The fate of the Taiwan edition of the Apple Daily continues to be up in the air, with moves by a Hong Kong liquidator to try and take control of the Apple Daily’s Taiwan assets...
Groups rallied today in front of the legislature to call attention to the Chinese government’s authoritarianism and to call on the Taiwanese government to take stronger action for Hongkongers in need of assistance. The rally took place today because October 1st is Chinese National Day...
The Qiao Collective, Monthly Review, and People’s Forum came together to hold a conference on the topic of “China and the Left” on September 18th in New York City, an event featuring such luminaries of the tankie left ranging from Max Ajl to Mark Tseng Putterman and Vijay Prashad. Reportedly around 150 were in attendance, though many hundreds more attended online by livestream, and videos of the event accumulated thousands of views in the days afterward...
Efforts by Hong Kong authorities to crack down on political freedoms continue, with Hong Kong’s largest non-state affiliated union announcing that it was in the process of dissolving, and a journalists’ organization facing pressure from authorities to reveal information on members...
A wave of arrests and sentencings has taken place in Hong Kong in the past few days. Many of these arrests have been related to commemorations of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in Hong Kong...
The Transitional Justice Commission announced aspects of its proposal for renovating the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial yesterday. This will include removing the 6.3-meter bronze statue of Chiang Kai-shek at the center of the memorial, which is overseen by an honor guard...
Civil society organizations rallied earlier this week, to call attention to the continued plight of Lee Ming-che. Lee, a human rights NGO worker who was kidnapped while entering China from Macau in March 2017, has now been imprisoned for four-and-a-half years...
Tong Ying-kit was sentenced to nine years in jail today by Hong Kong courts. Tong was sentenced on charges of secession and terrorism for riding into the police with a flag reading “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times” on his motorcycle, resulting in his arrest last year on July 1st, 2020...
21 pro-democracy legislative candidates in Macau were disqualified from running for office earlier this week. This took place on the basis of new requirements stipulating that electoral candidates must pledge allegiance to Macau and the Macau Basic Law, as well as uphold the Chinese constitution and decisions made by China’s National People’s Congress...