A sharp dip in the frequency and ferocity of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests has raised questions over the future of the leaderless movement, rattled by a spike in arrests and increasingly aggressive police tactics.
At a recent rally in the heart of Hong Kong’s financial district, 36-year-old (...)
Thousands rallied outside the Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre on Wednesday 23 evening in solidarity with those detained inside. The gathering was organised by social worker sector lawmaker Shiu Ka-chun, ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays from Saturday to Monday. Shiu said that 8,000 people had (...)
China on Monday defended barring the head of Human Rights Watch from entering Hong Kong, saying non-governmental organisations were responsible for political unrest in the semi-autonomous city and should “pay the proper price”
Kenneth Roth was supposed to give a press conference in Hong Kong (...)
Before the Hong Kong protests began in June, Chris Ngai spent most of his free time playing World of Warcraft and finding new cocktail recipes. Now the bespectacled 24-year-old junior engineer is launching a trade union.
His aim is to ramp up pressure on Hong Kong’s government, which has so far (...)
Three-quarters of the 41 public sector workers accused of joining unlawful assemblies taken off duties. Civil service chief warns those convicted face the sack, saying suspensions necessary to protect public confidence.
Hong Kong’s embattled government has suspended 31 civil servants after they (...)
Jeremy Corbyn appears to have devoted more time to tending vegetables than voicing his thoughts on the fight of Hong Kongers against the erosion of their rights and freedoms.
The Hong Kong protests are the defining freedom struggle of our time. Young pro-democracy activists are risking their (...)
Sent to deal with a city in crisis when he was supposed to be easing into semi-retirement, he is seen as capable but has no experience of the financial hub. Pro-democracy camp’s landslide victory in November’s district council polls may have been ‘final straw’ to prompt a change at the liaison (...)
Hong Kong’s protest movement is supported by 59% of city residents polled in a survey conducted for Reuters by the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute, with more than a third of respondents saying they had attended an anti-government demonstration.
Supporters of the protests outnumbered (...)
After six months of unrest, anti-Beijing protesters are increasingly unwilling to compromise.
A cloudless mid-September afternoon in Hong Kong. At City Hall, two flags—one of the People’s Republic of China, the other of Hong Kong—flap halfheartedly in the wind coming off the harbor. Inside, (...)
Hong Kongers have delivered a clarion call for change over the last fortnight with a landslide local election defeat for the government and more than one in ten hitting the streets peacefully on Sunday — but will Beijing listen?
Monday 9 marks the sixth month anniversary of a movement that has (...)
Hong Kong deports writer and migrant worker Yuli Riswati Yuli’s story must not become a mere footnote in Hong Kong’s struggle for liberation. https://lausan.hk/2019/hong-kong-deports-writer-and-migrant-worker-yuli-riswati/ December 2, 2019 - by Nickolas Tang (Lausan)
Yuli Riswati, an (...)
Organisers claim another massive turnout, while police say it peaked at 180,000. Procession from Causeway Bay to Central largely peaceful until nightfall, when protesters allegedly hurled petrol bombs at court buildings.
Hundreds of thousands flooded Hong Kong’s commercial heart on Sunday 8 to (...)
In Hong Kong, leftists of all kinds support ongoing protests for democracy and civil liberties. Leftists everywhere else should, too.
For the last six months, the people of Hong Kong have risen up to defend their democratic rights against the encroachment of the Chinese state. Their fight has (...)
The workers gathered at Chater Garden in Central at noon. It came after almost six months of large scale protests in Hong Kong. Yiu Koon-tung, a spokesperson for the Advertising Civilian group who organised the rally, said the government had yet to respond to the protesters’ demands, including (...)
Communist Party’s No 3 leader says Hong Kong must heed the central government’s policies. Li Zhanshu’s hardline rhetoric signals that last month’s district council elections have not swayed Beijing from its plans for the two cities.
Beijing’s long-term strategy for Hong Kong and Macau
The head of (...)
Demonstrations on Saturday 1 afternoon
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by Holmes Chan (HKFP)
From around 3pm, huge crowds of black-clad demonstrators began to walk from the Tsim Sha Tsui (...)
The opposition camp’s landslide victory in Hong Kong’s local district elections, on 24 November, can be considered to be a referendum on both the Hong Kong government and Beijing. The people’s voice is a clear and loud “No” against the establishment’s hard-line policies.
The opposition usually has (...)
An interview with Avery Ng, chairman of the League of Social Democrats in Hong Kong.
Nearly six months of increasingly brutal state violence have failed to break the massive anti-government uprisings in Hong Kong. On Sunday, protesters mobilized a record-breaking turnout of pro-democracy (...)
Marches and road blockages in Central, Kwun Tong and Kowloon Bay. But only a few hundred take to the streets.
Hong Kong’s lunchtime protests drew smaller crowds on Wednesday 28 than they did before election weekend, with just 400 or so rallying in key commercial and residential districts, (...)
The ongoing revolt in Hong Kong was and continues to be of special interest to our journal as it is part of the visible revolts occurring in 2019 in many different places of the globe. Whether these isolated hotspots in Europe, Central and South America, Asia, the Middle East, and the Maghreb (...)
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