The Hong Kong singer Anthony Wong Yiu Ming has joined the Occupy campers!
An actor already unpopular in HK for his pro-Beijing views now alienates himself further from those protesting and supporting the protesters.
Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” combination of a free press and and a restrictive government can’t coexist for long. Hong Kong “is probably the only place in the world that seeks to combine the core civic freedoms of speech, assembly and the media with an authoritarian unelected Government,” activist investor David Webb wrote today. “That’s because the combination is unsustainable.”
The children of the Middle Class, the students manning the barricades, don't like the future they envision for themselves in HK if things don't change dramatically.
The voice of a 21-year old in HK telling the world why she is part of the protests. Powerful voice of the people speaking, and the voice of the next generation of leaders in the city.
A Mainland voice in support of Hong Kong democracy (with English translation at the bottom).
There is absolutely no excuse for this attack. Apparently some from the Mainland feel it is "no problem" assaulting a foreign (i.e., English speaking) teacher. The insult was hurled at Mr. Buddle not in Cantonese, the common vernacular of Hong Kong, but in Mandarin. That raises another issue entirely.
Surprisingly perceptive.
The New Yorker weighs in.
In Memoriam Leslie Cheung 1956-2003 Our Leslie, beautiful like a flower. I love you today and always-- a part of my heart beats for you alone, tonight a