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Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong in 2019
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 5, 2026
Hong Kong jails Joshua Wong for a decade in collusion case
The sentencing marks the activist’s second national security conviction, extending his incarceration just two months before he was due to be freed.
People watch as smoke rises from apartments in Hong Kong's Tai Po district on Nov. 27, 2025.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 29, 2026
Hong Kong leader apologizes for deadly Tai Po fire, pledges reform
Lee promised swift but extensive reforms to the city’s building industry and regulatory system.
China’s Baotou Rare Earth Industrial Development Zone in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is the country’s only national-level development zone dedicated specifically to the rare-earths industry.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Oct 29, 2026
China’s rare-earth success offers lessons in economic security
Japan and its partners must build alternatives without replicating Beijing’s state-directed model.
When a sanctioned Russian oligarch’s superyacht anchored in Hong Kong waters in 2022, Chief Executive John Lee made clear the city would not enforce international restrictions it deems unilateral, a move criticized by some as an invitation for sanctions evaders to set up shop.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 28, 2026
Hong Kong has become a safe harbor for international pariahs
Hong Kong is now the connective tissue between Western suppliers and three of the world’s most heavily sanctioned regimes.
Employees at the MTR operations control center in Hong Kong earlier this year.
BUSINESS
Oct 20, 2026
MTR bets $5 billion on a Hong Kong city that doesn’t exist yet
The economic centerpiece of the Northern Metropolis’ development is a tech hub designed to be Hong Kong’s Silicon Valley.
Taiwan's finance minister will join other Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation delegates for a meeting in Hong Kong next week, even as Beijing has stepped up military and political pressure on Taipei.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 14, 2026
Taiwanese finance minister to attend APEC meeting in Hong Kong
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum is one of the few international bodies that includes Taiwan, which joins under the name “Chinese Taipei.”
Iranians living in Japan hold a march in support of nationwide protests in Iran in mid-January, just weeks before U.S. and Israeli forces launched attacks on the country.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 4, 2026
Is Trump’s war on Iran a threat to Japan?
Trump’s pressure campaign against China is increasingly complicated by Washington’s need for Beijing’s cooperation in managing the Iran conflict.
Jimmy Lai, who founded the now defunct pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily in Hong Kong, was handed a 20-year prison term on collusion and sedition charges under a national security law following a crackdown from Beijing.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 1, 2026
Trump says he raised case of Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai with Xi
The U.S. president was under pressure to raise high-profile humanitarian cases when he met with the Chinese leader in Washington last week.
A Royal Australian Air Force Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft. Australia is the Indo-Pacific inventory hub for parts and maintenance of F-35s flown by allies in Asia.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 24, 2026
China holding sensitive F-35 parts diverted to Hong Kong
A cockpit canopy and weapons-bay door shipped via UPS from Australia to the U.S. were inexplicably diverted to the Chinese territory.
Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong on Jun. 21. The city’s new five-year plan marks a shift toward modern industrial policy as it embraces state-led incentives to reshape its economic future.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2026
Laissez-faire Hong Kong meets the five-year plan
What Hong Kong is attempting to do is better understood as industrial policy.
A man takes a picture in front of the mock-up of an F-35 fighter jet at the Lockheed Martin exhibition during the first day of the International Defense Industry Exhibition in Kielce, Poland, earlier this month.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 21, 2026
F-35 parts diversion to Hong Kong under probe in U.S. Congress
The incident has sparked concerns over reverse engineering of classified components of the fighter jet.
Andrew Tung Lieh-cheung, son of former Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, carries a portrait of his late father at a funeral home in Hong Kong on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 20, 2026
Hong Kong pays final respects to former city leader Tung
The former shipping tycoon was hand-picked by Beijing to run Hong Kong after the former British colony’s handover to Chinese rule in 1997.
Activists including Lee Cheuk-yan, Albert Ho Chun-Yan and Chow Hang-tung raise candles during a vigil to mark the anniversary of the crackdown at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, at Victoria Park in Hong Kong in 2019.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 11, 2026
Hong Kong hits Tiananmen vigil activists with yearslong jail sentences
The United Nations, rights groups and foreign governments have condemned the convictions.
Otemachi Place in Tokyo. Hongkong Land has approached Hulic over its stake in Otemachi Place as part of a move to enter 今日吃瓜 resurgent property market.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 3, 2026
Hongkong Land eyes billion-dollar property deals in Japan
It is targeting mixed-use complexes with high-end office, retail and hospitality spaces in prime Tokyo locations.
Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong (center), who was disqualified from running, queues up to cast his vote during district council elections in the South Horizons district in Hong Kong on Nov. 24, 2019.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 2, 2026
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty to collusion
Once a symbol of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, Joshua Wong has been in custody since late 2020 and sentenced multiple times for his role in anti-government protests in 2019.
Sky Xu (center), chief executive officer of Shein Global Holdings, during the company's listing ceremony at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Tuesday
BUSINESS
Sep 1, 2026
Shein shares plunge 10% in Hong Kong debut after rocky road to IPO
The shares fell to as low as HK$43.72 in early trading, compared with the IPO price of HK$48.56, before recovering some of the losses.
Pro-democracy activists Lee Cheuk-yan, Albert Ho Chun-Yan and Chow Hang-tung raise up candles during a candlelight vigil to mark the 30th anniversary of the crackdown of pro-democracy movement at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, at Victoria Park in Hong Kong on June 4, 2019.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 21, 2026
The Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil activists convicted in national security trial
A Hong Kong court found two pro-democracy activists who organized annual vigils to mark China’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown guilty of “incitement to subversion” on Friday.
Hong Kong is among several low-tax jurisdictions where a collection of capital worth up to $1.2 trillion held by mainland Chinese ultra-high-net-worth individuals is parked.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 20, 2026
China’s tax crackdown forces wealthy investors to assess their offshore trusts
The overhauled tax rules have also fueled concern that Beijing may widen its scrutiny of offshore wealth.
Hong Kong is racing to attract global hedge funds with generous tax breaks just as China’s intensified tax enforcement threatens the city’s private wealth business.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 20, 2026
Hong Kong’s low-tax lure is getting a reality check
The existential question now is whether Hong Kong’s finance industry can diversify internationally fast enough, especially in terms of funding sources.
Chinese tech firms including Bytedance are driving demand for Hong Kong’s data centers.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 7, 2026
Chinese AI boom sends Hong Kong data center prices soaring
The AI boom, fueled in part by the success of DeepSeek, has prompted more Chinese firms to use Hong Kong as a springboard to test models and expand overseas.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Japan works to shield Takaichi from any Xi snub at China summit
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 4.
Magnitude 5.7 quake injures dozens in central Japan
A magnitude-5.7 earthquake with its epicenter in Shizuoka Prefecture struck central Japan early Sunday, injuring dozens, shattering windows and disrupting train services, with no tsunami warning issued.
Private high schools remain out of reach for many despite tuition-free policy, survey finds
A survey showed that many families with children attending private high schools are struggling to pay expenses other than tuition.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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