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Defendant Zhang Xinyan leaves West Kowloon Court on Wednesday. Photo: Sun Yeung
Cathay Pacific

Conditional discharge for pair who scuffled on Cathay Japan-Hong Kong flight

Hong Kong court releases Tsui Zi-kew, 32, and Zhang Xinyan, 60, on two-year bind-over order.

Legislative Council of Hong Kong

Former Hong Kong opposition lawmakers jailed for causing Legco ruckus

Elderly Singaporean man jailed for 11 years over Hong Kong robberies

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Hong Kong protests

Hong Kong social worker convicted of rioting in 2019 protest after retrial

Jackie Chen, 48, found guilty after government appealed against her acquittal in 2020.

Social worker Jackie Chen arrives at the Hong Kong District Court to hear the verdict on her retrial, and is greeted by supporters. Photo: May Tse
Universities in Hong Kong

Student jailed for using fake record to enter Chinese University of Hong Kong

Mainland Chinese student sentenced to three months in prison for using forged New York University transcript in application to CUHK.

Hong Kong national security law

Hong Kong to review how national security law enforced after challenge over rules

Deputy Secretary for Justice Horace Cheung says government studying court case to understand how law can be better applied.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong couple jailed up to 3 years for repeatedly abusing three-year-old son

Mother and her boyfriend inflicted so much physical damage on boy he faces long-term neurological problems and permanent eye damage.

The Wan Chai Courts Building. Child cruelty is punishable by up to 10 years’ imprisonment in Hong Kong. Photo: Jelly Tse
Hong Kong

Taiwanese woman denied bail in Hong Kong over 2019 money-laundering case

Chen Hui-chih, 55, was arrested last month when she entered the city in a tour group that included a Taiwanese legislator and other officials.

Hong Kong national security law

Hong Kong’s top court overturns convictions of Tiananmen vigil activists

Leaders of now-dissolved group, including Chow Hang-tung, were sentenced to jail in 2023 for rejecting police request.

Crime in Hong Kong

Ex-McDonald’s worker in Hong Kong jailed for 10 years for murder attempt on boss

Chan Chi-shing committed crime three weeks into new job after being berated by manager.

The McDonald’s outlet on Hill Road in Western district, where Chan Chi-shing attacked his manager, resulting in a 10-year prison sentence for the worker. Photo: Xiaomei Chen
Crime in Hong Kong

Daughter of Hong Kong man accused of raping her kept silent as mum ‘also abused’

Victim, now 26, tells court she was first raped at 12 years old and did not think her mother, who was also being abused, could help.

The 58-year-old defendant faces 13 counts of rape and another count of indecent assault. Photo: Warton Li
Jimmy Lai trial

Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai ‘withheld’ sensitive information in bid to meet US official

Admission contradicts previous denial that he had deliberately concealed his intended meeting with then US No 2 official Mike Pence.

Hong Kong actor Vinci Wong bankrupt after alleged HK$2.8 million loan default

Vinci Wong, ex-chairman of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, filed for bankruptcy in December 2024 after he was sued by a credit firm.

Hong Kong court grants bail to IT manager accused of stealing 399 laptops

Devices believed to be worth over HK$2.79 million were stolen from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu’s Taikoo Shing office.

Eastern Court has granted bail to an IT manager accused of stealing 399 laptops. Photo: Nora Tam
Jimmy Lai trial

Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai denies knowingly doing anything ‘specifically illegal’

Despite ‘taking risks’ former media boss insists he stayed on the right side of the national security law’s red lines.

Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-Ying arrives at the West Kowloon Court in Cheung Sha Wan. Photo: K. Y. Cheng
From our archives

When a man was tortured and murdered over a HK$6,700 debt in 2004

A security guard with a mild mental handicap was subjected to brutality by a group that included former friends – and a 15-year-old girl.

Hong Kong national security law

Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai admits to exploiting anti-China sentiment during Covid-19

But former media boss rejects accusations the effort was meant to boost Donald Trump’s re-election bid in 2020.

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Hong Kong protests

Ex-Hong Kong lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting gets 37 months’ jail over Yuen Long riot

Former opposition lawmaker jailed for three years and one month, receiving heaviest punishment among seven defendants on trial for 2019 riot.

Video showing ugly scenes as clashes erupted at the Yuen Long Station during protests in 2019. Photo: Handout
Jimmy Lai

Jimmy Lai denies being Chinese, tells trial: ‘We are Hong Kong people’

‘You’re a Chinese person,’ bemused Hong Kong judge says to ex-media boss.

Hong Kong

2 subsidiaries of debt-ridden Hong Kong contractor Paul Y sued for HK$9.5 million

Mankey Construction files lawsuits against firms after their parent company proceeded with liquidation proceedings.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong father accused of killing girl ‘is a dangerous man’, court told

Defendant Lau Kai-ping always punished his daughter by ordering her to face the wall and twist her own ears, mother tells court.

Lau Kai-ping is on trial in the High Court charged with murdering his three-year-old daughter. Photo: Warton Li
Hong Kong national security law

‘How could I know’: Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai on ‘dangerous’ Apple Daily op-eds

Prosecutors accuse former media boss of allowing three offensive commentaries to be published in his tabloid, court hears.

Jimmy Lai is testifying for the 46th day of his trial at West Kowloon Court. Photo: Edmond So
Hong Kong

Hong Kong man on trial for killing daughter isolated girl’s mother, court hears

Helen Leung says former partner Lau Kai-ping threatened to hurt her family, who also alienated her because they objected to relationship.

Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong law professor cleared in HK$720,000 university rent fraud case

Court accepts Alice Lee’s explanation that she had to spend more time away from rented flat to look after elderly relatives.

Jimmy Lai trial

Hong Kong judge rebukes Jimmy Lai for politicising national security trial

Heated exchange unfolds in court as prosecutors grill ex-media boss about his grim predictions for city under the national security law.

Jimmy Lai has pleaded not guilty to two conspiracy charges of collusion with foreign forces and a third of conspiracy to print and distribute seditious publications. Photo: AFP
Hong Kong society

Hong Kong should up its game in sports law to nurture sector: chief justice

Andrew Cheung says ‘massive’ industry needs support from legal profession, as government touts sports-related arbitration in city.

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Chief Justice Andrew Cheung (centre, right) at the opening ceremony of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Lawyers Sports Meet. Photo: Elson Li
Hong Kong's national security law

Hong Kong legal body head urges global unity over planned US sanctions on judges

Senior Counsel Jose-Antonio Maurellet says any interference in judicial work will ‘undermine the administration of justice’.

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Hong Kong national security law

Hong Kong judges challenge jailed political party chief’s appeal argument

Joseph John, president of the dissolved Hong Kong Independence Party, is appealing his five-year jail sentence for conspiracy to incite secession.

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