https://www.scmp.com/rss/520154/feed The latest news on Claudia Mo, Hong Kong journalist, politician and member of the pro-democracy camp. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Letters Letters Feel strongly about these letters, or any other aspects of the news? Share your views by emailing us your Letter to the Editor at letters@scmp.com or filling in this Google form. Submissions should not exceed 400 words Hong Kong’s beauty and personal care sector is estimated to have grown into a US$2.38 billion market this year, and is expected to expand steadily at 2.35 per cent annually until 2030. Meanwhile, the beauty services industry – comprising hairdressing, skincare, manicure, slimming... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/letters/article/3332278/regulation-hong-kongs-beauty-industry-cannot-be-skin-deep?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/letters/article/3332278/regulation-hong-kongs-beauty-industry-cannot-be-skin-deep?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 12 Nov 2025 03:30:08 +0000 Jeffie Lam Jeffie Lam Former Hong Kong lawmaker Claudia Mo Man-ching has broken her silence after finishing a jail sentence imposed for subversion, sharing how she managed to ward off loneliness and boredom during her “Kafkaesque” life behind bars. Mo, who was released earlier this week alongside three former legislators, also said on Friday she had read more than 300 books while in jail and expressed her gratitude to her friends and family. “Many thanks for all the concern and care expressed upon my release. Prison... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3308775/hong-kong-47-ex-lawmaker-claudia-mo-breaks-silence-over-kafka-esque-jail-time?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3308775/hong-kong-47-ex-lawmaker-claudia-mo-breaks-silence-over-kafka-esque-jail-time?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 02 May 2025 03:28:42 +0000 Forty-five Hong Kong opposition figures were jailed on Tuesday for four to 10 years for their participation in a plot to overthrow the government in 2020, with former legal scholar Benny Tai Yiu-ting receiving the stiffest sentence for masterminding an unauthorised legislative “primary” election to subvert state power. The sentencing brought to a close the city’s largest and longest-running national security trial that had initially involved a group of 47 accused of plotting to ride on the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3287288/hong-kong-47-45-activists-jailed-4-10-years-over-plot-overthrow-government?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3287288/hong-kong-47-45-activists-jailed-4-10-years-over-plot-overthrow-government?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:47:12 +0000 Four former Hong Kong lawmakers found guilty in a landmark national security trial, including Claudia Mo Man-ching, will be released in about six months’ time as they have already spent nearly four years in custody. Three judges ended the city’s largest and longest-running trial under the Beijing-decreed national security law on Tuesday by jailing 45 of the 47 activists prosecuted over their roles in an unofficial legislative “primary” election that was part of a plot to bring down the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3287276/hong-kong-47-when-will-jailed-activists-landmark-national-security-trial-be-released?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3287276/hong-kong-47-when-will-jailed-activists-landmark-national-security-trial-be-released?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:01:53 +0000 Hundreds of Hong Kong residents showed up to witness the sentencing in a landmark national security trial on Tuesday, with some family and friends of the 45 politicians and activists imprisoned bidding farewell to their loved ones in court as others outside were told to leave after the public gallery was filled. A crowd had gathered overnight at West Kowloon Court, with some reportedly started queuing up as early as Saturday. More than 200 residents had joined a winding queue before 7am on... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3287256/hong-kong-47-crowds-throng-court-family-supporters-bid-farewell-jailed-opposition-figures?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3287256/hong-kong-47-crowds-throng-court-family-supporters-bid-farewell-jailed-opposition-figures?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:50:40 +0000 This rolling coverage has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Former legal academic Benny Tai Yiu-ting has been jailed for 10 years for conspiring to subvert state power after he initiated an unofficial legislative “primary” election in the hope of bringing down the Hong Kong government four years ago. The 60-year-old former University of Hong Kong professor was among 45 opposition politicians and activists... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3287109/hong-kong-47-family-friends-arrive-court-sentencing-45-activists?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3287109/hong-kong-47-family-friends-arrive-court-sentencing-45-activists?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 19 Nov 2024 01:38:41 +0000 A former lawmaker affiliated with Hong Kong’s largest opposition party has sought leniency in a subversion case, arguing “radical” competitors pressured her into backing a conspiracy to topple the government through a 2020 unofficial legislative primary election. Helena Wong Pik-wan’s legal team on Wednesday sought a jail term limit of three years under the Beijing-decreed national security law over her “peripheral role” in the case implicating 45 opposition politicians and activists. Mitigation... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3269961/hong-kong-47-ex-lawmaker-says-radicals-forced-her-back-2020-subversion-bid?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3269961/hong-kong-47-ex-lawmaker-says-radicals-forced-her-back-2020-subversion-bid?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:30:23 +0000 A portrait of a young woman by Gustav Klimt that was long believed to be lost was sold at an auction in Vienna on Wednesday for €30 million (US$32 million). The Austrian modernist artist started work on the “Portrait of Fraulein Lieser” in 1917, the year before he died, and it is one of his last works. Bidding started at €28 million, and the sale price was at the lower end of an expected range of €30-€50 million. The painting went to a bidder from Hong Kong, who was not identified. The Im Kinsky... