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Occupy Central

Opinion | Nothing brings Hongkongers and mainlanders closer together than sports

Enthusiastic rendition of the Cantopop anthem Red Sun in Hong Kong Coliseum as China beat Turkey in women’s volleyball showed Chinese sporting pride.

25 Jun 2024 - 9:30AMvideocam

Former Hong Kong politician ‘major backer’ of firearms purchase in bomb plot

3 Jun 2024 - 10:18PM

My Take | Article 23 and the tragedy of Hong Kong

5 Feb 2024 - 9:00PM

Who are the 8 Hongkongers wanted over national security with HK$1 million bounties?

Nearly all have urged sanctions on city, while most linked to 2019 social unrest and online calls for activism before and after leaving, according to police.

4 Jul 2023 - 1:21PMvideocam

The eight suspects are (clockwise from top left) Kevin Yam, Elmer Yuan, Anna Kwok, Dennis Kwok, Nathan Law, Finn Lau, Mung Siu-tat and Ted Hui. Photo: Dickson Lee

Finding God without the church: artist Tozer Pak on religion and his art

Artist Tozer Pak tells Kate Whitehead how growing up with an absent father led him to God, and how he has helped transform art classes for children in Hong Kong with autism and ADHD.

20 May 2023 - 7:50AM

September 28, 2014: Hong Kong police fire tear gas as thousands join Occupy Central

Union leaders call for strikes as police defend hard-line response and Benny Tai admits protest movement’s leaders are not in control.

13 Jun 2022 - 4:30PMvideocam

Controversial political scientist Brian Fong leaves Education University of Hong Kong

Ta Kung Pao accused Fong of being ‘pro-independence element’ for joining opposition politicians in calling for general strike to further democracy fight in 2016.

13 Feb 2022 - 11:04PM

Brian Fong was an associate professor at Education University of Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Did Hong Kong trade office pressure Australian festival to drop umbrella display?

Workshop’s backer says it was told use of yellow umbrellas was not acceptable; trade office says programming decisions ‘made by organiser’.

29 Oct 2021 - 3:14PMvideocam

Lingnan University terminates 2 professors who previously criticised government

One professor had just written a piece about opposition participation in the coming legislative election, and the other was linked to a fund offering assistance to protesters.

2 Oct 2021 - 12:36AM

Former Occupy activist takes helm of Washington-based Hong Kong advocacy group

Alex Chow has been named the new board chairman of the two-year-old Hong Kong Democracy Council, succeeding Anna Yeung-Cheung.

22 Sep 2021 - 6:59PM

Activist Alex Chow, the new chairman of the Hong Kong Democracy Council, speaks during a rally in New York earlier this year. Photo: AFP

Occupy founder leaves Hong Kong for teaching position in Taiwan

Sociologist Chan Kin-man will be teaching courses on social movements, contemporary China at Taipei’s National Chengchi University, but dismisses suggestions move was ‘abrupt’ attempt to flee city.

20 Jul 2021 - 10:34PM

Sociologist Chan Kin-man (left) and fellow Occupy movement founders Benny Tai (centre) and Reverend Chu Yiu-ming (right) appear at West Kowloon Court in 2019. Photo: Sam Tsang

Hong Kong court rejects Occupy conviction appeals by Benny Tai, eight others

Reverend Chu Yiu-ming and retired sociologist Chan Kin-man also among the group of nine convicted of public nuisance charges for blocking roads during the 79-day protests in 2014.

30 Apr 2021 - 7:44PM

Opinion | Hong Kong election reform: Beijing demands loyalty because trust is lacking

Hong Kong’s pursuit of democracy has ended up in this sorry state because the opposition failed to build trust with Beijing. Only when loyalty is not in dispute can Hong Kong create a space for democratic experiments.

19 Mar 2021 - 9:15AMvideocam

Benny Tai sent back to jail to await court’s ruling in Occupy Central appeal

Tai and his co-defendants, Chan Kin-man and Chu Yiu-ming, are appealing against their convictions on public nuisance charges the 2014 protest movement.

4 Mar 2021 - 8:45PMvideocam

Legal scholar Benny Tai gives a thumbs up as he leaves the Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre earlier this week. Photo: Winson Wong

Court hears Occupy co-founders merely engaged in ‘conspiracy to inspire’

Benny Tai, Chan Kin-man and Chu Yiu-ming are challenging their conviction on conspiracy and incitement charges stemming from their roles in the civil disobedience movement.

