Tag Archives: Hong Kong

Hong Kong Democracy Poll Hit by Cyberattack

Security Firm Says Attack Is Large and Sophisticated; Site Remains Online in City

By PAUL MOZUR in Beijing and CHESTER YUNG in Hong Kong CONNECT

Updated June 20, 2014 7:45 a.m. ET

The website of a poll gauging Hong Kong residents’ opinions on elections was repeatedly hit by severe cyberattacks on its opening day, according to organizers and a firm seeking to protect the poll from such attacks. Continue reading

Hong Kong Media Tycoon Blames China For Attack on Website

2014-06-18 


Policemen patrol past a a billboard promoting an unofficial referendum calling for full democracy and universal suffrage in Hong Kong, Continue reading

Hong Kong Poll Site Hacked As Beijing Steps Up Pressure

2014-06-16

A billboard promotes an unofficial referendum calling for full democracy and universal suffrage in Hong Kong, June 14, 2014.
Eyepress News Continue reading

South China Morning Post Turns to the Mainland

Written by Our Correspondent

TUE,17 JUNE 2014

Whose side are they on?

Beijing mouthpieces given more space and prominence Continue reading

Censorship storm as YouTube bans Alliance for True Democracy ad

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 17 June, 2014, 3:36am UPDATED : Tuesday, 17 June, 2014, 9:46am

Ng Kang-chung
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Censorship storm as YouTube bans Alliance for True Democracy ad

Video-sharing website YouTube is facing a political censorship row after Continue reading

Design Democracy Hong Kong’s First Report on Universal Suffrage Models

JUNE 12, 2014

 

As of 5 May 2014 when the government’s five-months consultation ended, Design Democracy Hong Kong (DDHK) received 592 submitted models concerning the system of Continue reading

Hong Kong media outlets feel Beijing’s pressure as ads vanish

By Michael Forsythe and Neil Gough / NY Times News Service, HONG KONG

 

In what may be a major escalation of pressure by Beijing on Hong Kong’s independently minded news media outlets, two major British banks have stopped advertising with one of the territory’s biggest newspapers, a top media executive said. Continue reading

A Media Mogul, Alone on the Island-Hong Kong’s fiery beacon of the free press, Apple Daily, is under threat from shadowy forces. Can it survive if Beijing wants it dead or quiet?

BY JOHN GARNAUT JUNE 2, 2014

HONG KONG — When somebody rammed a stolen car into media magnate Jimmy Lai’s home last June 19 and neatly arranged an ax and a meat cleaver in front of the battered gate, Continue reading