15 MAY 2013
HK anticorruption agency investigates ex-chief
Hong Kong’s corruption watchdog has launched a criminal investigation of its former chief following complaints of excessive spending when giving tens of thousands of dollars in gifts to mainland Chinese and other officials. http://asiancorrespondent.com/107672/hk-anticorruption-agency-investigates-ex-chief/
10 MAY 2013
Hong Kong property sales plunge 60% — with prices following
The volume of Hong Kong property sales fell 60% compared with last year in a sign that recent government policies are cooling one of the world’s most expensive real estate markets http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/09/business/hong-kong-property-now-time-to-buy/index.html?hpt=ias_c2
7 MAY 2013
Hong Kong dock workers end strike
Dock workers in Hong Kong have ended a 40-day strike that affected one of the world’s busiest ports http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22430016
2 MAY 2013
Cambodia, Hong Kong Slip in Press Freedom Poll
Press freedom took a knock in Hong Kong, Cambodia, and Thailand while Burma chalked up the best gains for media reforms in Asia over the past year, says an annual global Survey http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/media-05012013234119.html
4 APRIL 2013
Hong Kong port strike enters seventh day
Several hundred striking Hong Kong dockworkers are refusing to back down in a weeklong pay dispute that is slowing cargo shipments at the world’s third busiest port. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/04/20134455425247961.html
25 MARCH 2013
Hong Kong maids lose residency fight
Hong Kong’s top court has ruled against two Filipino domestic workers seeking permanent residency, the final decision in a case that affects tens of thousands of other foreign maids in the city. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/03/20133254315486835.html http://www.voanews.com/content/hong-kong-court-denies-right-to-seek-residency-to-foreign-domestic-workers/1627862.html http://www.asianews.it/news-en/“Racist”-Hong-Kong-denies-permanent-residency-to-domestic-workers-27480.html
28 FEBRUARY 2013
CPPCC Member insults Leung Kwok Hung ‘You aren’t even a fucking Chinese’
In a Legislative Council meeting on Feb 18 2013, Lawrence Ma Yan-kwok 馬恩國, a member of CPPCC Shanxi Committee and the vice-spokesperson for DAB‘s Administration of Justice and Legal Services, blasted Legislative Council member Leung Kwok-hung, aka Long Hair, for not loving China and insulted Leung “You aren’t even a fucking Chinese” (3:29) after Leung quoted Ma’s speech, in which Ma agrees with Wu Bangguo that Hong Kong should not have the separation of powers. http://badcanto.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/cppcc-member-insults-leung-kwok-hung-you-arent-even-a-fucking-chinese/
14 FEBRUARY 2013
Leung’s popularity falls to record low, poll finds
Plagued by accusations made by a former ally, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s popularity has plunged to a record low, according to a poll by the University of Hong Kong released on Thursday. http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1150205/leungs-popularity-falls-record-low-poll-finds
28 JANUARY 2013
Hong Kong Journalists Protest Proposal to Restrict Information
Journalists in Hong Kong have issued a petition urging the government to scrap a proposed law limiting the personal data corporate directors must make publicly available. Critics argue the amendment will restrict press freedom and protect potentially corrupt directors from public scrutiny of their business holdings http://www.voanews.com/content/hong-kong-journalists-protest-proposal-to-restrict-information/1592069.html
25 JANUARY 2013
Disgruntled Hong Kong embraces Union Jack as symbol of freedom
Fifteen years into Chinese sovereignty over Hong Kong, the Union Jack returns to be a politically loaded symbol in the quest for identity as two different visions of the future of Hong Kong and Greater China square off in the autonomous city. Surprisingly, the long-retired colonial flag has been adopted as a symbol for those who advocate a distinct cultural and political identity for Asia’s leading financial hub. http://asiancorrespondent.com/96293/disgruntled-hong-kong-embraces-union-jack-as-symbol-of-freedom/
1 JANUARY 2013
Hong Kong protesters urge leader to resign
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong Tuesday, calling for the city’s embattled leader to quit and demanding greater democracy 15 years after it returned to Chinese rule. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/01/2013119593990515.html http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20130101-392838.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/world/asia/thousands-protest-over-hong-kongs-leader.html?ref=asia&_r=0
13 DECEMBER 2012
Jackie Chan suggests China should crack down on Hong Kong protests
The actor’s comments, made during an interview with a Chinese newspaper, provoked a fierce reaction from critics who described him as a stooge for the Chinese government.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/hongkong/9741912/Jackie-Chan-suggests-China-should-crack-down-on-Hong-Kong-protests.html
28 NOVEMBER 2012
Beijing signals new hard line on Hong Kong
When a mainland Chinese official accuses unnamed « external powers » of interfering in Hong Kong affairs, it’s a given that he is referring to the United States and Great Britain – and perhaps Taiwan as well. It’s also a given that, 15 years after Hong Kong’s handover from British to Chinese sovereignty, such a cryptic, undocumented allegation is the clearest signal yet that authorities in Beijing have completely lost the plot in their management – check that, mismanagement – of a city that is supposed to remain a largely autonomous Special Administrative Region of China until 2047
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NK29Ad02.html
21 NOVEMBER 2012
Hong Kong Administration Seeks Closer China Ties
Hong Kong’s five-month-old administration, despite some highly publicized rear guard action over national loyalty introduction into the public schools, is nonetheless moving fast to insinuate more Beijing-inspired ideas.
