Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 09:19:32 +0000
Heavy rain fell on tens of thousands of umbrella-toting protesters Sunday as they marched from a packed park in central Hong Kong, where mass pro-democracy demonstrations have become a regular weekend activity this summer.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 09:02:55 +0000
HONG KONG — Thousands of school teachers in Hong Kong marched to the official residence of the city’s leader on Saturday as another weekend of protests got underway in the Chinese territory. An overflow crowd rallied at a nearby public square before setting off on streets that had been closed to traffic, carrying signs that […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 13:23:15 +0000
Police fired tear gas at protesters in Hong Kong on Sunday for the second night in a row in another escalation of weeks-long pro-democracy protests in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 10:50:32 +0000
Police in Hong Kong fired tear gas Saturday at protesters who defied authorities’ warnings not to march in a neighborhood where six days earlier a mob apparently targeting demonstrators brutally attacked people in a train station.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 12:47:37 +0000
The parents of a Hong Kong man who plunged to his death after putting up banners against divisive extradition legislation urged young people on Thursday to stay alive to continue their struggle.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 12:36:39 +0000
Hong Kong protest leaders opposed to the administration of Chief Executive Carrie Lam said Tuesday that they will continue their demonstrations, even after Lam declared the effort to amend a highly contentious extradition bill “dead.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 14:00:54 +0000
Tens of thousands of people, many wearing black shirts and some carrying British colonial-era flags, marched in Hong Kong on Sunday, targeting a mainland Chinese audience as a month-old protest movement showed no signs of abating.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 12:58:04 +0000
One image makes for particularly uncomfortable viewing in Beijing: The British colonial flag draped aloft a podium in the assembly’s chamber.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 12:59:52 +0000
China’s government strongly backed Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s embattled administration on Tuesday, saying the occupation and vandalizing of the city’s legislature by pro-democracy protesters amounted to “serious illegal acts” that endangered the social order.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:24:44 +0000
All but a handful of protesters in Hong Kong have gone home, but the crisis that brought hundreds of thousands into the streets to oppose an extradition bill is far from over.
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