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Hong Kong

Four people charged in connection with Abby Choi murder. (Dailymotion)

Everything you need to know about murdered Hong Kong model Abby Choi

Dundee's Jordan McGhee levels the scores for the visitors at Stark's Park.
Dundee's Jordan McGhee levels the scores for the visitors at Stark's Park.

Raith earn draw with Dundee after trying week with takeover bid

Hong Kong-based investors Silverbear Capital Inc have been involved in negotiations to buy Raith Rovers. (Photo by Craig Brown / SNS Group)
Hong Kong-based investors Silverbear Capital Inc have been involved in negotiations to buy Raith Rovers. (Photo by Craig Brown / SNS Group)

Ex-Rangers director involved as Raith Rovers takeover talks breakdown

Whisky Auctioneer highlighted increasing interest across the globe for rare whiskies.
Whisky Auctioneer highlighted increasing interest across the globe for rare whiskies.

Whisky auction site toasts 'phenomenally successful' year as demand soars

Apple Replay enables Apple Music users to review their listening stats (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)
Apple Replay enables Apple Music users to review their listening stats (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)

Chinese protestors find AirDrop feature limited amid ongoing protests

A government official at left speaks to participants in a protest against China's strict zero COVID measures in Beijing, China.
A government official at left speaks to participants in a protest against China's strict zero COVID measures in Beijing, China.

Chinese protestors: 'We don’t want lockdowns, we want freedom'

People wait in line for a swab test at a Covid-19 test in Beijing. Picture: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images
People wait in line for a swab test at a Covid-19 test in Beijing. Picture: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images

'Zero covid' struggle as Chinese president exposed to Covid-positive leader

US President Joe Biden and China's President Xi Jinping meet on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
US President Joe Biden and China's President Xi Jinping meet on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.

Why has China been described as the ‘biggest state-based threat’ to the UK?

Ollie Roberts shows off his prizes after winning the Tartan Pro Tour's Carnoustie Tour Championship sponsored by Angus Soft Fruits. Picture: Tartan Pro Tour
Ollie Roberts shows off his prizes after winning the Tartan Pro Tour's Carnoustie Tour Championship sponsored by Angus Soft Fruits. Picture: Tartan Pro Tour

Roberts savours 'absolute treat' of winning at Carnoustie in front of Lawrie

Police try to pull a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester out of the grounds of the Chinese consulate in Manchester. Picture: Matthew Leung/The Chaser News/AFP via Getty Images
Police try to pull a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester out of the grounds of the Chinese consulate in Manchester. Picture: Matthew Leung/The Chaser News/AFP via Getty Images

‘This could have been Edinburgh’: Hong Kong campaigner issues wake-up call

A police investigation into the treatment of a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester who was beaten at the Chinese consulate in Manchester is “complex and sensitive” and will take some time, a senior officer has said.
A police investigation into the treatment of a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester who was beaten at the Chinese consulate in Manchester is “complex and sensitive” and will take some time, a senior officer has said.

Police investigation into Chinese consulate assault ‘complex and sensitive’

Police try to pull a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester out of the grounds of the Chinese consulate in Manchester. Picture: Matthew Leung/The Chaser News/AFP via Getty Images
Police try to pull a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester out of the grounds of the Chinese consulate in Manchester. Picture: Matthew Leung/The Chaser News/AFP via Getty Images

UK demands explanation after assault on Hong Kong protester at Chinese consulate

Police try to pull a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester out of the grounds of the Chinese consulate in Manchester (Picture: Matthew Leung/The Chaser News/AFP via Getty Images)
Police try to pull a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester out of the grounds of the Chinese consulate in Manchester (Picture: Matthew Leung/The Chaser News/AFP via Getty Images)

Thugs who attacked protester in China consulate must be expelled from UK

A man is directed to a waiting taxi at Hong Kong International Airport that will take him to hotel quarantine. Hong Kong announced on Friday it will end mandatory hotel quarantine from Monday.
A man is directed to a waiting taxi at Hong Kong International Airport that will take him to hotel quarantine. Hong Kong announced on Friday it will end mandatory hotel quarantine from Monday.

Hong Kong ends hotel quarantine for travellers

Takeaway: Stories From a Childhood Behind the Counter is out now. Picture: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images
Takeaway: Stories From a Childhood Behind the Counter is out now. Picture: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Laura Waddell: What it's like to grow up as the child of Chinese takeaway owners

Yang Guang, one of the two pandas at Edinburgh Zoo on loan from China. Yuang Guang and Tian Tian arrived in 2011.
Yang Guang, one of the two pandas at Edinburgh Zoo on loan from China. Yuang Guang and Tian Tian arrived in 2011.

Should the UK re-designate China as a formal threat?

This is Not a Show about Hong Kong. Pic: Simon Adrians.
This is Not a Show about Hong Kong. Pic: Simon Adrians.

Edinburgh Fringe reviews: This Is Not A Show About Hong Kong | Nightlands

Black Sheep. PIC: Rod Penn.
Black Sheep. PIC: Rod Penn.

