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.
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Reforms finally to be revealed next Wednesday
The political reform proposal to be tabled at the Legislative Council meeting next week is the final word as it was unanimously decided by the Politburo Standing Committee, sources said.
The committee comprises the top leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and is led by President Xi Jinping.
The sources said the reforms based on an August 31 ruling by the National People's Congress Standing Committee on the 2017 chief executive election framework are the sole and ultimate proposal from the Politburo committee.
As the election involves national security, pan-democrats should not expect that the central government would make last-minute concessions for the reforms to pass Legco, sources said.
This came as other sources also said the government will try its best to get between 13 and 14 pan-democratic lawmakers, instead of just four to five, including Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood's Frederick Fung Kin-kee and six Democratic Party lawmakers, to support the package.
Fung said he will not support the proposal as he joined 22 pan-democrat lawmakers yesterday to say a third time they would veto it.
It is expected that a new round of promotion will be launched after the proposal and the results of a second round of public consultation are announced next Wednesday.
It is aimed at consolidating public support for the passage of the proposal in Legco, with the aim of getting about 60 percent public support behind it.
The implementation of universal suffrage in the 2017 chief executive election via "one person, one vote" is already the biggest promise made by Beijing.
Sources also said the proposal will say that candidates for the election will only need to obtain the support of 120 instead of 150 of nominating committee members in the initial stage. It is preferred that the 1,200-strong committee cast secret ballots in the final stage and it is viewed that it will be more fair for members to cast their votes on candidates one by one. The candidate who gets the highest number of votes will be judged the winner.
It is expected that the government will not make any pledge on the reform proposal beyond 2017 this time, but will state clearly that section 7 of the Basic Law Annex I and the 2004 National People's Congress Standing Committee decision have already stipulated the procedures for amending the election method.
Democratic Party chairwoman Emily Lau Wai-hing said: "Definitely, the government will not get the party's lawmakers' votes in support of the political reform if the proposal would not let citizens have a genuine choice to select the chief executive they favor."
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CY Leung: No tension 'tolerated' as China limits visits to Hong Kong
Tension between Hong Kong and visitors from China will not be "tolerated", Cheif Executive CY Leung said today as he confirmed a cap on the number of trips mainlanders can make to the city.
An influx of millions of Chinese visitors to Hong Kong has prompted angry rallies by frustrated residents tired of seeing public transport clogged and shelves periodically wiped clean of daily necessities purchased for resale over the border.
Meanwhile anxiety over China's increased influence remains high in the former British colony months after mass protests by city activists demanding greater democracy from Beijing ended in December with no concessions on reform.
Mainland authorities have stopped allowing residents from Shenzhen to make unlimited visits, Chief Executive CY Leung said today, restricting them to one visit per week in a bid to ease the pressure.
"Anything that increases tension between Hong Kong and mainland society is not tolerated," Leung said.
He also warned against further protests targeting mainland visitors, describing them as "unruly" and "counter-productive".
Some of the recent protests have led to clashes with police and several arrests.
The decision was aimed at curbing the practice of parallel trading, Leung said, in which mainlanders buy up daily necessities such as baby formula in Hong Kong then resell them in China's border towns to avoid tariffs.
"The visa arrangements become one-visit-per-week for Shenzhen residents. This is a policy suggested by the Hong Kong government and adopted by the Central authorities," Leung told reporters, confirming reports at the weekend.
Admitting that the move will not put an end completely to parallel trading, he added the government will continue to crack down on any illegal activities.
Hong Kong opened up to Chinese tourists in 2003 as part of a bid to revive its economy following an outbreak of the respiratory disease SARS, allowing mainland Chinese to visit as individual travellers rather than being part of an organised tour.
Last year alone an estimated 47 million tourists from China streamed to Hong Kong, dwarfing the city's population of seven million.
About 4.6 million of the visitors made trips to Hong Kong more than once a week, according to Leung.
An influx of millions of Chinese visitors to Hong Kong has prompted angry rallies by frustrated residents tired of seeing public transport clogged and shelves periodically wiped clean of daily necessities purchased for resale over the border.
Meanwhile anxiety over China's increased influence remains high in the former British colony months after mass protests by city activists demanding greater democracy from Beijing ended in December with no concessions on reform.
Mainland authorities have stopped allowing residents from Shenzhen to make unlimited visits, Chief Executive CY Leung said today, restricting them to one visit per week in a bid to ease the pressure.
"Anything that increases tension between Hong Kong and mainland society is not tolerated," Leung said.
He also warned against further protests targeting mainland visitors, describing them as "unruly" and "counter-productive".
Some of the recent protests have led to clashes with police and several arrests.
The decision was aimed at curbing the practice of parallel trading, Leung said, in which mainlanders buy up daily necessities such as baby formula in Hong Kong then resell them in China's border towns to avoid tariffs.
"The visa arrangements become one-visit-per-week for Shenzhen residents. This is a policy suggested by the Hong Kong government and adopted by the Central authorities," Leung told reporters, confirming reports at the weekend.
Admitting that the move will not put an end completely to parallel trading, he added the government will continue to crack down on any illegal activities.
Hong Kong opened up to Chinese tourists in 2003 as part of a bid to revive its economy following an outbreak of the respiratory disease SARS, allowing mainland Chinese to visit as individual travellers rather than being part of an organised tour.
Last year alone an estimated 47 million tourists from China streamed to Hong Kong, dwarfing the city's population of seven million.
About 4.6 million of the visitors made trips to Hong Kong more than once a week, according to Leung.
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