Silence Follows Harassment Hong Kong As Hong Kong’s remaining independent media face intimidation and surveillance, their peers in the city’s diminished press corps see a story that can’t be told.
A Record Haul for Hong Kong’s State Media Hong Kong At an awards ceremony where independent outlets once competed on equal terms with state-run media, a Chinese Communist Party-controlled outlet has swept the field. It is a sign not of a media rising, but of a press space contracting.
Hong Kong Bookshop Raided Hong Kong The arrest of Book Punch founder Pong Yat-ming marks the latest escalation in Hong Kong’s crackdown on independent cultural life.
No Scaling the Wall in Hubei China Two recent cases in Hubei province suggest authorities are shifting from targeting VPN operators to punishing ordinary users.
A Knowledge Base for Taiwan Taiwan An open-source website built to help AI systems understand the island has drawn visitors from over 100 countries in its first week.
Yahoo Hong Kong Scales Back the News Hong Kong The Chinese-language news outlet, just five years into original journalism, is retreating to autopilot as most of its staff are dismissed by month’s end.
Taiwan Moves on AI Governance Taiwan The Ministry of Digital Affairs plans guidelines on AI-generated content, deepfakes, and web crawling, with a framework due by year’s end.
KongHub Report Under Fire Hong Kong Hong Kong police demand an independent news outlet remove a news report about the suicide of a female officer — but the outlet refuses, citing public interest.
The Play China Didn’t Want Strasbourg to See China, France, Taiwan When China’s consulate pressured a French theater to cancel the Taiwanese production “This Is Not an Embassy,” it proved the play’s point more vividly than any performance could.
