The government did not have confidence in the implementation of Hong Kong after the legislation of the law based on Article 23 of Basic Law failed in 2003, Li said. ... Willy Lam Wo-lap, professor at Center for China Studies of Chinese University of Hong Kong,..…
Prior to Lam's announcement, thousands of protesters, many of them office workers, donned mask and took to Central to demand that Hong Kong government meet their five demands, and their opposition to any anti-mask law, according to Hong Kong media.. China's hawkish Global Times, in..…
In Article 3 it states: “As it is obviously necessary and desirable for British subjects to have ports for their ships and their stores, China will forever cede the island of Hong Kong to Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain. and her heirs “. . ... A question arises spontaneously:..…
This article was posted on Tuesday, September 24th, 2019 at 4 22pm and is filed under, China, Environment, EU, Europe, Hong Kong, Ireland, Legal Constitutional, Supreme Court, Terrorists, Theresa May, UK Hypocrisy, UK Politics, United Kingdom... ..…
However, there is no clause committing Hong Kong to direct democracy, nor is there specified timeline for this suffrage to be achieved. ..…
And that photo with the protest leaders is just snap shot of the ample evidence of the hand of U.S government and its subsidiaries in Hong Kong events. Perhaps the documentation of U.S. black hand is to be found Dan Cohen's superb article of August 17 The Greyzone entitled,..…
In an article entitled “The High School Course Beijing Accuses of Radicalizing Hong Kong,” the Times writes: . ..…
The Washington Post recently admitted as much in an article entitled, “Hong Kong erupts even as China tightens screws on civil society”: . ..…
A quite interesting article that adds to our understanding of why China is in such a hurry to shut down Hong Kong: Why People in Hong Kong Have Incomes 5x Higher Than People in China’s Richest Province. ... From Steve’s linked article: . When the United Kingdom turned..…
Courtesy / Niu As the protests were repressed by the Police and protesters found new ways to circumvent the violent acts, the Police stopped using identification badges on uniforms, according to an article in the US newspaper, the New York Times. However, the Hong Kong protestors..…
In the article published on Tuesday on Le360, French-language website Morocco, Chinese Ambassador to Morocco Li Li said that Hong Kong affairs are matter for China and should not be interfered with by any external forces. . Zhou Jian, Chinese Ambassador to Qatar, also condemned..…
Han emphasized that the primary aim of the principle of one country, two systems and Basic Law is to safeguard State, unity and territory integrity, and to maintain the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong... Article 14 of Garrison Law states that SAR government can request..…
Citing the law that governs the PLA Hong Kong Garrison, Han said that the Hong Kong regional government could ask the central government to allow the PLA garrison in Hong Kong to help maintain social order and carry out disaster relief missions when necessary. . Han also cited..…
“Hong Kong, which Britain returned to Chinese rule in 1997, remains outside China’s firewall, and thus is sitting along one of the world’s most profound online divides. ... Upholding national unity and territorial integrity, maintaining the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong, and..…
Share this article . . . . Also today, several thousand Hong Kong lawyers, dressed in black, marched in silence to call on the government to safeguard the independence of the city's department of justice. . ... Share or comment on this article: . China warns it will..…
Share or comment on this article: . Thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists in surgical masks blockade shopping precinct . . . . . . . . . ..…
From the perspective of judicial and power, China and Hong Kong are different places, contended another in the discussion about the bill's article, adducing that the application of this amendment is Hong Kong... ... For example, the pro-democracy protests that..…
LEADING ARTICLE . . Batoning Down Democracy . Hong Kong has spooked the Russian authorities. ..…
The steady erosion of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR)’s autonomy that has visibly occurred in the two decades since reversion—and accelerated under Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping since 2012—raises questions as to how the social, political, and legal institutions that make up the..…
Timothy Lee, a community officer in To Kwa Wan South, one of the 24 constituencies in the Kowloon City District, explained the differences between a “dead” bill in the Hong Kong legislature and the U.S. Congress in a July 13 article published by Hong Kong Free..…
The strategy of Western imperialist powers to portray China as regional bully, oppressor of religious minorities, hyper-police state, exploiter of Africa, despoiler of the environment, and where your own vices are passed off on to others. ..…
In 2003, on the anniversary of the handover, crowd of 500,000 people protested against Beijing's attempts to insert an anti-subversion clause into Hong Kong's law, or constitution. ..…
The Guardian article claims, The alarm over the bill underscores many Hong Kong residents rising anxiety and frustration over the erosion of civil liberties that have set the city apart from the rest of China... ..…
See: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3011577/hong-kong-extradition-law-beijing-friendly-legal. . . . . . ..…
By riot police during demonstration outside the, protester is confronted Legislative Council Hong Kong on Wednesday, June 12, 2019. ..…
Article 23 waits on the shelf to ambush Hong Kong – perhaps sooner than people expect. . ..…
I think the protest of was closer to the in 2003 against Article 23. Hong Kong government initially to amend the extradition bill on the request for surrender of Hong Kong suspect in homicide case Taiwan. ..…
Lindsay Maizland contributed to this article. * A version of the above map mislabeled Hong Kong and Macau Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Tibet, and Xinjiang as special administrative regions... ..…
A million people take to the streets of Hong Kong to protest extraditions to China . Monday, June 10th 2019 - 08:27 UTC Full article 0 comments . . . Organizers said more than a million people took part in the Sunday march - the largest protest since the Hong..…
If you read enough articles on the web, you'll see places ranging from Russia, China and Saudi Arabia to Brazil and even Hong Kong described as oligarchies. A 2017 Salon article even warned of the growing power of a global uber-oligarchy comprised of wealthy, super-powerful figures..…
It was the first known case in recent years of a Western government accepting political refugees from Hong Kong. . . article/html/fragments/email_article.jsp?..…
In March, I visited 75-year-old Chu at Wanchai Baptist Church, where he described his journey from starting as a homeless orphan to finding Jesus to becoming a pastor concerned about injustices in his church, his community, and Hong Kong. (Watch for a future article about Chu in..…
Judge Thomas Au grounded his analysis in the principle of equality, invoking article 25 of Hong Kong Basic Law and article 22 of Hong Kong Bill of Rights. ..…
The task for real Chinese patriots is not to unite Hong Kong with China but to turn communist China into a Hong Kong. ... The lesson from the courage of the Hong Kong demonstrators is a warning for Europe.” . . . ..…
This article was originally published on hkja.org.hk on 9 November 2018. . This is a dark week for freedom of expression in Hong Kong. . What started as a gagging policy against the so-call independence advocates is claiming more victims, with critics of Beijing or its..…
This article was published on hkja.org.hk on October 2018. . Hong Kong Journalists Association is shocked by Hong Kong Government's of the application for renewal of the working visa of Victor Mallet. ..…
figure, in the shape of hand with the colours of China flag for fingernails and 3 on its palm with reference to the Article 23 law, is carried by protesters at National Day rally Hong Kong today.. ..…
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 1.2 percent. South Korea’s Kospi finished virtually unchanged. . . . ... SHARE THIS ARTICLE . . . . . . . . . . . OLDER ARTICLE . Newcomers Bring Back Kentucky Distillery . by BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press - Sep 19, 2018 . . . ..…
The prosecution's charge that Tan Zuoren made account and committed libel is matter to evaluate according to the facts and as to whether the contents of Tan Zuoren's article are true.. the Vice Chairman of Hong Kong Popular Alliance, that Ma Li's statement did not represent the..…