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Communities across Hong Kong celebrated #Halloween on Saturday night, including on Lamma Island where residents and visitors played trick-or-treat in costume. Photo: Tom Grundy/HKFP.
Hongkongers and tourists in costume packed the streets of Lan Kwai Fong on Saturday night to celebrate Halloween. Photos: Peter Parks/AFP.
Chinese state television did not air on Saturday the first La Liga games since Real Madrid star Kylian Mbappe caused anger with a joke about the country's former leader Mao Zedong.
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It was not immediately clear whether state broadcaster CCTV had scheduled screenings of the matches and then cancelled them, or whether they were not scheduled in the first place.
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Zhang Shengmin, the last general remaining in the highest echelon of China's military, has received an unexpected promotion to the Politburo, the rarefied group of about 20 Communist Party officials who run the country.
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It is a significant milestone for the 68-year-old, who has risen from his modest upbringing to become a quiet architect of President Xi Jinping's decade-long anti-corruption campaign.
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[Members only] With the unexpected resignation of housing secretary Winnie Ho over the deadly Wang Fuk Court blaze, we look at other instances of top officials stepping down over the years. Plus, how did state-backed media catch up with the reality of Ho's departure?
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[Recap] ‘Groundless speculation’: China denies spying on Nvidia’s Jensen Huang hongkongfp.com/2026/10/31/gr…
[Recap] US imprisons two Chinese nationals who tried to recruit military service members to spy for Beijing hongkongfp.com/2026/10/31/us…
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Beijing dismissed as "groundless speculation" on Friday a report that said Jensen Huang, head of US chip giant Nvidia, was the target of a Chinese spy plot.
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The article by The New York Times, published Thursday, said that US intelligence officials concluded that a Chinese executive linked to a Singapore-based data centre company had been funnelling information to Beijing.
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Revellers dressed in Halloween costumes walk along a street in the district of Xuhui, in Shanghai on October 30, 2026. Photo: Hector Retamal/AFP.
Two Chinese men who admitted trying to recruit US military service members to spy for Beijing were imprisoned in California on Friday.
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Liren Lai and Yuance Chen were ordered to serve 30 months in a federal lockup and to undergo three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to acting on the orders of China's Ministry of State Security.
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