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Oct 24, 2023 - The chief executive is reportedly going to propose doubling the proportion of non-local students which Hong Kong universities are allowed to admit to...

Feb 13, 2024 - Hong Kong Free Press is providing support to the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong to update and expand its ANTIELAB Research...

Sep 18, 2023 - Dear readers and supporters, The HKFP newsroom pressed on in 2022, expanding to a team of eight and investing heavily in video and photography. We covered the...

Aug 27, 2025 - HKFP’s newsroom relies on OneUp for social media automation. Sign up to OneUp with HKFP. Use our sign-up button with ad-block disabled –...

Nov 30, 2023 - A video series about Hongkongers in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre.

Mar 31, 2020 - In the tiny village of Cha Kwo Ling, incense smoke and confetti fills the sky as dancing lions, kylins and dragons bow to Tin Hau, the goddess of the sea and...

Aug 17, 2023 - Journalist David Missal has won a Human Rights Press Award for a mini-documentary published by Hong Kong Free Press. The University of Hong Kong (HKU) Master...

Jul 4, 2024 - Hong Kong Free Press has been rated by Ad Fontes Media experts as providing reliable, factual reporting from a politically neutral perspective.

Jul 14, 2023 - When Hong Kong Free Press launched eight years ago today, the city’s constitutional guarantees of press freedom – whilst delicate – were...

Hillary Leung is a journalist at Hong Kong Free Press, where she reports on local politics and social issues, and assists with editing. Since joining in late...

Nov 30, 2023 - Hong Kong Free Press has met all nine of the NewsGuard initiative’s credibility and transparency criteria, a week after we launched our Code of Ethics and...

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Nov 30, 2023 - HKFP has updated its Android and Apple mobile apps, allowing for more convenient access to our news updates. And thanks to the Greatfire Appmaker project, we...

James Lee is a reporter at Hong Kong Free Press with an interest in culture and social issues. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English and a minor...

Nov 30, 2023 - Plans to overhaul the District Council elections were unveiled in May 2023 to ensure only “patriots” were elected, following a pro-democracy...

Tom founded Hong Kong Free Press in 2015 as the city's first crowdfunded newspaper. He has a BA in Communications and New Media from Leeds University and...

Mar 25, 2023 - Press freedom groups have condemned the harassment and surveillance of local journalists, after an HKFP court reporter was followed from her home to her...

Dec 30, 2023 - Historian Vaudine England speaks to HKFP about how early Hong Kong was shaped not only by the Chinese and the British, but by immigrants from across Asia and...

May 4, 2023 - The government watchdog has agreed to investigate HKFP’s complaint against the Information Services Department (ISD) over their handling of a press event...

Dec 25, 2025 - We share HKFP’s best features from the past 12 months, and reveal our Top 100 stories by traffic.

Kong Tsung-gan is the pen name of the author of Liberate Hong Kong: Stories from the Freedom Struggle and two other books about Hong Kong.

Oct 20, 2020 - On Sunday, hundreds of Hongkongers queued for hours to pay a visit to the city’s History Museum. It was its last day before the permanent exhibition...

Hans Tse is a reporter at Hong Kong Free Press with an interest in local politics, academia, and media transformation. He was previously a social science...

Basel Kirmani is founder and general manager of Turquoise Sustainability, a Hong Kong-based consultancy that specialises in corporate sustainability training...

Jun 23, 2022 - Three years on, HKFP looks back on the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement protests.

Nov 23, 2022 - by Jerome Taylor A rags-to-riches millionaire, media tycoon Jimmy Lai is a self-styled “troublemaker” who has long been a thorn in Beijing’s...

Mar 31, 2020 - An HKFP reporter has been attacked by a group of 20 pro-China protesters while reporting on a rally at the Legislative Council. Reporter Stanley Leung was...

Aug 6, 2024 - On October 18, 2020, hundreds of Hongkongers queued for hours to pay a visit to the city’s History Museum. It was its last day before the permanent...

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Oct 12, 2025 - Live Nation unveils plans for a new mid-sized music venue amid a shortage of small performance spaces. An academic integrity row over an award-winning student...

Nov 27, 2020 - We are proud to be Hong Kong’s most transparent news outlet and, as a non-profit company, HKFP is externally audited every year. Be assured that, when you...

Nov 27, 2020 - As a non-profit company, HKFP is externally audited every year. We publish as much information as contractually possible so our readers can understand how we...

Oct 25, 2022 - By Holmes Chan When Pinky Tam lost her job in Macau last year, she found herself among the many thousands cast adrift as the city’s casino industry...

Jan 2, 2026 - Welcome back to HKFP Monitor. This week, media mogul Jimmy Lai was found guilty in his national security trial after 156 days of hearings.