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In a Reuters Institute poll conducted in early 2021, Apple Daily was the fourth most-used offline source of news in Hong Kong, while its website was the second most-used among online news media in the city. [7] According to a survey conducted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Apple Daily was the third most trusted paid newspaper in 2019. [8]
Before 1842, both regions were part of the Qing dynasty; in 1842, Hong Kong Island was ceded to the British Empire as a result of the First Opium War, and in 1895, Taiwan was ceded to the Empire of Japan as a result of the First Sino-Japanese War. Sun Yat-sen was a student in Hong Kong in the late 1800s and believed that the Qing dynasty's ...
Apple Daily ( Chinese: 蘋果日報; pinyin: Píngguǒ Rìbào; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pîn-kó Ji̍t-pò) was a Chinese-language tabloid published in Taiwan, known for its sensational headlines, paparazzi photographs, and animated news videos. [ 2] The paper was owned by Next Digital (fka Next Media), which published an eponymous newspaper in Hong Kong.
Critics say the law has instead eroded the civil liberties that Hong Kong, a former British colony, was promised it could retain for 50 years when it returned to Chinese rule in 1997. Since then ...
January 8, 2024 at 8:07 PM. HONG KONG (AP) — As Taiwan’s presidential election approaches, many immigrants from Hong Kong, witnesses to the alarming erosion of civil liberties at home, are ...
June 27, 2024 at 11:55 PM. TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has urged its citizens to avoid travel to China and the semi-autonomous Chinese territories of Hong Kong and Macao following threats from ...
[182] [183] In 2019, there were 30,000 mainland Chinese and Hong Kong students studying in Taiwan. [184] There were also more than 7,000 Taiwanese students studying in Hong Kong that same year. [185] Religious exchange has become frequent. Frequent interactions occur between worshipers of Matsu, and also between Buddhists.
As Taiwan prepares to hold a closely watched election on Saturday, the main political parties have highlighted China's crackdown in Hong Kong and rejected Beijing's model of governance there being ...