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Monday, June 30, 2014

Hong Kong- South China Morning Post

Members of League of Social Democrats call for open elections and burn copy of white paper outside annual flag-raising ceremony, as up to half a million prepare to take to the streets. 
Updated 1 Jul 2014 - 9:39am
The government was warned yesterday that its efforts to identify and protect the city's cultural heritage could end up destroying Hong Kong's treasures through commercialisation.
Updated 1 Jul 2014 - 9:38am
Students plan an overnight sit-in after today's annual march for democracy as a rehearsal for Occupy Central's planned blockage of the city's business heart.
Updated 1 Jul 2014 - 9:19am
Media and tobacco tycoon Charles Ho Tsu-kwok is one of only two people to win the city's top award in the latest honours list.
Updated 1 Jul 2014 - 9:38am
Employees of the so-called Big Four accounting firms have told off their bosses in public, in an advertisement rejecting the companies' joint anti-Occupy Central ad published last week.
1 Jul 2014 - 2:53am
Mainland academics who advise Beijing on Hong Kong affairs do not think there is any chance of reaching a consensus on the 2017 chief executive election in the wake of the unofficial referendum on...
1 Jul 2014 - 7:41am
"I have tried my very best and have suffered the greatest pressure. It's like liberating myself." That's how Ronny Tong Ka-wah describes his decision to end his lone one-year campaign for a...
30 Jun 2014 - 11:51pm

Opinion

The "remarkable commitment" of the latest player to renounce his citizenship in order to play soccer for Hong Kong has brought a renewed call for a change to the eligibility rules.
1 Jul 2014 - 8:04am
The sudden death of the eight-year-old son of a Sha Tin district councillor has triggered an investigation by the Centre for Health Protection after tests showed he had encephalitis.
1 Jul 2014 - 3:54am
A man who, as a teenager, sexually assaulted his triplet sisters when they were aged between 10 and 13 years old was jailed for five years yesterday for what a judge described as a serious crime...
1 Jul 2014 - 3:54am
In a China Daily editorial published earlier this year, the Occupy Central campaign was labelled "a kind of terrorism". Is this characterisation correct under Hong Kong law?
1 Jul 2014 - 3:54am
Almost one in two say they do not trust central government, while a third of respondents to another poll are unhappy with policies regarding Hong Kong.
1 Jul 2014 - 7:54am
Importing 30 per cent of the city's energy from the mainland would compromise Hong Kong's energy security, says Kenneth Leung.
30 Jun 2014 - 7:21pm
Lawmakers had looked set to leave pan-democratic group, but with the alliance's 2017 plan winning the public's backing, key figures have called for unity.
30 Jun 2014 - 1:36pm
Revised guidelines on sales tactics may be issued to property developers after it emerged that some could be fudging information on flats - leaving homebuyers unaware that opening their windows...
30 Jun 2014 - 8:38am
Hongkongers must decide now whether they are prepared to pay for a new retirement plan, an expert appointed to study the issue said.
30 Jun 2014 - 8:52am
It's a hot, hazy afternoon and a marine biologist is taking a group of reporters out to sea for an update on the plight of Chinese white dolphins. He explains how construction of the Hong Kong-...
30 Jun 2014 - 5:06am
The reaction in Hong Kong to a white paper on the 'one country, two systems' policy showed that Beijing needed to learn to communicate better with the city, a mainland source said.
30 Jun 2014 - 3:45pm
The much-disputed passage of initial funding for new towns last week drove more people to vote in an unofficial plebiscite on electoral reform on its last day.
30 Jun 2014 - 5:09pm
A man has been arrested after police uncovered a large cache of firearms and ammunition from a flat in Wong Tai Sin. The case came to light when staff at Chek Lap Kok airport's air mail centre...
30 Jun 2014 - 5:06am
With ventilation comes the cacophony of traffic - as a homebuyer who has yet to take possession of her flat in Cheung Sha Wan has realised to her dismay.
30 Jun 2014 - 5:06am
There is a wry sense of irony in Siu Leung-hing's artworks - mosaics created using hundreds of stamps. Look closely at the striking portrait of Mao Zedong and you can see he is made out of stamps...
30 Jun 2014 - 7:31pm
A proposal tabled by the Alliance for True Democracy, a group comprising 26 of the 27 pan-democratic lawmakers, won the unofficial "referendum" on Hong Kong's electoral reform that ended last...
30 Jun 2014 - 3:13pm
Four men demonstrated their opposition to the Occupy Central civil disobedience movement with some civil disobedience of their own - jumping off the pier at Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower into Victoria...
30 Jun 2014 - 8:49am
Taiwanese activists Lin Chi-hua and Chen Wei-ting, who plan to join July 1 rally in Hong Kong, were refused entry, raising accusations of political motives.
30 Jun 2014 - 8:25am
Anti-Occupy Central sentiments were running high for some local residents who braved sweltering heat and sporadic showers on Sunday to visit People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers during the...
29 Jun 2014 - 3:36pm
Opponents prepared for the next stage of the fight against plans for new towns in the northeastern New Territories, while the Legislative Council president rejected claims that Friday's vote on...
29 Jun 2014 - 10:37am

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