- The Hong Kong government has said that civil servants must serve the chief executive and the government with total loyalty, adding that they will follow up on any violations ahead of a civil servant protest on Friday night. A rally is set to take place at Chater Garden in Central at 7pm under the theme “civil servants march with citizens.” A general strike is also looming next Monday, which some civil servants have anonymously committed to …
- An anti-extradition rally starting in Mong Kok on Saturday will go ahead, albeit with a different route, after an appeal board unexpectedly overturned a police ban on the event. Police had initially refused the letter of no objection which protest organisers must obtain before any march or large-scale gathering, and insisted that organisers could only stage a rally at the original starting point of the march, a football pitch in Anchor Stre…
- 7.28 More than 40 people have been charged with rioting and other charges in the Upper Ring conflict. A group of prosecutors claiming to represent some of the Department of Justice's stationery used the Department of Justice's stationery to send an open letter to the people of Hong Kong, denouncing the Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng of being "primarily politically concerned" when dealing with public events cases, and insisting on prosec…
- 7.27 Chung Jianping , the applicant for the "Guangfu Yuen Long" parade , was arrested by the police on suspicion of " organizing an unauthorized assembly " after attending the City Forum on Sunday ( 28 ) , and he was taken to the detention ward of Tai Po Nasu Hospital yesterday with a back injury . Zhong Jianping confirmed to the Stand News reporter at the Hospital of Nasu this afternoon that he had been released on bail , but he said that …
- We also don't want the driver to give the head, want the whole Hong Kong strike to come to an end, it is time to think about it together. Carrie Lam the amendments to this day, the regime still does not face up to the aspirations of the people, we all want to step up efforts to put pressure on the regime. The pressure of the "political strike" regime is to affect the operation of society and the operation of the economy and to force the reg…
- Forty-four people have been charged with rioting, and one with possessing weapons, over the protest in Western on Sunday evening. All of them are expected to be taken to Eastern Court for mention on Wednesday. That's four times the number who were charged with rioting after the Mong Kok disturbances in 2016. Violent clashes between anti-extradition protesters and police officers broke out in the streets of Sheung Wan and Western, after marc…
- The observatory expects the strong wind signal number 3 to remain in force for a few more hours and the alert to be lowered to standby signal number 1 only in the evening. The weathermen said though Tropical Storm Wipha continues to depart from the city, strong windy conditions are prevailing in the region. At 1pm, Wipha was centred at about 400 kilometres southwest of Hong Kong. But strong winds and occasional heavy showers are still affec…
- Police arrested seven men and one woman last night (August 1) at the Fire Charcoal Helijia Industrial Building , including the convenor of the banned Hong Kong National Party , Mr Chan Ho-tian , on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon , possession of explosives without a licence and unlicensed sale of the first poison . Police said that $2000 softball sticks , armor , communication equipment , loudspeakers and steel beads were sei…
- One week after Sheung Wan was rocked by clashes, protesters and riot police fought pitched battles in the neighbourhood again on Sunday night. Protesters are enveloped by tear gas let off by police during a demonstration against a controversial extradition bill in Hong Kong on July 28, 2019. Photo: Anthony Wallace/AFP. Police fired numerous rounds of tear gas, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and pepper spray during the Western district clea…
- (Single-media special report) The public marched in the afternoon, and in the evening police were cleared with tear gas, rubber bullets and sponge bombs, and the Rapid Dragon Squad stormed into the West Rail Yuan long station to beat and search for demonstrators. Senior Superintendent Yu Yu of the Police Public Relations Branch met with reporters at Yuen Long Police Station in the early hours of the morning and "clarified" that the tear gas…
- In response to China's suspension of visa visas for mainland tourists to travel freely from Taiwan, Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-wen, said today that using tourists as a political tool would only disgust Taiwanese. It is not clever and irresponsible for the PLA to expose Hong Kong people to public exercises. She stressed that giving in to the pressure of choice will only cost us everything in the end. The Chinese authorities announced yeste…
- Beijing on Monday said it firmly supports Chief Executive Carrie Lam and her government, and praised what it called the “fearless and outstanding” Hong Kong police over their handling of recent anti-extradition protests. At a press conference in Beijing, a spokesman for the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, Yang Guang, said the central government “especially understands and sympathises with the tremendous pressure felt by police officers …
- Police have denied that a riot police officer had added a metal ring to his baton to increase its impact, during the clearance operation in Yuen Long on Saturday. A police spokesman said the ring-like object, that had been photographed by the media, was just a standard plastic strap that is used to attach a cord. He said it had slipped from the baton's base to its tip, thereby creating a misunderstanding. The controversy erupted after media…
- Asked by reporters about Hong Kong on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump said "the unrest has been going on for a long time." I don't know what China's attitude is, and i say it's between Hong Kong and China, Hong Kong is part of China, and they have to deal with it themselves. Trump gave a media interview on the South Lawn of the White House before leaving the White House for a rally in Ohio. A reporter asked Trump if he was concerned a…
- Pro-democracy lawmaker Chu Hoi-dick said on Thursday that he has had reports of multiple death threats being made against him and his staff over the last week, and alleged that some gangsters in the New Territories have put a price on his head. The opposition lawmaker said he would be making a report to the police about these threats on Thursday. Chu said he has been forced to leave his home and take precautions after receiving tip-offs fro…
- Police on Thursday evening arrested 11 people in sha Tin and Tin Shui Wai weapons depots suspected of being involved in the demonstrations , including a man and two women arrested at the Rui man building in Tin Shui Wai Tin Rui Village , and seized 30 smoke bombs , a number of raw materials and tools . One of the arrested 23-year-old men was charged with one count of possession of explosives and appeared at Fanling Magistrates' Court this m…
- Since the beginning of the anti-China campaign in June, there have been many violent clashes between police and civilians, with police firing tear-water barriers, cloth bags, pepper spray, sponge bombs and other bullets, according to the South China Morning Post quoted by police sources as saying that the police introduced water cannon suing vehicles will begin field testing this week, as soon as mid-August may be put into use, and consider…
- During the anti-China campaign, there were many police-civilian clashes, police law enforcement was questioned, journalists were also targeted on several occasions; the Hong Kong Photojournalists Association and the Hong Kong Journalists Association issued a joint statement, referring to the police during yesterday's police-civilian clashes, repeatedly fired tear gas to journalists, several photojournalists were injured by tear gas, some jo…
- In addition to the civil servants' rally at The Shelter Garden in Central, the medical profession also gathered in Edinburgh Square in Central this evening, with the participation of more than 10,000 medical staff dressed in black. Holding up slogans such as "Why can't health care save people" and "Citizens don't come to care for people don't give up", one of the convenors of the rally, the Health Services Select Committee, Mr Lau Kevin, re…
- Aug 2, 2019
