This summer the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, which oversees Hong Kong’s public libraries, began asking residents to flag content that may “violate the laws of Hong Kong or ...

HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s public libraries were once a haven of information that the Chinese government had erased from China’s own history books. For years, the semiautonomous city’s ...

Hong Kong's leader said Thursday, May 18, 2023 the city's public libraries would not recommend books featuring “bad ideologies" to residents after they pulled titles related to the 1989 ...

Hong Kong must not “recommend books with unhealthy ideas”, the territory’s leader John Lee has said, after it emerged books related to the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown had been removed ...

Local media outlets in Hong Kong report that hundreds of books on political topics including the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre are no longer available in the city’s public libraries, after the city ...

Hong Kong public libraries have pulled most books and documentaries about the Tiananmen Square crackdown from their shelves just weeks after they were asked by government auditors to step up ...

Books about Tiananmen Square have quietly disappeared from public libraries in Hong Kong, according to a report. Journalists noticed that titles concerning the 1989 Beijing massacre were no longer ...

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee attends the Apec Leaders' Informal Dialogue with Guests during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit 2022, in Bangkok, Thailand, on Nov 18, 2022.

Hong Kong's leader said on May 18 the city's public libraries would not recommend books featuring “bad ideologies" to residents after they pulled titles related to the 1989 Tiananmen Square ...

Hong Kong’s leader has defended pulling politically sensitive books from the city’s public libraries, saying residents will not be recommended titles featuring “bad ideologies”.