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Hong Kong Free Press is an impartial, non-profit, award-winning English-language newspaper founded in 2015. Run by journalists, backed by readers and 100% independent, HKFP offers accurate, balanced, coverage guided by an Ethics Code affirmed by the Trust Project and Journalism Trust Initiative.

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The Macau government said: This media ‘no longer has the legal basis for conducting relevant activities.’

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Tang is a self-taught artist who never received formal art training

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Despite risks, Hong Kong teenagers turn to chatbots for counselling

HKFP talked to teenagers, developers, and a neuroscientist about how AI chatbots are being used for emotional support

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18 October 2025

Hong Kong’s Legislative Council votes down same-sex partnership bill

Only 14 out of 86 lawmakers voting in favour of the bill

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11 September 2025

Bloomberg journalist latest to be denied Hong Kong work visa

Rebecca Choong Wilkins had worked for the financial news outlet for six years

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26 August 2025

Hong Kong: Pro-establishment legislature divided over the Same-sex Partners Bill

One lawmaker describes the bill as a Pandora’s box, another suggests Beijing to override top court's decision

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7 August 2025

Former US consul general Gregory May on his tenure and a changing Hong Kong

‘Hong Kong fundamentally, is not the free society that it used to be.’

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18 July 2025

Hong Kong's last pro-democracy political party disbands citing ‘tremendous political pressure’

The political group's last message was, ‘I would rather be ashes than dust’

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1 July 2025

Hong Kong police inadvertently promote a Taiwanese online game with a warning against ‘secessionist’ content

Reversed Front said the game was the most downloaded app on Hong Kong’s App Store before its removal

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12 June 2025

Refugees in Hong Kong tell of life in limbo after Donald Trump suspends resettlement programme

There were more than 15,000 asylum seekers in Hong Kong as of June 2024

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2 June 2025

Amid waning room for advocacy, Hong Kong LGBTQ+ groups cherish rare chance to raise awareness

The organizer said: ‘We’re not able to make as much noise anymore’

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20 May 2025

Hong Kong falls to 140th in global press freedom index with historic low score

Hong Kong has faced unprecedented deterioration in its press freedom record

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5 May 2025

A journalist club survey finds press freedom in Hong Kong has plunged further

Self censorship has become a common journalistic practice in Hong Kong.

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28 April 2025

Hong Kong schools are placed on the front line to prevent ‘soft resistance’

Hong Kong Education Minister said: schools are on the front line of preventing soft resistance

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19 April 2025

US President Donald Trump's funding cuts force Radio Free Asia subsidiary Whynot to go dark

The Chinese media outlet, Whynot, occupies a unique position in the Chinese-language media landscape

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1 April 2025

How did Hong Kong get entangled in the US-China trade war?

The 10 percent duties on Chinese goods also apply to Hong Kong

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17 February 2025

‘Let’s talk about something else’: China’s AI chatbot DeepSeek censors sensitive topics

A comparison of Chinese and US generative AI responses

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5 February 2025

What lies behind the raid on the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute by the city's national security police?

The raid came weeks after police issued an arrest warrant for Chung Kim-wah, the Institute's ex-deputy CEO.

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21 January 2025

Families of Hongkongers trapped in Myanmar ‘scam farms’ ask for diplomatic intervention

Currently at least 13 Hongkongers are held captive in Myanmar

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17 January 2025

Fifteen times Hong Kong made international headlines in 2024

From the introduction of Article 19 to media and entertainment censorship

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6 January 2025

Eyes in the sky: Hong Kong police considering AI-enhanced drone patrols

Currently HK police's crime detection drones are operated by human

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13 December 2024

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