“Everyone saw what was coming,” Tom Grundy, editor-in-chief and founder of Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP)—the last major independent daily still holding out in the city—told the ARA. Grundy is referring to the sentencing of Jimmy Lai, the media mogul and founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, who was sentenced this Monday to twenty years in prison for violating the National Security Law imposed by Beijing in 2020.

Hong Kong's High Court has sentenced Jimmy Lai, a leading figure in Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, to 20 years in prison for national security offenses. It is the harshest sentence handed down in Hong Kong under the national security law imposed by Beijing in 2020. The sentence sends a clear message that Beijing will not be lenient and will treat Hong Kongers as strictly as those in mainland China. That is to say, it will be ruthless with those who dare to challenge the state and will sentence them to long prison terms.

The number of deaths in the fire that occurred this Wednesday in the Wang Fuk Court residential complex The death toll in Hong Kong has risen to 151, while approximately 40 people remain missing, according to official sources on Friday. The Secretary of State for Security of the semi-autonomous region, Chris Tang Ping-keung, told the media that 80 bodies have yet to be identified and did not rule out the possibility of finding more. Authorities have declared the rescue operations concluded.

A massive fire has engulfed a residential complex in Hong Kong, the worst blaze in the British Overseas Territory in the last 100 years. The provisional death toll is 83, with 76 injured, and at least 250 people are still missing. The number of fatalities is feared to rise as firefighters continue working to evacuate those remaining inside the 2,000-unit complex, home to more than 4,600 residents.

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) will open its first campus in Europe in the city of Barcelona. Specifically, it will do so in a newly constructed building in the 22@ district, on Llacuna Street. HKU, which is ranked thirteenth in the global ranking of business schools compiled by the Financial Times, has purchased a building in the Catalan capital in a transaction involving a real estate consultancy firm and Barcelona City Council.

There's a wonderful feeling: being in a movie. It may seem childish, all of it. But what would life be like without behaving like children or teenagers? Many of us find that, if we visit Hong Kong, we feel like we're in a Wong Kar Wai film. Although In the mood for love It's my favorite, visiting the city for the first time I felt more inside Chungking Express for a simple reason: the first tells us about a Hong Kong that has vanished, while the other is more contemporary.