Election spending declarations by 32 candidates reveal huge spending gap, from HK$20 to more than HK$200 a vote.

This week, we examine how Hong Kong's highly coordinated response to media mogul Jimmy Lai's 2o-year jail term signals how far it has come in quashing opposition voices.

Welcome to HKFP Monitor. This week, in the wake of the bus seat belt law controversy, we walk down memory lane to revisit the ...

Prominent democracy advocate Jimmy Lai was a child stowaway from mainland China who rose to become Hong Kong’s onetime media ...

After pro-democracy protests rocked Hong Kong in 2019, mainland China tightened its grip by imposing a broad national security law on the former British colony. Since then, dozens of opposition ...

The media tycoon, a Chinese-born British citizen, had been a persistent critic of Beijing. The sentence is the harshest penalty so far under a national security law.

From 1990 to today, the generals have staged votes to retain power—and foreign observers have consistently misread the outcome.

I have been inundated with messages from many concerned and well-respected stakeholders in the last fortnight. The contents of their messages are virtually the same. In all, they basically sought ...

The contrast between America’s great island allies on opposite ends of the world couldn’t be more drastic. Japan has just ...

Sanae Takaichi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and coalition partner Japan Innovation Party have swept the majority of seats in Japan's lower house.

Japan shows strength as Britain struggles with political instability and rising pressure from China. Here are some lessons.

The contrast between America’s great island allies on opposite ends of the world couldn’t be more drastic. Japan has just given its commonsense conservative prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, a ...