Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution Isn’t Over Yet
Two months after the Hong Kong street protest movement was brought to an end, the reverberations are still being felt throughout society. In the New York Times, Lauren Hilgers looks at the origins and...
View ArticleHK Democracy Movement Split as Reforms Announced
Last September, after the National People’s Congress outlined proposed reforms for the election of the Hong Kong Chief Executive, pro-democracy groups stepped up protests calling for full universal...
View ArticleProtests Break Out Ahead of HK Electoral Reform Vote
Just ahead of the Legislative Council vote on electoral reforms, protesters have again taken to the Hong Kong streets, though in much smaller numbers than during last year’s Occupy Central...
View ArticleHong Kong Electoral Reforms Voted Down
In a vote of 28-8, Hong Kong’s Legislative Council voted against electoral reforms that would have mandated all candidates for chief executive be approved by a pro-Beijing panel. The proposed reforms...
View ArticleHong Kong Marks Handover Date with PLA, Protests
On the 18th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to China, crowds gathered for the annual vigil, though in much smaller numbers than in years past. Following last year’s Occupy Central street...
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Minitrue: July 1 Hong Kong Protests
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. There...
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Police Clash With Protesters in HK (Updating)
As Hong Kong’s annual Lunar New Year street parade was coming to a close, violent clashes between police and protesters broke out in the Mong Kok area of the Yau Tsim Mong district at around 10:00 p.m....
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Drawing the News: The Fishball Revolution
Lunar New Year festivities turned violent in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district as police came out to enforce new city regulations on illegal food vending. Tensions were compounded when an officer fired two...
View ArticleHong Kong: What Sparked the New Year’s Violence?
In Hong Kong, 64 people have been arrested for their alleged role in riots that broke out on Lunar New Year, February 8, when police tried to remove street food vendors in an incident that has become...
View ArticleHK Student Protesters to Form Political Party
At The New York Times, Alan Wong reports that members of Hong Kong’s student activist group Scholarism are in the process of forming a new political party to run candidates in September’s Legislative...
View ArticleConcerns Over Illegal Macau Extraditions Mirror HK Fears
At South China Morning Post, Raquel Carvalho reports that authorities in the special administrative region of Macau have surrendered a number of fugitives to mainland authorities in recent years using...
View ArticleNew Questions Emerge Over HK Booksellers’ Detentions
Cheung Chi-ping and Lui Por—two of the five employees of a Hong Kong publishing house and its affiliated bookstore who were detained in China—have returned to Hong Kong pending an investigation. A...
View ArticleHeightened Security, Protests Greet Zhang Dejiang in HK
Zhang Dejiang, the third in command in the Communist Party after Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang, is the top Chinese official in charge of Hong Kong and Macau affairs. He arrived in Hong Kong Tuesday for a...
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Badiucao (巴丢草): Lancôme in the Crossfire
A war of words has broken out in Hong Kong between supporters of Canto-pop star and democracy activist Denise Ho and Chinese nationalists who called on cosmetics maker Lancôme to drop her from a...
View ArticleProtests in HK Amid Tensions Over Detained Booksellers
Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Hong Kong on Friday for the territory’s annual pro-democracy march on July 1st, the anniversary of Hong Kong’s 1997 handover from British to...
View Article“Unnerving” Sentences For Umbrella Protest Leaders
Reuters’ Venus Wu and Hera Poon report on the sentencing of three student leaders behind the 2014 “Umbrella Movement” protests in Hong Kong: Teenage activist Joshua Wong, 19, was given 80 hours of...
View ArticleStruggle Over HK’s Identity to Continue After Election
On Sunday, voters in Hong Kong turned out in record numbers to elect a new generation of young pro-democracy activists to the territory’s Legislative Council in the first major election since the 2014...
View ArticleNew Hong Kong Legislators Barred After Protesting Oath
In September, a record turnout in Hong Kong elected a number of young pro-democracy and localist activists to the Legislative Council in the first elections since 2014’s “Umbrella Movement.” During the...
View ArticleBeijing’s Interpretation of HK Basic Law Draws Concern
Update (November 6, 9:00 pm PST): The National People’s Congress has issued an interpretation of Article 104 of the Basic Law saying that Hong Kong lawmakers must swear allegiance to Hong Kong as part...
View ArticleBasic Law Interpretation Raises Specter of Article 23
In a widely anticipated move, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee issued an interpretation of Article 104 of Hong Kong’s Basic Law, stating that when taking office, public officials,...
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