Wednesday, February 5, 2014

• Hong Kong Paper Ousts Top Editor, Stirring Concern by Chris Buckley and Gerry Mullany


Hong Kong Paper Ousts Top Editor, Stirring Concern
by Chris Buckley and Gerry Mullany - Sunday, February 02, 2014



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HONG KONG — This city’s Ming Pao newspaper has long stood for sober independence in a media market that is both brashly commercial and buffeted by political winds from China, its reporters pursuing and often breaking stories that irk the territory’s overseers in Beijing. 

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

• "We are not Chinese" - Rachel Lu


"We are not Chinese"
by Rachel Lu - Tuesday, February 04, 2014


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A protester displays a portrait of Britain's Queen Elizabeth (R) while others wave British and Hong Kong colonial flags opposite the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong garrison army headquarters during a demonstration against Hong Kong and Chinese governments, marking the 16th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China, in Hong Kong July 1, 2013. Tens of thousands braved typhoon rains on Monday to demand China live up to its promise to allow fully democratic elections in Hong Kong in 2017 amid mounting fears of increased meddling by Beijing's Communist Party leaders.