragasa-as-groups-salvage-pieces-of-history/
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Hong Kong gov’t removes decades-old banyan felled by Super Typhoon Ragasa as groups salvage pieces of history
Hong Kong authorities have begun removing a decades-old tree felled by Super Typhoon Ragasa, as non-governmental groups sought to salvage the timber and preserve a piece of the estate’s history. Wo…
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Super Typhoon Ragasa: Human-driven climate change intensified storm, researchers find
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/26/super-typhoon-ragasa-human-driven-climate-change-intensified-storm-researchers-find/
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Super Typhoon Ragasa: Human driven climate change intensified storm, researchers find
Preliminary studies by climate scientists suggest that unusually hot oceans – caused by human driven climate change – intensified Super Typhoon Ragasa, which battered the Asia-Pacific r…
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Hong Kong passes new law to regulate subdivided flats, as housing minister assures no ‘significant’ rent hikes
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/26/hong-kong-passes-new-law-to-regulate-subdivided-flats-as-housing-minister-assures-no-significant-rent-hikes/
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Hong Kong passes new law to regulate subdivided flats, as housing minister assures no ‘significant’ rent hikes
Hong Kong lawmakers have passed a new law to regulate subdivided units, as the housing minister gives assurance that rents will not increase significantly after landlords bring their flats up to st…
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Trump allies to control TikTok under new US deal, cutting China ownership to 20%
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/26/trump-allies-to-control-tiktok-under-new-us-deal-cutting-china-ownership-to-20/
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/26/trump-allies-to-control-tiktok-under-new-us-deal-cutting-china-ownership-to-20/
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Trump allies to control TikTok under new US deal, cutting China ownership to 20%
Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order laying out a proposed deal for a US version of TikTok that would see Chinese ownership reduced to 20 percent and put control in the hands of the p…
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Super Typhoon Ragasa: Taiwan races to rescue over 20 missing after barrier lake burst
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/26/super-typhoon-ragasa-taiwan-races-to-rescue-over-20-missing-after-barrier-lake-burst/
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/26/super-typhoon-ragasa-taiwan-races-to-rescue-over-20-missing-after-barrier-lake-burst/
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Super Typhoon Ragasa: Taiwan races to rescue over 20 missing after barrier lake burst
By Joy Chiang Rescuers in eastern Taiwan pulled a man in his nineties from his flooded home on Thursday, where he had been trapped for three days after a barrier lake burst during torrential rains …
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Hot air balloon festival organisers warned ride permit unlikely, Hong Kong tourism minister says
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/26/hot-air-balloon-festival-organisers-warned-ride-permit-unlikely-hong-kong-tourism-minister-says/
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/26/hot-air-balloon-festival-organisers-warned-ride-permit-unlikely-hong-kong-tourism-minister-says/
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Hot air balloon festival organisers warned ride permit unlikely, Hong Kong tourism minister says
Hong Kong’s tourism minister has said authorities warned organisers of a heavily criticised hot air balloon festival about a week before the opening day that it was unlikely to be granted a p…
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Hong Kong janitor allegedly fined for littering while collecting trash on street
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/26/hong-kong-janitor-allegedly-fined-for-littering-while-collecting-trash-on-street/
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/26/hong-kong-janitor-allegedly-fined-for-littering-while-collecting-trash-on-street/
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Hong Kong janitor allegedly fined for littering while collecting trash on street
A concern group has alleged that a Hong Kong janitor was fined for littering while collecting trash on the street, criticising the prosecution as “excessively harsh” and disregarding workers’ routi…
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Hong Kong man prosecuted for swimming in closed public beach during Super Typhoon Ragasa
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/27/hong-kong-man-prosecuted-for-swimming-in-closed-public-beach-during-super-typhoon-ragasa/
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/27/hong-kong-man-prosecuted-for-swimming-in-closed-public-beach-during-super-typhoon-ragasa/
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Hong Kong man prosecuted for swimming in closed public beach during Super Typhoon Ragasa
