China has cancelled Christmas in Hong Kong this year. Officials have ordered that the usual celebrations be 'toned down'. It's part of a creeping intolerance that leaves churches fearing for the future, says John MacNab.
Things are changing fast in Hong Kong. The slippery slope to tyranny has recently proved to be both steep and very slippery since the betrayal by the Chinese Government of its promise to keep the territory free.
Jimmy Lai, the 76-year-old British and Hong Kong citizen and founder of the Daily Apple, is on trial for "colluding with foreign forces", in a show of power from Beijing that marks the death of freedom in the territory.
Returning to Hong Kong for the first time since Covid, Dr Roger Watson says that the creeping absorption of the region into China is palpable as Beijing dismantles many of its former freedoms.
Nick Seward was sick of the creep of totalitarianism into everyday life - so he left England and fled to Hong Kong. As a teacher, he now enjoys more freedom than he did back home.
One of Hong Kong’s last remaining pro-democracy parties said Wednesday that PayPal had terminated its account, citing unspecified “excessive risks”.
The protests against China's ruthless Zero Covid policy continue to grow as President Xi Jinping shows no sign of changing tack despite even Hong Kong easing towards a more liberal approach.
A team of Chinese and US researchers has predicted over 1.5 million deaths in China from Omicron should the country cease to impose its brutal controls. But that is less than half the UK Covid death rate.
Hong Kong has sent traditional Chinese medicine to three million residents telling them it works against COVID-19. But the few Chinese studies claiming efficacy are of very poor standard.
Hong Kong has been suffering a brain drain after years of enduring first anti-democracy crackdown and more recently Zero Covid lunacy.
