Hong Kong High Court Bars Localist Lawmakers
Hong Kong’s High Court has ruled that two newly elected Legislative Council members are not allowed to take their seats after they refused to repeat words in their oath pledging allegiance to Hong Kong...
View ArticleGenerational Divide Splits Hong Kong Views of June 4
For the past 28 years, Hong Kong has held an annual vigil in Victoria Park to commemorate the lives lost in the June 4, 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing. Over the years, attendance has...
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Badiucao Echoes Nobel Call for HK Democrats
Joshua Wong, Alex Chow, and Nathan Law, three young democracy campaigners and leaders of Hong Kong’s 2014 “Umbrella Movement,” were each given 6-8 month prison sentences for “unlawful assembly” last...
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,...
View ArticleHong Kong High Court Bars Localist Lawmakers
Hong Kong’s High Court has ruled that two newly elected Legislative Council members are not allowed to take their seats after they refused to repeat words in their oath pledging allegiance to Hong Kong...
View ArticleGenerational Divide Splits Hong Kong Views of June 4
For the past 28 years, Hong Kong has held an annual vigil in Victoria Park to commemorate the lives lost in the June 4, 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing. Over the years, attendance has...
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Badiucao Echoes Nobel Call for HK Democrats
Joshua Wong, Alex Chow, and Nathan Law, three young democracy campaigners and leaders of Hong Kong’s 2014 “Umbrella Movement,” were each given 6-8 month prison sentences for “unlawful assembly” last...
View ArticleHK Democrats Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong and other leaders of the 2014 Hong Kong democracy movement were last week nominated for the Nobel peace prize by a bipartisan group of 12 U.S....
View ArticleHong Kong June 4 Vigil Turnout Up From Last Year
Hong Kong’s annual candlelight vigil in commemoration of the lives lost in the crackdown on protesters in Beijing on June 4, 1989 this year attracted 115,000 people–5,000 more than last year–according...
View ArticleTrain Station Raises Concerns About HK Autonomy
Hong Kong’s Legislative Council yesterday approved a controversial bill that will allow Chinese authorities to enforce mainland law at the West Kowloon station, a new rail terminal to the mainland...
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