9 month agoHongKong Liberal Party founding chairman Allen Lee has died aged 80. Chief Executive Carrie Lam has expressed her condolences
HongKong - Limitation on public gatherings under COVID19 will be extended until June 4, which implies that the annual June4 vigil organised by @hka8964 at Victoria Park will likely be banned. If so, it will be the first time in over 3 decades
Coronavirus – Hong Kong extends social distancing rules and public gathering restriction
9 month agoMargaret Ng – in court over charges relating to two HongKongProtests – had this to say during a lawyers rally on August 7: "One of the most important things about rule of law is prosecution must not be abused, because if abused it is the most powerful instrument of oppression."
9 month ago"Self autonomy does not exist anymore," said Tanya Chan when pro-democracy lawmakers meet the press after the meeting ends. "The election result has revoked Legco's previous practices, including parliament rules.Pro-establishment camp is the culprit."
9 month agoPro-Beijing lawmaker Chan Kin-por who chairs a chaotic House Committee meeting has announced that DAB Starry Lee has won the House Committee chair election, after he orderd security guards to remove pan-dem lawmakers from the meeting one after another
9 month agoPro-Beijing lawmaker Starry Lee is elected as Legco's house committee chairwoman by vote 40-nil, where pro-democracy lawmakers are either thrown out or have boycotted the voting
9 month agoThe remaining lawmakers - largely from the pro-Beijing camp - cast their votes in the election of the House Committee chair, as Labour Party lawmaker Fernando Cheung continues to chant "Chan Kin-por is cheating."
9 month agoWith only a handful of democrats left in the meeting room, the House Committee moves ahead with the election of its chair, as LegCo staff hand out ballot papers
9 month agoRay Chan of People Power is taken out of the meeting room by security
9 month agoIT sector lawmaker Charles Mok is also taken out of the meeting room by security
9 month agoWu Chi-wai from the Democratic Party is taken out of the meeting room by security
9 month agoCivic Party's Alvin Yeung is taken out of the meeting room by security
9 month agoDemocrat Claudia Mo temporarily bypasses the line of security guards to speak to Chan Kin-por, as Andrew Wan from the Democratic Party sits on the floor refusing to leave
9 month agoPro-Beijing lawmakers have started a rival chant: "Chan Kin-por, good job."
9 month agoPro-democracy lawmaker Eddie Chiu is taken out of the meeting room by security
9 month agoHongKong pro-democracy lawmakers scuffle with security guards as one member of the camp after another is ordered out of a House Committee meeting. Proceedings are adjourned as Chu Hoi-dick lies injured on the floor.
9 month agoAmerican journalists in HongKong "are members of a free press, not propaganda cadres, and their valuable reporting informs Chinese citizens and the world," says @SecPompeo in a statement directed at Beijing
9 month agoEarlier, protesters in a Sha Tin mall, displaying banners (on left) said by renowned lyricist Albert Leung 林夕 in a recent RTHK programme: "I don't believe darkness will forever defeat light; they may kidnap your body but they can't take away your religion"
9 month agoPolice live streaming from a protest site - complete with their own "reporter" providing commentary (see 2nd pic)
9 month ago15.34 Banners hanging at New Town Plaza mall, Sha Tin: 'Don't believe that the darkness of the world will always defeat the light. Fireflies too illuminate it. Kidnappers can only take your body, not your soul.'
9 month ago15.24 Olympian City mall, Tai Kok Tsui: HK citizens chant protest slogans. 1 of 5 malls where protests are taking place this afternoon. Police have so far invaded 2, making 8 arrests at 1. Undercover police spotted in 4
Hong Kong protests: police warn of legal action after district councillor Lester Shum calls for revenge over death of student Chow Tsz-lok
.@UN_SPExperts urge Hong Kong to drop charges against 15 prominent pro-democracy figures over their alleged involvement in last year Hong Kong Protests
9 month agoA 3rd person has been arrested in Sha Tin, reportedly a young man, in the same location as the 2nd, on steps near New Town Plaza mall. Witnesses say they couldn't see anything the 2 did; they weren't even shouting slogans
9 month agoA 2nd arrest in Sha Tin this evening, this one just outside New Town Plaza mall
9 month agoA third video of the arrest & pepper-spraying at New Town Plaza mall in Sha Tin
9 month agoCrowds in Mong Kok prepared a "birthday cake" and sang "Happy Birthday F**k You" again to mark Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam's birthday
9 month agoA group of citizens gather at shopping mall Langham Place in Mong Kok. They shout slogans and sing songs. At least 5 malls across the city hold SingWithYou events. Most shops are closed.
9 month agoMeanwhile in Mong Kok, protesters sing the pro-democracy anthem "Glory to Hong Kong."