Outrage has broken out in Hong Kong after Starry Lee was re-elected as chair of the House Committee of the Legislative Council. The House Committee reviews bills before their second reading in LegCo and has the power to decide whether a Bills Committee is formed to further review a bill...
As acts of protest and repression in Hong Kong are back in the news, I’ve been thinking once more about the extraordinary verses and prose poems that Tammy Ho Lai-Ming has written documenting the ongoing struggle in the city she lives in and loves...
A wave of violence took place in Hong Kong over the weekend, perhaps marking the end of a relatively quiet period for the protests that have rocked Hong Kong for the past year...
Lam Wing-kee, the only one of the Causeway Bay booksellers to currently remain free, was splashed with red paint in an unprovoked attack in Taipei yesterday. Lam described his attackers as two men in their 30s who were wearing masks...
A wave of political arrests has again taken place in Hong Kong, with at least fourteen pro-democracy politicians arrested through the course of the day...
Anger has broken out in Hong Kong after pro-democracy lawmaker Au Nok-hin was convicted of “assault” for using a loudspeaker near police officers during a protest that took place last year in July. The conviction was announced on Monday...
Demonstrators in Hong Kong gathered on Tuesday to commemorate the seven month anniversary of police attacks on protesters in the Prince Edward MTR station on August 31st of last year. However, 54 participants in the commemoration were arrested by the Hong Kong police...
Hong Kong Democratic Party district councilor Cheng Lai-king, 60, was arrested yesterday. The arrest took place on the basis of the charge of “seditious intent,” a charge drawing on British colonial law...
Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu provoked anger and derision through comments advocating the creation of a “Hong Kong Village” in Kaohsiung earlier this month...