Hong Kong

KONFRONTASI - Wakil pelajar pro-demokrasi Hong Kong, Harold Li, mengakukecewa tapi tidak terkejut dialog dengan pemerintah menemui kegagalan. Pemerintah Hong Kong, Kamis, 9 Oktober, telah membatalkan dialog secara sepihak.

Keterangan pemerintah yang dikutip BBC, Jumat 10 Oktober, menyebut pembatalan dilakukan karena tidak mungkin untuk melakukan dialog yang konstruktif. Para pelajar kini menyerukan berlanjutnya aksi protes.

KONFRONTASI -  Pemimpin unjuk rasa di Hongkong mengatakan, pada Senin (6/10/2014) kemarin, mereka sepakat untuk melakukan pembicaraan dengan pemerintah. Saat ini, jumlah peserta demonstrasi semakin menyusut, dan mereka menghadapi dan tekanan untuk mengakhiri aksi yang mereka lakukan.

Puluhan ribu pengunjuk rasa telah menarik diri pada Minggu malam, setelah pemimpin eksekutif Hong Kong Leung Chun-ying meminta massa segera meninggalkan jalan-jalan di kota, sehingga kantor-kantor pemerintahan dapat dibuka kembali.

KONFRONTASI - Hong Kong protesters have agreed to hold talks with authorities but say they will keep up with protests until their demands are met.

On Monday, Lester Shum, a leader of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, said an agreement had been reached over the talks.

Hong Kong's chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, said earlier that the government sought "a sincere dialogue on political reform."

The official called on the protesters to stop blocking the streets in the flashpoint district of Mongkok.

HONG KONG- Organized crime became the new weapon of the Hong Kong authorities on Oct. 3 as they endeavored to disperse the demonstrators still massed in Mongkok in the dense heart of Kowloon. 

Dozens of tough looking men waded into the peaceful demonstrators causing fights and many injuries. Some were arrested by the police but there was no sign of tough tactics against obvious provocateurs.

HONG KONG- Police confirm that eight people arrested after Friday night's violence are suspected of having backgrounds in organized crime.According to the South China Morning Post, pro-democracy legislator James To told a hastily convened press conference of democratic lawmakers Saturday that “the government has used organized, orchestrated forces and even triad gangs in [an] attempt to disperse citizens.”

HONG KONG -- Tensions in Hong Kong erupted into violent conflict on Friday as residents attempted to forcibly dislodge pro-democracy demonstrators from the streets that they have held all week. On Friday evening, the Hong Kong Federation of Students, one of the main organizers of the protests, postponed a planned dialogue with city officials, arguing that police had failed to protect students from violence.

KONFRONTASI-Baku hantam terjadi di salah satu kawasan perbelanjaan terkenal dan padat di Hong Kong, Jumat, saat ratusan pendukung pemerintah Tiongkok menyerbu tenda-tenda dan merobek spanduk milik pengunjuk rasa pro-demokrasi, serta memaksa mereka mundur.

Puluhan ribu pengunjuk rasa turun ke jalan di Hong Kong sepanjang pekan ini menuntut demokrasi penuh di bekas koloni Inggris itu, termasuk sistem pemungutan suara bebas untuk memilih pemimpin mereka pada 2017.

Hong Kong’s Chief Executive CY Leung acts on the advice of the director of the China Liaison Office, Zhang Xiaoming. There is no point asking Leung to resign as he really is powerless on policy matters. That’s the reality.

At the ceremony for China’s National Day, director Zhang dismissed the student protests outside with indifference, saying “The sun rises as usual.” The early riot police teargas attack on the protests is believed by many locals to have been done on instructions from the CLO to nip the student movement in the bud. It failed.

HONG KONG- Usianya belum cukup tua untuk membeli minuman beralkohol atau mendapatkan surat izin mengemudi. Ditambah kaca mata tebal dan perawakan yang kurus siapa sangka Joshua Wong (17) merupakan salah satu "otak" aksi massa terbesar di Hongkong sejak 1997 yang hingga kini masih berlangsung.

Remaja kurus berkacamata ini sekarang menjadi ujung tombak aksi protes warga Hongkong yang menginginkan hak demokratis untuk memilih pemimpin baru mereka tanpa intervensi Beijing.

HONG KONG-With the Occupy Central campaign having entered the fourth day with the protests still alive, the movement has now gone in a new direction, transformed into what is being called the “Umbrella Revolution,” a name that transcends the “Occupy” phenomenon and gives it a broader identity. So what are the scenarios that we can expect to play out from here?