Fringe theatre reviews: Black Sheep | This Is Not a Show About Hong Kong + more

Credit: Photo by Shutterstock
Credit: Photo by Shutterstock

Learn how to breathe better with Stuart Sandeman's new book

Tim Cornwell with grandson Noah
Tim Cornwell with grandson Noah

Obituaries: Tim Cornwell, respected Scotsman arts correspondent

Farming: Native Angus beef sold to Hong Kong store in export first

Buste D’homme Dans Un Cadre – Bust Of A Man In A Frame – will be sold at Christie’s in Hong Kong next month Pic: Christie's
Buste D’homme Dans Un Cadre – Bust Of A Man In A Frame – will be sold at Christie’s in Hong Kong next month Pic: Christie's

Art lover Sir Sean Connery's Picasso painting could sell for £15 million

Secondary school students take the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education exams (HKDSE) in Creative Secondary School in Hong Kong. Secondary schools will resume face-to-face classes on 3 May.
Secondary school students take the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education exams (HKDSE) in Creative Secondary School in Hong Kong. Secondary schools will resume face-to-face classes on 3 May.

Hong Kong to allow non-residents to enter for first time in two years

8 Carlton Street, Stockbridge, Edinburgh
8 Carlton Street, Stockbridge, Edinburgh

Prestige property: Stunning in Stockbridge

The leaflet explains how to identify a "suspicious person".
The leaflet explains how to identify a "suspicious person".

Hong Kong leaflet warns anyone wearing a mask could be ‘suspicious person’

A woman stands on an empty street usually packed with shoppers in Causeway Bay, a famous shopping district in Hong Kong
A woman stands on an empty street usually packed with shoppers in Causeway Bay, a famous shopping district in Hong Kong

Scots tell of life back in full Covid lockdown in Hong Kong

Face masks have become part of everyday life over the past two years (Picture: Martin Rickett/PA)
Face masks have become part of everyday life over the past two years (Picture: Martin Rickett/PA)

Wearing a Covid face mask is not a political act – Scotsman comment

Ally Miller has helped Glasgow Warriors to wins over Connacht, Munster and Benetton. (Photo by Ross MacDonald / SNS Group)
Ally Miller has helped Glasgow Warriors to wins over Connacht, Munster and Benetton. (Photo by Ross MacDonald / SNS Group)

Miller takes inspiration from Darge as he swaps Vegas for Llanelli

Mark Clifford is president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong.
Mark Clifford is president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong.

Call for crackdown on China’s Confucius Institute in Scotland

Vintage colours and bold paint designs open up the room
Vintage colours and bold paint designs open up the room

Ad Feature Stunning Merchiston home goes on sale

Chloe Rollie scored the last-gasp try which saw Scotland reach the Final Qualification Tournament. (Photo by Ross Parker / SNS Group)
Chloe Rollie scored the last-gasp try which saw Scotland reach the Final Qualification Tournament. (Photo by Ross Parker / SNS Group)

Scotland are now just one game away from the Rugby World Cup

The offices of Christine Lee and Co in London. MI5 have issued a Security Service Interference Alert warning solicitor Christine Ching Kui Lee, "an agent of the Chinese government has been active in the British Parliament". Picture: PA
The offices of Christine Lee and Co in London. MI5 have issued a Security Service Interference Alert warning solicitor Christine Ching Kui Lee, "an agent of the Chinese government has been active in the British Parliament". Picture: PA

MI5 warns MPs about Chinese spy ‘operating in UK’

Daoine ann an Taiwan a’ sealltainn taic dhan phàipear-naidheachd, Apple Daily. Ann an Hong Kong, chaidh ceannard a’ phàipeir, Jimmy Lai, a chur dhan phrìosan agus dhùin am pàipear. (Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images)
Daoine ann an Taiwan a’ sealltainn taic dhan phàipear-naidheachd, Apple Daily. Ann an Hong Kong, chaidh ceannard a’ phàipeir, Jimmy Lai, a chur dhan phrìosan agus dhùin am pàipear. (Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images)

Tha Murray MacLeòid a’ meòrachadh air an duilgheadas le Sìona

Stand News editor-in-chief Patrick Lam is taken away after police searched the offices of the independent news outlet in Hong Kong (Picture: Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)
Stand News editor-in-chief Patrick Lam is taken away after police searched the offices of the independent news outlet in Hong Kong (Picture: Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)

The latest crystal clear sign of demise of freedom in Hong Kong – Scotsman says

Have you ever hitched a ride in a sleigh - with or without Santa?
Have you ever hitched a ride in a sleigh - with or without Santa?

When did you last see a one-horse open sleigh?

