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 153:
Full coverage of the day’s events on 18-05
`No room to change' reform proposal
A Beijing official shot down the idea of any minor change to the political reform proposal, saying there is no room to change the corporate votes in the Nominating Committee.
Zhang Rongshun, vice chairman of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, attended a closed-door seminar on Hong Kong's political reform with hundreds of representatives from local political parties, labor unions, community groups and youth groups in Shenzhen's Bauhinia Villa yesterday.
New People's Party lawmaker Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee quoted Zhang as saying that there is no room to change the corporate votes in some subsectors in the 1,200-strong Nominating Committee.
Ip quoted Zhang saying that "the nature of the Nominating Committee will be changed" if the corporate votes are replaced by individual votes in some subsectors in the committee that will nominate the two or three candidates for the 2017 chief executive election.
Zhang said the nomination mechanism and electoral arrangement is "democratic, open, fair and impartial."
Ip said: "The problem is that some lawmakers do not support the political reform proposal.
" [Zhang] expressed hope that those [pan-democratic] lawmakers should not walk into a dead end."
She also quoted Zhang as saying that at this stage, Beijing cannot state the electoral arrangement must be revised in the 2022 chief executive election.
Ip quoted Zhang as saying that some people would immediately ask how the electoral arrangement can be revised if the central government said the future arrangement must be revised.
Pan-democratic lawmaker Leung Yiu-chung said that Zhang's remarks show there are no changes that can be made in the reform proposal.
"If Beijing insists on its stance on the political reform and has no intention of making concessions, it is hard for pan- democrats to meet and have discussion with Beijing officials on the political reform," said Leung, adding that he is set on voting down the reform.
Pay tribute to Commercial Radio, not former union chief
The relationship between Hong Kong and China has been affected by many factors, but Hongkongers cannot forget how pro-Beijingers caused great damage to our society during the 1960s.
They did this by launching a series of political struggles against their anti-communist enemies, which laid the foundation for Hongkongers’ distrust of the Communist Party.
So, older Hongkongers will find it strange that the government issued an obituary for Yeung Kwong, a former chairman of the pro-Beijing Federation of Trade Unions, paying tribute to him for his significant contribution to the local working class — but ignoring his key role in the political struggle in the ’60s, in which 51 people in Hong Kong died.
The government’s “cold-blooded” attitude toward the victims of the 1967 riots, led by pro-Beijing activists inspired by the mainland’s Cultural Revolution, has drawn criticism from the Commercial Radio program Flat C, 18/F.
The station was itself a victim of the riots, as the show’s outspoken host, Lam Bun, was killed by pro-Beijing loyalists after he criticized them.
On Monday, Flat C 18/F criticized the government’s obituary, saying Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor should not have praised Yeung in such a high-profile manner for his contribution to local workers while ignoring the harm he did to the community by leading the 1967 riots.
“The 1967 riots led to a long recession in the Hong Kong economy. Many people were killed and injured, including Lam Bun,” the program hosts said.
“However, Yeung, who was the chairman of the Anti-British Struggle Committee, was honoured by the Hong Kong government with a Gold Bauhinia Medal in 2001, the city’s highest honour, without mentioning his role in the 1967 riots.”
“And now the government is praising his lifetime contribution. The government is repeating an error and rubbing salt in the victims’ wounds.”
The program hosts criticised those who decided to award the medal to Yeung, arguing that the action encouraged Hongkongers to embrace violence.
Then the program attacked Carrie Lam, saying, “She was incubated by the British Hong Kong authorities, but now she praises Yeung for his contribution. Isn’t she biting the hand that fed her?”
The hosts said: “The pro-Beijing loyalists should be very happy, as Lam’s high-profile tribute to Yeung demonstrated Beijing’s success in the work of its united front leading to the kowtowing of former British Hong Kong officials.”
Hong Kong has never recovered from the wounds inflicted by the 1967 riots, even though the city has been under communist rule since 1997.
The elder generation of Hongkongers still remembers how the pro-Beijing leftists set off explosions on the streets and set fires in public places to express their anger about British rule.
Brainwashed by the Communist Party, they never admitted they had done anything wrong during the riots.
They just thought they were doing what they believed in at that time.
One example is Secretary for Home Affairs Tsang Tak-shing, who was jailed after he was arrested for distributing leftist leaflets in 1967.
Beijing loyalists have been criticising the pan-democrats for not embracing Beijing’s direction and refusing to adapt to being Chinese under Communist Party rule.
But the fact is that Hongkongers prefer to distance themselves from political issues.
They don’t often express their political views.
But they prefer to take to the streets to protect the interests of Hong Kong; for example, to uphold the core values of the city, including transparent government and fair and open elections, as well as to fight for a democratic roadmap to achieve better governance.
All these are good for Hong Kong and could benefit the mainland’s political system as well.
But Hongkongers are now being required to follow the direction of the central government, from political reform to economic development to education.