http://asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4987&Itemid=204
Shifting ground on Hong Kong’s autonomy
http://www.chinamedia.com/news/2012/11/21/shifting-ground-on-hong-kongs-autonomy/
11 SEPTEMBER 2012
China’s “One country two system” under threat
As mainlanders head to Hong Kong to protest, Chinese authorities are increasingly cracking down on the former British colony.
http://thediplomat.com/2012/09/11/chinas-one-country-two-systems-under-threat/
9 SEPTEMBER 2012
Hong Kong votes amid anger at Chinese interference
Hong Kong residents voted Sunday to renew half the seats in the island’s legislative council at a time of discontent over Chinese influence. The vote takes place a day after mass protests forced the government to back down on “patriotism” classe
http://www.france24.com/en/20120909-hong-kong-votes-amid-anger-chinese-control-education-election http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19533116
8 SEPTEMBER 2012
Hong Kong backs down on ‘patriotism’ classes
Hong Kong’s government has backed down on a plan to force children to take Chinese patriotism classes, after thousands took to the streets in protest ahead of legislative poll
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/09/201298135259455926.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/world/asia/amid-protest-hong-kong-backs-down-on-moral-education-plan.html?_r=1&ref=asia
6 SEPTEMBER 2012
Protests against brainwashing classes continue in Hong Kong
Thousands of students and teachers in Hong Kong on Thursday protested for the eighth straight day in front of the government headquarters against plans to introduce a « national education » curriculum, while the authorities insist the plans must be enforced, reports Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao.
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1103&MainCatID=11&id=20120906000063
1 SEPTEMBRE 2012
Thousands hold rally in Hong Kong against patriotism class Thousands of protesters held a rally in Hong Kong Saturday in a final push to force the government to scrap Chinese patriotism lessons before the start of a new school year
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1223479/1/.html
Thousands of students in Hong Kong have begun a hunger strike over the Chinese government’s plans to introduce a “national education” curriculum
http://www.euronews.com/2012/09/01/hong-kong-students-strike-over-national-education-plan/
22 AUGUST 2012
After two days in a Japanese jail a small group of Chinese activists sailed into Hong Kong as heroes on Wednesday.
http://www.euronews.com/2012/08/22/china-welcomes-island-heroes-home/
13 AUGUST 2012
Hong Kong to evict last Occupy sit-in in Asia
A court in Hong Kong has ordered the final members of the Occupy protest movement to leave the area in the heart of the city’s financial district where they have been camped since October. The deadline for them to go is 27 August. http://www.euronews.com/2012/08/13/court-orders-occupy-to-quit-hong-kong-camp/ http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/08/201281361645531700.html
3 AUGUST 2012
Cage dogs of Hong Kong: The tragedy of tens of thousands living in 6ft by 2ft rabbit hutches – in a city with more Louis Vuitton shops than Paris
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084971/Hong-Kongs-cage-homes-Tens-thousands-living-6ft-2ft-rabbit-hutches.html#ixzz22VqwXn9K
The myth of a free Hong Kong economy
Open any standard economic textbook and look for the definition of a free economy; its key characteristic is the lack of government intervention. Less state intervention means a freer market. On this standard, Hong Kong has been hailed as the world’s freest economy for more than two decades. But is this the whole truth? What if the main sectors of the whole economy are dominated by a few oligopolies or even a virtual monopoly?
