A private member's bill targeting the Link REIT that was jointly proposed by Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee of the New People’s Party and Alice Mak Mei-kuen of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (HKFTU) ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-12
... the nine pro-democracy activists were convicted for their roles in the 2014 protests, that the recent wave of court cases related to political activism “could have a detrimental effect” on the SAR's ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-11
Four of the nine leaders of the Occupy Movement convicted on Tuesday for their roles in the 2014 pro-democracy protests have sought court leniency, requesting that they do community service instead of ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-11
... erage and prompted several Western political dignitaries to express their concerns about Hong Kong’s diminishing freedoms. Supporters rallied behind the nine convicted activists both inside and outsid ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-11
... ctober compromise. Oct. 31 would correspond to the end of the five-year mandate of the present EU executive body, the European Commission. Leaders would meet again in June to assess the situation. Bri ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-11
When about 500,000 people marched in protest on July 1, 2003 against national security legislation, known as Article 23, a stunned Hong Kong government withdrew the proposed law. Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-11
When about 500,000 people marched in protest on July 1, ...全文
今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2019年04月11日
Occupy Central co-founders Benny Tai Yiu-ting and Dr. Chan Kin-man on Tuesday urged a judge to spare jail time for Reverend Chu Yiu-ming, their colleague and fellow founder of the pro-democracy civil ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-10
... ut on the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily. After learning about Leung’s latest preoccupation, Ng announced that he would raise money through crowdfunding to take out a full-page on Apple Daily for ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-09
... e time is probably ripe for her to consider taking a trip to the US this year, government sources said, citing those in charge of planning the chief executive's foreign trips. However, the sources str ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-09
... endants – pro-democracy legislators Tanya Chan and Shiu Ka-chun, former student leaders Eason Chung Yiu-wa and Tommy Cheung Sau-yin, League of Social Democrats vice-chairman Raphael Wong Ho-ming, and ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-09
On Wednesday last week, the Democratic Party “fired the first shot” against Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and asked her to step down. The Democrats said her proposed amendments to the Fug ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-08
... card. The problem is, five years into his presidency, Poroshenko has failed to jump-start his country’s sluggish economy, not to mention his involvement in a series of corruption scandals. To make thi ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-03
... n Sha Tin protested at the mainland Chinese owner of the estate’s shopping mall for the prolonged closure of the local wet market, as well as the looming closure of the only local supermarket as a res ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-03
... recently proposed amendments to the extradition laws, the human rights situation, and the state of development of democracy in Hong Kong, which have hit a raw nerve in Beijing. That explains why the ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-02
... down new proposals for the next steps in the Brexit process. French President Emmanuel Macron has pointed out the real problem. He remarked: “Now it is finally up to the British political system to p ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-02
... ng Kong’s pro-democracy movement. University of Hong Kong associate law professor Benny Tai Yiu-ting, social welfare functional constituency lawmaker Shiu Ka-chun and League of Social Democrats vice- ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-01
... meet with pro-democracy activists in the mainland in the course of the trip. Their request, however, was turned down by the Hong Kong branch of Xinhua News Agency, the predecessor of today's Beijing's ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-29
