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Australian lawyer Samuel Monkivitch has become infamous on Hong Kong social media.

Australian lawyer cops fine, suspended sentence for Hong Kong dine-and-dash spree

Samuel Monkivitch gained a reputation for running away from bills at Hong Kong’s five-star hotels as well as smaller restaurants.

  • Lisa Visentin and Jessie Pang

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Investors flocked to HyperTech's 2020 gala in Hong Kong, where the group's executives performed a karoke rendition of Coldplay's Viva La Vida donned in superhero costumes.
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HyperTech Group Super Event 2020

Investors flocked to HyperTech's 2020 gala in Hong Kong, where the group's executives performed a karoke rendition of Coldplay's Viva La Vida donned in superhero costumes.

Thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil for victims of the Chinese government’s brutal military crackdown in Hong Kong in 2019. The last time it was allowed to take place.

How do you remember a massacre that’s been scrubbed from the history books? Very carefully

More than 100,000 people used to cram into a Hong Kong park to remember the Tiananmen massacre. This year, some found a defiant way to continue their vigil.

  • Lisa Visentin and Jessie Pang
Jim’s baby was born by surrogate in Georgia using Global Surrogacy run by Australian former lawyer Paul Norris-Ongso.

Baby broker: The ‘crazy car salesman’ brokering babies and holding embryos ‘hostage’

As the $200 billion surrogacy industry booms, families are left to navigate an opaque web of companies and stateless babies while brokers operate unchecked.

  • Amber Schultz and Kayla Olaya
Peter Wai appears outside the Old Bailey in London in May 2024.

How China exploited WFH to spy on UK

A Border Force official accessed a Home Office database on his days off, a court heard, with guilty verdicts marking the first conviction for Chinese espionage in Britain.

  • Rozina Sabur and Charles Hymas
Hong Kong horror will crack you up, make you queasy and confuse the hell out of you. In other words, it takes you on a ride like no other.

From hopping vampires to evil dumplings, Hong Kong horror is a weird and wacky ride

Hong Kong’s surreal and outrageous subgenre evolved after horror films were banned in mainland China. Here are five of the best to feast your eyes on.

  • Nell Geraets
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Queen’s Wharf has been offloaded by the embattled gaming group.

Star sells off Brisbane’s Queen’s Wharf to Hong Kong partners

The embattled gaming company has completed a $53 million deal to offload the glitzy Brisbane complex.

  • James Hall
New Year’s celebrations around the world.

See how the world’s biggest cities rang in the new year

From New York to Paris to Sydney, crowds have marked the start of 2026 with exuberant celebrations filled with thunderous fireworks or drumming.

  • Rod McGuirk and Sheikh Saaliq
Thick smoke and flames rise as a major fire engulfs several apartment blocks at the Wang Fuk Court complex.

What went wrong before Hong Kong’s apartment inferno

Records show how government departments played down residents’ warnings about corrupt practices and substandard materials that fuelled the deadly blaze.

  • Selam Gebrekidan and Joy Dong
Ciara Morris, second from left, with Peking University classmates on the Great Wall of China in 2019.

I’m no spy, so why does ASIO think my stint in China is a black mark?

This is no joke. If Australia wants to build its Asia capability, it must support citizens with Asian expertise – not label them as un-Australian.

  • Ciara Morris