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This picture taken on July 25, 2020 shows customers browsing in a bookstore in Hong Kong that stocks books with sensitive political titles that could potentially contravene the new national security law. - China's new security law in Hong Kong has sent a chill through the city's rambunctious book industry, with authors and publishers revisiting catalogues and some looking to Taiwan to print potentially now subversive titles. (Photo by ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP) / TO GO WITH HongKong-China-politics-books,FOCUS by Su Xinqi

Jittery Hong Kong's authors seek safety in Taiwan
Pedestrians wear face masks in the Kowloon-side Sham Shui Po district of Hong Kong in the early morning of July 29, 2020, as new social distancing measures come into effect which include having to wear masks in public, to combat a new wave of coronavirus infections. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

Hong Kong implements tough virus restrictions
LONDON: A video grab shows Britain’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab making a statement in the House of Commons in London. Britain on Monday suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong ‘immediately and indefinitely’ in response to China’s introduction of a controversial new security law in the territory. — AFP

UK suspends extradition treaty with Hong Kong
People are seen on the water front at the west kowloon cultural district in Hong Kong on July 18, 2020. (Photo by ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP)

Hong Kong security law sends jitters through city's feisty press
A man walks with his child past a view of commercial buildings in Hong Kong on July 16, 2020. - Beijing's tough new security law and President Donald Trump's order to rescind special trading privileges have blunted Hong Kong's competitive edge and risk turning the finance hub into just another Chinese city, analysts warn. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) / TO GO WITH HongKong-China-politics-economy-US,FOCUS by Jerome Taylor and Su Xinqi

China slams US sanctions related to Hong Kong as 'gangster logic'
MEDAK: A boy wearing a facemask as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, looks on near a paddy field in Medak district of Telangana state yesterday. —AFP

Millions face new virus curbs, but hope rises for American vaccine
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Editing history: Hong Kong publishers self-censor under a new security law
HONG KONG: Millionaire media tycoon Jimmy Lai (center), and other supporters and activists, who led the June 4 candlelight vigil which commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, gather before attending a mention at the West Kowloon Magistrates Court in Hong Kong yesterday. — AFP

Leading Hong Kong activists charged for ‘Tiananmen vigil’
Students run for shelter during a sudden but brief heavy downpour in Hong Kong on July 8, 2020. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)

Australia offers safe haven, pathways to Hong Kongers
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