http://atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/NH02Cb01.html
29 JULY 2012
Hong Kong parents protest China patriotism lessons
Thousands of stroller-pushing Hong Kong parents and activists Sunday protested a plan to introduce national education lessons, slamming it as a bid to brainwash children with Chinese propaganda. http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20120729-362106.html
15 JULY 2012
Former SCMP Hacks Appeal to Change Paper’s Direction
Twenty-four journalists who formerly worked for the South China Morning Post have written an open letter to the paper’s group executive director, Hui Kuok, expressing their concern that critical coverage of China is being abandoned in order to please the Communist authorities in Beijing
http://asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4690&Itemid=173
3 JULY 2012
Beijing gives Tsang a slap in the face
Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, the second chief executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, stepped down from office over the weekend after serving seven years without getting a time-honored sinecure from the central government of China. In the context of Chinese culture, that’s a slap in the face.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NG04Ad01.html
2 JULY 2012
One country, two (failed) systems
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. At least 400,000 Hongkongers, snaking all over Central in absolutely sweltering heat, from early afternoon until deep into the night, and from all walks of life (tycoons excluded), all of them expressing their anger at Hong Kong’s new CEO, pro-Beijing property developer Leung Chun-ying; the notion of « one country, two systems »; their impossibility to actually vote; and last but not least, motherland China.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NG03Ad01.html
Can’t Buy Me Love in Hong Kong
The fireworks are spent, the stage has been cleared and Chinese President Hu Jintao and his entourage have left town after dispensing economic goodies intended to win friends and favor on the 15th anniversary of this city’s transfer from British to Chinese rule.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NG03Ad02.html
1 JULY 2012
Hong Kong leaer sworn in as protests swell
Hong Kong’s new Beijing-backed leader has been sworn amid rising public discontent over widening inequality and lack of full democracy in the semi-autonomous southern Chinese financial centre. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/07/2012714286700794.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/world/asia/protesters-march-as-new-hong-kong-leader-is-sworn-in.
html?_r=1&ref=asia
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/hongkong/9368130/100000-march-in-Hong-Kong-on-15th-anniversary-of-handover.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18664132
26 JUNE 2012
Donald Tsang: Fall of a fallen leader
With the last days of his term as Hong Kong’s Chief Executive drawing near, Hong Kong society remains reluctant to loosen their grip on Donald Tsang for his corruption allegations.
http://gbtimes.com/focus/politics/donald-tsang-fall-fallen-leader
25 JUNE 2012
Hong Kong media fear restrictions
Journalists, who have traditionally operated freely, see China tightening its grip on the territory.
http://www.aljazeera.com/video/asia/2012/06/201262572148646844.html
10 JUNE 2012
More than 25 thousand in Hong Kong march to demand an investigation into the death of Li Wangyang
Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong marched to the China’s central government office yesterday (June 10) to demand an investigation into the suspicious death of a pro-democracy dissident Li Wangyang in Hunan province. http://www.asianews.it/news-en/More-than-25-thousand-in-Hong-Kong-march-to-demand-an-investigation-into-the-death-of-Li-Wangyang-24996.html http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/news_china/2012-06-11/1989-tiananmen-activist-death-sparks-protests-safety-fears.html#video_section
4 JUNE 2012
Record crowds attend Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil
Amid a glowing sea of candles and rallying calls for justice, a record crowd packed six football pitches at an annual vigil held in Hong Kong to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/05/world/asia/hong-kong-tiananmen-vigil/index.html?hpt=ias_c1
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Victoria-Park,-Vigil-for-Tiananmen-gathers-more-than-180-thousand-people-24937.html
30 APRIL 2012
Hong Kong delays China patriotism lessons
Hong Kong said Monday 30 it would delay the introduction of mandatory « national education » classes, which have been criticised as a bid to brainwash children with Chinese patriotism
http://www.edvantage.com.sg/edvantage/news/news/1086170/Hong_Kong_delays_China_patriotism_lessons.html
25 APRIL 2012
Hong Kong to limit mainland China maternity services
Hong Kong hospitals will limit maternity services to most pregnant women from mainland China from next year, under new proposals from its incoming chief executive. Mainland women will be prevented from giving birth in Hong Kong unless they have a Hong Kong husband.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17838280
18 APRIL 2012
New South China Morning Post Editor Confronts the Press
Wang Xiang Wei was appointed editor of the 110-year South China Morning Post in February. This is not the first time the newspaper, one of Asia’s most influential English language dailies, has had a Chinese editor. But Wang is the first from the Peoples’ Republic of China
http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4432&Itemid=224
4 APRIL 2012
Hong Kong sizes up next leader CY Leung’s loyalties
Over the weekend thousands of marchers took to the streets of Hong Kong’s commercial district to protest against what they perceived as Beijing’s meddling in the city’s political affairs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17594452
1 APRIL 2012
Thousands march against Hong Kong’s new leader
