The Occupy protests: a month that shook Hong Kong to its.
Instantly drawing massive overseas media interest, dramatic scenes of protesters wielding umbrellas and filling streets usually packed with cars and buses brought Hong Kongs democracy movement firmly to the worlds attention.. Tais original plan was to mobilise 10,000 people to block roads in the citys financial heart if the local and central governments created a system for the 2017 chief executive election that did not allow a genuine choice of candidates.
Thousands March in Hong Kong Against China-Backed Vote Plan
Thousands of people joined a march in Hong Kong to demand that lawmakers reject a China-backed plan for the citys first direct chief executive election amid growing public opposition to the bill. The protesters rallied at the citys Victoria Park at 3.
The Debate Over Confucius Institutes | ChinaFile
From the first Archaeological Exhibition to visit the U.S. in the 1970s, through the China: Seven Thousand Years of Discovery show that dazzled Americans in the 1980s, and ever since, China has quite properly found Americans... Indeed, self-censorship on China is becoming a massive problem, ranging from Bloomberg to Hong Kong to visa-seeking academics to contract-seeking business executives, to just about anyone who attends think tank conferences��.
2013: May - August Political Notes - Richard Stallman
The European Patent Office is operating under a treaty which excludes computer programs as such from patentability, but has issued thousands of computational technique patents despite the words of the treaty on the grounds that they cover. In the US: sign this petition demanding fast food companies give workers a raise and this one demanding they not retaliate against workers who strike... 19 August 2013 (Action by Hong Kong govt suggests plan to repress protest).
China ��� Hong Kong | Wednesday-Night
At the edge of the South China Sea, the metropolis of Hong Kong flickers and glows, its iconic skyscrapers like molten columns, the bay reflecting all the cool blues and fuchsias of the citys desire... The protests yesterday came after almost 800,000 people voted in an unofficial referendum against Chinas insistence that it vet candidates for the chief executive election in 2017, and three weeks after it released a policy paper that ratcheted tensions with its assertion��.
The Sinocism China Newsletter 04.07.15
���Universal suffrage in accordance with the law for (choosing) the chief executive is the ardent expectation of mainstream public opinion in Hong Kong,��� the newspaper said. This is also the consistent position of the central��.
Hong Kong Remembers Tiananmen After Year of Battles With Beijing
The event, in Hong Kongs Victoria Park, comes as local lawmakers prepare to vote on a China-backed proposal for holding the first popular election for the citys top official in 2017. Chief Executive Leung Chun-yings bill needs support from at least.
Taiwan premier resigns after election deals blow to pro.
Taiwans distrust of China ���is at its highest in recent years���, he said, in the wake of Beijings hardline response to the pro-democracy ���Umbrella Movement��� that continues to paralyse swaths of Hong Kong. Ko Wen-je, a. In March, tens of thousands of protesters occupied the islands legislature and surrounding streets to protest his handling of a cross-strait trade pact, ultimately blocking its ratification.. A dark day for Fifa after claims of arms deals for World Cup votes��.
The Hong Kong Protest: What Its All About | Zero Hedge
Tongue-in-cheek kidding aside, for everyone confused about the context of this weekends at time very violent student protests, here is Evergreen GaveKal with its wrap up of the Hong Kong Democracy Protests. By Tom. to mark the Communist Partys assumption of power in China, the fear is that the crowds of protesters could swell further over the course of the week, prompting an even more uncompromising response from the citys Beijing-backed government.
Is This the End of Hong Kong As We Know It? | ChinaFile
Over the past week, tens of thousands of Hong Kong people have occupied the streets of their semi-autonomous city to advocate for the democratic elections slated to launch in 2017.. I, personally, have few doubts that the leadership in Beijing would have little hesitation in using lethal force against its own people if they felt the Chinese Communist Partys grip on power was slipping. But the.. The Bloomberg Fallout: Where Does Journalism in China Go from Here?
Thousands in Hong Kong to rally against China-backed election plan
File picHONG KONG, June 14 ��� Thousands are expected to march in Hong Kong to demand that lawmakers reject a China-backed plan for the citys first direct chief executive election amid growing public opposition to the bill. Students, parents, retirees.
Store of Value - Credit Bubble Bulletin
Throughout hundreds (for that matter, thousands) of years of history, inflationism has time and again been debunked and the inflationists revealed as ���monetary cranks.��� Yet these days monetary inflations sordid history goes��.
Hong Kong ranked 70th in world for quality of living - way.
Reliable transport helped lift the citys ranking. Photo: Bloomberg. Hong Kong offers the best quality of living among cities in China, but falls behind main competitor Singapore and major Japanese centres, according to a��.
Zhou Yongkangs Downfall | ChinaFile
On July 29, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Chinese Communisty Party announced it was investigating ex-security czar Zhou Yongkang ���on suspicion of grave violations of discipline.��� Zhou, who retired. Rumors had been aired as early as Spring 2012 that he had been involved in a coup attempt with Bo Xilai and that he had cast the lone pro-Bo vote in the standing committee meeting that decided Bos removal in March 2012. In the spring of��.
Hong Kong politics: Taking it to the streets | The Economist
New Years Day has recently been added to the roster of protest dates on the Hong Kong activism calendar, and on January 1st thousands heeded the call. The Civil Human Rights Front, organisers of the march (pictured),��.
2012: May - August Political Notes - Richard Stallman
Thousands protested in Albany, New York, to oppose fracking in the state. 30 August 2012. An Austin man who campaigns against harassment of photographers by the thugs was arrested a second time for filming their actions in public. 30 August.. Mining companies dispossessed indigenous people in Guatemala thanks to a US-backed coup, then took advantage of US-backed repression, and then imposed a reformed mining law to let them take what they want.
Hong Kong Documentary Explores the Roots of Dissent.
To many observers, Hong Kongs ���Umbrella Movement������thousands of students and other citizens in the streets demanding to choose their own political leaders���seemed to unfurl, fully formed, out of nowhere. Residents of. Most people, when they came from China to Hong Kong, it was just a stopgap; it was a place to stay [in the] interim, a place to stay before they went back to China, or went someplace else: America, Canada, Australia, or Europe. I went to a talk��.
King Dollar Tipping Point - Credit Bubble Bulletin
March 4 ��� Bloomberg: ���More than 76,000 Chinese millionaires emigrated or acquired citizenship of another country in the decade through 2013 amid global expansion by the nations companies.. Perhaps Premier Li is appealing to nationalistic feelings because of a general conception that it will be almost impossible for the economy to even grow as fast as 7% for much longer, said Willy Lam, of the Center for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Fresh clashes in Mong Kok ahead of televised talks to end.
However, please consider that in about 20 years, Hong Kong citizens have gone from zero say in choosing their leader under the British, to 400 people voting, to 1200 people voting, to 5 million people voting for the leader in 2017... Anyone proud Chinese who loves China must stand up to take a hard stand to against this wave of ANIT-CHINA that is backed by Major Westerner powers, the O/Cs and HK oppositions have been used by them as political tools (shame��.