Hong Kong protesters urge G20 leaders to prod Xi over extradition legislation
Hong Kong activists opposed to contentious extradition legislation on Wednesday called on leaders of the U.S., the European Union and others to raise the issue with Chinese President Xi Jinping at this week's G20 summit in Osaka. Beijing has strongly opposed such a development, saying ...
Ex-Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang cleared of misconduct conviction
Former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang saw his misconduct conviction quashed by the city's top court on Wednesday, the final twist to one of the financial hub's most high-profile corruption cases. Tsang was jailed in 2017 after being found guilty of failing to disclose his ...
Viral artwork pummeling city leaders, clever word plays and Cantonese cursing that would make a sailor blush — Hong Kongers have displayed a characteristically riotous embrace of satire during their huge anti-government protests. Anger has punctuated much of the historic rallies roiling Hong Kong in ...
Hong Kong protesters plan new action to draw leaders' attention ahead of Osaka G20 summit
Protesters fearing an erosion of Hong Kong's legal autonomy blocked access to a government office building for nearly two hours Monday and plan more demonstrations to draw the attention of leaders attending the Group of 20 summit in Japan this week. About 100 demonstrators jammed ...
Hong Kong police vow to pursue protest leaders involved in siege of headquarters
Hong Kong police on Saturday vowed to pursue the ringleaders of a 15-hour blockade of their headquarters that involved thousands of anti-government demonstrators as a push to oust the city's pro-Beijing leader evolves. The largely young protesters surrounded the headquarters throughout Friday and into the ...
Protesters in Hong Kong ended their overnight siege of police headquarters peacefully, disappointed that their demands for the territory's leader to formally withdraw a contentious extradition bill and police to apologize for heavy handed tactics are unmet. By daybreak Saturday, police cleared the streets of ...
Entrepreneur Tony Verb is on a mission to promote technology that can help make cities greener and smarter in China's Greater Bay Area, now being shaped as a low-carbon megalopolis. Hong Kong-based Verb, co-founder of the investment firm GreaterBay Ventures & Advisors, plans to back ...
Hong Kong protesters demand total withdrawal of contentious extradition bill
Thousands of people dressed in black marched in Hong Kong on Friday to press for the total withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill that has triggered violent protests and plunged the financial hub into political crisis. Demonstrators, mostly students wearing hard hats, goggles and face ...
Former top Filipino diplomat Albert del Rosario, a Xi critic, blocked from entering Hong Kong
A former Philippine foreign secretary who accused Chinese President Xi Jinping of crimes against humanity in court said Friday he was barred from immediately entering Hong Kong and held at the airport for unclear reasons. Former Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario told The Associated Press ...
The people of Hong Kong have prevailed but this is only a skirmish in a much longer struggle.
Best-selling author and mom says Japanese parents should let kids fail to succeed
The bizarre and unreasonable rules that schools in Japan enforce upon children are not preparing them for the modern world where technology is changing what it means to be a human, says Agnes Chan, a bestselling author of parenting books. Rather, she says, the oppressive ...
All but a handful of protesters in Hong Kong have gone home, but the crisis that brought hundreds of thousands into the streets to oppose an extradition bill is far from over. The way forward for both Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and her ...
