By Amber Wang Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te vowed Friday to speed up construction of a multi-layered air defence system as part of efforts to counter “enemy threats”. Taiwan Presiden…

The first thing I want to say about the Sharp Island overtourism issue, which emerged during the National Day Golden Week, is: there’s a nasty undercurrent of racism in much of the commentary I hav…

The downpours also damaged thousands of homes and cut off power to entire towns. More rain was expected this weekend.

Welcome back to HKFP Monitor. This week, we got a glimpse of the effect of the film censorship law, as a media report revealed that 13 films were barred from screening over national security concer…

Power-hungry data centres run hot, so one Chinese company is planning to submerge a pod of servers in the sea off Shanghai with hopes of solving computing’s energy woes. An underwater data ce…

US President Donald Trump announced an additional 100 percent tariff on China Friday and threatened to cancel a summit with Xi Jinping, reigniting his trade war with Beijing in a row over export cu…

When Hong Kong teen Jessica started secondary school last year, she became a victim of bullying. Instead of talking to a friend or family member, she turned to an artificial intelligence (AI) chatb…

The NBA brought star-studded lineups to Macau this week for the league’s return to China after six years but many of the biggest wins happened off the basketball court, industry insiders and …

The move, which is aimed to protect supplies of technology, could raise tensions between the EU and China.

At least nine legislators in Hong Kong have announced that they will not take part in the “patriots-only” legislative election in December, including Tik Chi-yuen, currently the council…

The European Parliament has called on China to release Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, ten years after he went missing in Thailand. The bookseller was later seen in China “confessing” to …

Sun Shangwu, former deputy editor-in-chief at the state-run news outlet China Daily, has been appointed deputy director of Beijing’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong. Sun Shangwu. Photo: Liaison O…

The Philippines said a Chinese ship deliberately rammed one of its government vessels in the disputed South China Sea on Sunday, although Beijing blamed Manila for the incident. This handout photo,…

The founder of a prominent Chinese underground church has been detained along with more than 20 of its members in a sweeping national crackdown, according to his daughter and one of its pastors. Th…

Children face increased risks of being overweight or obese as young adults if their mothers had high blood sugar levels during pregnancy, a study by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has f…

Torrential rains that lashed Mexico last week killed at least 64 people and 65 more are missing, the government said on Monday, after a tropical depression triggered landslides and flooding in parts of the Gulf Coast and central states.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has rejected “several hundred” applications with suspected fake credentials during this year’s application period, a school official sai…

Around 20,000 Hongkongers are among nearly six million customers of Qantas Airways whose personal data were leaked after hackers attacked the Australian airline in July, the city’s privacy watchdog…

The government is facing questions about why the case collapsed just weeks before a trial was due to go ahead.

Zion Church, founded by pastor Jin Mingri in 2007, is one of China's largest underground church networks.