‘Waves of struggle’ will lead up to Occupy Central sit-in

Samuel Chan | 25 August 2014 | SCMP

The Occupy Central movement will plan “wave after wave of struggle” culminating in its blockade of the city centre if Hongkongers are denied a genuine choice of candidates in 2017.

Speaking at a hike for democracy that drew about 300 participants yesterday, Occupy founder Benny Tai Yiu-ting said core groups of the campaign as well as major student activist groups would meet to discuss their strategies next Sunday, immediately after Beijing announces its framework for universal suffrage in Hong Kong.

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Self-Censorship Concerns at the South China Morning Post

24 Aug 2014 | Al-Jazeera Listening Post

Did police wrong-foot dancing gay activists? Top Hong Kong court to decide

Chris Lau | 21 August 2014 | South China Morning Post

Top court to decide whether police were right to stop onstage antics during public rights rally

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RTHK union criticise government for ruling out internal candidates for chief editor

Samuel Chan | 21 August 2014 | South China Morning Post

Staff favourite for post of broadcasting director is considered ‘unsuitable’

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Beijing seeks to soften blow of Hong Kong white paper

21 August 2014 | South China Morning Post

Central government officials privately admit white paper should have been better prepared and want to soften the tone, say sources

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Pan-democrats vow to veto any ‘unfair’ reform plan

Peter So, Joyce Ng | 21 August 2014 | South China Morning Post

Legislators pledge to reject any proposal that does not grant genuine universal suffrage, but even if it did, they may not accept it either

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Hong Kong sending unprecedented 12 deputies to NPC committee meeting

Tony Cheung, Gary Cheung, Peter So | 21 August 2014 | South China Morning Post

Unprecedented representation at meeting to set 2017 election rules seen as Beijing’s commitment to reform, but only one city deputy gets a vote

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Retired detectives to probe claims anti-Occupy Central protesters were paid to march

Ng Kang-chung | 20 August 2014 | South China Morning Post

Organisers of Sunday’s anti-Occupy Central march will assign retired detectives to look into reports that some participants were paid to show up, after one participating group acknowledged it had offered money to marchers.

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Police ‘perform second major drill over Occupy Central’

Samuel Chan | 20 August 2014 | South China Morning Post

Almost 10 per cent of the 28,000-strong police force gathered yesterday as units from across the city took part in what is understood to have been the second major exercise to prepare for the Occupy Central civil disobedience campaign.

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Six ways Hong Kong could fund a universal pension scheme

Shirley Zhao | 20 August 2014 | South China Morning Post

Advocates of a universal pension plan say it can be done without the government raising taxes

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New tax of up to 2.5pc proposed to fund HK$3,000 a month pension for all Hongkongers

Phila Siu, Shirley Zhao, Emily Tsang | 20 August 2014 | South China Morning Post

Official suggestion to Commission on Poverty is for a universal system with no means test

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‘Write pension policy for the sake of the people’

Jennifer Ngo | 20 August 2014 | South China Morning Post

With the results of a government report into retirement due tomorrow, many are pinning their hopes on a universal pension scheme

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Anti-Occupy movement to blame for polarisation in Hong Kong

Ewan Fowler | 19 August 2014 | South China Morning Post

Evan Fowler says organisation of its petition and rally shows it seeks neither to engage nor educate

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Law Society president Ambrose Lam resigns after historic no-confidence vote

Joyce Ng | 19 August 2014 | South China Morning Post

Lam had said Beijing’s controversial white paper on Hong Kong was a ‘positive document’ and called Communist Party ‘great’

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2017 chief executive must be a ‘staunch patriot’ Zhang Xiaoming tells pan-dems

Tony Cheung, Gary Cheung | 19 August 2014 | South China Morning Post

Dialogue between Beijing’s top representative in Hong Kong and pan-democratic lawmakers yesterday was “far more frank than expected” but both sides remain poles apart on the city’s political reform.

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Law Society elects Stephen Hung as president as Ambrose Lam resigns

Joyce Ng | 19 August 2014 | South China Morning Post

Ambrose Lam confirms he will step down after vote of no confidence

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Law Society meets to decide president Ambrose Lam’s fate

Joyce Ng, Patsy Moy | 19 August 2014 | South China Morning Post

The Law Society’s council meets today to decide the fate of its president, with two members suggesting he should resign.

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Majority in poll opposes Beijing screening candidates for top job

Tony Cheung | 19 August 2014 | South China Morning Post

More than half of Hongkongers say candidates should be allowed to run for chief executive in 2017 if they are endorsed by one-eighth of nominating committee members, a survey has found.

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Universal pension? It’s all up to the chief executive now

Jennifer Ngo | 19 August 2014 | South China Morning Post

There has been a trend of chickening out when it comes to the acute need to tackle the rising poverty among Hong Kong’s elderly people

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Give more elderly Hongkongers social security benefits to reduce poverty: study

Victoria Ann Duthie | 19 August 2014 | South China Morning Post

To reduce poverty among older people, new research suggests the most effective approach would be letting more into the existing system

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