1 week agoA protester says at @HongKongPolyU that the university "safety team" has been threatening protesters to leave the campus, causing panic among protesters inside. Police said this afternoon that they will enter the campus tomorrow morning for a search.
1 week agoOn Wednesday evening, local residents held a "singing protest" at Shatin's New Town Plaza to support people trapped inside the besieged PolyU - although the university administration's latest search found no remaining people inside the campus. Photo: Stand News screenshot
1 week agoPeople are also gathering at Tai Koo to sing #GloryToHongKong. On the right, a protester at New Town Plaza, Sha Tin holds a banner resembling the kind police warn protesters with but this reads: 'HONGKONGERS CHEER UP & CARRY ON.'
1 week agoProtest sing-alongs in Tseung Kwan O & Tin Shui Wai, two of several locations where such gatherings are taking place in HK this evening. GloryToHongKong is of course the song most widely sung, HK's new national anthem
1 week agoLivefeed: People are gathering at malls across HK this evening for protest sing-alongs. Here, at Tsuen Wan Plaza
Yau Tsim District Commander Ho Yun-sing says some crime officers and the police "safety team" will enter the university tomorrow morning to handle dangerous items and gather evidence inside the campus
Hong Kong Police to enter Polytechnic University PolyU tomorrow morning, mostly to clear dangerous goods/weapons inside
1 week ago05-13: Hunghom Tunnel reopens today. According the government, over 800 workers spent 100 hours on repairs.
1 week agoDepartment of State:
[email protected] congratulates HongKong on free, fair and peaceful elections, and underscores U.S. support for democracy in Hong Kong
Hong Kong protests: man who spat at police officer during unlawful rally gets 10 months in jail, marking heaviest sentence since unrest broke out
1 week agoSing with you and support students in @hongkongpolyu in Tsim Sha Tsui - Another milder tone of protest to sing all protest songs
A creditor of centrist Sai Kung district councillor Christine Fong — who won the race to retain her seat on Sunday — has petitioned the High Court to declare her bankrupt, reportedly due to a land dispute.
HongKong's leader CarrieLam appeared in public for the first time since the complete electoral wipe out of her political allies and said people wanted to "go back to their normal lives" and could "no longer tolerate the chaos" of demonstrations.
1 week agoPolyU management issued a statement saying that as of 1pm, staff have managed to search and clear four of the buildings on the main campus, without discovering any remaining protesters. Photo: InMedia.
1 week agoOn Tuesday morning, first aid staff, social workers and PolyU security began searching through each building and each room one-by-one inside the campus. They said they will lock the doors to each building once they can confirm it is clear. Photo: InMedia.
2 week agoThe district councillors-elect and Ip said they also spoke with the PolyU administration. They suggested that the administration should re-enter and take back responsibility to manage the campus, so as to pressure the police to lift the siege. Photo: Stand News screenshot
2 week agoThe crowd at Science Museum Path 7:30 pm
Police says officers will enter PolyU campus with social workers and uni officials to try to get protestors to leave. Promises not to arrest them on the spot,but will likely follow up, similar to how underaged protestors were treated
2 week agoA few hundreds are at the border of the besieged HK Polytechnic University where there are reports that some are still inside
2 week agoSome 200 people are on Science Museum Road in standstill with riot police outside PolyU . Not much tension but also no sign of leaving any time soon
2 week agoA stand off between @hkpoliceforce and demonstrators in HongKongProtests outside the cordon line at @HongKongPolyU is taking place after some newly-elected pan-democrat members want to go inside to support the ppl there. It has been encircled by the force over a week
2 week agoStandoff near PolyU, where estimated 30 are still stuck inside after police besieged it more than a week ago, after some marched there demanding police to release them
2 week agoA large crowd of people, many wearing masks, are gathering in front of a police cordon near PolyU, calling on officers to let them enter the univerisity to bring out the trapped people
Any attempts to destabilize HongKong or damage its prosperity and stability are doomed to fail, Chinese State Councilor and FM Wang Yi said on Monday commenting on the results of #HKDCElections
2 week agoHundreds of democrats District Councilor-Elect marching to Poly University demanding the police to stop the siege
2 week agoPro-democracy district councillors, LegCo members and supporters have gather in Tsim Sha Tsui to address the PolyU standoff
2 week agoJimmy Sham, district councillor elected for Lek Yuen, Sha Tin, said votes and people's opinions should not be viewed as pressure on government but guidance for administration, and the very first greetings he got after winning was asking him to save those in PolyU
China: We support Hong Kong's leader despite her deadlock in the election
2 week agoElection is still not concluded at J19 Lam Tin's Fei Ngan Kindergarten polling station. Many HongKong riot Police have surrounded & entered the station now. Officer has announced pro-Beijing candidate won by 50 votes, but there are 71 votes that are missing.
2 week agoFlash mob in central HK chanting '5 Demands, not one less', after opposition's stunning victory in local elections
