Occupy Central
Occupy Central is a civil disobedience movement which began in Hong Kong on September 28, 2014. It calls on thousands of protesters to block roads and paralyse Hong Kong's financial district if the Beijing and Hong Kong governments do not agree to implement universal suffrage for the chief executive election in 2017 and the Legislative Council elections in 2020 according to "international standards." The movement was initiated by Benny Tai Yiu-ting (戴耀廷), an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, in January 2013.
Umbrella Movement
The Umbrella Movement (Chinese: 雨傘運動; pinyin: yǔsǎn yùndòng) is a loose political movement that was created spontaneously during the Hong Kong protests of 2014. Its name derives from the recognition of the umbrella as a symbol of defiance and resistance against the Hong Kong government, and the united grass-roots objection to the decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) of 31 August.
The movement consists of individuals numbering in the tens of thousands who participated in the protests that began on 28 September 2014, although Scholarism, the Hong Kong Federation of Students, Occupy Central with Love and Peace, groups are principally driving the demands for the rescission of the NPCSC decision.
Occupy Central site in Causeway Bay was cleared as police moved in ...
POST OCCUPY CENTRAL - DAY 182:
Full coverage of the day’s events on 16-06
Hong Kong reform vote
The Hong Kong government’s political reform proposal for how the city elects its leader by universal suffrage for the first time in 2017 is based on a strict framework set by Beijing. The plan limits the number of candidates to two or three and requires them to win majority support from a 1,200 strong nominating committee. Arguing that this does not constitute genuine universal suffrage, pan-democratic lawmakers have vowed to reject the package, while pro-democracy groups have protested. The government’s resolution was to be put to a vote by the 70-member Legislative Council in June 2015, requiring a two-thirds majority to be passed.
Graft-busters launched an investigation yesterday after lawmaker "Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung claimed a mystery man offered to pay him to support the government's electoral reform plan, likely to be voted on this week.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2015, 4:27pm
Police arrested 10 people yesterday after discovering powerful explosives the suspects were allegedly plotting to set off to cause mayhem and bloodshed during this week's Legislative Council debate on electoral reform.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:45pm
A televised debate on political reform turned many of those who viewed it against the government's plan for the 2017 chief executive election, polls taken before and after the broadcast showed.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:45pm
A pan-democratic camp leader hopes to restore "sincere" communication with Beijing after the expected failure of the political reform exercise this week.
The Civic Party's Alan Leong Kah-kit also said his party should bring in young blood and a "local perspective" to its manifesto, and that it was time to look ahead - as far as 2047.
16 Jun 2015 - 8:19pm
Walk into the small office of Professor Michael DeGolyer in Baptist University and one can hardly miss the abundance of books in the library of one of the leading scholars on Hong Kong's political economy.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:45pm
Hong Kong is bracing itself for a major protest outside government headquarters in Admiralty today - nine months after a mass demonstration at the same venue that sparked last year's Occupy turmoil.
16 Jun 2015 - 8:07pm
Online activists who plan to stoke illegal street protests or occupations using social media ahead of next week's landmark vote on political reform have received a stark "you're being watched" warning by police.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:45pm
Former lawmaker Nelson Wong Sing-chi has accused some of his Democratic Party colleagues of being "unethical, unfair and disrespectful" even as he faces expulsion for going against the party's line over the government's political reform plan.
Wong was adamant about staying in the party, telling reporters yesterday he would not quit on his own initiative.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:45pm
An anonymous group of civil servants yesterday joined the debate on electoral reform, urging lawmakers to vote down the government's blueprint for the 2017 chief executive election.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:45pm
An opinion poll commissioned by former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa's think tank showed nearly half of Hongkongers felt the Legislative Council should approve the government's political reform package for the 2017 chief executive election.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:45pm
Organisers of a major rally set for next week against the government's political reform package say they have no plans for a repeat of road blockades seen in last year's Occupy protests.
Daisy Chan Sin-ying, convenor of Civil Human Rights Front, yesterday announced details of the rally due to start on Sunday at a public square outside the Legislative Council.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:45pm
Beijing is still making a last-ditch effort to secure passage of the electoral reform proposal for the 2017 chief executive election, a mainland official revealed as the latest rolling poll found that for the first time that more people opposed the blueprint than supported it.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:45pm
Organisers of a rally against political reform have warned of chaos when Legco votes on the package next week after an application to enlarge an area outside the complex set aside for their protest was rejected.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:45pm
The leader of Hong Kong’s largest pro-establishment party expects that the government would not start another bid for political reform during the remainder of its term if its current proposal is rejected.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:47pm
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying this morning laughed off reports suggesting Beijing could use as much as HK$300 million to bribe pan-democratic lawmakers to vote for the reform package to be scrutinised next week.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:47pm
Beijing would not make any last-minute concessions on Hong Kong’s political reform as it did five years ago, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said as he called on lawmakers to make a “rational” choice.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:49pm
Both Beijing and the pan-democrats missed opportunities to reach a solution on political reform, but Hong Kong will be better off if the government's proposal is voted down this month, Civic Party lawmaker Ronny Tong Ka-wah said yesterday.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:49pm
More than 7,000 police officers equipped with anti-riot gear will be mobilised to deal with possible chaos when lawmakers debate and vote on the government's electoral reform package in the Legislative Council later this month, police sources say.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:49pm
How lawmakers vote on the reform package for the 2017 chief executive election will show who is loyal to "one country, two systems", and pan-democrats will face dire consequences should they vote down the blueprint, top mainland officials overseeing Hong Kong affairs warned yesterday.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:49pm
The message from the three top Beijing officials during their meeting with pan-democratic lawmakers in Shenzhen yesterday was crystal clear: how they vote on the proposal for the 2017 chief executive election will be the touchstone on whether they support "one country, two systems" - and their political futures are at stake.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:49pm
A prominent American scholar in politics has dismissed as "an insult to the intelligence of the Hong Kong public" the political reform package Beijing has tailored for the city.
Professor Larry Diamond, citing the election systems in Iran and pre-US-invasion Iraq, said universal suffrage without "real choice" was meaningless.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:49pm
The way lawmakers vote on the controversial proposal that will determine how the city’s chief executive is elected in 2017 will show whether they support the principle of “one country, two systems”, Basic Law Committee chairman Li Fei said on Sunday.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:49pm
The debate on political reform should be set aside for a few years if the government's blueprint for electing the chief executive in 2017 is voted down as Hong Kong can no longer afford to waste time on endless wrangling, Leung Chun-ying said.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:49pm
Fifteen pan-democrats have signed up for talks with Beijing officials in Shenzhen on Sunday in a last-ditch move to narrow the divide with the central government on political reform.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:49pm
Pan-democratic lawmakers who plan to skip Shenzhen talks next month have been asked by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying: is it more important to meet Beijing officials on electoral reform or to attend a commemoration of the Tiananmen Square crackdown?
16 Jun 2015 - 5:49pm
Parades and rallies will whip up opposition to government's reform plan, led by 14 groups uniting in new movement after Occupy.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:49pm
With Hong Kong's competitiveness declining, a former commerce minister is warning that it could be "game over" for the city within 10 to 20 years if wrangling over political reform persists.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:49pm
Pan-democrats and the Beijing-loyalist camp remain sceptical that last-ditch talks with central government officials next week will break the impasse on how the city's chief executive will be elected in 2017.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:49pm
Hong Kong's pan-democratic lawmakers have been invited to last-ditch talks with Beijing officials on political reform - less than a month before a key vote on how the chief executive will be elected in 2017.
16 Jun 2015 - 5:49pm
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