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Hong Kong to introduce rent controls for sub-divided flats

The new measures, aimed at protecting tenants from arbitrary eviction and rent hikes, were recommended by a government task force in March, but have been criticised by rights groups as not providing adequate protection for tenants.

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Video: 22 marathons and counting for Hong Kong’s blind runner

Inti Fu was diagnosed with glaucoma at 16 and became totally blind a decade later. She told HKFP that she was desperate and felt she had no future, until she built the confidence to start running. “My coach was a guiding light in my life,” she tells Chen Xin for HKFP.

In Pictures: ‘Thank you Hongkongers’ – Apple Daily’s printing presses come to a halt after 26 years

A bright red notice on Apple Daily’s mobile app tells subscribers that content will no longer be accessible after 11:59 p.m. Wednesday. “Good luck, and goodbye,” it ended. Although most photos in the app can no longer be displayed, the text of several articles published just before the news outlet’s midnight shutdown remained viewable. The […]

Hong Kong’s Apple Daily limps towards the end of an era as newsroom suffers exodus of staff

Hong Kong’s only pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, is limping towards the end of its life pending a last-ditch attempt to have its seized assets unfrozen as insiders report a mass exodus of staff following an earlier company announcement that it might stop publishing as early as Saturday. On Monday, the newspaper’s board of directors announced […]

HKFP Guide: How to apply for Hong Kong’s new HK$5,000 spending vouchers

Officials have designated four electronic payments providers to dole out consumption-boosting vouchers: Octopus Hong Kong, AliPayHK, Tap & Go and WeChat Pay HK. The distribution methods vary between Octopus and the latter three e-payment methods. Registration for the scheme opens on July 4. Here’s everything you need to know about getting the vouchers what you […]

Inside Apple Daily: Hong Kong’s last pro-democracy daily prints 500,000 copies despite raid, seizures and arrests

Hong Kong pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily continued its operations and printed 500,000 copies of Friday’s paper after its headquarters were raided by the police and five senior executives were arrested on suspicion of violating the national security law. The tabloid said that at least 44 computers and hard disks were seized by police during Thursday’s […]

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