Tag: Hong Kong

• Saturday, June 12th 2021 - 23:40 UTC

  Robot nurse launched in Hong Kong to assist covid-19 patients

  

  A Hong Kong-based robotics company, which has 2016 already created Sophia, has now introduced Grace, the first robot nurse designed to assist the elderly and people isolated by the covid-19 pandemic as well as to relieve overburdened health caregivers.

• Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  British regulators fined Chinese state CGTN €260,000 for breaching UK broadcast code

  

  British regulators on Monday fined Chinese state broadcast CGTN €260,000, a month after having revoked its license. Peter Humphrey complained to broadcasting watchdog Ofcom about the channel's airing of a criminal confession that he says he was forced to make.

• Friday, January 8th 2021 - 03:12 UTC

  China “regrets” Capitol take over and recalls no deaths when rioters stormed the Hong Kong legislature

  

  China compared on Thursday the storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump with last year's often-violent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, but noted that no one had died when demonstrators took over the Parliament of Hong Kong.

• Thursday, July 23rd 2020 - 08:51 UTC

  Beijing warns UK granting British citizenship to Hong Kong residents violates international law

  

  A new British policy allowing Hong Kong residents to claim British citizenship is a violation of international law and interferes with China's internal affairs, China's embassy in London said on Thursday.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2020 - 07:26 UTC

  China will “resolutely respond” UK's interference in Hong Kong internal affairs

  China will resolutely respond to acts of interference in its internal affairs, a spokesman for the country's embassy to the United Kingdom said on Tuesday, after Britain announced it would suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Beijing warns Canberra on Hong Kong and advises Chinese citizens not to travel Australia

  

  China stepped up a travel warning to Australia on Monday, telling its citizens of a risk of being searched “arbitrarily” by law enforcement authorities, as tensions between both countries grow. The foreign ministry's latest notice comes a month after Beijing warned of “discrimination” against Chinese people in Australia, telling its citizens not to travel there.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Sweden supports a robust response to China's new security law on Hong Kong

  

  Sweden said on Monday it supported Franco-German efforts for a robust response to China's new security law on Hong Kong, joining Denmark and the Netherlands in pushing the European Union to consider countermeasures on Beijing.

• Thursday, July 9th 2020 - 07:49 UTC

  Can Brexit Britain keep its word to three million Hong Kongers

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – ”We will grant British National Overseas (BNOs) five years' limited leave to remain (in the United Kingdom), with the right to work or study,“ British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told the U.K. parliament on July 1. ”After five years, they will be able to apply for settled status. After a further twelve months with settled status, they will be able to apply for citizenship.”

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 07:15 UTC

  UN questions as “vague and overly broad” Hong Kong's national security law

  

  The UN human rights office voiced concern on Friday that “vague and overly broad” provisions in the national security law for Hong Kong may lead to arbitrary interpretation and prosecutions of activists in violation of freedoms of assembly and expression.

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 10:50 UTC

  Britain will allow three million Hong Kong citizens to move to the UK

  

  Boris Johnson's government will allow almost three million Hong Kong citizens to move to Britain, risking a further escalation of tensions with China after it enforced a sweeping security law on the former British colony