Fear Grips Hong Kong s Public Broadcaster shanghaisun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from shanghaisun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It will be harder to check on unscrupulous bosses and those involved in shady deals, critics warn
Changes prompted by increasing complaints about doxxing, personal data abuse and privacy concerns
Journalist becomes first person convicted over 2019 mob attack that injured dozens of Hongkongers globalvoices.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from globalvoices.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By THEODORA YU AND SHIBANI MAHTANI | The Washington Post | Published: April 22, 2021 HONG KONG An award-winning Hong Kong journalist was found guilty of a crime Thursday for using a public database to expose police failings, the first time a member of the news media has faced prosecution in the Chinese territory for an act of reporting. The verdict against 37-year-old Choy Yuk-ling, also known as Bao Choy, highlights the deterioration of media freedoms in Hong Kong, supposedly protected under the law, as China remodels the city after imposing a draconian national security law. This prosecution is part of a continuing strategy by the government of using the legal system to crack down on dissent, which now includes anyone including investigative journalists who attempts to challenge the government s official narrative, said Antony Dapiran, a Hong Kong-based lawyer and writer.
The latest area of competition between the US and China: Saving the world
With Washington rejoining international efforts against climate change under President Joe Biden, the United States and China now have a new area of competition leading the world in staving off environmental catastrophe.
On Wednesday, Biden hosted a virtual two-day climate summit attended by 40 other world leaders, including Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who just three days earlier criticized the US for “bossing others around” at another forum.
Relations between the US and China have plummeted rapidly in recent years. But compared with technology, trade, geopolitics, defense and other areas of increasingly intense face-offs, climate change is an issue where decoupling is least likely and allows most room for agreement, cooperation and potentially even joint leadership on the world stage.