Former media mogul Jimmy Lai, a vocal critic of China's Communist Party, faces a landmark verdict in Hong Kong.

Lai, one of the fiercest critics of the Chinese state, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.

The verdict exemplifies the way Beijing, through Hong Kong’s national security law, has swept away any last remaining press freedoms and judicial independence in the city.

A Hong Kong court will deliver its verdict on Monday in the trial of former pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, who's charged with conspiracies to commit sedition and collusion with foreign forces in ...

Jimmy Lai, 78, was arrested in 2020 under a national security law imposed by Chinese authorities to quell the massive anti-government protests that rocked the city in 2019.

Key players in the semiconductor manufacturing supply chain will gather in Tokyo this week for the Semicon Japan event, as ...

However, it hung over the venue like an ominous cloud on an otherwise sunny-skies day of research into English as a medium of instruction and the government’s Bilingual Nation 2030 policy. The dark ...

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These problems first took root as China prepared to assume control of Hong Kong from Britain, in 1997. Concerned that the ...

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