Hundreds Of Thousands Protest As Hu Jintao Visits Hong.
By Vaudine England in Hong Kong. Though an annual event, Sundays demonstration was the largest since that of 2003, which helped bring down the first Beijing-backed chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa.. Beijing. Anger at the perceived manipulation of what was promised to be ���Hong Kong people running Hong Kong��� has been joined in recent weeks by disgust at reports of outgoing leader Donald Tsang revelling in a lifestyle.. Colombo Telegraph 2011 - 2013.
Hong Kongers protest against Beijing-backed reforms
The proposed reforms had sparked huge street protests last autumn with demonstrators occupying parts of the city for eleven weeks to demand greater electoral freedom, turning umbrellas and the colour yellow into symbols of their movement. Protesters.
Fresh clashes in Mong Kok ahead of televised talks to end.
Protesters and riot police square off in Mong Kok after concerted efforts by both sides to stop an escalation of street confrontations.. After putting back the mill barriers at scene, police returned to the original cordon lines. Police did not carry.. www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php?page=all. Britains Daily Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.htm
Chinas Communist party expected to remain above the law.
Theme for annual meeting will be rule of law but only small local reforms expected from party that operates above the constitution.. UK �� europe �� americas �� asia �� middle east �� africa �� australia �� cities �� development.
This Riot Is Not In Ferguson, It Is In Hong Kong | Zero Hedge
Demand 1: Beijing takes back ruling on voting restrictions 2: Restart electoral reform procedure.. The latest clashes were the most heated in a series of anti-Beijing protests... this article summarizes several of the wikileaks key points. i believe the telegraph is the unofficial outlet for wikileaks: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.html occupiers of the square were forced��.
Ive no regrets about the tear gas, says top police officer who.
The police officer who made the controversial call to use tear gas on thousands of Occupy Central demonstrators in Admiralty one week ago today, fuelling unprecedented civil disobedience in Hong Kong, says he has no regrets and would make the... Please see : ****www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/1356047/Euro-federalists-financed-by-US-spy-chiefs.html 2.. Tear gas against protesters will always be a political decision as well as a tactical one.
Hong Kong Rising: An Interview with Albert Ho | ChinaFile
Hong Kongs people been striving for democracy for over two decades, and the desire is now so strong that if Beijing breaches its promise and fails to deliver democracy in 2017, Hong Kong will likely become���to borrow a word from the current.. It is quite plain that Beijing has been unscrupulous in recent weeks in exerting both political and economic pressure on businesses, local and foreign alike, to show a united front against the democrats and their protests.
Hong Kong protesters to vote on government offer
Tens of thousands of people began blocking major roads a month ago to oppose to a plan by the Chinese central government to let Hong Kong people vote for their leader in 2017, but limit candidates to those vetted by a panel stacked with Beijing.
British MPs barred from Hong Kong to stop oil being poured.
However, Liu wrote in his article that even the British government had reiterated that universal suffrage in Hong Kong is a matter for Beijing and Hong Kong to decide. ���According to its statement, the committee wishes to��.
Fears over radicals as protest violence increases, but.
Dong Likun, a retired senior research fellow at the Institute of Hong Kong and Macau Affairs, a think tank under the State Councils Development Research Centre, said Beijing would not feel embarrassed if the protests.. From the U.K. Telegraph: ****www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.html. chuchu59 Oct 20th 2014 6:14pm. In reply to: raymondspchu (Oct 20th 2014, 1:39pm).
As a mainlander Ill stand by Hong Kongs protesters till the.
As a mainlander in Hong Kong, I constantly feel the prejudice and ill will against us but also understand the helplessness that underlies these feelings.. I asked myself, when did I ever see such a scene back home?.. Hong Kong is perhaps a fragile place which has its own identity which young Hongkongers are striving to keep and retain in spite of the lickspittle and toadying (to Beijing) Hong Kong SAR government and the big Panda Bear which is looking over��.
All about Hong Kong and Macau | The New ASIA OBSERVER
China vice president says 2017 vote wish of most Hong Kong people. The planned 2017.. for the first time. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/hongkong/11239703/Clashes-as-Hong-Kong-protesters-attempt-parliament-break-in.html... Tens of thousands of people, some waving Chinese flags, marched through Hong Kong on Sunday to protest against a pro-democracy campaign to blockade the business district unless Beijing grants acceptable electoral reforms
Hong Kong pro-democracy groups may ramp up protests as.
On a day dubbed Hong Kongs D-Day, officials in the former British colony unveil rigid blueprint for 2017 leadership election Protesters are threatening to return to the streets Photo: REUTERS. By Tom Phillips,Beijing The Telegraph Pro-democracy protest leaders in Hong Kong are threatening to retake the streets after senior officials signalled that Chinas Communist���
OCCUPY CENTRAL - NIGHT SEVEN: Full coverage of the.
Superintendent Steven Tait, assistant district commander for operations in Mong Kok, tells the Post police had been surrounded by more than a thousand protesters and were unable to leave. We called in.. 3.52am: Police have used pepper spray in Mong Kok against a demonstrator, video footage suggests... OC people think of themselves as the next Gandhi but the Hong Kong people think theyre like beggars in the Ferguson riots throwing trash cans around.
Tiananmen student leader sees hope for Hong Kong during.
Zhou is most impressed by young Hongkongers, particularly Joshua Wong Chi-fung of Scholarism. He has followed Wong on Twitter for three years, he said. ���The student leaders are way more mature than we were back 25��.
CY Leung, senior Hong Kong officials snub UK inquiry into.
But the committee has urged the British government to summon Liu to the Foreign Office to lodge a formal protest against Beijings ban of the visit. Ottaway said the British government had not responded to the committees call,��.
Beijings Control Freaks Deceive Hong Kong: So Far.
All came to nought two weeks ago when the National Peoples Congress (Chinas parliament) decided that for all intents Beijing will nominate 2 or 3 persons and Hong Kong people could choose one among them ��� some universal suffrage!... Sri Lankan Environmental and civil society groups should detail their concerns in a letter to the Chinese Premier and launch a protest against the lack of transparency and accountability in Chinese so-called development loans��.
Jackie Chan: China should crack down on Hong Kong.
telegraph.co.uk | Dec 12, 2012. By Tom. In September, thousands of Hong Kongers took to the streets to protest against Beijing-backed plans to introduce compulsory ���moral and national education��� classes to local schools.