Thousands of Hong Kong people staged a noisy protest Sunday against the city’s incoming government chief and decried Beijing’s alleged interference in the city’s recent leadership election
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1192525/1/.html
29 MARCH 2012
Billionaire Kwok brothers arrested for graft in Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption on Thursday arrested the chairmen of Sun Hung Kai Properties, brothers Raymond and Thomas Kwok, on suspicion of corruption, the company said
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/kwok-brothers-arrested-graft-hong-151311356.html
28 MARCH 2012
Hong Kong wins appeal in maid residency case
A Hong Kong court has overturned last September’s landmark ruling which granted foreign domestic helpers the right to apply for permanent residency. The government’s victory is a major blow for hundreds of thousands of foreign maids working in the city
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/03/201232821924672260.html
http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/news_china/2012-03-28/Hong-Kong-Denies-Residency-to-Domestic-Workers.html#video_section
25 MARCH 2012
Leung Chun-ying elected Hong Kong’s new leader
An election committee of about 1,200 Hong Kong notables picked Beijing-loyalist Leung Chun-ying as the city’s next leader on Sunday, after a fraught campaign which will intensify pressure on China to keeps its promise to allow Hong Kong a direct leadership election in 2017
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17503171 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/beijing-loyalist-lead-hong-kong-fraught-election-082507969.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Chief_Executive_election,_2012
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2012-03/26/content_14909098.htm
1st MARCH 2012
Hong Kong leader apologizes for accepting tycoons’ hospitality
Hong Kong’s leader, Chief Executive Donald Tsang, issued a public apology Thursday for the public concern he had caused by accepting hospitality from tycoons
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/news/article_1693678.php/Hong-Kong-leader-apologizes-for-accepting-tycoons-hospitality
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17216874
17 FEBRUARY 2012
Pressure mounts on favourite to quit Hong Kong leadership race
The man believed to be Beijing’s choice for the next chief executive of Hong Kong was under growing pressure to quit the race Friday over an illegal extension at his family home
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/news/article_1691610.php/Pressure-mounts-on-favourite-to-quit-Hong-Kong-leadership-race
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17071207
14 FEBRUARY 2012
China blocks Hong Kong-Taiwan embrace
Taiwan’s Beijing-friendly Kuomintang (KMT) government would like to see Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Donald Tsang stop by on the island. However, it seems Beijing and Tsang himself aren’t too keen on the implications of such a visit
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NB16Ad01.html
11 FEBRUARY 2012
Hong Kong’s « Election »
As Chief Secretary Henry Tang’s candidacy fades, the oligarchs try to prop him up
http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4220&Itemid=173
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1182382/1/.html
7 FEBRUARY 2012
Hong Kong rages at wave of pregnant Chinese
Chinese officials are trying to reassure Hong Kong citizens that they will curb the number of pregnant women coming to give birth in the city as anger over non-residents’ access to health and education resources stirs up wider anti-mainland feeling
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/91857e70-5175-11e1-a99d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1ljQT4z5B
5 JANUARY 2012
Hong Kong’s Leaders Back Away from Their Own Pact
After having agreed a 9.2 percent hike in power prices, they now find it too steep
http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4100&Itemid=224
8 DECEMBER 2011
Task force set up to investigate vote rigging in Hong Kong
Hong Kong – Hong Kong’s anti-graft agency set up a 20-member task force to look into allegations of vote rigging in district elections last month, a top official said Thursday
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1679644.php/Task-force-set-up-to-investigate-vote-rigging-in-Hong-Kong
28 NOVEMBER 2011
Leung Chun-ying runs for Chief Executive of Hong Kong
Leung Chun-ying, former Executive Council convener, announced his bid for Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region on Sunday.
http://en.radio86.com/news/leung-chun-ying-runs-chief-executive-hong-kong
Hong Kong leader denies eroding press freedom
Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang on Monday defended his administration’s respect for freedom of the press, after complaints that the media was excluded from a Chinese state visit
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1677787.php/Hong-Kong-leader-denies-eroding-press-freedom
24 NOVEMBER 2011
Hong Kong’s waning economic resilience
Asia’s economies have so far managed to escape the economic crisis in Europe and the US. But that resilience seems to be waning as fears grow that Hong Kong – a regional economic powerhouse – could slide into recession.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2011/11/201111246727142257.html
6 NOVEMBER 2011
Pro-Beijing parties sweep Hong Kong district polls
Well-financed pro-Beijing parties swept district polls in Hong Kong, official results showed Monday, ahead of bigger elections next year when the territory’s leader will step down. Sunday’s vote was more closely watched than usual because under reforms passed this year, district councillors will be able to run for new seats in the Legislative Council in 2012
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1163866/1/.html
http://www.asianewsnet.net/home/news.php?id=23811&sec=3
23 OCTOBER 2011
Hong Kong mothers march against mainland babies
More than 1000 protesters, including pregnant mothers, marched in Hong Kong Sunday opposing the growing number of
mainland Chinese women coming to the city to give birth, organisers said.
