It was seen as her last chance to stop a snowballing political storm. But other than an apology, Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam offered little of substance at a press conference on Tuesday.

It was the third time in four days that Lam sought to pacify a large swath of the city’s population, after she pulled the brakes on a bill seen as blurring the lines between the semi-autonomous region’s independent judiciary and mainland China’s government-controlled courts. 

March organizers said 2 million…

These days, many city dwellers across China live in the Champs-Elysees, shop in California Plaza and dine on Capitol Hill.

These have been some of the most popular names for Chinese residential and commercial buildings. But maybe not for much longer.

Cities across China are starting to get rid of foreign-sounding names on buildings, roads, shopping malls and commercial centers, choosing new ones to represent Chinese culture and adhere to the requests of the Communist Party. At the moment, it…

Replying to your boss with an emoji is not OK, at least according to a bar manager in central China.

He fired an employee last week after she sent "

Are heroes still heroes if they belong to the wrong side?

That’s the question after a war epic hailed as China’s Dunkirk was pulled abruptly from a Shanghai film festival where it was set to debut, sparking claims of censorship.

The Eight Hundred, which depicts a key battle in the Second Sino-Japanese War, was set to open the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival on June 15, but was scrubbed from the schedule just a day before.

The film producer cited “technical reasons” for the removal …

Days after Hong Kong’s biggest street demonstration in decades, the city felt like a powder keg. Young, masked teenagers clashed with police, while the city’s leadership stubbornly stood by an unpopular extradition bill.

But on a clear, sunny Saturday afternoon, less than 24 hours before the start of an even bigger protest, Hong Kong’s top leader made a surprising U-turn, agreeing to “suspend” the proposal.

“I feel deep sorrow and regret that the deficiencies in our work and various other…

Taiwanese megastar Jay Chou and X Japan leader Yoshiki are facing a backlash for hanging out with Jackie Chan.

Chou and Yoshiki were panned on social media by their fans after they shared pictures of themselves having dinner with Chan on Wednesday.

While the Hong Kong-born actor is widely adored globally for his kung-fu movies, Chan is spurned by many at home in Hong Kong for being pro-Beijing and dismissive toward the city’s aspiration for democracy.

 

 

 

 

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A Hong Kong celebrity has been compelled to declare her love for China after she “liked” an Instagram post showing protests against Beijing.

Charmaine Sheh Sze-man, a Hong Kong actress popular in mainland China, denied she was supporting protests against a proposal to allow extraditions to the mainland that triggered massive demonstrations in her home city.

The internet attacks against her on mainland Chinese social media after she “liked” the video highlight the political tightrope that…

A crackdown on pick-up artists is under way in China.

Last month, police in the eastern province of Jiangsu said it had made the country’s first-ever arrest of a self-proclaimed pick-up artist trainer. He was detained on fraud and obscenity charges.

Training materials found by provincial and regional police objectified women as “pets,” “prey” and “targets,” according to their official social media accounts.

The materials also coached men to seduce and control women in progressive steps, from…

After the election of President Donald Trump, some Americans mulled moving to Canada. In Hong Kong, a city that has political issues of a different nature, people are actually doing it.

According to Canadian census data, more Hongkongers are emigrating to Canada, instead of the other way around, for the first time in two decades. Canada’s Hong Kong-born population has increased by at least 8,000 for the first time since 1996.

That’s just a year before Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule. Ahead…

It’s the number-one priority for anyone attending a big public gathering, no matter its political persuasion.

As Hong Kong remains on edge after thousands of people gathered on Wednesday to protest a contentious extradition bill, an Inkstone reader living in New York asked us several practical questions:

“How do they rest, eat, or go to the bathroom? How do they get the information about where to go and what to wear?”

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