News from Hong Kong
102,397 news articles from publishers in Hong Kong, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is www.hk01.com with 30,862 articles, 30.1% of the total, followed by www.am730.com.hk, metrohk.com.hk. By language it splits into Chinese (84,770), English (13,359). Daily volume averages about 1,182 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 1,577 on 2026-10-20.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=HK&date=today&sort=date&size=20"No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description,
publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text
if you ask for it with full_text=true.
Count it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?country=HK&top=20"Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.
Country is inferred, not declared. Before counting Hong Kong articles, read
country_source — and add
strict_country=true to exclude values derived from an en-US
template default.
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=HK&strict_country=true&date=today&size=20"Latest from this slice
The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-23T07:00 | 京都百年名邸烘焙職人首度來港！ 森林麵包聯乘神戶人氣麵包店 推出6款限定麵包 必試忌廉吉士包+明太子法棍(有片) | am730 | www.am730.com.hk |
2026-10-23T03:55 | 紐約期油上升2.32美元 | www.881903.com |
2026-10-23T03:52 | 特區政府強烈譴責和堅決反對英國「香港半年報告」 | www.881903.com |
2026-10-23T03:47 | 失控卡車在印度教節日致13人死亡 | pathofdemocracy.hk |
2026-10-23T03:42 | 《《外星人》與《白宮風雲》男星湯·史基烈逝世，享年93歲 | metrohk.com.hk |
2026-10-23T03:29 | 联邦法官限制国土安全部寻找非公民选民的实地行动 | www.tuugo.hk |
2026-10-23T03:19 | 法國禁無工會示威 馬克龍承認預判不足 | metrohk.com.hk |
2026-10-23T03:17 | 巴羅洛：酒王之威與改革風潮 | metrohk.com.hk |
Who publishes it
The 25 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
www.hk01.com | 30,862 | 30.1% | query |
www.am730.com.hk | 14,973 | 14.6% | query |
metrohk.com.hk | 9,274 | 9.1% | query |
www.881903.com | 8,296 | 8.1% | query |
www.thestandard.com.hk | 8,056 | 7.9% | query |
www.stheadline.com | 7,616 | 7.4% | query |
www.etnet.com.hk | 6,756 | 6.6% | query |
hk.crntt.com | 3,070 | 3.0% | query |
hypebeast.com | 1,847 | 1.8% | query |
lolleroll.com | 1,758 | 1.7% | query |
points852.com | 1,213 | 1.2% | query |
pathofdemocracy.hk | 1,038 | 1.0% | query |
www.gameapps.hk | 806 | 0.8% | query |
kingo.com.hk | 791 | 0.8% | query |
beyondnews852.com | 657 | 0.6% | query |
www.ellemen.com | 599 | 0.6% | query |
www.hongkongnews.net | 558 | 0.5% | query |
reinasia.com | 537 | 0.5% | query |
hypebae.com | 505 | 0.5% | query |
www.tuugo.hk | 480 | 0.5% | query |
www.evgohk.com | 450 | 0.4% | query |
www.orientalsunday.hk | 370 | 0.4% | query |
topick.hket.com | 369 | 0.4% | query |
unwire.hk | 256 | 0.3% | query |
hongkongfp.com | 254 | 0.2% | query |
Languages published in Hong Kong
What this country actually publishes in, which is often more than one language and rarely what a single language filter would suggest.
Domain zones used by Hong Kong publishers
Publishers here do not all use the national zone. This is the split that country inference has to work against.
Volume by day
How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22 | 1,278 | |
2026-10-21 | 1,556 | |
2026-10-20 | 1,577 | |
2026-10-19 | 696 | |
2026-10-18 | 646 | |
2026-10-17 | 738 | |
2026-10-16 | 1,454 | |
2026-10-15 | 1,507 | |
2026-10-14 | 1,514 | |
2026-10-13 | 1,533 | |
2026-10-12 | 1,693 | |
2026-10-11 | 848 | |
2026-10-10 | 801 | |
2026-10-09 | 2,538 |
Combine with other filters
# Hong Kong, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=HK&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Hong Kong, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=HK&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Hong Kong, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=HK&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"