Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Saturday delayed indefinitely a proposed law that would allow extraditions to mainland China, in a dramatic retreat after widespread anger over the bill s ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-15
Cracks appeared to emerge on Friday in the support base for a proposed law that would allow extraditions to China as opponents of the bill vowed further demonstrations after hundreds of thousands took ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-14
A pro-democracy group will press ahead with their protests against an extradition bill over the weekend as they call on Hong Kong citizens to pursue the struggle until the government backs down and re ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-14
... 0 percent probability of winning the top job. Second round Johnson, a former London mayor and foreign minister, has spent weeks wooing Conservative lawmakers, staying out of the spotlight with a low-k ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-14
As Hong Kong faces the risk of renewed social and political tensions in the wake of a public uproar over proposed changes to an extradition law, a company, Goldin Financial Holdings, announced on Tues ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-13
... emocratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the opposition Kuomintang (KMT). Simply put, the Hong Kong issue is likely to become one of the key themes of the upcoming Taiwan presidential election. Comments ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-12
Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at demonstrators who threw plastic bottles in running battles outside the Legislative Council on Wednesday as protests continued against an extradition bill th ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-12
... fear the proposal would allow dissidents to be sent to mainland China for trial, camped out in the Legco area overnight, and as the crowds swelled, occupied Lung Wo Road and Harcourt Road in the morn ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-12
... ple being probed by the Justice Department and the FTC looking at Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook. Makan Delrahim, assistant attorney general, noted in a video speech to a conference in Israel that the J ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-12
As Hong Kong people staged a million-strong march on Sunday to denounce the extradition bill, the government has stepped up efforts to seal the support of the pro-establishment camp for its controvers ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-11
Civic Party lawmaker Tanya Chan Suk-chong was on Monday given a suspended prison term by a local judge for her role in the 2014 pro-democracy Occupy protests. The democracy activist was given eight mo ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-11
On Sunday, hundreds of thousands of people poured onto the streets in Hong Kong to express their anger at the government's proposed changes to the extradition law. The Civil Human Rights Front claimed ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-11
Chief Executive Carrie Lam is stubbornly refusing to walk back her extradition bill despite the huge protest march by citizens, but she was honest enough to acknowledge the scale of the Sunday demonst ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-11
... lation to proposed enactment of a national security law. The judges’ remarks on the law change, as quoted by the media, have drawn the attention of their superior -- Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma Tao-li - ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-10
Sunday's protest march against the extradition bill saw some demonstrators clash with the police late Sunday night, resulting in injuries to a few police officers as well as a number of protesters. A ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-10
Undeterred by Sunday's massive protest against planned changes to the extradition law, the government said the second reading debate on the Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal M ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-10
... Sunday’s protest march will raise the pressure on the administration of Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and her official backers in Beijing. “She has to withdraw the bill and resign,” veteran De ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-10
... an rights protection. Kwok then asked Lee to answer the question as to whether China is able to provide sufficient human rights protection. The security chief said he cannot comment further. There are ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-06
... rily mean pro-establishment lawmakers are home free and can enjoy their summer recess after that, as another major battle is looming on the horizon, i.e. the work involving appropriation by the Financ ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-06
