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Report finds a faulty component could have caused 'extensive damage' to Cathay Pacific jet
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s air safety authority said Thursday that a defect in an engine component of a Cathay Pacific Airways Airbus A350 that caused a fire, forcing a Zurich-bound flight to return to Hong Kong, could have caused “extensive damage” to the aircraft. The...
First people are sentenced under Hong Kong's tough new security law
HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court sentenced the first two people under a tough new Hong Kong national security law on Thursday, including a man who was given 14 months in prison for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan. A second man received 10 months for writing pro-independence messages on...
Dozens of Hong Kong journalists and some of their families have been harassed, media group says
HONG KONG (AP) — Dozens of Hong Kong journalists and some of their family members and associates have been harassed in recent months, a leading media professional group said Friday. Drastic political changes have created an increasingly restricted environment for journalists in the...
China hands PwC a 6-month ban and fine over audit of the collapsed developer Evergrande
HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese authorities have banned the accounting firm PwC for six months and fined it over 400 million yuan ($56.4 million) over its involvement in the audit of collapsed property developer Evergrande. The punishment is the heaviest yet for international accounting...
Hong Kong hits out at US Congress for passing a bill that could close its representative offices
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's government on Wednesday said the U.S. House of Representatives twisted facts in an attack on the city as it passed a bill that could close its representative offices in America, while Beijing threatened to take countermeasures if they are shuttered. The...
Villagers reluctant to say goodbye to one of Hong Kong's last squatter settlements
HONG KONG (AP) — In months, Lo Yuet-ping will bid farewell to a centuries-old village he has called home in Hong Kong for more than seven decades. The Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon is filled with small houses built from metal sheets and stones, as well as old granite...
A million people are relocated as Typhoon Yagi makes 2 landfalls in southern China
HONG KONG (AP) — A powerful typhoon made two landfalls in southern China Friday after it swept south of Hong Kong, bringing many aspects of life in the region to a halt and forcing about a million people in the country’s south to leave their homes. The Hainan province’s...
Engine troubles for airline Cathay Pacific force the cancellation of dozens of flights this week
Cathay Pacific has cancelled dozens of flights this week after an engine issue forced a Zurich-bound flight to return to an airport in Hong Kong, according to media reports. Cathay Pacific, based in Hong Kong, has scratched nearly 70 flights since Monday, the BBC reported. ...
More Hong Kongers tune out the news as they adapt to Beijing's tightening grip
HONG KONG (AP) — Hannah Wong cried when the Hong Kong government effectively forced Apple Daily and Stand News out of business three years ago. Among the last news outlets in the city willing to criticize the government openly, many saw their end as a sign that the old Hong Kong was gone for...
A Hong Kong court convicts 2 journalists in a landmark sedition case
HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court on Thursday convicted two former editors of a shuttered news outlet in a sedition case widely seen as a barometer for the future of media freedoms in a city once hailed as a bastion of free press in Asia. The trial of Stand News former...
