Hong Kong Occupy Central

The effect of last year’s Occupy Central Movement for democracy in Hong Kong was manifested in the results of the District Council election held last Sunday.

The same tactics of propaganda and public criticism that were used in China’s Cultural Revolution are being brought out again to try to interfere with the recent University of Hong Kong (HKU) election controversy.

No drama was expected when Hong Kong politicians cast their vote on a political reform plan for the city’s democratic future—or so everyone thought.

Pro-democracy protesters promised to return when police evicted them from streets after a nearly three-month sleep-in. But some activists never even left.

Hong Kong police arrested 33 people on Sunday after scuffles broke out at a protest in a border town, in the latest example of heightened tensions over the growing influx of mainland Chinese shoppers in the city.

HONG KONG—Five days after rapper Common sent a shout-out to the Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrators during an Oscars acceptance speech, Selma opened to a full house in the city.

On the back of a sizable budget surplus, Hong Kong’s finance secretary announced handouts and tax cuts for those affected by the Occupy protests.

Unpopular pro-establishment Hong Kong lawmaker Regina Ip experienced a smashing start to the Year of the Sheep.

Hong Kong’s “wolf” just unsettled the city’s residents by asking them to take after this Lunar New Year’s zodiac animal.

Hong Kong’s professionals barely, if ever, let their thoughts stray to politics. This year though, the switch was flipped.

The Umbrella Movement didn’t just politically awaken Hongkongers; it also brought out their artistic side.

Chinese authorities have seized a large quantity of toilet paper and tissues packets bearing the image of embattled Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying.

In a time of declining press freedoms in Hong Kong, the staff of a local broadsheet has called out their editor’s last-minute command to change the paper’s lead article.

Pro-democracy demonstrators returned to Hong Kong’s streets Sunday in the first major rally since the 79-day long mass protests last year, which made international headlines.

Crime rates are down, but the city’s increasingly mutinous, says Hong Kong police chief. Pro-democracy lawmakers disagree with this assessment.