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Australian citizen, who lived in Hong Kong for 20 years before returning last year, is one of eight overseas activists targeted
An Australian citizen targeted by a Hong Kong arrest warrant has vowed not to be silenced, saying he feels an obligation to jailed fellow pro-democracy activists “not to shut up”.
Kevin Yam, a lawyer who lived in Hong Kong for 20 years before returning to Australia last year, was accused by the city’s police on Monday of breaching its sweeping national security law.

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Chinese embassy in London tells UK to ‘stop interfering’ in China’s affairs, as Hong Kong leader says overseas activists will be ‘pursued for life’
China has accused the UK of protecting fugitives after the British foreign secretary criticised Hong Kong’s decision to offer HK$1m bounties for the arrest of eight democracy activists based overseas, as the territory’s leader said the group would be “pursued for life”.
In a statement late on Monday, China’s embassy in London said: “British politicians have openly offered protection for fugitives. This is crude interference in Hong Kong’s rule of law and China’s internal affairs.”

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Warrants criticised as ‘indictment’ of judiciary with three of those targeted, including Nathan Law, thought to be in UK
Hong Kong police have issued arrest warrants for eight overseas activists days after the third anniversary of the introduction of a national security law that granted authorities sweeping extraterritorial powers to prosecute acts or comments made anywhere in the world that it deems criminal.
Supt Steve Li Kwai-wah, a police officer, told a press conference on Monday that , Anna Kwok, Finn Lau, Dennis Kwok, Ted Hui, Kevin Yam, Mung Siu-tat and Yuan Gong-yi, high-profile pro-democracy activists, former lawmakers and legal scholars, “have encouraged sanctions … to destroy Hong Kong”.

According to state media, heavy flooding has displaced thousands of people and damaged infrastructure across China. Authorities in the northern Shaanxi province reported the worst flooding in 50 years, while in the south-western city of Chongqing, a landslide caused cracks in roads and damaged foundations. Further footage from across the country shows vehicles submerged in water and bridges destroyed. No deaths have been reported as a result of the flooding so far

U.S. legacy automakers are losing ground to Tesla and Chinese companies like BYD in China, once considered a major new market.