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…

Hong Kong has retained the top spot in a global economic freedom ranking released annually by a Canadian think tank. Hong Kong skyline in March 2025. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. The Fraser Institute, a p…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law has been denied entry to Singapore after he arrived in the country on Saturday to attend an event, according to media reports. Nathan Law. Photo: UNHRC s…

Hong Kong’s Ocean Park has said it made “immediate adjustments” to a haunted house display following reports that it appeared to allude to the gruesome murder of model Abby Choi. Ocean …

China’s former agricultural minister was sentenced to death on Sunday on corruption charges, with a two-year reprieve, a court statement said. China’s former agricultural minister Tang …

A Hong Kong secondary school assistant principal and a parent have been charged by the city’s anti-corruption watchdog after the parent allegedly deleted phone messages that were evidence in …