Opinion
Hong Kong protests

Can community leaders step in for Hong Kong’s broken government?

Banking veteran and opinion columnist Richard Harris explains who should come to Hong Kong’s rescue, as the city enters a tenth consecutive week of protests with no sign of the “leaderless” anti-government movement’s momentum slowing down.

August 15, 2019
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Hong Kong’s national security police raided the student union office at the University of Hong Kong on July 16, 2021, as part of an investigation into a now-withdrawn motion “appreciating the...01:02
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National security police raid HKU student union
July 16, 2021
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Six arrested under new domestic security law in Hong Kong
May 29, 2024
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Hong Kong bans protest song
May 9, 2024
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The first protest in three years authorised by the Hong Kong police took place on March 26, 2023, in Tseung Kwan O. About 80 Hongkongers marched to protest against a plan to build six public...03:04
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Hong Kong’s first legal protest in 3 years
March 26, 2023
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Protests have been organised in several cities around the world in support of rare public displays of frustration and anger in Chinese cities where people took to the streets to call for an end to...03:00
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Zero-Covid protests in China spread to cities around the world
November 29, 2022
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Hong Kong’s leader said on November 28, 2022, that he would seek an interpretation of the city’s national security law from the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, after the city’s top...02:49
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai allowed to hire UK defence counsel
November 28, 2022
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A Hong Kong court has fined retired Hong Kong Cardinal Zen and five other trustees up to HK$4,000 (US$512) each for failing to properly register a fund set up to provide legal defence for 2019 anti...02:28
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Hong Kong court fines 90-year-old Cardinal Zen and 5 other activists
November 25, 2022
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Six former senior executives of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper have admitted conspiring with their ex-boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying in seeking international sanctions on Beijing and Hong Kong...01:45
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Former Apple Daily staff plead guilty to conspiracy in Hong Kong
November 22, 2022
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Retired Hong Kong Catholic leader Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun and five other activists  arrived at the West Kowloon Court on September 26, 2022. They appeared for a hearing in their trial for...01:06
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Retired cardinal Joseph Zen arrives at court for fund registration trial
September 26, 2022
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Hongkongers living in England on British National (Overseas) passports were reportedly among about 150 protesters who marched through a busy market in the northwestern city of Manchester on...01:41
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Hongkongers in England join protest march in Manchester
September 6, 2022
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Catholic missionary Father Franco Mella began a three-day protest outside Hong Kong’s Shek Pik prison on July 14, 2022 to demand the release of activists and opposition politicians jailed under the...02:32
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HK priest on hunger strike for jailed activists
July 15, 2022
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A veteran Hong Kong opposition activist popularly known by her Cantonese nickname Wong Por Por or “Grandma Wong” has been jailed for eight months. The sentence was handed down in Eastern Court on...01:41
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‘Grandma Wong’ jailed for 8 months
July 14, 2022
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From policeman to politician, Hong Kong’s incoming chief executive John Lee has his work cut out for him when he takes office on July 1, 2022. In an exclusive interview kicking off the new season of Talking Post with SCMP chief news editor Yonden Lhatoo, Lee promises a more aggressive approach to countering “fearmongering and bad-mouthing” by the city’s critics, and reveals plans for a possible easing of tough Covid-19 restrictions.26:44
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‘What needs to be done will be’: Hong Kong’s next leader John Lee
June 23, 2022
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People gathered in London on June 12, 2022, to mark the third anniversary of a key confrontation in Hong Kong that many consider to the be event that sparked months of sometimes violent mass...01:05
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Thousands in London rally on anniversary of Hong Kong protests
June 13, 2022
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People have gathered in cities around the world, including in Taipei, New York, London and Melbourne, to mark 33 years since China's Tiananmen Square crackdown. Among those attending June 4, 2022,...04:14
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Tiananmen vigils held around the world
June 5, 2022
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CY Leung was Hong Kong chief executive for a single term that ended in 2017. Now, as an elder statesman trusted by Beijing, he has become an active, vocal and influential figure in the city’s...23:28
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What leadership does HK need? Former Chief Executive CY Leung on Talking Post with Yonden Lhatoo
January 27, 2022
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After bearing the brunt of public anger and international criticism over the 2019 protests, Chief Executive Carrie Lam now says she is “steeled” to meet any challenges as she spearheads sweeping...22:31
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Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's comeback queen?
November 27, 2021
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The Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), the pro-opposition umbrella group behind some of the largest protests in Hong Kong history, announced on Sunday, August 15, 2021, that it had disbanded. The...01:54
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Hong Kong pro-opposition umbrella group folds
August 15, 2021
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The Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union has announced it is disbanding after pro-establishment and state-owned media accused the group of “hijacking the education sector”. Hong Kong’s biggest...03:51
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HK’s biggest teachers’ union calls it quits
August 11, 2021
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More than 200 of Hong Kong’s district councillors, all from the opposition camp, have resigned ahead of a new oath-taking requirement that was put in place under the national security law imposed...06:32
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Why did HK opposition district councillors quit?
August 8, 2021
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A 24-year-old former restaurant worker has been found guilty of secession and terrorism charges in Hong Kong's first case to be tried under the Beijing-imposed national security law. Leon Tong Ying...02:10
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Guilty verdict in HK's first security law trial
July 27, 2021
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Hong Kong’s national security police raided the student union office at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) on July 16, 2021, as part of an investigation into a now-withdrawn motion “appreciating the...03:01
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National security police raid HK university
July 16, 2021