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HONG KONG -- Five Hong Kong speech therapists charged with sedition over a series of children's books were found guilty Wednesday in a case that critics say highlights China's crackdown on the city.
A children’s book, My Extra-Special Aunty, uses illustrations by Hong Kong domestic helpers from the Philippines to show the ‘meaningful connections’ helpers have with the families they work ...
Space for free expression in Hong Kong continues to shrink. On Wednesday, a judge convicted five speech therapists of sedition after they published a series of illustrated children’s books. On ...
HONG KONG — The children’s books featured cartoons of sheep and wolves. But in the brightly illustrated pages, Hong Kong authorities saw a sinister plot against the government — so they ...
Hong Kong’s national-security police arrested five people for allegedly conspiring to commit sedition through a series of picture books that portray sheep being targeted by wolves—an allusion ...
Hong Kong's national security police arrested two men for possessing children's books that the administration deemed seditious.. The men, aged 38 and 50, were arrested following raids at their ...
In 2021, the UK government introduced an immigration pathway for British National (Overseas) holders. Since then, there have been more than 182,600 Hong Kong applications for the scheme and at ...
The Case of the Missing Hong Kong Book Publishers. By Jiayang Fan. January 8 ... helping with a case but, strangely, spoke in Mandarin, the standard mainland dialect, rather than his native Cantonese.
HONG KONG – Hong Konger Jeffrey Wong started his Instagram account Jyuttoi in 2022, sharing interesting Cantonese idioms to help people pick up the language through casual conversation.. Two ...
INDELIBLE CITY Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong By Louisa Lim 294 pages. Riverhead Books. $28. For an authoritarian regime facing a restive population, it’s an ugly version of the ...