Erin Hale
The Independent
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‘Selling out Hong Kong people’: Global companies vandalised by protesters over links to China
A small group of protesters run through the luxury Citiplaza shopping mall on eastern Hong Kong island, disrupting service at a mall cafeteria before moving onto to spray paint a shuttered Starbucks and break shop windows. One protesters scrawls “Maxim’s sold out Hong Kong people” in black on Starbucks’ familiar double-tailed mermaid – a reference to the coffee chain’s → Read More
‘CIA moles’ and postcolonial baggage: The foreigners on Hong Kong's protest frontlines
Anna sits on the sidewalk after a particularly violent day of Hong Kong protests, recounting how she narrowly escaped arrest last Sunday after riot police surprised a large group of protesters occupying a major road of the government district. → Read More
‘21 hours in handcuffs’: China clampdown leaves Hong Kongers terrified to travel
It was meant to be a quick trip over the border to see the dentist. Alex Wong, 35, and his girlfriend took the Hong Kong subway to the end of the line close to the Chinese border and then walked to immigration, where they would cross into Shenzhen. Wong had completed this trip a number of times to seek cheaper medical services in China – a common practice for many Hong → Read More
Hong Kong protests: Hundreds of thousands bring streets to standstill in largest action for months
Hong Kong saw its first weekend without tear gas in weeks, even as anti-government protesters brought streets to a standstill on Sunday as hundreds of thousands of people marched despite police objection. → Read More
Hong Kong protests: Eerie calm descends as demonstrators avoid clashes with police
The latest night of demonstrations in Hong Kong appeared to come to an early end as protesters melted into crowds of weekend shoppers and tourists after verbally sparring with police for over an hour. Protesters had gathered at 6pm on Saturday outside of Mong Kok police station, the site of frequent clashes in recent weeks, where they jeered at armed officers from behind a → Read More
‘Be water’: Hong Kong protesters adopt Bruce Lee tactic to evade police crackdown
Clad in black t-shirts and face masks, a small group of protesters emerge from a subway station at the North Point district of Hong Kong and begin to dismantle nearby roadworks. Trailing sidewalk gates, traffic cones, and sign posts, they carry the items to a local police station where they begin to build a barricade. Over the course of the next 20 minutes they will block off → Read More
Hong Kong protests: Record number of arrests as strikes and demonstrations bring city to standstill
Hong Kong police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters after fresh clashes during a city-wide strike which caused transport chaos across the city.. More than 27,000 people were due to participate in the strike, according to organisers as thousands of demonstrators fanned out across seven districts and some groups besieged police stations. → Read More
Hong Kong protesters vow to stand up to unprecedented riot charges as movement faces new chapter
Johnson Yeung had been in police detention for over 40 hours this week when he heard someone shout “Riot! Everyone will get a riot charge!” as they were returned to the block of jail cells. The building, housing more than half of the 49 people arrested at Hong Kong’s latest anti-government protest on Sunday, was dumbstruck. “The whole cell was in silence at first and then I → Read More
Hong Kong's Ambitious Island-Building Plan Raises Environmental Concerns
The ‘Lantau Tomorrow’ plan would expand small islands for much-needed new housing, but not without risks to the environment. → Read More
‘Outpouring of righteous anger’: Hong Kong protesters storm legislature and tear down Chinese flags
Police advanced on Hong Kong's legislative council after it was stormed by hundreds of protesters on Monday night, following a day of tense protest marking the 22nd anniversary of the city’s handover from the UK to China. Demonstrators spent hours battering their way into the legislature, which earlier this month was supposed to debate a controversial bill that would allow for → Read More
Hong Kong protesters defiant in face of police rubber bullets: ‘We have to do something’
With surgical masks and goggles balanced on their faces, Hong Kongers Jay and Ellis Lee took a moment to rest in an underpass near the city’s Legislative Council. Behind them, the acrid smell of pepper spray and tear gas came wafting through other protesters wiped their faces off with wet towels. Others had been shot with rubber bullets by police. "It's chaos," said Jay → Read More
'They were the hope of China': Hundreds of thousands mourn Tiananmen Square massacre
Hundreds of thousands of people paid an emotional tribute to the Tiananmen Square protests in Hong Kong on Tuesday, thirty years after the democracy movement was violently brought to an end on June 4th. The vigil was attended by a record 180,000 Hong Kongers and visitors of all ages, according to organisers, who held candles across Victoria Park in honour of the unknown number → Read More
How Hong Kong Developers Are Exploiting a 1970s Law For Indigenous Villagers
The policy has proven surprisingly difficult to challenge thanks to Hong Kong’s chronic affordable housing shortage and powerful real estate industry. → Read More
Will Chinese pressures in Hong Kong see Asia's foreign media hub move?
With Beijing exerting more influence over Hong Kong, the semi-autonomous region is losing its shine to foreign media owners as a suitable Asia hub. The next obvious choice, of course, is Taiwan. → Read More
Will Chinese pressures in Hong Kong see Asia's foreign media hub move?
With Beijing exerting more influence over Hong Kong, the semi-autonomous region is losing its shine to foreign media owners as a suitable Asia hub. The next obvious choice, of course, is Taiwan. → Read More
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge Nears Completion, With Little Fanfare
Beijing hopes to unite Hong Kong, Zhuhai, and Macau, along with other metropolises of the Pearl River Delta, into a megacity cluster under the “Greater Bay Area” scheme with transit links like the bridge playing an important role—although it has yet to release many details. → Read More
Creepy Clowns Arrive In Asia As Singapore Prank Ends In Hours Of Police Detention
Nineteen-year-old design student Joel Wong has had a tough few days after his Halloween prank went awry. Seeking some mischief, Wong dressed up as a killer clown in honour of Halloween and filmed himself jumping out at fellow Singaporeans on the street. → Read More
Cambodian Official Claims Spanish Activist Is A Witch, Internet Baffled
“We were worried she might be a sorcerer and then take photos to do black magic on our stomachs,” he said. “Everyone knows the Spanish practice magic..They can fly on brooms.” → Read More
The Most Powerful American In Cambodia: The Unlikely Rise Of Bretton Sciaroni
How a politically exiled ex-Reaganite wound up working with former Communists in a newly democratic Cambodia over 20 years ago. → Read More
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