All the city’s policies should be politically correct rather than for the good of Hong Kong.
The administration is focusing more on the interests of Beijing rather than taking care of the interests of the people of Hong Kong.
That’s more or less a continuation of the spirit of the 1967 riots, but in a more civilised form.
Instead of paying tribute to Yeung, Hongkongers should pay tribute to Commercial Radio, which has positioned itself as “the voice of the people of Hong Kong” since it was founded in 1959 by George Ho Ho-chi.
It is still an outspoken radio station, and the killing of Lam Bun in 1967 cemented the station’s credentials to speak up for the truth to the public.
The Flat C, 18/F radio show has maintained Lam’s outspoken style in its coverage of current affairs.
That made Commercial Radio the most popular station in Hong Kong in the past decades.
And the station is still brave enough to condemn the pro-Beijingers, especially in its Flat C, 18/F show, every weekday.
The relationship between Hong Kong and China has been affected by many factors, but Hongkongers cannot forget how pro-Beijingers caused great damage to our society during the 1960s.
They did this by launching a series of political struggles against their anti-communist enemies, which laid the foundation for Hongkongers’ distrust of the Communist Party.
So, older Hongkongers will find it strange that the government issued an obituary for Yeung Kwong, a former chairman of the pro-Beijing Federation of Trade Unions, paying tribute to him for his significant contribution to the local working class — but ignoring his key role in the political struggle in the ’60s, in which 51 people in Hong Kong died.
The government’s “cold-blooded” attitude toward the victims of the 1967 riots, led by pro-Beijing activists inspired by the mainland’s Cultural Revolution, has drawn criticism from the Commercial Radio program Flat C, 18/F.
The station was itself a victim of the riots, as the show’s outspoken host, Lam Bun, was killed by pro-Beijing loyalists after he criticized them.
On Monday, Flat C 18/F criticized the government’s obituary, saying Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor should not have praised Yeung in such a high-profile manner for his contribution to local workers while ignoring the harm he did to the community by leading the 1967 riots.
“The 1967 riots led to a long recession in the Hong Kong economy. Many people were killed and injured, including Lam Bun,” the program hosts said.
“However, Yeung, who was the chairman of the Anti-British Struggle Committee, was honoured by the Hong Kong government with a Gold Bauhinia Medal in 2001, the city’s highest honour, without mentioning his role in the 1967 riots.”
“And now the government is praising his lifetime contribution. The government is repeating an error and rubbing salt in the victims’ wounds.”
The program hosts criticised those who decided to award the medal to Yeung, arguing that the action encouraged Hongkongers to embrace violence.
Then the program attacked Carrie Lam, saying, “She was incubated by the British Hong Kong authorities, but now she praises Yeung for his contribution. Isn’t she biting the hand that fed her?”
The hosts said: “The pro-Beijing loyalists should be very happy, as Lam’s high-profile tribute to Yeung demonstrated Beijing’s success in the work of its united front leading to the kowtowing of former British Hong Kong officials.”
Hong Kong has never recovered from the wounds inflicted by the 1967 riots, even though the city has been under communist rule since 1997.
The elder generation of Hongkongers still remembers how the pro-Beijing leftists set off explosions on the streets and set fires in public places to express their anger about British rule.
Brainwashed by the Communist Party, they never admitted they had done anything wrong during the riots.
They just thought they were doing what they believed in at that time.
One example is Secretary for Home Affairs Tsang Tak-shing, who was jailed after he was arrested for distributing leftist leaflets in 1967.
Beijing loyalists have been criticising the pan-democrats for not embracing Beijing’s direction and refusing to adapt to being Chinese under Communist Party rule.
But the fact is that Hongkongers prefer to distance themselves from political issues.
They don’t often express their political views.
But they prefer to take to the streets to protect the interests of Hong Kong; for example, to uphold the core values of the city, including transparent government and fair and open elections, as well as to fight for a democratic roadmap to achieve better governance.
All these are good for Hong Kong and could benefit the mainland’s political system as well.
But Hongkongers are now being required to follow the direction of the central government, from political reform to economic development to education.
All the city’s policies should be politically correct rather than for the good of Hong Kong.
The administration is focusing more on the interests of Beijing rather than taking care of the interests of the people of Hong Kong.
That’s more or less a continuation of the spirit of the 1967 riots, but in a more civilised form.
Instead of paying tribute to Yeung, Hongkongers should pay tribute to Commercial Radio, which has positioned itself as “the voice of the people of Hong Kong” since it was founded in 1959 by George Ho Ho-chi.
It is still an outspoken radio station, and the killing of Lam Bun in 1967 cemented the station’s credentials to speak up for the truth to the public.
The Flat C, 18/F radio show has maintained Lam’s outspoken style in its coverage of current affairs.
That made Commercial Radio the most popular station in Hong Kong in the past decades.
And the station is still brave enough to condemn the pro-Beijingers, especially in its Flat C, 18/F show, every weekday.
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