China Replaces Top Hong Kong Official; Appoints “Strongman” In Signal To Protesters China changed its top representative to Hong Kong in the first major leadership reshuffle since anti-government protests broke…
Anti-government protesters sit after being detained during a demonstration on New Year’s Day to call for better governance and democratic reforms in Hong Kong, China, January 1, 2020. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)…
On Thursday, police in Hong Kong announced the arrests of several individuals whom they described as leaders of the Hong Kong protests movement. But these individuals (their identities have not…
The New American’s Christian Gomez interviews Chapman Chen, founder and CEO of Hong Kong Bilingual News, regarding Hong Kong’s struggle for self-autonomy. Chapman discusses the previous extradition bill, recent elections,…
TIME magazine has named its Person of the Year, a teenager who skipped school to travel around the world telling people that they are horrible and the planet is doomed.…
Hong Kong Protests Attract Massive Crowds, Estimated 800k March In Financial District With zero signs of abating, hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy protestors lined the streets around Hong Kong’s financial…
The pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong are an unprecedented and unmitigated disaster for the rulers of China; a disaster whose magnitude cannot be appreciated by Westerners who are not familiar…
Hong Kong police have threatened to use wooden bullets to disperse protesters, according to comments made by Police Commissioner Chris Tang at a Thursday tea gathering. Wood baton rounds. File…
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has refused to openly address protesters’ demands in her weekly press conference despite the opposition’s landslide victory in the city’s local district council elections days…
An Election Day landslide for pro-democracy candidates in Hong Kong has left the Chinese territory and the world wondering whether the results are “window dressing” or a bellwether for change.…
GREAT NEWS FROM HONG KONG! Pro-Democracy candidates are WINNING BIG in local elections. Pro-independence candidates have 201 seats. Pro-Beijing have 28 seats. Louis Vaughan Jones from the BBC is…
Since early November, Cody Howdeshell has been in Hong Kong, delivering first aid to protesters. He’s seen some of the violence firsthand: Hong Kong police, he says of one incident,…
It’s like something out of a movie. After a three-day standoff, roughly 100 students remain trapped inside the campus of Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University. For more than a day, police…
The last few days have seen scenes of utter carnage appearing on social media round the world as Hong Kong authorities (with the ‘generous support’ of the PLA) have fought…
Dozens of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers were spotted on the streets of Hong Kong’s Kowloon Tong neighborhood on Saturday afternoon, cleaning up bricks and roadblocks left behind by pro-democracy…