... e million protesters. Lam, who refused to apologize the previous day, finally made a half-hearted apology with the issuance of a press release where she acknowledged “deficiencies in the government’s ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-17
Joshua Wong, one of the leaders of Hong Kong's 2014 Occupy pro-democracy protests, walked free from prison on Monday and vowed to join the campaign calling for resignation of the city's current chief ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-17
... emocratic Progressive Party in the Taiwan election next January. Television stations around the world have carried dramatic footage of the largest protests in Hong Kong – or China – since Beijing in s ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-17
After four years of legal proceedings, the Court of Final Appeal on June 6 finally ruled in favor of senior immigration officer Angus Leung over his judicial review lawsuit against the government for ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-17
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor apologized on Sunday as hundreds of thousands of black-clad protesters maintained calls for her to resign over her handling of a bill that would have allowed ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-16
... gislative proposal to amend the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance and the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Ordinance. After careful examination of the relevant laws and the practices of other ju ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-15
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
