Tag Archives: Occupy Central movement

China NPC meeting could be writing on the wall for democracy in Hong Kong

By Cormac McCartan Aug 21, 2014 1:44PM UTC

Hong Kong China Tension

People fill in a street during a march at an annual pro-democracy protest in downtown Hong Kong on July 1. Pic: AP. Continue reading →

‘Terrified’ Founder Decides to Shutter Hong Kong Pro-Democracy News Site ‘House News’

Posted 27 July 2014 21:09 GMT
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Screen Capture of the House News’ Facebook Page. The site had more than 230 thousand Facebook followers before it shut down. Continue reading →

HK’s House News Closes Citing Political Pressure

July 27, 2014 5:55 PM

Posted By: josh rudolph

Hong Kong pro-democracy website, blog, and news aggregator House News (主場新聞) has shut down due to a Continue reading →

Bloggers reboot democracy site

Kenneth Lau

Monday, July 28, 2014

A group of bloggers has set up a Facebook page for people’s commentaries on politics and other issues following the sudden closure of House News, a pro-democracy news site with strong ties to media Continue reading →

Hong Kong Rising: An Interview with Albert Ho

Perry Link, with Ian Johnson

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A sit-in for democratic rights in Hong Kong’s central district, July 1, 2014

The former British colony of Hong Kong reverted to China on July 1, 1997, and on every July 1 since Continue reading →

Beijing’s Weibo ban hits close to home-Suspension of accounts after the July 1 protest a worrying sign of threat to innovation, freedom

 

By George Chen
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An average of 70 out of every 10,000 Weibo posts made on July 1 were quickly deleted, according to researchers at the University of Hong Kong. Photo: Reuters

Hong Kong is apparently becoming the next Tibet or Xinjiang Continue reading →

After Relative Silence on Hong Kong Protests, Mainland Media Outlets Note Arrests

By AUSTIN RAMZY JULY 3, 2014 3:08 AM July 3, 2014 10:46 pm


The police removed demonstrators on Wednesday morning from a sit-in that followed Hong Kong’s pro-democracy march.Credit Kin Cheung/Associated Press
After a day of largely ignoring the big turnout for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Continue reading →

In Hong Kong, a Potent Visual Echo of Tiananmen

By MICHAEL FORSYTHE JULY 2, 2014 2:51 AMJuly 2, 2014 5:45 am


Marchers carried a scaled-down replica of the Goddess of Democracy, an icon of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, during Hong Kong’s pro-democracy demonstration Tuesday.Credit Kin Cheung/Associated Press

Cecilia Ng was born seven years after the Goddess of Democracy statue in Tiananmen Square was Continue reading →