Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 06:25:53 +0000
As a tear gas canister clatters onto a street in Hong Kong, a pro-democracy protester wearing heat-proof gloves and carrying a traffic cone sprints from the crowd to put it out.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:18:28 +0000
Tens of thousands of people rallied in central Hong Kong on Sunday as public anger seethed following unprecedented clashes between protesters and police over an extradition law, despite a climbdown by the city’s embattled leader.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:25:23 +0000
Bouquets of white flowers, written tributes and origami cranes piled up Sunday outside a high-end Hong Kong shopping mall, where a young man plunged to his death protesting against a controversial extradition bill.
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Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 21:06:04 +0000
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)on Thursday asked Filipinos in Hong Kong to exercise “extreme caution and vigilance”
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 13:00:08 +0000
Hong Kong’s government on Thursday made more concessions to a controversial proposed extradition law for mainland China.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 10:50:24 +0000
Hong Kong introduced revised extradition laws before the legislature Wednesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 23:28:45 +0000
Business and human rights groups are expressing concern over proposed changes to Hong Kong’s extradition law that would allow suspects to be sent to mainland China, where they could be subject to torture and unfair prosecution.
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