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.
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.
POST OCCUPY CENTRAL - DAY 101:
Full coverage of the day’s events on 26-03
Coconuts
Long Hair: 'You can’t kick me out of LegCo that easily, CY'
Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung caused quite a stir among members of the Legislative Council yesterday when he urged voters who are tired of filibustering to vote the pan-democrats out at the next elections.
Unsurprisingly, that didn’t sit too well with some pan-democratic members.
Among those who took offence to the statement was the ever-vocal Leung Kwok-hung, more commonly known as “Long Hair”, though he no longer sports his luscious locks after a .
The lawmaker said he is certain that he will keep his seat in the LegCo because he believes he has the support of the Hong Kong people.
He pointed out that it would be hard to drive him out given that he received more votes than anyone else by a large margin in the last council election in 2012.
Ohhh, snap!
Unsurprisingly, that didn’t sit too well with some pan-democratic members.
Among those who took offence to the statement was the ever-vocal Leung Kwok-hung, more commonly known as “Long Hair”, though he no longer sports his luscious locks after a .
The lawmaker said he is certain that he will keep his seat in the LegCo because he believes he has the support of the Hong Kong people.
He pointed out that it would be hard to drive him out given that he received more votes than anyone else by a large margin in the last council election in 2012.
Ohhh, snap!
Pro-Beijing activist praises CY Leung for 'diligently executing Beijing's directives'
Patrick Ko, founder of pro-Beijing and pro-CY Leung activist group Voice of Loving Hong Kong, praise Chief Executive CY Leung for his "struggle against those disrupting Hong Kong and against China" in an interview with Apple Daily yesterday.
Ko said he would give Leung 70 marks out of 100 for his performance for "strategically crushing occupy central" and "diligently executing Beijing's directives", according to .
He also gave the police credit for ensuring zero fatalities during last year's Umbrella Movement.
Despite this success, he chided Leung's cabinet for their ineffectiveness. National education should be introduced despite opposition, and RTHK should not be allowed to criticise the government, he believes.
People who have criticised Leung for appointing his supporters to various important government posts and committees are brainless, Ko added, according to .
Roping in loyalists “is one of the most logical things for Leung to do".
Ko believes he himself would have been a "harder and stronger" chief executive were he given the chance to rule Hong Kong. Measures he would implement would include requesting Beijing to overrule local courts' decisions.
He criticised the courts for being too lenient on last year's pro-democracy protesters.
"The police worked hard to arrest these people, and these dog-judges just let them go, and that's frustrating", he said, reports .
He that he may protest against the rulings at the judges' residences.
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