Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:18:28 +0000
Tens of thousands of people rallied in central Hong Kong on Sunday as public anger seethed following unprecedented clashes between protesters and police over an extradition law, despite a climbdown by the city’s embattled leader.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:25:23 +0000
Bouquets of white flowers, written tributes and origami cranes piled up Sunday outside a high-end Hong Kong shopping mall, where a young man plunged to his death protesting against a controversial extradition bill.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:56:09 +0000
HONG KONG – Embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam sought to quell public anger Saturday by shelving an unpopular extradition bill that has highlighted apprehension about relations with mainland China, but opponents of the measure said it was not enough.
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Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:15:03 +0000
Hong Kong’s leader, Chief Executive Carrie Lam, said she has suspended indefinitely a proposed extradition bill that sparked the city’s biggest public protests in years.
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Read moreCredit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:23:34 +0000
Pressure on Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam was mounting Saturday, with signs emerging that she may delay an unpopular extradition
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 01:41:19 +0000
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam faced calls from both outside and within her government to delay extradition legislation that has spurred massive protests.
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Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 21:06:04 +0000
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)on Thursday asked Filipinos in Hong Kong to exercise “extreme caution and vigilance”
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 23:18:30 +0000
HONG KONG – Following a day of sit-ins, tear gas and clashes with police, Hong Kong students and civil rights activists vowed Wednesday to keep protesting a proposed extradition bill that has become a lightning rod for concerns over greater Chinese control and erosion of civil liberties in the former British colony.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 11:24:09 +0000
As Hong Kong is convulsed by fresh anti-government protests, many of those who have taken to the streets said they feel this is their last chance to protect the city’s freedoms after years of slow strangulation by Beijing.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 08:25:02 +0000
Violent clashes broke out in Hong Kong on Wednesday as police tried to stop protesters storming the city’s parliament, while tens of thousands of people blocked key arteries in a show of strength against government plans to allow extraditions to China.
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