News broke out in the last week that the pro-independence, localist Hong Kong National Party faces a ban from the Hong Kong government in the next twenty-one days...
Outrage has broken out in Hong Kong after the sentencing of Edward Leung in Hong Kong to six years in prison for his role in the events known as the “Fishball Revolution”. What now for Hong Kong activists?...
Nora Lam is most recently the director of Lost in the Fumes, a documentary about Hong Kong localist Edward Leung. Lam has also worked on films including directing Midnight in Mong Kok and co-directing Road Not Taken. The following interview was conducted on May 9th by New Bloom editors Brian Hioe and Symin Chan during a visit by Lam to Taiwan...
Hong Kong localist Edward Leung pleading guilty to charges of assaulting a policeman, but rejecting riot charges, is the latest development in a series of arrests of high-profile social movement leaders which began since the jailing of the “Umbrella trio” of Joshua Wong, Nathan Law, and Alex Chow in August...
With the Hong Kong government deciding that its purge of Hong Kong lawmakers will not stop with localists Yau Wai-Ching and Baggio Leung of Youngspiration by filing a lawsuit that would disqualify a total of four pan-Democratic lawmakers, it is likely that this represents that Beijing has decided to clamp down on elections in Hong Kong for good...
Controversy over localist lawmakers-elect Yau Wai-Ching and Baggio Leung’s oath taking continues in Hong Kong, with attempts by the pro-Beijing camp to hinder their being sworn in through a walkout of LegCo and a last minute interim injunction by the Ministry of Justice aimed at preventing them from taking office...
As evidenced in reactions to the annual June 4th vigil in Hong Kong this year, the kind of questioning demanded by the current situation seems to be thus: in the context of Hong Kong where nationalist and post-nationalist mentalities are so inextricably intertwined, how would democratic governance be envisaged?...
Recent demonstrations in Hong Kong revolving around brands and products may indicate product brands have in some way become contested territory regarding issues of identity...
Recent attempts to claim the Mong Kok riots on February 9th in Hong Kong are evidence of “fascism” are the pro-unification Left up to its old tricks...