1 week agoAerial images capturing a large group of citizens being arrested as they turned their faces against the stores.
1 week agoPolice ask people to leave a rally point in Hong Kong as China announces plans to pass National Security laws in the city as early as Tuesday at the Standing Committee meeting in Beijing
NOW TV sources: National security law for Hong Kong may pass on Tuesday; maximum penalty for secession and subversion could be life imprisonment
1 week agoHKPolice pepper sprays the press in Mong Kok
1 week agoAnother stop-and-search. This is near Yau Ma Tei station. No police cordons this time and people are allowed to pass by
1 week agoBlue flag raised in Yau Ma Tei, police have blocked off another pavement section on Nathan Road. Crowd stuck here have begun sporadic slogan chanting #HongKongProtests
1 week agoJournos kettled in here on Nathan Road in Yau Ma Tei all of a sudden. this came after blue flag warning of illegal assembly. #hongkongprotests
1 week agoNPCSC heard the scrutiny report on national security law draft legislation by Shen Chunyao, the director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee, Xinhua reports. This likely means the NSL completes 2nd vetting, technically could put to vote
1 week agoPolice have raised a blue flag at the intersection of Nathan Road and Dundas Street in Mong Kok, warning crowds that they could be seen as participating in an unlawful assembly. Photo: Apple Daily screenshot
1 week agoA satellite image released by Maxar Technologies shows a Chinese People's Liberation Army base in Galwan Valley. Photograph: ©2020 Maxar Tech/AFP/Getty Images
Beijing confirms 14 new cases of coronavirus and exceeds 300 positives registered after the last outbreak in a market
Reuters: The number of coronavirus infections worldwide exceeds 10 million
We're concerned by Beijing's behavior. And we're not the only ones. Our friends and partners are finding their voice and taking action to counter China's malign activities: U.S. Secretary of State Department @SecPompeo
India has apparently lost 3 tactically important positions to China since spring thaw-the "triangle" near PP14 in the Galwan Valley, the zone up to Finger 4 on Pangong Lake, & "the Bottleneck" on the Depsang plains.
India moves air defence missile systems into Eastern Ladakh sector
HK media @hk01official reported that the city's public broadcaster @rthk_enews hasn't been invited by the government to produce the July 1st flag raising ceremony and the following reception. Instead, TVB has been invited to produce the program. This is the first time since the handover that the program is not produced by @rthk_enews, which has been criticized by the government for some of its programs and coverage.
1 week agoCalling the national security law a threat to Hong Kong's future, activist Joshua Wong says he will likely be the legislation's "prime target"
Hong Kong police ban annual pro-democracy demo for first time in 17 years
Pompeo said that the US is imposing visa restrictions on Chinese Communist Party officials believed responsible for restricting freedoms in Hong Kong
China tells US that crossing 'red lines' on Hong Kong and on other issues could put trade deal at risk: WSJ
1 week agoThe flooding, caused by relentless heavy rainstorms, has hit 26 provinces in S China since early June. At least 39 died, 495,000 are dislocated, with over 5,200 homes destroyed, and more than 138,000 houses damaged
O'Brien compared Chinese President Xi Jinping to Russian dictator Joseph Stalin, both in terms of his communist Marxist-Leninist ideology and the CCP's determination to control every aspect of people's lives.
Speaking of foreign interference, an Australian MP is being investigated for being compromised by the long reach of China's influence
1 week agoOver the Red Cross-auxiliary police row, there are calls from pro-democracy FB pages threatening to boycott blood donation.
1 week agoTaiwan: A PLA plane from China approached southwest Taiwan airspace on Friday at 1:30 p.m. local time for the eighth time this month, after an EP-3E ARIES II from the US Navy appeared in the same area
India deploys 36,000 troops to contested Himalayan border
Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 - 280 km SE of Hotan, China
Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 - 274 km SE of Hotan, China
Earthquake of magnitude 6.4 - 279 km SE of Hotan, China
Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 - 277 km SE of Hotan, China
