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Hong Kong Glues Paving Stones to Ground So Demonstrators Don't Throw Them at Visiting Chinese Officials
Brendan O'Connor · 05/16/16 08:35AMReport: Teen Girl Pulled off $4 Million Hong Kong Diamond Heist
Brendan O'Connor · 01/24/15 10:00AMPolice Say Banker Killed Two Women In Crime Scene Out of American Psycho
Gabrielle Bluestone · 11/02/14 11:18PMHong Kong Protests Turn Violent Once Again in Lead-Up to Talks
Brad Friedman · 10/18/14 03:20PMConfrontation between protesters and police turned violent once again early Sunday morning in Hong Kong. As Reuters reports, the pro-democracy movement, which has been demonstrating for the past three weeks, launched a new attack in spite of news that the movement’s leaders and members of Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing government would meet next week.
Hong Kong Leader Agrees to New Talks After Video of Protester Beating
Aleksander Chan · 10/16/14 07:08AMHong Kong's Beijing-approved chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, has agreed to new talks with the student protesters occupying major thoroughfares of the city on the heels of a viral video of plainclothes police officers beating handcuffed activist Ken Tsang. "As long as students or other sectors in Hong Kong are prepared to focus on this issue, yes we are ready, we are prepared to start the dialogue," Leung told reporters.
On Protest's Tenth Day, Some Hong Kong Demonstrators Start to Pull Back
Dayna Evans · 10/05/14 02:10PMHong Kong Leader Agrees to Talks as Protesters Fend Off Assaults
Aleksander Chan · 10/03/14 07:16AMHong Kong's Beijing-approved chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, will speak with protesters that have occupied the city's major thoroughfares for the past week. The group, a coalition of university students and other pro-democracy advocates, have decried Beijing's decision to vet candidates in elections and have demanded for Leung to resign. While protests and demonstrations began with great fervor last weekend, numbers are beginning to wane in some districts.
Hong Kong Leader's Daughter Thanks "Silly" Taxpayers for Diamonds
Andy Cush · 10/02/14 05:06PMProtesters Balk at Hong Kong Leader's Call to End Demonstrations
Aleksander Chan · 09/30/14 07:17AMHong Kong's Beijing-approved leader, Leung Chun-ying, has called for an end of the pro-democracy demonstrations being held in the semiautonomous city by tens of thousands of its citizens. He has taken specific aim at Occupy Central With Love and Peace, one of the two major organizing groups, saying, "Occupy Central founders had said repeatedly that if the movement is getting out of control, they would call for it to stop. I'm now asking them to fulfill the promise they made to society and stop this campaign immediately."
Hong Kong Democracy Protesters Undeterred by American-Style Gassing
Dayna Evans · 09/28/14 10:50AMThree People Eat Bananas, Take Selfies on Top of Hong Kong Skyscraper
Dayna Evans · 08/24/14 03:15PMA new death-defying trend has emerged across the globe where daredevils have decided selfies at brunch and at girls' night are no longer cool enough: skyscrapers and monuments are the real deal. Three people (reportedly teens) climbed up a 1,135-foot skyscraper in Hong Kong and just hung out, eating bananas.
A Chinese Newspaper Ran a Fake Obit Saying Its Rival Died of AIDS
Aleksander Chan · 08/15/14 08:03AMSarah Hedgecock · 06/03/14 10:15AM
Police try to stop a man throwing "ghost money" into Hong Kong's Chinese liaison office on Tuesday to mark the 25th anniversary of China's June 4 crackdown on Tiananmen Square. The banners read, "Stop one-party rule in China," "Memorial," and "Demand accountability for the massacre." Image via Kin Cheung/AP.
Sarah Hedgecock · 05/01/14 10:45AM
Mogul Offers $120 Million for Man Who Weds His Lesbian Daughter
Taylor Berman · 01/23/14 04:23PMEd Snowden's Great Escape: An Annotated Guide
Max Read · 06/24/13 02:32PMOn Sunday morning, Edward Snowden boarded an Aeroflot flight in Hong Kong, landing in Moscow more than 13 hours later. We think. The truth is, no one's quite sure where the NSA leaker is—Moscow? Havana? Quito? Reykjavik? (He's not on Aeroflot Flight 180, we know that much.) But we can reconstruct his movements—and speculate where he's headed.
Edward Snowden Is On His Way To Moscow With Help From Wikileaks
Gabrielle Bluestone · 06/23/13 09:00AMNSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Charged With Espionage
Adrian Chen · 06/21/13 05:36PMThe U.S. has charged NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden with espionage for leaking classified information to the Guardian and the Washington Post. According to the Post, the charges have been filed in Virginia. The U.S. has asked Hong Kong to detain Snowden, who coincidentally celebrates his 30th birthday today.