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Sunday, December 14, 2014

South China Morning Post- Hong Kong

Looks like the end of the protest movement in Hong Kong is coming....for now

Hong Kong police poised to dismantle Occupy's last stronghold
Hong Kong police are poised to tear down the last standing pro-democracy protest camp in Causeway Bay this morning, where only a few more Occupy supporters remain.
Updated 15 Dec 2014 - 10:04am
Occupy groups to start 'non-cooperation movement' as follow-up to mass protests
Students and civic groups are launching a "non-cooperation movement"  urging people to delay paying public-housing rent and to pay tax bills in small amounts as a follow-up to the Occupy protests...
15 Dec 2014 - 8:35am
 
Occupy groups to start 'non-cooperation movement' as follow-up to mass protests
Hong Kong needs "re-enlightenment" to give citizens a better understanding of "one country, two systems", a top Beijing official said in remarks seen as signalling a harder line on the city's...
15 Dec 2014 - 8:34am
 
Occupy groups to start 'non-cooperation movement' as follow-up to mass protests
The Hospital Authority has relaxed restrictions in a voluntary scheme designed to lure doctors to take on extra work at its accident and emergency wards, which have been hit by a severe manpower...
15 Dec 2014 - 7:48am
Occupy groups to start 'non-cooperation movement' as follow-up to mass protests
The Democratic Party needs change to win the support of more young people in the post-Occupy era, Emily Lau Wai-hing said after she was re-elected as party head on Sunday.
15 Dec 2014 - 7:40am
 
Hong Kong man has new outlook after groundbreaking liver transplant
This summer, Wong Wan-shing's vigorous training routine paid off when he secured victory in a big bodybuilding contest. By September he was at death's door with hepatitis B.
15 Dec 2014 - 7:57am
As the Occupy campaign winds down with the Causeway Bay protest site due to be cleared today, for anti-Occupy activist Leticia Lee See-yin, the fight "for justice" is not over yet.
15 Dec 2014 - 3:35am
 

OPINION

The last embers of the 2½-month Occupy Central campaign could be stubbed out tomorrow after police announced details of the clearance of the last protest site left standing.
14 Dec 2014 - 12:00pm
 
Renegade internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom says Hong Kong is a key battleground in his fight to stop the US government extraditing him to face charges of mass copyright infringement.
14 Dec 2014 - 8:40am
The Hong Kong Brands and Products Expo got a top-level seal of approval yesterday when Beijing's top man in the city declared it open and urged the public to go shopping when they are "in a good...
14 Dec 2014 - 2:47am
 
A legal expert has put forward an ambitious eight-point blueprint for "constructive dialogue and negotiations" in an attempt to end the political schism after Occupy Central.
14 Dec 2014 - 10:18am
 
A construction worker on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge died after the excavator he was operating fell into the sea.
14 Dec 2014 - 5:01am
She's 32 years old, married, has children and wants to see the world. That's the typical profile of a mainland woman who chooses to work as a prostitute, according to a new report.
14 Dec 2014 - 10:15am
 
Delays to the long-awaited Sha Tin-to-Central link could have a human cost, suicide-prevention experts warned as they called on the MTR Corporation to speed up installation of platform safety...
14 Dec 2014 - 9:18am
 
Customs officials seized about 2.1 million illicit cigarettes and arrested 13 people in the latest raid on cross-border tobacco smugglers.
14 Dec 2014 - 5:01am
New direct flights between Hong Kong and Britain have landed business leaders there with a problem - how to get their hands on enough Putonghua speakers in Manchester.
14 Dec 2014 - 5:01am
In crowded Hong Kong, with its skyrocketing property prices, developers are building ever-more miniscule flats with relatively small price tags. The question is: can you live in them?
Updated 15 Dec 2014 - 9:07am
 
Veterans, government officials and pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong found their own ways to mark the 77th anniversary of the rape of Nanking, when Beijing held its first official national...
14 Dec 2014 - 5:59am
Security chiefs remain tight-lipped over claims Hong Kong conspired with US and British spies to kidnap a dissident in 2004 despite damning revelations about the CIA's rendition programme.
14 Dec 2014 - 10:01am
Officers were called to the park at 7.30am after a sanitation worker found the body in a cubicle that had been locked from the inside.
14 Dec 2014 - 10:51am
Embattled Hong Kong businessman Peter Pannu on Friday resigned as director of Birmingham City Football Club as controversy continued over a series of online posts he made a week earlier.
14 Dec 2014 - 10:54am
With his paunch and appetite for mince pies, Santa Claus may be an unlikely candidate for vigorous exercise. But that didn't stop some of the city's most enthusiastic runners as they raised...
14 Dec 2014 - 5:01am
The jury in the Rafael Hui/Kwok brothers trial will begin its deliberations on Monday after hearing months of evidence on the charges.
13 Dec 2014 - 2:41am
A top adviser to Beijing on Hong Kong affairs said the city's problems needed "a comprehensive treatment" rather than "small fixes and patches" after the main Occupy Central camp in Admiralty was...
13 Dec 2014 - 7:03am
 
Indonesian domestic worker Erwiana Sulistyaningsih told the District Court that her former employer, Law Wan-tung, told her to "walk properly" in public, despite painful blisters on her feet.
13 Dec 2014 - 1:29am
Hong Kong must boost investment in technology and people if it is to stay globally competitive, a panel of top business executives said at the South China Morning Post's Redefining Hong Kong...
13 Dec 2014 - 1:32am
Environment officials had another victory, securing funding for an extension to the Ta Kwu Ling landfill and a study into expanding the Tuen Mun tip.
13 Dec 2014 - 2:41am
 

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