Students from universities and schools in Hong Kong are to take part in a class boycott in September, following weeks of protests in the city against the Government’s planned extradition bill. The boycott follows the news that prominent pro-democracy campaigners...
Protests in Hong Kong continued for the tenth week as activists staged a sit-in at the airport, forcing a cancellation of all flights from the city for two days. Demonstrations began peacefully, but as police started using tear gas in...
As protests continue in Hong Kong, government officials and economists question the impact on the economy. For the city that was built on trade, and quickly became an epicenter for global markets, Hong Kong’s economy is already showing signs of...
Hong Kong’s current resistance to an increasingly authoritarian China is indicative of the Western World’s folly that began with President Nixon’s 1972 visit to China. The United States’ then-assumption that a diplomatic opening to China, and consequently the opening of...
Large scale anti-China protests have been occurring in Hong Kong for over a month now. What started as a demonstration against an extradition bill led to the storming of parliament, and has most recently manifested itself in Lennon Walls, a...
Hong Kong, despite being the richest city in the world, has one of the highest wealth gaps in the world. A sub-group of this? Foreign domestic workers, or ‘helpers’, the majority of whom come from The Philippines or Indonesia, who...
Why have one million citizens taken to the streets of Hong Kong to protest against the forced extradition bill which China has insistently been requesting? The most widely accepted explanation, as also reported by the South China Morning Post, is...
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