CNN reporter accused of pushing China propaganda by comparing Hong Kong protesters to Capitol rioters

Vivienne Chow Hong Kong auteur Stanley Kwan will be featured as the filmmaker-in-focus at the Hong Kong International Film Festival.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefHong Kong-based boutique distributor Lightning International has acquired the U.K.’s documentary streaming service Docsville.Docsville was set up and launched in 2018 by award- winning documentary maker Lawrence Elman and Nick Fraser who had previously been a high-profile executive with the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Experts are hopeful that the coronavirus vaccine will help to curb the spread of COVID-19, which has killed more than 2 million people worldwide since its 2019 emergence in China.

Vivienne Chow Documentary feature “Inside the Red Brick Wall,” which chronicles one of the most dramatic chapters of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, bagged the best film at the 27th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.The best director prize went to Peter Chan Ho-sun for “Leap,” a sports drama based on the trajectory of China’s national women volleyball team.

Vivienne Chow Twenty-nine projects from across Asia have been selected to take part in March’s Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), which will go virtual for the second time.Scheduled to take place March 15-17, 2021, HAF will run concurrently with the Hong Kong FilMart. Both events were postponed last year to August due to the pandemic and eventually migrated online.They will return to their usual March slot this year in tweaked virtual format.

Vivienne Chow The Hong Kong government will provide another $361 million (HK$2.8 billion) to rescue city’s troubled Ocean Park, which has seen losses increased by the effect of COVID-19. The venture is to be transformed from a traditional theme park into a travel destination and marine conservation hub that can be financially self-sufficient.The park will receive a one-off injection of $251 million (HK$1.67 billion) as working capital.

The more that comes out about last week’s attack on the Capitol Building, the less it looks like a riled up mob — and the more it looks like a planned attempt at insurrection.

The retired firefighter who appears to be the man caught on camera throwing a fire extinguisher that hit at least three officers at the Capitol during a riot was arrested Thursday, officials said.  Robert Sanford, of Chester, Pa., faces three federal felony charges including assaulting a police officer, the Wall Street Journal reported.  Video footage of the incident shows the man hurling a fire extinguisher officers attempting to control a mob outside of the west side of the Capitol.

The co-creator of Captain America would not have approved of the riots at the U.S. Capitol.

A Hong Kong Internet service provider on Thursday said it had blocked access to a pro-democracy website to comply with the city’s national security law. In a statement emailed on Thursday, Hong Kong Broadband Network said that it had disabled access to HKChronicles, a website that compiled information on "yellow" shops that supported the city’s pro-democracy movement and released personal information and pictures of police and pro-Beijing supporters during anti-government protests in 2019.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A talented musician who emigrated from Paisley to Hong Kong to pursue his career died suddenly on New Year’s Day.Davie Colquhoun had planned to return home to the town for good later this year.Tributes have flooded in from both the former colony and back home from his Paisley pals.The guitarist and singer - who died aged 72 of a suspected asthma attack - had become something of a celebrity of the Far

Ellise Shafer administratorPresident Donald Trump, who was just impeached by the House of Representatives for the second time, has returned to Twitter with a video message in which he slams the social media platform and denounces Capitol rioters.Trump, whose account @realDonaldTrump was banned from Twitter permanently on Jan. 8, posted a five-minute video to the official White House account on Wednesday.

Fox Nation host Nancy Grace dedicated the latest episode of "Crime Stories" to last week's riot on Capitol Hill that left five people dead and shocked the nation.  "We just went through one hell of a year in 2020 with the coronavirus, with the [death of] George Floyd, with the protests. And this has somehow become, I believe, what some people consider to be normal, to go in and destroy, to to just have insurrection," a SWAT team officer and former detective told Grace in the episode.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Hong Kong International Film Festival, delayed last year by the coronavirus outbreak, has announced plans to return to its normal Springtime slot.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said that pro-Trump rioters who breached the Capitol on Wednesday "chose their Whiteness over Democracy."  "It has been an epiphany for the world to see that there are people in our country led by this president, for the moment, who have chosen their whiteness over democracy," the speaker said.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn is calling for an inquiry into how rioters at the U.S. Capitol knew where to find his office space.

System Of A Down drummer John Dolmayan has criticised Donald Trump supporters for the riot at the US Capitol in Washington DC this week.The musician sparked outrage back in June when he spoke out in praise of Trump, describing him as “the greatest friend to minorities” in the US.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot clashed Thursday with the head of the city's police union after he downplayed the actions of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

In response to the surprisingly unaggressive reaction to pro-Trump supporters mobbing the U.S. Capitol on bWednesday, President-elect Joe Biden joined lawmakers in questioning whether the reaction would have been the same had the rioters been Black Lives Matter demonstrators.

Welp. It appears that Britney Spears’ ex Jason Allen Alexander attended Trump’s Capitol protest on January 6, and honestly, divorce has never looked so good. Fans of the “Gimme More” singer may remember Alexander—he was the guy married to Spears for a whopping 55 hours after their impromptu 2004 Las Vegas wedding. It seems safe to say he’s been making other bad decisions ever since!