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20111023-306658.html
19 OCTOBER 2011
Card. Zen on hunger strike for freedom of education in schools
Card. Joseph Zen has begun a hunger strike this morning in support of Catholics’ right to freedom of education. The hunger strike which will last at least three days aims to « underline the unjust ruling of the Supreme Court against the diocese, which threatens to destroy Catholic education in the territory
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Card.-Zen-on-hunger-strike-for-freedom-of-education-in-schools-22950.html
30 SEPTEMBER 2011
Filipina maid wins landmark Hong Kong case
Hong Kong’s High Court has ruled that a law banning foreign maids from settling permanently in the city was unconstitutional, in a
landmark case for the city’s domestic helpers
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/09/201193035933698766.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15090597
28 SEPTEMBER 2011
Hong Kong’s Chief Secretary Henry Tang resigns
A controversial Hong Kong official expected to become the territory’s next leader on Wednesday announced his resignation, fuelling
speculation that he would be tapped for the city’s top job. Henry Tang, the semi-autonomous territory’s chief secretary, had faced a storm of criticism over remarks he made about what critics called heavy-handed security imposed during a visit by China’s vice-premier Li Keqiang last month
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1156057/1/.html
18 MAY 2011
Hong Kong: China’s most patriotic city
Let’s face it, nearly 14 years after the British handed back this colony to Chinese rule, this city of 7.1 million people has yet to take the motherland in a warm, loving embrace. There have been lots of firm handshakes sealing economic deals, but hugs of genuine affection have been few, and ond kisses – indeed, even perfunctory pecks on the cheek – even fewer. So far, Hong Kong’s reunification with the mainland has been an economically successful but distinctly cold-blooded affair
28 AUGUST 2010
China approves controversial Hong Kong election reforms
China’s top lawmaking body Saturday approved controversial electoral reforms for Hong Kong, the city’s government-run radio station said. The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress in Beijing voted 98 per cent in favor of the reforms, RTHK radio reported
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1580626.php/China-approves-controversial-Hong-Kong-election-reforms
3 AUGUST 2010
How far and how fast should one of the planet’s most densely populated conurbations be allowed
to grow?
Last week the government Census and Statistics Department published its population projections for 2010-2039, data which reach
into many areas of government policy. Using a 2009 baseline of 7.003 million the forecast is for the total to reach 8,892 million by 2039, an annual increase of some 0.8 percent or 63,000 a year
http://asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2619&Itemid=204
25 JUNE 2010
Hong Kong: Plan to Expand Legislature Is Approved
The Legislative Council voted 46 to 12 on Friday to approve a plan to add 10 seats to the legislature in 2012. The public would elect lawmakers to fill five seats
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/world/asia/26hkbrief.html?ref=asia
20 JANUARY 2010
Former Tiananmen movement leader Zhou Yongjun was sentenced to nine years
Former Tiananmen movement leader Zhou Yongjun was sentenced to nine years in prison on the charge of attempted fraud and fined
80,000 yuan. He was arrested in Hong Kong in September 2008. Instead of expelling him to the place he came from, Hong Kong authorities handed him over to Chinese police in violation of Hong Kong lawhttp://www.asianews.it/news-en/Arrested-in-Hong-Kong,-Tiananmen-protest-leader-sentenced-to-nine-years-in-a-Chinese-prison-17401.html
5 JULY 2009
Freedom of expression in Hong Kong on decline, journalists say
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1487847.php/Freedom_of_expression_in_Hong_Kong_on_decline_journalists_say_#ixzz0KQ8zxWXz&C
30 APRIL 2009
Bishop John Tong of Hong Kong, « man of dialogue, » but with « non-negotiable principles »
A wide-ranging interview with the successor to the combative Cardinal Zen. The progress and prospects of the Church’s efforts in the territory, and toward the sister Church in China, in a give-and-take relationship. Openness and dialogue with the Chinese government, but remembering the Chinese bishops in prison, and asking for complete religious liberty. Memories of childhood and of his conversion. The work of the Holy Spirit Study Centre
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15126&geo=&theme=&size=A