3 Mar 2021 - 3:38AM

The appeal against the 2019 conviction of the co-founders of the Occupy Central movement kicked off on Tuesday. Photo: EPA

Letters | Hong Kong media will have itself to blame for fake news law

In terms of the overall coverage of Hong Kong’s troubles, starting in 2014 with the Occupy Central disturbances, both the local and international media gave a consistently biased and distorted view.

10 Feb 2021 - 7:00AM

Opinion | In the wake of 2014 Occupy and 2019 riots, patriots must rule Hong Kong

Beijing’s requirement that Hong Kong’s leaders must love the country and Hong Kong is not new, but has been emphasised now following repeated attacks on the city’s law and order. To ensure ‘one country, two systems’ continues, the SAR must choose a leader who’s trusted and capable.

7 Feb 2021 - 9:15AMvideocam

Activist Leticia Lee, champion of police force and national education, dies at 56

Medical sources say the pro-government figure tested preliminary-positive for Covid-19 after death, the cause of which was still unknown.

16 Dec 2020 - 9:38PM

Pro-government activist Leticia Lee speaks to reporters at a 2016 press conference. Photo: Dickson Lee

When society is divided, how do you find home for Christmas?

A writer delves into Christmases past and present and near and far as Hong Kong, once again, faces an unknown future.

13 Dec 2020 - 11:33AMvideocam

Opinion | Again, political reform is left out of Carrie Lam’s policy address

The plans announced on housing and boosting financial services and tourism are welcome, but the address has several serious omissions. A major missed opportunity was one that has haunted Hong Kong – the lack of a plan to move the city towards the promised goal of universal suffrage.

30 Nov 2020 - 4:00AMvideocam

7 days, 9 hours’ sleep: chef’s ‘cooking battle’ during PolyU siege

Chef Sunny Zie recalls the week he spent cooking for more than 1,000 anti-government protesters during the siege of Hong Kong Polytechnic University a year ago this month.

11 Nov 2020 - 7:32PM

Anti-government protesters hold a lunchtime rally at the junction of Sheung Yuet Road and Wang Chiu Road in Kowloon Bay. 26NOV19 SCMP / Nora Tam

How Hong Kong has long invited, and defied, prophecy

Sinologist and ‘global historian’ Jeffrey Wasserstrom, who bore witness to the anger and utopia of Occupy Central in 2014 and last year’s Hong Kong protests, makes just one prediction: that he is unlikely to visit China again.

7 Nov 2020 - 12:25PM

What lies ahead for Hong Kong? Photo: Reuters

Review | Apart: activism meets young love in Hong Kong drama

A love story that begins amid the 2014 ‘umbrella movement’ protests in Hong Kong and ends on the cusp of 2019’s anti-extradition violence, Apart feels like a time capsule from a different era.

1 Nov 2020 - 12:50AMvideocam

Hong Kong’s exiled dissidents: world’s listening, but for how long?

For the first time in the city’s history, Hong Kong has dissidents abroad. But who are they, what do they want, and what will they do when the world moves on?

10 Oct 2020 - 4:26PMvideocam

Letters | Why Hong Kong Catholics need not worry about future of city

8 Oct 2020 - 6:45AM

Cardinal Joseph Zen (centre) joins Christians (both Catholics and Protestants) in a protest rally from Causeway Bay to the central government headquarters in Admiralty, to mark the death of democracy in Hong Kong on March 30, 2019. Photo: Dickson Lee

Government sues Hong Kong activist over officers’ injuries from Occupy protest

Authorities seeking more than HK$170,000 in compensation for the injuries, which allegedly left one officer permanently affected.

8 Sep 2020 - 9:50PM

Billy Chiu being escorted out of the Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre in 2017. Photo: Dickson Lee

Editorial | University of Hong Kong parody video may fuel further mistrust

A two-minute clip produced by the University of Hong Kong’s Campus TV falls short of the decency and respect expected of tertiary students. But the underlying sentiments and issues may prompt more tension and conflict if they are not properly addressed.

6 Sep 2020 - 2:04AM

Opinion | Why Hong Kong does not need more democracy right now

The chaos and instability unleashed by the quest for universal suffrage, the gridlock in the legislature and the government’s declining efficacy support a halt in the expansion of democracy.

16 Aug 2020 - 8:14AMvideocam

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Occupy Central

Occupy Central -- also known as the Occupy movement and the "umbrella movement" -- was a large-scale show of civil disobedience that began in Hong Kong on September 28, 2014. It called on protesters to block roads and paralyse the city's financial district if the Beijing and local governments did not agree to implement universal suffrage for the 2017 chief executive election and the 2020 Legislative Council elections according to "international standards". The movement was the brainchild of Benny Tai Yiu-ting, an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong.

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9 September, 2024