The football pitches sat empty and silent under the cold glare of floodlights, barricaded off on all sides. Nearby, hundreds of police patrolled the grounds, stopping and searching passersby and ... ( read original story ...)
Tiananmen: Six held in Hong Kong on anniversary of massacre
Six people have been arrested in Hong Kong as authorities moved to restrict public commemoration of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Saturday was the 33rd anniversary of the highly sensitive incident in ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong to distribute 100,000 RAT kits after sewage Covid detection
Hong Kong registered 176 new Covid cases by nucleic acid tests, and 270 additional cases through self-reported rapid antigen tests ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong to distribute around 1 lakh sets of RAT kits to follow up on sewage Covid detection
Covid detection test kits will be distributed to residents, cleaning workers and property management staff in Hong Kong. ( read original story ...)
Heavy police presence patrols Hong Kong on Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary
Police maintained a heavy presence in Hong Kong's Victoria Park on Saturday after authorities for a third consecutive year banned public commemoration of the anniversary of the deadly Tiananmen Square ... ( read original story ...)
Arrests in Hong Kong as world marks Tiananmen Square anniversary
Authorities try to stamp out any public commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of massacre ... ( read original story ...)
‘Wherever I Am Is Hong Kong’: Migrants Build a New Life in the U.K.
More than a year after they first began arriving in Britain under a new visa program, people from Hong Kong are settling into their new home. But they still long for the one they left behind. ( read original story ...)
Mourning Tiananmen’s Victims, and the Hong Kong That Was
In Taiwan and elsewhere, people met on Saturday to remember those killed in China in 1989 — and the freedoms lost in Hong Kong, where such vigils are now unthinkable. ( read original story ...)
How Hong Kong’s Tiananmen memorials are being erased
The Chinese territory, whose annual vigils marking the 1989 crackdown in Beijing were a symbol of its relative freedoms, may not hold a public commemoration for the first time. ( read original story ...)
For Hong Kong students, commemorating Tiananmen now requires ‘hide and seek’
Goddess of Democracy figurines have been hidden across the Chinese University of Hong Kong campus to remember the June 4, 1989 massacre. ( read original story ...)
Police patrol Hong Kong park amid Tiananmen vigil ban
Dozens of police officers are patrolling Hong Kong’s Victoria Park after authorities for a third consecutive year banned public commemoration of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 19 ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong authorities snuff out Tiananmen Square commemorations
Commemorations in Hong Kong of the Tiananmen Square massacre have largely been snuffed out, as authorities have sought to crush observance of the crackdown on student protesters i ... ( read original story ...)
Tiananmen anniversary: US hails the ‘brave’ 33 years on as Hong Kong warns against gatherings
US ‘will not forget June 4’, says Blinken, while Taiwain set to be only part of Chinese-speaking world where public commemorations permitted ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong police warn against unauthorized gatherings ahead of Tiananmen anniversary
Hong Kong police appear ready to enforce a ban on gatherings marking the Saturday anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising and violent Chinese government suppression of that protest. ( read original story ...)