News from Hong Kong
108,040 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.stheadline.com with 34,291 articles, 31.7% of the total, followed by www.hk01.com, www.am730.com.hk. By language it splits into Chinese (98,618), English (9,127). Daily volume averages about 1,003 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 1,238 on 2026-09-03.
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 |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07T19:12 | 交通意外︰城門隧道公路去大埔(19:12最新) | www.881903.com |
2026-09-07T19:06 | 交通意外︰新田公路去屯門(19:06清理) | www.881903.com |
2026-09-07T19:04 | 馬會斥1.34億推五年社區籃球計劃 | metrohk.com.hk |
2026-09-07T18:58 | 香港國際航空學院培訓60名見習機師獲商業牌照 | metrohk.com.hk |
2026-09-07T18:58 | 交通意外︰屯門公路去元朗(18:58清理) | www.881903.com |
2026-09-07T18:56 | 破邊洲預約試行首個周末1560人登記 大部分時段無需排隊 | www.881903.com |
2026-09-07T18:54 | 內地收緊車企供應商付款規則 | metrohk.com.hk |
2026-09-07T18:51 | 新宿擬禁住宅及學區短租民宿 | 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.stheadline.com | 34,291 | 31.7% | query |
www.hk01.com | 31,219 | 28.9% | query |
www.am730.com.hk | 16,689 | 15.4% | query |
www.etnet.com.hk | 8,951 | 8.3% | query |
www.thestandard.com.hk | 7,853 | 7.3% | query |
metrohk.com.hk | 2,167 | 2.0% | query |
www.orientalsunday.hk | 1,875 | 1.7% | query |
www.881903.com | 1,460 | 1.4% | query |
lolleroll.com | 477 | 0.4% | query |
points852.com | 421 | 0.4% | query |
hypebeast.com | 359 | 0.3% | query |
kingo.com.hk | 272 | 0.3% | query |
pathofdemocracy.hk | 228 | 0.2% | query |
www.ellemen.com | 176 | 0.2% | query |
unwire.hk | 168 | 0.2% | query |
www.gameapps.hk | 166 | 0.2% | query |
beyondnews852.com | 154 | 0.1% | query |
reinasia.com | 135 | 0.1% | query |
www.hongkongnews.net | 133 | 0.1% | query |
www.tuugo.hk | 110 | 0.1% | query |
www.timeout.com.hk | 99 | 0.1% | query |
topick.hket.com | 95 | 0.1% | query |
hypebae.com | 87 | 0.1% | query |
hongkongfp.com | 78 | 0.1% | query |
www.evgohk.com | 77 | 0.1% | 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 | |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07 | 589 | |
2026-09-06 | 832 | |
2026-09-05 | 707 | |
2026-09-04 | 1,206 | |
2026-09-03 | 1,238 | |
2026-09-02 | 1,236 | |
2026-09-01 | 1,092 | |
2026-08-31 | 1,126 | |
2026-08-30 | 791 | |
2026-08-29 | 629 | |
2026-08-28 | 1,429 | |
2026-08-27 | 1,505 | |
2026-08-26 | 1,516 | |
2026-08-25 | 985 |
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"