Hong Kong Police Senior Superintendent Ian Chow Ngai-kong (周毅剛) has been found guilty of all 3 counts of indecent assault of a subordinate while working at the police headquarters in Wanchai. Defendant released on bail ahead of sentencing on July 31.

Episode 51 of the Kilauea Eruption event has ended.

Kilauea's eruption is expected to end later today as the eruption weakens in the late afternoon, rivers of lava can be seen flowing downhill from the crater into the surrounding area.

Despite intermittent rain, episode 51 of Kilauea's eruption has drawn a steady stream of visitors both local and international to Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park.

A university student from China's Guangdong province has had their travel permit to Taiwan cancelled after he posted online a edited image of the permit to say "Taiwan of China" and replaced Taiwan's flag with that if China's.

Happening now: Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupts.

Chinese law professor and VP of the Chinese Association for Hong Kong & Macao Studies Wang Zhenmin says HK's narional security laws are "world's mildest", that it respects the rule of law and human rights the most compared to other similar laws around the world.

Having a poverty line that calculates income but not assets is stupid, abolishing an income based poverty line is even more stupid.

A woman has died after falling from the upper floors of Hong Kong's Pok Fu Lam Columbarium, sources say that the deceased was a inspector in the Hong Kong Police Force.

A Hong Kong National Security police officer has been handed a 20 months and 4 weeks prison sentence for attempting to steal another officer's gun after he was arrested for taking up-skirt photos of women travellers in a MTR station.

The Chinese embassy in Manila is posting cringe propaganda justifying them claiming islands off the coast of the Philippines as "Chinese territory", with a thinly veiled threat that they'll annex the rest of the Philippines due to geographical proximity.

Chinese conspiracy theorist suspects American weather control device caused a typhoon projected to hit Taiwan to be diverted to devastate Mainland China.

An image said to have been taken of a person trapped by floodwaters being lifted to safety by a unmanned drone in Guangxi has been confirmed to be AI generated Chinese propaganda

A dog-friendly café in Hong Kong's Ho Man Tin district has been harassed by numerous complaints lodged to the government complaining that dogs were inside the restaurant on the first day the city allowed a select number of eateries to allow dogs into the premises.

Hunter Bookstore has reopened after a 13 day closure. The owner independent book store, ex-district councillor Leticia Wong and her husband were previously arrested on June 24 for allegedly distributing "seditious publications" and laundering funds from overseas political groups.

Social media reports that a number of villagers in Guangxi, China have died from venomous snake bites after typhoon Maysak destroyed nearby snake farms, causing thousands of snakes to escape while the flooding prevented villagers from seeking immediate medical attention

The DoJ previously filed to confiscate Lai's assets on April 2, the assets include Lai's bank accounts, cash posted for bail, stocks from 17 companies related to his conviction and HK$ 2 million in fines paid. Total: HK$ 127 mil (US$ ∼16.2mil)

The Hong Kong government has delayed the court proceedings to confiscate imprisoned media mogul Jimmy Lai's financial assets, the hearing originally planned for tomorrow (July 8) has been delayed to a yet to be determined date.

Huge explosion observed from a residential area in Mainland China after what appears to be a missile or a rocket was seen falling back to earth. Date and time unknown.

Apparently this is what the kitchen looks like at a takeaway restaurant somewhere in Mainland China.

Chinese woman assaults bubble tea store staff, thrn kicks and bites a intervening security guard after the staff yells at her child for stealing a drink from the store.

In some places in China, food delivery drivers are treated as lower class beings and are forbidden from taking the elevators to deliver their food.

Mainland media reports that diners at a restaurant in Shenzhen, China found live maggots crawling in their food, one of the diners commented that he cannot imagine how disgusting the kitchen must be to allow such a thing to happen.

July 3 marks the 7th Anniversary for the death of Ms. Mak. Before she leapt to her death, she left behind 2 notes, one stating that a gov not elected will never hold itself accountable to the people, and another expressing anger & helplessness as the protests continued.

Social media footage shows 4 Mainland Chinese boys beating and stabbing a litter of 3 puppies to death, then doused the mother with gasoline and set the dog on fire. The footage has drawn widespread condemnation online and local activists are pushing for anti-animal cruelty laws.

Lam Wing-kee, owner of Causeway Bay books in Hong Kong and later Taipei has passed away from cancer at the age of 70. The bookstore he ran was well known for selling publications about Mainland China politicians and was illegally kidnapped and sent to China in 2015.

This is what the city has come to, packs of law enforcement harassing women doing nothing.

Shortly before 2200, plainclothes officers assemble in what seems to be a impromptu meeting, whipping themselves into an absolute frenzy before stopped and searching approx 10 people who did absolutely nothing asides from be in the area.

Just now, a seemingly irrelevant bunch of white flowers draws attention from the press, resulting in a police officers coming to take the offending flowers away and telling the nearby flower seller to depart the area.

Earlier today, activist Lui Yuk-lin staged a one person protest earlier in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Her sign expressing dissatisfaction with the increasing cost of living in the city, rising unemployment and the continued importing of workers from Mainland China to replace local workers.