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Hong Kong Actor Anthony Wong: Blacklisted by the CCP, Suffers 6 Years of No Income

Anthony Wong Chau-sang, born Anthony Perry and known professionally as Anthony Wong, is a British Hong Kong actor who is perhaps best known in the West for his roles in the 1992 action film Hard Boiled, the 2002 critically acclaimed film Infernal Affairs as General Yang, and in the 2008 Hollywood film The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Wong is also ...

Emma Lu

Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong.

Hong Kong Woman Pleads: ‘Don’t Let Taiwan Become Another Hong Kong!’

On April 7, during a rally to protest China’s framework to govern Taiwan under its “One Country, Two Systems” policy, Zhong Huizhen knelt and pleaded with the Taiwanese people to awaken to what is happening in Hong Kong today. Her words touched many people. There are concerns that Zhong (who immigrated to Taiwan from Hong ...

Helen London

Hong Kong Democracy Activist Wins Lantos Foundation Award

Joshua Wong, the 21-year-old democracy activist from Hong Kong, has been awarded the 2018 Lantos Human Rights Prize. The Lantos Foundation award was received by Joshua’s associates since he has been barred from traveling to the U.S. where the ceremony was held. Joshua Wong won the Lantos Foundation award for his fighting for democracy in ...

Armin Auctor

Joshua Wong speaking into a microphone.

Sentencing of Young Democracy Activists Is ‘Political Payback’

A decision by a Hong Kong appeals court to jail three young democracy activists has been met with a barrage of criticism from around the world. The court’s re-sentencing of Alex Chow, 26, Joshua Wong, 20, and Nathan Law, 24, on August 17 to 6-8 months for unlawful assembly has been widely condemned, especially considering they ...

James Burke

HK activist Joshua Wong.