A carnival hosted by 26 pro-Beijing organisations in part of Causeway Bay’s Victoria Park opened on Saturday morning – the eve of the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown. For three decades, the space hosted the city’s annual commemorative vigil, which would normally take place on the June 4 anniversary. The shopping fair, which was […]
As Hong Kong approaches Sunday’s 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, public commemorations of those who died on June 4, 1989, continue to be muted. The city was once one of very few places on Chinese soil where mourning events were permitted by authorities. This year marks the second since the organiser of the city’s […]
In May, the city witnessed a series of disappearances: the Civic Party, Hong Kong’s second-largest pro-democracy party, voted to dissolve; a prominent political cartoonist had his comic strip suspended after 40 years; hundreds of books were purged from public libraries; and a monument commemorating Tiananmen Crackdown was seized by Hong Kong’s national security police. Changes […]
Over 30 years ago, I was a book censor for a short time when I worked for Hong Kong’s justice minister. In the autumn of 1988, Salman Rushdie’s book, The Satanic Verses, was published. The book was a publishing sensation for all the wrong reasons. It contained chapters that fictionalised episodes in the prophet Mohammed’s […]
The police have said that the suspect arrested over Friday’s brutal murder of two women at a Diamond Hill shopping mall was a 39-year-old jobless man with a history of mental illness. During a media briefing in the early hours of Saturday, officers said there was no evidence that the suspect knew his victims. Senior […]
Avant garde street performance, politically charged theatre, pro-democracy music and poetry — powerful works of art dealing with China’s bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown that were once commonplace in Hong Kong have all but disappeared in recent years. For decades, tens of thousands of people gathered annually in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park for a candlelight vigil […]
Chinese dissidents who took part in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests unveiled a museum in New York on Friday dedicated to remembering the “democratic dreams of the Chinese people,” two days ahead of the 34th anniversary of the uprising’s “brutal suppression.” “The events of 1989 had an impact on China but also on the entire […]
A Sai Kung shop has been inspected by officers from four different government departments within nine days, after it started to give away candles to commemorate the Tiananmen crackdown. Owner Debby Chan, also a former Sai Kung district councillor, told HKFP on Friday that her store was visited by personnel from the Hong Kong Police […]