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What is it, one wonders, about Secretary for Security Chris Tang and the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA)? Tang, after all, has a lot on his plate. He is responsible for repelling every threat to peace, order and national security in Hong Kong. The latter, we are often told, needs constant alertness and attention. Yet it seems Tang is never too busy to have a go at the HKJA. The HKJA is a small voluntary body aiming to serve and protect the interests of people working in journalism. It does the usual things: seminars, workshops, occasional dinners and the odd press release on relevant ...
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The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) voted in a new Executive Committee (ExCom) and chair on Saturday as Channel C’s Ronson Chan stood down as head of the press group. The Wall Street Journal’s Selina Cheng took the helm at the Association’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Jordan, having secured 100 votes, with two voting against. Two candidates, the Justice Centre’s Preston Cheung and the BBC’s Danny Vincent, dropped out of the race for Executive Committee seats, though both were voted in on Saturday with Chan saying there was no mechanism for them to withdraw. Cheung told HKFP he wou...
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A press group in Macau has called on the local authorities to explain why they denied entry to Hong Kong journalism scholar Vivian Tam, who was detained and turned away over “public security” concerns. It was “absurd” for Macau immigration officers detain Tam, a senior journalism lecturer at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), for half an hour on Saturday morning before sending her back to Hong Kong, the Macau Journalists Association wrote on Facebook on Saturday afternoon. According to the press group, it had invited Tam to attend and host a workshop, but Macau authorities refused to let ...
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Hong Kong police have condemned claims that a press group chief received an “unreasonable warning” from an officer while covering the 35th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. Police on Wednesday rejected a statement from the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), which criticised police officers over obstructing reporting, issuing an “unreasonable warning” and taking a photojournalist aside in Causeway Bay on Tuesday. Crackdown anniversaryTuesday marked 35 years since the Tiananmen crackdown occurred on June 4, 1989, which put an end to months of student-led demonstrations in China...
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The media can “ask questions” but not provoke conflicts or make slanderous remarks, Chief Executive John Lee has said at an awards ceremony for the city’s news industry. The news industry must abide by professional ethics and provide readers with accurate and comprehensive information, as well as pertinent and unbiased reports, Lee said at the Hong Kong News Awards on Friday. He offered the organiser, the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong, his support for “promoting the development of high quality journalism,” and added that Hong Kong’s economy needed the power of the media to spread the news of ...
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A strange, indeed barely believable, controversy has erupted over a question which appears hardly disputable: whether Hong Kong still enjoys the degree of press freedom that it did before 2020. “Nothing has changed” is the official line pushed by government spokesmen in Beijing, echoed by local Grenville Cross in newspaper pieces. For the opposite view we have Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontiéres or RSF if you are subject to Quebec Province language laws) who are the compilers and curators of the relevant international league table, the World Press Freedom Index. The message of...
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Hong Kong Free Press has been shortlisted for the International Press Institute’s (IPI) 2024 Free Media Pioneer award. The list showcases the “power and resilience of the free press,” according to the IPI – a 73-year-old global press freedom organisation with consultative status at the UN, UNESCO and the Council of Europe. “These outstanding organisations from around the globe are meeting the moment by defending press freedom, filling crucial gaps in quality, investigative reporting, or driving media innovation,” the IPI said in an announcement on Thursday. “Amid growing threats to independent...
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A fundraising concert organised by the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) has been forced to move online, after the live performance was axed due to “irresistible force,” the press group said. HKJA announced on Wednesday that the live concert scheduled for Sunday would take place online on May 8, after the show was called off due to unforeseen circumstances in the final stages of preparation. “[The fundraising concert] has unfortunately been cancelled due to an irresistible force in the final stages of preparation… We hope that everyone can continue to support us in this new format,” a C...
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A Hong Kong press group has sought to challenge the revised rules for accessing the government’s vehicle registry. The arrangements rolled out in January constituted a “disproportionate and unjustified restriction” on press freedom enshrined in the city’s mini-constitution, the group argued. The requirement for journalists to seek approval directly from the transport commissioner to access vehicle records should be declared unconstitutional, the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) said in an application for leave to apply for judicial review last Friday. Judicial reviews are considered by...
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