Category Archives: Awaiting a Democratic HK

HONG KONG REPORTERS DETAINED IN CHINA WHILE COVERING PROTESTS 2005/04/17 16:34:10     Hong  Kong,  April  17 (CNA)  Three  Hong  Kong journalists  were detained  Sunday in Shenyang City,  northeast  China,  while covering anti-Japanese protests, Hong Kong media reported.     The reports  said three photographers  from Hong Kong’s TVB,  ATV and Cable  TV were  detained Continue reading “News: Hong Kong reporters detained for covering protests in China”

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong I have changed my mind about this. I feel it’s really an important issue. Japan needs to apologise to my country and people over the Japanese invasion and stop mimimising the atrocities they did. Lately, there has been a lot of news about the riots and protests against the JapaneseContinue reading “Japan didn’t “Change” history, they have never admitted to it.”

ZZY. Democracy Hardcore Why Zhao Ziyang and not Wang Dan? Why Zhao Ziyang and not Cheung Mao? Why Zhao Ziyang and not any other democratic activists? Because he is the most powerful man to fall because of the democratic movement in China. Because he cried for the students who will die. Because he spent 15Continue reading “Why ZZY? Democracy Hardcore.”

Content and lecturers of the seminars : 23/4(Friday) Second lecture : Political structure and election system in Taiwan Lecturer : Mr. Wang Ka Ying (Political Commentator) 30/4(Friday) Third lecture : Political structure and election system in Hong Kong Lecturer : Dr. Ma Ngok (Assistant professor, Department of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science andContinue reading “Lecture series: China Under the New Leadership”

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. The Pope died last week. He was sick for a long time. I was walkingContinue reading ““God is Dead” but I pay respect to “my” Pope.”

Recently a Journalist asked me to do an interview in terms of Blogging and Democracy in the Hong Kong Context. He can’t use all of it of course. So I decided to put all the answers here. March 28, 2005 1.  How does blogging allow a different type of political voice to enter into theContinue reading “HK Blogging and Democracy”

Greater ChinaApr 2, 2005: Times AsiaBeijing misstep over new Hong Kong headBy Janus Lam HONG KONG – Despite the resignation of unpopular Tung Chee-hwa as the chief executive of Hong Kong, Beijing’s leaders are having difficulties in marshaling Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing camp. This is reflected by the reluctance of Beijing’s own supporters to accept Beijing’sContinue reading “News: Beijing misstep over new Hong Kong head”

Bloggers post hopes for changeZhu SunApril 4, 2005The Standard Two years ago, when more than 500,000 people flooded the streets in Central to protest against controversial Article 23 anti-sedition legislation, Yan Sham-Shackleton stood on a pedestrian overpass documenting it with her video camera. At 5am, she had started writing Internet essays about Hong Kong’s struggleContinue reading “News: Bloggers post hopes for change”

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong Chinese China publications can be so very cool. I own a book on interviews of all the conptemporary photographers today around the world published by the Shanghai Government Press. Some of them take photos of junkies and men painted in drag stuck on with sequences looking like dwarfs. They alsoContinue reading “China’s Underground Culture, Hiding Your Face and T-shirts that will never appear in China”