Seoul has said 1,000 South Koreans are working at online scam compounds that target victims globally. Some 200,000 forced laborers are thought to be busy stealing billions from prison-like sites in Cambodia.

Hong Kong’s legislature has passed a bill that outlines a long-awaited framework to regulate ride-hailing services in the city under a licensing regime. The Uber app. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Speaking…

The number of phone scams in Hong Kong has tripled since a real-name SIM card registration system was implemented in 2022, despite the government’s claim that it would help crack down on frau…

Beijing obtained ‘extremely’ sensitive information, and the Government covered it up, claims former adviser to Boris Johnson

Sir Ken McCallum says MI5 has acted against Chinese activity in the last week as parliamentary inquiry launched into spy case.

A famous Chinese artist and his sponsor will be held liable for damaging 300,000 square metres of ecologically sensitive Himalayan grassland in a fireworks display, authorities said on Wednesday. A…

The computer system at the Cheung Sha Wan Vegetable Wholesale Market has suffered a ransomware attack, risking the data of around 7,000 market users. The Vegetable Marketing Organization Health Mar…

The eldest brother of wanted Hong Kong activist Anna Kwok has said he was previously unaware that their father – who is accused of handling funds linked to an “absconder” – …

One in 10 Hong Kong women struggles to afford menstrual products and has to reduce their usage to save money, according to a study, prompting a group to call for greater awareness of “period povert…

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…