Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters faced off with Hong Kong police late Sunday, stepping up their movement for genuine democratic reforms after being camped out on the city’s streets for more than two months.
The British never gave Hong Kong democracy when it was a colony so why are the students of the Umbrella Movement complaining that the Chinese Communist Party hasn’t!
Chinese Communist Party chief Xi Jinping called Hong Kong’s democracy protests illegal, and cautioned foreign governments from “interfering,” while calling for the maintenance of public safety.
Hong Kong’s old school democracy activists have been surprised by the energy, scale, and longevity of the student-led umbrella movement—and have tried to figure out its implications for their own roles.
The de facto leadership, or what passes for it, of the occupy movement here withdrew plans to hold a ballot on the future of the movement on Sunday, the groups’ leaders saying that they had not consulted protesters widely enough, bowing in apology for the flap at a press conference.
The Jiang Zemin faction of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) appears to be trying to create so much trouble in Hong Kong that Party leader Xi Jinping will be forced to repeat the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre.
After nearly a month of civil disobedience, a group of undergraduates finally got their chance to talk to the Hong Kong government about electoral reform.
HONG KONG–Epoch Times photographer Ben Chasteen has been documenting the Umbrella Movement through his camera lens, and the recent spate of Hong Kong police action has inspired him to collect his thoughts in prose.
Protesting for your country’s democratic future can be hard and hungry work, and having McDonald’s for every meal can only support one’s health and spirit for so long.
The past week in Hong Kong saw the chief executive take back several occupied roads from the protesters, although the police used brutality at one place to do that.
A student protest leader on Friday called for Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping to extend his anti-corruption campaign into this semi-autonomous city and purge its widely loathed chief executive, Leung Chun-ying.
The mysterious leak of information about a secret deal made by Hong Kong chief executive Leung Chun-ying may have been arranged by Beijing authorities.
A pro-democracy protest that has blocked main roads in Hong Kong for almost two weeks could drag on for days yet, after talks aimed at resolving a bitter standoff between the city’s government and student demonstrators collapsed Thursday.
Talks between the students protesting in Hong Kong for universal suffrage and the Hong Kong government will start on Friday. Nothing in the Chinese regime’s history suggests these negotiations can go anywhere.