DATELINE: HONG KONG

The Basic Law: The text of Hong Kong's mini-constitution.

The South China Morning Post: Hong Kong's highest circulation English language daily newspaper. News page.

The Hong Kong Standard: English language daily newspaper. News page.

Radio Television Hong Kong: Public radio. This technologically advanced site allows you to download hourly news broadcasts. However, it may be quicker to turn on the radio.

Far Eastern Economic Review: Weekly news analysis. Rated by Australian foreign correspondents as the second most useful source for their stories (after diplomats).

The China Daily: Beijing's official English language newspaper's online service

The Frontier: A page which champions civil rights in Hong Kong. It is operated by the supporters of Emily Lau, former journalist and independent, elected Legislative Council member.

Hong Kong Journalists Association: The largest and oldest journalists' union in Hong Kong. The site includes information on local journalism.

Human Rights Press Awards: This site seeks to encourage quality journalism in Hong Kong.

Reporters Sans Frontiers: RSF is a journalists' organisation which chronicles the assassination and imprisonment of journalists. It operates with the support of the European Commission. A search on this site for documents pertaining to China, is illuminating.

Committee to Protect Journalists: The China page.

The Last 100 days of Lily Wong: Larry Feign was sacked by the South China Morning Post for producing cartoons which offended Beijing. Now he places his cartoons on the net.

Not the South China Morning Post: A satirical site which accuses the Post of "brown-nosing".

The Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club: The largest and best correspondents' club in the region. The site includes articles from the club magazine.

The Hong Kong 1997 Website: Prepared by Xinhua, this page includes a history of Hong Kong which stresses British perfidies during the Opium wars and ignores the waves of refugees from the 1949 revolution, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.

Hong Kong Lives in Transition: produced by Public Broadcasting in the US, this page includes diaries of "ordinary" Hong Kong citizens.