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3260257/long-lost-gustav-klimt-painting-sold-hong-kong-bidder-us32-million-vienna-auction?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3260257/long-lost-gustav-klimt-painting-sold-hong-kong-bidder-us32-million-vienna-auction?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:41:37 +0000 The lengths to which some British politicians and public figures will go for virtue-signalling and the shaming of Hong Kong are quite extraordinary. The problem is that the more frequently they cry wolf, the quicker they lose all credibility. Last month, a cross-party group of 54 British members of parliament and public figures called for the release of detained former lawmaker Claudia Mo Man-ching so that she could visit her husband Philip Bowring, who was supposedly seriously ill and being... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3212938/lords-and-ladies-britain-really-need-get-their-facts-right?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3212938/lords-and-ladies-britain-really-need-get-their-facts-right?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 09 Mar 2023 13:00:09 +0000 The husband of former Hong Kong opposition lawmaker Claudia Mo Man-ching has said he did not endorse an appeal by more than 50 British politicians to the UK government to press authorities in the Asian financial hub for her release so she could visit him in hospital. Philip Bowring, in a note released by the family on Sunday, said he left intensive care three weeks ago and had been discharged from hospital. “I have not in any way been notified, contacted or consulted by UK-based parliamentarians... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3212449/husband-ex-hong-kong-lawmaker-who-admitted-subversion-says-he-did-not-back-bid-uk-politicians-win?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3212449/husband-ex-hong-kong-lawmaker-who-admitted-subversion-says-he-did-not-back-bid-uk-politicians-win?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 05 Mar 2023 16:33:25 +0000 More than 50 British politicians and public figures have asked the UK government to press Hong Kong for the release of former opposition lawmaker Claudia Mo so she can visit her seriously ill husband in hospital. Mo is among 47 opposition figures involved in an ongoing national security trial, with the group accused of trying to win a majority in the Legislative Council in 2020 in a bid to paralyse the government by blocking budgets and other legislation. Dated February 24, the letter was made... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3212003/british-politicians-call-country-press-hong-kong-release-ex-lawmaker-claudia-mo-visit-seriously-ill?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3212003/british-politicians-call-country-press-hong-kong-release-ex-lawmaker-claudia-mo-visit-seriously-ill?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Mar 2023 15:20:34 +0000 Hong Kong clocked a full year in 2022 under a vastly altered political landscape with a raft of “patriots-only” changes imposed by Beijing to its electoral system. The city set up its first Legislative Council under the new rules, with opposition voices in the chamber absent, and former security chief John Lee Ka-chiu took the top job after running as the only candidate in the leadership poll. As Hong Kong marked the 25th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule, President Xi Jinping visited... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3205304/political-recap-hong-kong-2022-5-events-will-shape-city-governance-years?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3205304/political-recap-hong-kong-2022-5-events-will-shape-city-governance-years?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Jan 2023 08:00:21 +0000 Xie Qiongling has never forgotten how she waited five years in her native Fujian province, in mainland China, for permission to be with her husband in Hong Kong. A Hong Kong resident, he was working as a waiter at the time. She applied in 1999 to join him under the one-way permit scheme introduced by China in the early 1980s to allow mainlanders to move to the city, mainly to reunite with family members. The approval from the mainland authorities only arrived in 2004. After she moved to Hong... https://www.scmp.com/hong-kong-25/society/article/3183149/hongkongers-prejudices-persist-even-mainland-chinese-migrants?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/hong-kong-25/society/article/3183149/hongkongers-prejudices-persist-even-mainland-chinese-migrants?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Jun 2022 07:00:25 +0000 Annie van Es was a sassy young secretary in 1968, when she lunched at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club with a friend working at the BBC. In those days the club – a small bar and restaurant – occupied a corner of the Hilton Hotel in Central, where the Cheung Kong Center now stands. Photographer Hugh van Es spotted her from the bar and invited her to join him for a drink. Seven years later, the Dutch cameraman would capture the iconic image of Americans leaving Saigon, on one of the last... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3175222/history-and-debauchery-hong-kongs-foreign?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3175222/history-and-debauchery-hong-kongs-foreign?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 24 Apr 2022 05:15:20 +0000 In her speech on July 1, 1997, then United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who died recently aged 84, made striking observations about Hong Kong, as the city was handed back from Britain to China. “Hong Kong is the glittering jewel in Asia’s economic emergence. But it owes its success not to the glitter of gold but to the gold of principle. The ability of journalists to tell it like it is, of legislators to raise their voices in dissent, of businesspeople to know that their... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3172683/when-madeleine-albright-called-hong-kong-asias?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3172683/when-madeleine-albright-called-hong-kong-asias?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:45:20 +0000