Nobel Peace Prize Nomination For Hong Kong Protest Leaders Angers Beijing

Lam Kwok-lap and Fok Leung-kiu  |  Radio Free Asia China’s foreign ministry hit out on Friday at the nomination of three former student leaders of Hong Kong’s 2014 pro-democracy movement for the Nobel Peace Prize, calling on member of the U.S. Congress to “stop meddling” in its internal affairs. Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Chris […]

Reading Xi Jinping’s Hong Kong Speeches

Larry Ong  |  Epoch Times Official speeches by Chinese officials are sleep-inducing stuff—until you get past the obligatory Communist Party rhetorical verbiage and sift out the new content. At first glance, Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s final speech at the end of his three-day Hong Kong visit, marking the 20th anniversary of the former British colony’s […]

Hong Kong’s Pan-Democrats to Boycott Chinese National Day Party

Lam Kwok-lap  |  Radio Free Asia Pan-democratic politicians in Hong Kong didn’t appear at official party in honor of China’s National Day on Saturday, they told Radio Free Asia (RFA). The city’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying invited 4,000 guests, including senior government officials and lawmakers, to join him for a reception marking the 67th anniversary […]

China Holds Activist Who Posted Umbrella Selfie on Tiananmen Square on June 4

<!–[CDATA[Yang Fan  |  Radio Free Asia Authorities in the Chinese capital are holding an activist on public order charges after he raised a black umbrella on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on the anniversary of the June 4, 1989 military crackdown on the student-led democracy movement, activists said. Du Yanlin, 52, who has worked for outspoken artist […]

Hong Kong Democracy Activist Calls China’s Communist Party an ‘Evil Empire’

<!–[CDATA[ Rampant mainland corruption endangers Hong Kong freedoms, says activist and money manager Edward Chin Valentin Schmid  |  Epoch Times When you fight for freedom, sacrifices have to be made. Even well-to-do hedge fund managers like Edward Chin of 2047 HK Monitor are not exempt. Since he and other Hong Kong finance figures threw their weight […]