Tag: Hong Kong

Democracy in China?

Claudia Rosett · October 13, 2014 4:00 am

Pro-democracy students do their homework at a study area at a main road in the occupied areas in Hong Kong's Admiralty district, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014. Students and activists demanding a greater say in choosing the city's leader have vowed to stay until the government responds, while the government has repeatedly urged protesters to withdraw from the streets and allow the city to return to normal. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Hong Kong protesters petition Chinese President Xi

Sylvia Hui · October 11, 2014 3:17 pm

OCTOBER 4 - Thousands of pro democracy supporters continue to occupy the streets surrounding Hong Kong's Financial district. (Getty images/Thomas Campean)

Beltway Confidential

Congress offers bipartisan support of Hong Kong protesters

Becket Adams · October 9, 2014 9:39 pm

Joshua Wong, 17-year old student leader, stands on the stage during a rally in the occupied areas at Central district in Hong Kong, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014. A Hong Kong government official canceled planned talks with student protest leaders on Friday, saying they were unlikely to be constructive. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

National Security

Hong Kong protests unresolved after talks collapse

Kelvin Chan · October 9, 2014 5:08 pm

National Security

Hong Kong official: Talks with student protest leaders canceled, not likely to be constructive

Washington Examiner · October 9, 2014 11:56 am

Sen. Mark Pryor is in the fight of his life protecting his seat against midterm election challenger Rep. Tom Cotton. (AP Photo)

Democrats on defensive over role of government

Michael Barone · October 9, 2014 9:00 am

In this Oct. 5, 2014 photo, a man who is identified by local media as Leung Siu Hung, a stuntman, holding a cutter, threatens to jump off the bridge to against the Occupy Central movement outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty. In the Hong Kong protests, not all is as it seems. In the chaos of mass street protests, murky characters come into play. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

National Security

Murky players emerge from within Hong Kong protest

Louise Watt · October 7, 2014 5:36 pm

A man walks to work as the pro-democracy student protesters sleep on a roadside in the occupied areas surrounding the government complex in Hong Kong Oct. 6, 2014. Hong Kong's civil servants returned to work and schools were reopening Monday as a massive pro-democracy protest that has occupied much of the city center for the week dwindled. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Hong Kong protests fade; students vow to carry on

SYLVIA HUIJOANNA CHIU · October 6, 2014 4:57 pm

Student pro-democracy protesters sleep, rest and wait on the streets near the government headquarters at the break of dawn, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014, in Hong Kong. Pro-democracy protesters were defiant in the face of attacks by opponents and warnings by the Hong Kong government to clear the streets, staging a massive rally Saturday evening in the downtown business district they've occupied for a week. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Hong Kong protesters stage massive, defiant rally

KELVIN CHANJOANNA CHIU · October 5, 2014 12:42 am

A lone woman shouts at pro-democracy student protesters blocking the streets in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014. Friction between pro-democracy protesters and opponents of their weeklong occupation of major Hong Kong streets persisted Saturday as police denied they had any connection to criminal gangs suspected of inciting attacks on largely peaceful demonstrators. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

National Security

Hong Kong weary, protective, opposed to protesters

Joanna Chiu · October 4, 2014 1:38 pm

Police take an injured man from the confrontation of pro-democracy student protesters and angry local residents in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. Pushing and yelling, hundreds of Hong Kong residents tried to force pro-democracy activists from the streets they were occupying Friday as tensions rose in the weeklong protests that have shut down parts of the city. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

National Security

Hong Kong protesters cancel talks with government

JOANNA CHIUWENDY TANG · October 3, 2014 4:34 pm

A pro-democracy protester is taken away by police offers as an ambulance tries to leave the compound of the chief executive office in Hong Kong, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. Hong Kong protesters on Friday welcomed an overnight offer by the territory's leader of talks to defuse the crisis over demonstrations seeking democratic reforms, though they continued to demand he resign and maintained barricades around government headquarters, frustrating staff going to work. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

National Security

Hong Kong protesters set for talks; govt HQ shut

Kelvin Chan · October 3, 2014 4:54 am