A dramatic series of confrontations with police took place outside of LegCo tonight. The confrontations ended with a significant number of demonstrators settling in for the night in areas in the vicinity of LegCo...
Hong Kong LegCo president Andrew Leung announced earlier this afternoon that voting on the proposed extradition bill will be delayed until Thursday of next week. It is possible that delaying the vote on the bill is an attempt to reduce the intensity of protests, as a smokescreen or distraction, or even as a feint for a push to rapidly pass the bill. On the other hand, it is possible that splits, or at least the appearance of splits, are appearing in the pro-Beijing camp...
Plans for protest actions against the extradition bill in Hong Kong are coalescing around the notion of a general strike tomorrow, when the bill is scheduled to undergo its second reading in the Legislative Council (LegCo) and be voted upon. Bills which clear voting after the second reading in LegCo usually also undergo a third reading the same day, passing into law afterward...
It was a quiet day in Hong Kong today after Sunday’s protests against the Beijing-backed extradition law ended with demonstrators being cleared from around the area by the Legislative Council. Much remains up in the air about what will take place in coming days regarding the extradition law, including that it remains ambiguous as to what form protest in the coming days against the bill will take, if this takes place at all ...
A night of clashes with police ended with the streets controlled by police and demonstrators driven out in Hong Kong, following large-scale protests against a Beijing-backed extradition law. However, with the law set to be voted on by Hong Kong’s Legislative Council on Wednesday, it is hard to imagine that the coming days will not see further forms of action aimed at halting the bill...
Hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Hong Kong today to protest against a new extradition treaty to be passed with China. Some counts suggest that over 500,000 are currently demonstrating. At press time, a protest action is taking place outside of Hong Kong's Legislative Council...
The DPP presidential primary debate between current Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen and former premier William Lai took place this afternoon, taking place from 2 PM to 3:30 PM...
The convoluted saga of the Chinese Women’s League continues, with reports that the organization has decided to transition into a political party in order to maintain the organization...
Controversy has broken out after Twitter suspended reportedly over 1,000 accounts belonging to Chinese political dissidents, human rights lawyers, scholars, and activists in the days before the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre earlier this week...
Brian Hioe is one of the founding editors of New Bloom. He is a freelance journalist, as well as a translator. A New York native and Taiwanese-American, he has an MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University and graduated from New York University with majors in History, East Asian Studies, and English Literature. He was Democracy and Human Rights Service Fellow at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy from 2017 to 2018 and is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at the University of Nottingham's Taiwan Studies Programme.