Tag: Hong Kong
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HONG KONG | Students, officials talk but don’t agree
Hong Kong student leaders and government officials talked but agreed on little yesterday as the city’s Beijing-backed leader reaffirmed his unwillingness to compromise on the key ... -
Hong Kong | Who leaked about Leung? Faceoff runs from chainsaws to whispers
The battle for Hong Kong’s future is being fought with bamboo barricades and bags of dirty tricks. Like in the pages of an airport thriller, potentially ... -
Hong Kong | Police battle protesters to regain control of key road
Hong Kong police said they would investigate a complaint alleging officers beat a pro-democracy protester during clashes early yesterday morning over control of a key road. ... -
Hong Kong Leung says ‘zero chance’ Beijing will back down
Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying said there is “zero chance” China will change its decision to vet candidates in elections for the city’s top position, and ... -
HONG KONG | Protests reveal unease over unique identity
By road, the little apartments are nearly an hour from central Hong Kong and the protests that have swept through it. Twice that long if you ... -
HONG KONG | Protest leaders may walk away from talks
Hong Kong protest leaders said they will consider pulling out of discussions should the government continue to ignore their key political demands. The government’s decision to ... -
HONG KONG | ‘Silent majority’ critical of protests
When Beijing cracked down on student protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989, Bobby Yim was among many in Hong Kong who sympathized with the demonstrators and ... -
8 detained before ‘umbrella’ poetry event
Chinese police detained a well-known poet and seven other people ahead of a poetry reading planned in Beijing to support pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, relatives ... -
HONG KONG | Demonstrators split on how to end crisis: Street voices
Demonstrations that had paralyzed parts of Hong Kong thinned yesterday after the start of talks with student leaders. Yet dozens of pro-democracy protesters continued to demonstrate ... -
Retail chains see 50pct sales drop, survey shows
Sales at major Hong Kong retailer chains have fallen as much as 50 percent during the bulk of the Chinese National Day holidays after pro-democracy protests ... -
HONG KONG | Protests thin as two sides agree to talk
Crowds of protesters who filled Hong Kong’s streets with demands for a greater say in choosing the territory’s leader thinned dramatically yesterday after student leaders and ... -
HONG KONG | Protests shrink after tumultuous week
Student-led protests for democratic reforms in Hong Kong shrank yesterday but a few hundred demonstrators remained camped out in the streets, vowing to keep up the ... -
Hong Kong | FireChat helps demonstrators overcome traffic jam
Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrators finding it difficult to communicate over congested mobile-phone networks are downloading the application FireChat about 100,000 times a day in an effort ... -
Tiananmen legacy looms over Hong Kong protests
The legacy of the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square looms larger in Hong Kong than in mainland China, where the Communist Party has virtually erased all public ... -
HONG KONG | Protesters at odds over pullback plan
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy activists appeared divided after some agreed to remove some barriers blocking roads and sidewalks ahead of a deadline today set by the government ... -
HONG KONG | Democracy standoff reflects wide rifts in society
The story of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong’s top leader, is the type of rags-to-riches tale that is generally admired in this commercially-minded city. But Leung is ... -
The Buzz | London passes HK as priciest city to employ staff
London surpassed Hong Kong as the world’s most expensive city for companies to locate employees after rents climbed and the pound appreciated against the dollar. London ... -
HONG KONG | Students boycott class in next phase of democracy battle
Thousands of Hong Kong college and university students boycotted classes yesterday to protest Beijing’s decision to restrict voting reforms, the start of a weeklong strike that ... -
HONG KONG | Gov’t to spend USD14.2b on seven new rail routes
Hong Kong plans to spend at least HK$110 billion (USD14.2 billion) to build seven railways connecting outlying districts where most of the city’s population growth is ...
