Hong Kong parliament defies Beijing's insistence and rejects 'democracy' plan
Proposal that would have allowed election of leaders, but only from candidates vetted by Communist party hierarchy, is defeated in key vote ...
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Of all the questions many of us are currently asking, there is one which nobody seems to be prepared to answer: what is going to happen after the political reform package proposed by the Hong Kong...
View ArticleBooing, a walkout, then Hong Kong vetoes China-backed electoral reform proposal
Pro-democracy protesters celebrate after lawmakers voted against the electoral reform proposals in Hong Kong. Photo: AP Hong Kong: Hong Kong lawmakers have blocked proposed changes to how it chooses...
View ArticleHong Kong electoral reform proposal voted down: Report
Hong Kong's legislature rejected a Beijing-based electoral reform proposal on how to select the city's next leader on Thursday. This outcome was widely...
View ArticleHong Kong's young democracy fighters should rethink the wisdom of their strategy
The government's proposed reform for the 2017 chief executive election, which will be tabled at the Legislative Council on Wednesday, appears to be dead on arrival. Barring any miracle, the blueprint...
View ArticleHong Kong reform framework is not forever, top Beijing official says, ahead...
Beijing’s restrictive blueprint for Hong Kong’s chief executive election in 2017 could be modified in future once implemented, a top central government official said, in a last-ditch effort to persuade...
View ArticleHong Kong legislator rejects China's election reform offer
BEIJING: Hong Kong's legislature has rejected a Beijing backed election reform, which was earlier opposed by a massive student agitation. The decision comes at a time when Hong Kong is witnessing a...
View ArticleSubcommittee Chairman Matt Salmon Statement on the Hong Kong Election Reform...
(Source: Matt Salmon) Washington, D.C. - Rep. Matt Salmon, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, today released the following statement on the recent Hong Kong Legislative Council vote...
View ArticleHong Kong vetoes China-backed electoral reform plan
Hong Kong’s parliament has vetoed a China-backed electoral reform package criticised by opposition pro-democracy politicians and activists as undemocratic. The development is expected to put off the...
View ArticleReform failure should prod Hong Kong leaders to step up as defenders of our...
A lot of recent attention has focused on Hong Kong pan-democrats and what they should do after their failed attempt to secure democracy. This attention might be better focused on the Beijing and Hong...
View ArticleHong Kong vetoes electoral reform plan
Previous || Next Hong Kong's legislature has vetoed a China-backed electoral reform package that has been criticised by opposition pro-democracy lawmakers and activists as undemocratic. Thursday's vote...
View ArticleHong Kong vetoes Beijing plan for electoral reform
In a show of strength that will lessen the prospect of more disruptive protests, Hong Kong’s legislative council has vetoed a Communist Party-backed electoral reform package that opposition...
View ArticleThe day Hong Kong's Legco entered a parallel universe
The Legislative Council chamber was a surreal place yesterday. Pan-democrats who had fought for years for democracy decried a government package that would allow Hong Kong people to choose their leader...
View ArticleHong Kong Activists Plot Next Steps
Shannon Van Sant HONG KONG— After Hong Kong’s landmark vote on electoral reform, activists on both sides of the controversial proposal are plotting next steps. After months of mass public protests,...
View ArticleNo mystery about who murdered Hong Kong's reform plan
The end, when it came, was almost merciful. The sick child that was Hong Kong's political reform package was finally put out of its misery by lunchtime of the second day of what might have been a...
View ArticleHK vetoes China-backed electoral reform proposal
Hong Kong’s legislature yesterday vetoed a China-backed electoral reform package criticized by opposition pro-democracy lawmakers and activists as undemocratic, easing for now the prospect of fresh...
View ArticleH.K. vetoes China-backed plan
ReutersHONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong’s legislature on Thursday vetoed a China-vetted electoral reform package criticized by opposition pro-democracy lawmakers and activists as undemocratic, easing...
View ArticleWhat will Hong Kong's political reform vote mean?
Lawmakers are to vote on plans to allow citizens to elect the chief executive – but only from a Beijing-approved list, a move condemned as ‘fake democracy’ ...
View ArticleCrazy to squander chance for universal suffrage
'Pocket it first!", the supporters' slogan for the current electoral reform package, always makes me think of pocket money. In my early teenage years I used to get the princely sum of 25 pence (about...
View ArticleDefying Beijing, Hong Kong lawmakers reject election framework
Spurning stern warnings from local and central Chinese government officials, Hong Kong’s legislature voted Thursday to reject a Beijing-drafted election plan that sparked massive street protests in the...
View ArticleHong Kong needs balance
The decision of Hong Kong’s lawmakers last week to vote down a proposal put forth by Beijing to reform the city’s electoral system was hardly a surprise. The plan, which would give Hong Kong’s voters...
View ArticleThe outlier: Hong Kong lawmaker Ronny Tong’s history of Civic Party conflicts
When he took the helm of the Hong Kong Bar Association on January 21, 1999, Ronny Tong Ka-wah told the media he would refrain from commenting on political issues. But there was no shortage of...
View ArticleBack Hong Kong reform package, Chinese government mouthpiece urges lawmakers
The central government’s mouthpiece today urged Hong Kong’s legislature to back the government’s political reform package, as the city’s legislators were due to start debate on the blueprint. In a...