A Hong Kong man has been prosecuted and may face up to 14 days in jail after he allegedly swam at a public beach that was shut down on Wednesday, when the city was hit by Super Typhoon Ragasa. Phot…
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HKFP Monitor Sept 27, 2025: Beijing’s warnings for top US envoy in Hong Kong; gov’t reverses on waste charge scheme
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/27/hkfp-monitor-sept-27-2025-beijings-warnings-for-top-us-envoy-in-hong-kong-govt-reverses-on-waste-charge-scheme/
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HKFP Monitor Sept 27, 2025: Beijing’s warnings for top US envoy in Hong Kong; gov’t reverses on waste charge scheme
Welcome back to HKFP Monitor. This week, Beijing amplified attacks on new US Consul General Julie Eadeh after she reportedly invited pro-democracy figures to her inaugural reception. Also: more tha…
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China at UN warns of return to ‘Cold War mentality’
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/27/china-at-un-warns-of-return-to-cold-war-mentality/
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China at UN warns of return to ‘Cold War mentality’
Chinese Premier Li Qiang warned Friday against a return to a “Cold War mentality” and defended multilateralism and free trade, in a veiled criticism of the United States from the United…
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Philippines death toll rises to 11 as storm Bualoi bears down on Vietnam
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/27/philippines-death-toll-rises-to-11-as-storm-bualoi-bears-down-on-vietnam/
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Philippines death toll rises to 11 as storm Bualoi bears down on Vietnam
The death toll from Severe Tropical Storm Bualoi rose to 11 in the Philippines on Saturday as the cyclone bore down on Vietnam, authorities said. This handout photo taken on September 26, 2025 and …
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Super Typhoon Ragasa should compel us to talk more about climate change
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/28/super-typhoon-ragasa-should-compel-us-to-talk-more-about-climate-change/
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/28/super-typhoon-ragasa-should-compel-us-to-talk-more-about-climate-change/
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Super Typhoon Ragasa should compel us to talk more about climate change
Super Typhoon Ragasa has revealed heroes among us. Among the city’s unsung heroes are the sampan captain who rescued people swept out to sea, the anonymous boilersuit-clad workers who phlegma…
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‘Joyously making critique’: Post-punk trio Restless Waters eyes deeper role in Hong Kong’s underground music scene
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/28/joyously-making-critique-post-punk-trio-restless-waters-eyes-deeper-role-in-hong-kongs-underground-music-scene/
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‘Joyously making critique’: Post-punk trio Restless Waters eyes deeper role in Hong Kong’s underground music scene
At a secretive rooftop party in a beaten-down tenement building in Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po district in March, a man uttered, “I want to play music in a band so badly.” He then started asking the p…
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‘They cough every 3 seconds’: Italian tennis player Lorenzo Musetti apologises for outburst at China Open fans
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/28/they-cough-every-3-seconds-italian-tennis-player-lorenzo-musetti-apologises-for-outburst-at-china-open-fans/
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‘They cough every 3 seconds’: Italian tennis player Lorenzo Musetti apologises for outburst at China Open fans
Italian tennis player Lorenzo Musetti apologised on Saturday for an on-court outburst at people coughing in the crowd at the China Open. Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti reacts after winning a point a…
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World’s highest bridge opens to traffic in China’s Guizhou province
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World’s highest bridge opens to traffic in China’s Guizhou province
The world’s highest bridge opened to traffic in China on Sunday, state media said, capping an engineering feat three years in the making and snatching the record from another bridge in the sa…
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Hong Kong’s largest LGBTQ event Pink Dot to go online after losing usual West Kowloon venue
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/29/hong-kongs-largest-lgbtq-event-pink-dot-to-go-online-after-losing-usual-west-kowloon-venue/
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Hong Kong’s largest LGBTQ event Pink Dot to go online after losing usual West Kowloon venue
Hong Kong’s largest LGBTQ event, Pink Dot, will hold an online concert in November, its organiser has said, after failing to book the event’s usual venue at the West Kowloon Cultural District . Peo…
