Hong Kong Occupy Central

Pro-democracy protesters promised to return when police evicted them from streets after a nearly three-month sleep-in. But some activists never even left.

On Wednesday evening local time, Hong Kong police closed some streets in Mong Kok and reacted aggressively towards hundreds of “shoppers” in those areas.

Ahead of Tuesday’s clearing of Mong Kok, Hong Kong authorities are distinguishing between Occupy movements supporters.

U.S. government commission (CECC) examines China’s commitments to Hong Kong in light of recent pro-democracy protests.

HONG KONG—Police prepared to move in and clear out metal barricades, tents, and protesters from a section of road outside a shopping mall and office building on Tuesday morning, executing orders of the High Court handed down recently.

HONG KONG—Three leaders of the Hong Kong Federation of Students said they would fly to Beijing on Saturday, to make their case for greater democracy in Hong Kong.

A student member of Scholarism, an organization leading the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement protests in Hong Kong, was recently refused entry by customs officers in the city of Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong.

No one is sure of the end game for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters, who have taken over key streets here—but promises by the government, or extraordinary intervention by the Xi Jinping regime, might do it.

I'll never forget this 5th November in Mong Kok, Hong Kong: Protesters being slammed, beaten, pepper sprayed. It was trench warfare and we found ourselves on the frontline.

The Occupy Central Action did not take place according to the original plan of its leaders and organizers, says Albert Ho.

This Asian tiger is still roaring, but it’s not quite what it used to be beneath the surface.

China Uncensored Goes to Hong Kong

NEW YORK—Jenny Wang knew time was tight. She rushed from work, driving an hour to get to her older sister’s apartment in Jersey City. Then, without missing a beat, Wang took the light rail to Manhattan, just in time for a Times Square mass protest on a Thursday at 8 p.m.

HONG KONG— A Hong Kong tycoon was expelled from China’s top government advisory body on Wednesday after he voiced doubts about the city’s Beijing-backed leader, who is struggling to end month-long democracy protests.

After a week of indecision, Hong Kong student activists request an audience with Chinese premier Li Keqiang.

Hong Kong police are using a vaguely worded law for computer crime to arrest pro-democracy protesters who use social media to organize.

Four journalists from two Hong Kong media outlets were violently assaulted by pro-government demonstrators during a rally on Saturday against the four-week long pro-democracy Occupy Central movement, according to the Hong Kong press.