Why Hong Kong must fill seat vacated by lawmaker promptly
The government has a lot on its plate right now, especially with public consultations under way for the chief executive’s last policy address of his current term and for the cit...
Real-time politics news from Hong Kong, structured for developers. NewsMesh filters Hong Kong-relevant politics coverage into one JSON feed (GET /v1/latest?category=politics&country=hk), each story tagged with category, country relevance, and the named people detected in the body.
The government has a lot on its plate right now, especially with public consultations under way for the chief executive’s last policy address of his current term and for the cit...
Hong Kong needs to give some serious and creative thought as to how best we, as a community, are going to draw a line under the events of the 2019-20 protest movement. That this...
Hong Kong’s police chief has thrown his weight behind a controversial government reform of the appraisal system that will deny a pay rise to the bottom 5 per cent of performers,...
No government subsidies will be needed to build the long-awaited Pak Shek Kok station on the East Rail line, Hong Kong’s minister has said, after authorities agreed to grant the...
Hong Kong should allow unmarried women to receive assisted reproductive services and extend the soon-to-expire newborn baby bonus, political parties have urged ahead of Chief Ex...
Hong Kong’s army of gig workers in food and goods delivery services will be entitled to compensation for job-related injuries under proposed legislation aimed at improving labou...
A senior Hong Kong official has defended the exclusion of public flats near the proposed site of the Pak Shek Kok rail station, arguing it will not align with the existing priva...
Hong Kong’s anti-corruption watchdog has charged three people, including two private care home operators, over an alleged HK$1.3 million fraud involving an elderly care voucher ...
A Hong Kong man has pleaded guilty to inciting subversion under the national security law for promoting a pro-Taiwan party and disseminating anti-Communist messages in 2024 and ...
Jack Yu wants to vote in Saturday’s crucial election in his home state of Johor, Malaysia, but being based in Hong Kong has left him frozen out after he missed the short window ...
Hong Kong women’s rights advocates and sexual assault survivors have urged authorities to close a loophole that allows defendants to claim an honest but mistaken belief in conse...
Cults luring victims overseas for sex in a bid to “change their fate”, as well as suggestive games hosted at orientation camps in Hong Kong, could amount to sexual offences, aut...
As Hong Kong marks the 29th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule on July 1, the South China Morning Post talks to the city’s senior officials about the administration’s ach...
If one word could capture the essence of Hong Kong, it would be resilience. Just two years ago, much of the international community had written off Hong Kong. A widely circulate...
It’s unfortunate for Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu that his speech on July 1 marking the 29th anniversary of the handover and highlighting his government’s achievem...
A union representing foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong has urged authorities to more than double their monthly food allowance to HK$2,770 (US$350), saying the current stipen...
Hong Kong’s Museum of History also cites Australia’s foreign interference laws in defence of Beijing’s national security crackdown.
Hong Kong’s Museum of History also cites Australia’s foreign interference laws in defence of Beijing’s national security crackdown.
The president of Hong Kong’s legislature has urged fellow members to be “more rigorous in their conduct” to meet society’s expectations after a lawmaker resigned following his a...
The government-appointed administrator of Hong Kong’s fire-ravaged Wang Fuk Court will hold an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) with owners of the flats on July 19, ending mo...
NewsMesh filters Hong Kong-relevant politics coverage into one structured feed, ready to query by the same parameters as the rest of the API.
Authenticate with your apiKey and call one endpoint (GET api.newsmesh.co/v1/latest?category=politics&country=hk). The examples below are ready to copy.
curl "https://api.newsmesh.co/v1/latest?apiKey=nm_xxx&category=politics&country=hk&limit=20"GET /v1/latest: Most-recent articles, filterable by category, country, and date range.GET /v1/search: Full-text search across the archive with boolean operators and source filters.GET /v1/trending: Cached trending headlines, the fastest endpoint for homepage feeds.GET /v1/article/{id}: Fetch a single article and its full metadata by ID.NewsMesh filters Hong Kong-relevant politics coverage into one structured feed, each story tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body.
Call GET /v1/latest?category=politics&country=hk. Use /v1/search to add keyword queries on top of the same filters.
Yes. Swap the category parameter (business, sports, technology, health, and more) or drop it entirely to get all Hong Kong coverage from /v1/latest?country=hk.
Yes. NewsMesh is a real-time news API: politics Hong Kong stories are served through the live /v1/latest and /v1/trending endpoints alongside a searchable archive, each tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body, so you can build a live feed without scraping HTML.
Create a NewsMesh account, generate an API key, and call the endpoint above with your apiKey parameter. See the pricing page for current plans and rate limits.
Access the full dataset programmatically with the NewsMesh API.