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“Being the more tech-savvy guys, we feel we have more obligation to help preserve the history of Hong Kong,” Chris Wong, a software developer said. “But everyone can and needs to play a part in sharing the past with your friends, your next generation.”
Hong Kong activists are working in the (…)
Police action comes despite reported plans by the alliance to shut down after 32 years.
Hong Kong’s national security police have accused the group behind the annual candlelight vigil marking the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre as acting as an agent for foreign forces. The claim was made in a (…)
Creative community comes to grips with new censorship landscape and complaints from government supporters. Observers see shades of mainland’s Cultural Revolution as films are blocked, books are targeted.
Award-winning Hong Kong director Kiwi Chow Kwun-wai made headlines when his latest (…)
The operators of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund will soon be defunct. “As long as Hongkongers’ hearts are still here, we need not be sad,” trustee Cardinal Zen said.
The operators of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund will soon be defunct. “As long as Hongkongers’ hearts are still here, we (…)
The General Union of Hong Kong Speech Therapists is expected to be disqualified in October after five of its core members were last month arrested for publishing picture books that “incite hatred.”
Sources said the Registry of Trade Unions under the Labour Department had sent a letter to the (…)
People’s Daily likens Bar Association to a “street rat” and warns the Law Society to stay out of politics ahead of its leadership election.
The Secretary for Justice has urged Hong Kong’s legal societies to “stay professional” and steer clear of politics, one day after China’s People’s Daily (…)
The umbrella group, which has been behind some of the largest protests in city history, says it has no one willing to work for its secretariat in the coming year. The front has been under police investigation since April, with authorities questioning it over its finances and role in a (…)
For 48 years the Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union (HKPTU) spoke out for educators and political causes - but the end was brutally swift.
The decision by the pro-democracy Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union to disband after 48 years, citing “enormous pressure” from Beijing and the (…)
End of Civil Human Rights Front comes days after police suggested its past rallies may have violated national security law
A major civil society group that was behind some of Hong Kong’s biggest protests has disbanded under increasing pressure from police.
The Civil Human Rights Front (…)
The combination of a carefully crafted nomination process and the ability to co-ordinate who stands where will ensure that almost everyone running for Hong Kong’s new election committee will get a seat.
Almost everyone running for the Hong Kong electoral body which has the power to select the (…)
Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), organiser of some of city’s biggest protests, endorses decision to disband at secretive meeting on Friday 13 evening. Impending crackdown on front reflects Beijing’s determination to crush organised pro-opposition groups it sees as threatening stability, source (…)
Despite its rhetoric about upholding the rule of law, there is no entity more damaging to the rule of law than the CCP. The Party’s mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, published a commentary accusing Hong Kong’s largest trade union – the Professional Teachers’ Union (PTU) – of encouraging (…)
Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), which was founded in 2002, expected to announce its decision to fold on Friday. Move comes on heels of shock decision by Professional Teachers’ Union to disband just days after government hinted at law enforcement action.
The umbrella group behind many of Hong (…)
Founded in 1973, the Chinese state-run People’s Daily and news wire Xinhua slammed the union as a “poisonous tumour” that must be “eradicated.”
The Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union (HKPTU) announced their disbandment on Tuesday 10.
The HKPTU, with over 95,000 members, was the city’s (…)
Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union (HKPTU) has announced their decision to disband today. HKPTU has been under enormous political pressure recently before arriving at this decision, which we understand and respect.
The sustaining attacks against HKPTU include political intimidation from (…)
Dear members:
Mr. Szeto Wah, the civilian educator, founded the Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union, with a group of zealous teachers in 1973. In a small office of Man King Building at Ferry Street, HKPTU began to provide various services for teachers, taking up follow-up actions in (…)
Hundreds of pro-democracy Hong Kong district councillors have either quit, been jailed or fled into self-imposed exile under the pressure of the Beijing-imposed national security law. Here, one of them offers a glimpse into what the future might hold for grassroots politics in the city.
The (…)
Kevin Yeung claimed the largest teachers’ union pushed students and teachers into “breaking the law, getting arrested, and being jailed.”
Teachers in Hong Kong should “ponder” whether the largest teachers’ union in the city “can truly represent” them, Hong Kong’s Secretary for Education Kevin (…)
Union has come under fire from both Beijing and the Hong Kong government over its political leanings.
Hong Kong’s largest teachers’ union, which has come under fire from both Beijing and the city government for its political leanings, has announced it is quitting the pro-democracy Hong Kong (…)
On Saturday 31 July, the local education authority announced that it was cutting all ties with the Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union (HKPTU), which represents over 90% of Hong Kong teachers. The HKPTU has now been stripped of its right to defend teachers individually and collectively. In (…)
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