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3 week agoYuen Long district councillor and lawmaker Roy Kwong describes Hong Kong's fight for democracy as a "war between light and darkness and between memorising and forgetting".
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Reuters: China had confirmed a total 217 cases of the coronavirus, first discovered in the central city of Wuhan, by 1800 local time on Monday, state TV said. Shanghai also confirmed another case, according to state media reports published shortly afterwards the Xi report
New China coronavirus numbers: 224 cases reported - 217 confirmed in mainland China with Wuhan 198, Beijing 5, Guangdong 14. Authorities also monitoring: Sichuan 2 people, Yunnan 1, Shanghai 2, Guangxi 1 & Shandong
3 week agoHKU students put up protest posters around campus on Monday, the opening day of the Spring semester. Photo: Telegram.
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Coronavirus has spread to Korea. First case there following Thailand, Japan, Beijing & Guangdong. South Korea case also somebody who'd travelled from Wuhan so still not clear if this virus can easily pass from human to human. Officially diagnosed total 201.
Citing President Xi Jinping, Beijing envoy Luo Huining pledges to boost Hong Kong patriotism and national security
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![[World Sanctions Rally] Someone was blocking the road in Mong Kok at night, and the riot police cleared the roadblock at the junction of Sai Yee Street and Shandong Street late at night. (11:20 PM)](https://china.liveuamap.com/pics/2020/01/19/21947553_0.jpg)
4 week ago[World Sanctions Rally] Someone was blocking the road in Mong Kok at night, and the riot police cleared the roadblock at the junction of Sai Yee Street and Shandong Street late at night. (11:20 PM)
4 week agoPhoto from Myanmar Air Force MiG 29 escorting President of China Xi Jinping
4 week agoPolice suddenly push forward after about an hour of stand-off in Mong Kok. They even attempt to snatch a couple of journalists as they think they have got too close to them and posed safety threats to them.
4 week agoAnti-government demonstrators called to have flash mob protests in Mong Kok. Here's the scene how reporters are treated when @hkpoliceforce advance:
Earthquake of magnitude 4.9 - 119km ENE of Arzak, China
4 week agoThe Privacy Commissioner has said it would follow up on the incident on Sunday where a police officer deliberately displayed a Stand News reporter's ID in front of a live stream camera.
Earthquake of magnitude 4.9 - 116km E of Arzak, China
4 week agoSimon Cheng, former staff of British consulate in HK who was briefly detained in mainland China, appeared in the rally. He has previously cut off ties with his family in HK, citing the harassment they've endured online. He decries systematic state suppression of human rights
4 week agoAfter the World Sanction Rally at Chater Garden in Mong Kok ended this afternoon, riot police officers were dispatched in many districts. At the junction of Nathan Road and Dundas Street, police officers showed blue flags. (9:50 PM)
4 week agoRiot police chased protesters setting up rudimentary roadblocks in Mong Kok amid the traffic on Sunday evening. Photo: Kaiser / USP 社媒.
4 week agoProtesters set roadblocks with rubbish bins in Mong Kok on Sunday night, quickly cleared by riot police, while one man was apparently beaten after a dispute. Photo: Stand News / HKGolden screenshot.
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake has jolted hits Kashgar city in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Western China
4 week agoStop-and-searches continued at a park on Dundas Street, Mong Kok on Sunday evening, in the aftermath of the aborted Sunday Chater Garden rally. Photo: Tam Mong Keung / USP 社媒.
4 week agoHundreds gather outside Chinese embassy in London to protest against China's treatment of Hongkongers and Uygurs
Earthquake of magnitude 5.8 - 85km E of Arzak, China
The organiser of Sunday's rally at Chater Garden, Ventus Lau, has been whisked away by police right after he spoke to reporters in Wan Chai
4 week agoSeveral plainclothes officers were beaten as they negotiated with organizers shortly after 4pm. Multiple volleys of tear gas, pepper spray fired
4 week agoPolice fired tear gas and brought an approved anti-communist rally to a premature halt in Central on Sunday, as thousands remained gathered around Chater Garden. Crowds ordered to leave by Central & Admiralty MTR, though some station exits were closed
4 week agoPolice secured the footbridge connecting IFC and asked everyone to leave
4 week ago"Foreign governments, legislatures or organisations have absolutely no role in matters relating to the constitutional development of Hong Kong," a HongKong gov't spokesperson said in response to Sunday's rally
4 week agoPolice clearing out the bridge over Connaught Road of hawkers and pedestrians alike. Legislator Ted Hui on the scene.
4 week agoPolice has accused district councillor Ng Siu-hong of behaviour in disorderly manner. Ng instead said police did not explain the reasonable grounds to trigger the search
4 week ago[email protected] appears to have disabled translation from Burmese to English, after it was found to be calling the Chinese president "Mr Shithole" during his trip to Myanmar
4 week agoA group subdued on Pedder Street
4 week ago"I want to take the bus." Protesters waited for a bus that takes forever to come, but police instead asked them to leave by MTR. Crowds refused
4 week agoPolice on their way to Causeway Bay, but showed down by pedestrian
4 week agoPanic in Central MTR.
4 week agoProtesters tell each other to stay in the pavement as they move east. Some smash traffic lights near Chater Garden.