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon looks on at the Whitelee Wind Farm ahead of the SNP's annual conference. Picture: Russell Cheyne - Pool / Getty Images
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon looks on at the Whitelee Wind Farm ahead of the SNP's annual conference. Picture: Russell Cheyne - Pool / Getty Images

Sturgeon says no need to 'hit panic button' over new South Africa variant

Visitors walk in front of a screen showing China's President Xi Jinping at the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing (Picture: Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images)
Visitors walk in front of a screen showing China's President Xi Jinping at the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing (Picture: Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images)

Cold War looms with China under its new Chairman Mao – Scotsman comment

Are chickens have a sense of their nationality? Do some hold communist beliefs? (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)
Are chickens have a sense of their nationality? Do some hold communist beliefs? (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

The salt may be non-EU but were the chickens communists? – Scotsman comment

Vincent Connor loved to relax with a spot of drumming (Picture: Pinsent Masons)
Vincent Connor loved to relax with a spot of drumming (Picture: Pinsent Masons)

Obituaries: Vincent Connor, Scots solicitor who became well known in Hong Kong

Tong Ying-kit is facing life in prison after being convicted of inciting secession and terrorism (Picture: Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images)
Tong Ying-kit is facing life in prison after being convicted of inciting secession and terrorism (Picture: Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images)

What China's crackdown on Hong Kong says about life in Britain – Scotsman says

Entry requirements into each green or amber list country vary, and some places require visitors to either be fully vaccinated or present a negative Covid test (Shutterstock)
Entry requirements into each green or amber list country vary, and some places require visitors to either be fully vaccinated or present a negative Covid test (Shutterstock)

Where can I go on holiday right now?

Craig Milne and Daniel Milne of online whisky auction site Whisky Hammer and its sister retail business Still Spirit. Picture: Richard Frew Photography & Film
Craig Milne and Daniel Milne of online whisky auction site Whisky Hammer and its sister retail business Still Spirit. Picture: Richard Frew Photography & Film

'Very exciting' future for whisky auction site after major Asian investment deal

The use of drones and other forms of technology to monitor the public raise serious questions about human rights (Picture: Petros Karadjias/AP)
The use of drones and other forms of technology to monitor the public raise serious questions about human rights (Picture: Petros Karadjias/AP)

Multiple signs that our human rights may be in peril – Christine Jardine MP

Founded in early 2020, Primordial Games has staff in Dundee and Oakland, California, and is preparing to welcome two more team members in the coming months. Picture: Alan Richardson
Founded in early 2020, Primordial Games has staff in Dundee and Oakland, California, and is preparing to welcome two more team members in the coming months. Picture: Alan Richardson

Dundee start-up to design adventure game for innovative blockchain platform

A British Airways plane at Heathrow airport. Hong Kong is to ban all incoming flights from the UK in a bid to prevent further spread of the coronavirus.
A British Airways plane at Heathrow airport. Hong Kong is to ban all incoming flights from the UK in a bid to prevent further spread of the coronavirus.

Hong Kong bans all incoming flights from UK over Covid concerns

Testing and quarantine requirements have been introduced by several countries for UK tourists (Photo: Getty Images)
Testing and quarantine requirements have been introduced by several countries for UK tourists (Photo: Getty Images)

Tough new travel restrictions set out for UK tourists as Delta Covid cases surge

Copies of the Apple Daily newspaper are seen stacked in Hong Kong, after police arrested the chief editor and four executives of the pro-democracy newspaper (Getty Images)
Copies of the Apple Daily newspaper are seen stacked in Hong Kong, after police arrested the chief editor and four executives of the pro-democracy newspaper (Getty Images)

Why Hong Kong pro-democracy paper Apple Daily is closing

More than 150 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the Guangdong province (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
More than 150 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the Guangdong province (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

'Delays are piling up': Covid-19 outbreak at Chinese port could lead to Christma...

‘Keg so small, it comes in a can' will enable Guinness to be poured in more bars and restaurants.
‘Keg so small, it comes in a can' will enable Guinness to be poured in more bars and restaurants.

Guinness taps into 12,000 more outlets with biggest innovation since can widget

Chow Hang Tung, of the pro-democracy Hong Kong Alliance, was arrested for promoting a candlelight vigil in memory of those killed by Chinese government forces in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989 (Picture: Vincent Yu/AP)
Chow Hang Tung, of the pro-democracy Hong Kong Alliance, was arrested for promoting a candlelight vigil in memory of those killed by Chinese government forces in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989 (Picture: Vincent Yu/AP)

Why arrest of a Hong Kong democracy campaigner really matters – Scotsman says

David Alexander is managing director of DJ Alexander
David Alexander is managing director of DJ Alexander

Hong Kong buyers eye up Edinburgh market - David Alexander

Emma Parton of the Highland Soap Company which has opened a new shop in Aviemore. Picture: Peter Jolly
Emma Parton of the Highland Soap Company which has opened a new shop in Aviemore. Picture: Peter Jolly

Highland soap firm opens new Scottish store and extends global reach

Chris Brodt
Chris Brodt

Here are some Edinburgh and Glasgow restaurants to try this Chinese New Year

Ian Garden is the founder of RigDeluge, headquartered in Aberdeen.
Ian Garden is the founder of RigDeluge, headquartered in Aberdeen.

Aberdeen firm takes North Sea-inspired fire safety technology Down Under

Lewis Maxwell, a 14-year-old boy has become one of the world’s best young pipers
Lewis Maxwell, a 14-year-old boy has become one of the world’s best young pipers

A school boy has been named one of the world's best young pipers

An independent journalist from China has been imprisoned for reporting on the Co...

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