The 58th Golden Horse Awards took place on November 27, 2021, at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. The event was hosted by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee. The best short documentary film was won by Lin Youen with In Their Teens, while the best documentary award was won by ...
Originally a harvest ritual, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been celebrated since the early Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BCE). In the past, Chinese families would make offerings of wine and mooncakes to the heavens, expressing gratitude for the year’s harvest. The Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the Chinese Moon Festival and the Autumn Lantern Festival is celebrated ...
Media veteran Steve Vines recently left Hong Kong without notice for the U.K. Under the new Hong Kong National Security Law, Vines believes that Hong Kong is no longer free, and sees a crisis situation growing in the once vibrant and energetic city. Well-known for his acclaimed work in the media, Vines has contributed articles ...
July 1, 2021, marks the first anniversary of the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong. Ching Cheong, a senior journalist with The Straits Times and current affairs commentator in Hong Kong, wrote a summary of the National Security Law’s five historical impacts on Hong Kong. Hong Kong was once a safe harbor ...
On July 17 at the 74th Cannes Film Festival, the Short Film Palme d’Or was awarded to the 14-minute film All the Crows in the World (Tian Xia Wu Ya) directed by Hong Kong director Tang Yi. All the Crows in the World is the first Hong Kong film to receive this award. It also won Best ...
On the night of the Communist Party’s centenary celebration on July 1, a 50-year-old Hong Kong man, Leung Kin-fai, stabbed a police officer and then killed himself with a knife. The Hong Kong media exposed the contents of his suicide note, which referred to the Hong Kong police “harboring criminals” and the loss of freedom ...
July 1, 2021, marked 100 years of bloodshed since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took over China. It also marks the 24th anniversary of Britain’s handover of the former colony of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China in 1997. Along with the overt 100-year celebrations being carried out in Mainland China, President Xi ...
Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily has announced its closure, which is seen as a blow to press freedom under the pressure of Beijing. The publication, which was a leading critic of the Hong Kong and Chinese leadership, decided to shut down after being accused of breaching the National Security Law, leading to a ...
June 4th marked the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing. It also marked the first anniversary of the Hong Kong National Security Law being implemented. On that day, the people of Hong Kong not only defied the tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party overlords, but they went on to illuminate the world ...
Perversely, the new regime in Hong Kong banned all traditional public commemorations of the June 4 Tiananmen Square Massacre. Nevertheless, the brave people of Hong Kong remain defiant and continue to hold their own candlelight vigils and commemorations. The Hong Kong government banned the 32nd anniversary of the June 4 commemoration arranged by the Hong ...
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