View ArticleHong Kong vetoes China-backed electoral reform proposal
Pro-democracy protesters celebrate after lawmakers voted against the electoral reform proposals in Hong Kong. Photo: AP Hong Kong's legislature on Thursday vetoed a China-backed electoral reform...
View ArticleWhat next in Hong Kong-Beijing democracy tussle?
By Juliana Liu Hong Kong correspondent, BBC News 19 June 2015 From the section China Pro-democracy lawmaker Charles Mok addresses Hong Kong's legislature Lawmakers in Hong Kong have rejected a highly...
View ArticleChina Headlines-China Voice: Seize the opportunity to advance HK democratic...
BEIJING, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Wednesday marks a pivotal moment for the future of democracy in Hong Kong. Members of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Legislative Council (LegCo) will...
View ArticleVeto on Hong Kong political reform plan only a temporary setback on road to...
Today should have marked a new era for Hong Kong, one in which long-held hopes of universal suffrage were finally realised. We should be celebrating the passing by lawmakers of an acclaimed package of...
View ArticleVote to begin on election reform
The Hong Kong legislature is set to debate the single largest democratic reform in the city's history on Wednesday as a handful of lawmakers hold in their hands the fate of more than three decades of...
View ArticleWas China’s offer of ‘high degree of autonomy’ for Hong Kong a facade?
The Yomiuri ShimbunWill the “high degree of autonomy” China promised to Hong Kong under the “one country, two systems” formula turn out to be a mere facade? An electoral reform package for the poll to...
View ArticlePan-democrats can build trust with Beijing by voting for political reform
The elephant in the room during the last meeting of Beijing officials and pan-democrats over political reform was the lack of mutual trust. But trust cannot be demanded; it can only be built on working...
View ArticleHong Kong political reform package voted down as pro-Beijing lawmakers stage...
Hong Kong legislators this afternoon blocked the government electoral reform plan for the 2017 chief executive election, with only eight pro-government lawmakers voting in support of it, while 28...
View ArticleLegCo to vote on Electoral Reform Package to amend method for selection of...
(Source: Legislative Council of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of People's Republic of China) Legislative Council Secretariat 立 法 會 秘 書 處 Legislative Council Secretariat 新 聞 稿 Press Release...
View ArticleHK legislature vetoes universal suffrage motion
BEIJING/HONG KONG, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong legislative council on Thursday vetoed a motion of the proposed universal suffrage for selection of the region's next chief executive. A total of 28...
View Article'Colonial mentality' still haunts Hong Kong
The opposition "pan-democracy" camp vetoed the Hong Kong Special Administration Region government's universal suffrage plan for the 2017 chief executive's election on June 18, and thus halted the...
View ArticleHK moves toward true universal suffrage
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government will submit its constitutional reform plan to the Legislative Council on Wednesday. The first Hong Kong chief executive (CE) was chosen by a...
View ArticleUnity needed so we can deal with pressing livelihood issues
The Hong Kong Civic Association considers it a matter of much regret that the government's political reform proposal for the chief executive to be elected by universal suffrage, one person one vote, in...
View ArticleVote to begin on Hong Kong's election reform
The Hong Kong legislature is set to debate the single largest democratic reform in the city's history on Wednesday as a handful of lawmakers hold in their hands the fate of more...
View ArticleHong Kong's democracy debate
18 June 2015 From the section China Hong Kong has its own legal system, with rights such as freedom of assembly and free speech protected Hong Kong legislators have rejected a reform package that would...
View ArticleRonny Tong's resignation the latest sign that the feuding pan-democrats are...
After months of speculation, the end was swift. All eyes had been on lawmaker Ronny Tong Ka-wah since Sunday night as rumours swirled he was going to quit politics. Tong woke up earlier than usual...
View ArticleHK lawmakers reject election reform motion
China's Hong Kong Legislative Council on Thursday vetoed a motion of the proposed universal suffrage for selecting the region's next chief executive in 2017. After a nine-hour debate which started on...
View ArticleHK youth seek new way to democracy
With the defeat last week of the Beijing-backed political reform plan they slammed as a “fake democracy,” Hong Kong’s young protesters are questioning how to take their fight forward as the gulf...
View ArticleCritical time for HK reform
For years, the people of Hong Kong have not been as anxious about their future as they are today. On Wednesday, they were holding their breath as the Legislative Council started deliberating on the...
View ArticleDecision on reform 'stays despite veto'
China's top legislature said on Thursday its decision on Hong Kong's electoral reforms, announced in August, would remain in force despite being vetoed by city lawmakers. After a nine-hour debate,...
View ArticleWho is the biggest loser after rejection of 2017 electoral reform proposal?
The failure of government officials, pan-democrats and the pro-establishment camp to reach a consensus on political reform culminated in the expected rebuff of the government proposal for the 2017...
View ArticleBeijing Brushes Aside Hong Kong's Rejection Of Electoral Reform
12:59 PM ET Scott Neuman Twitter i Supporters of free and open elections in Hong Kong march through the city streets ahead of a crucial vote on political reform in the city's Legislative Council. Alex...
View ArticleHong Kong election bill faces likely defeat by lawmakers
Hong Kong election reform proposals that sparked massive street protests last year in the southern Chinese financial center are being presented Wednesday to the legislature, where it faces likely...
View ArticlePan-dems mustn't let historic chance slip away
This week, we will know whether Hong Kong's five million eligible voters will be able to elect the chief executive through "one person, one vote" in 2017. //--> Carrie Lam Monday, June 15, 2015...
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