Posts Tagged ‘Hong Kong’
September 20th, 2011
In the first sentence of its kind, a farmer from
mainland has been
jailed for three weeks after setting fire to a Chinese flag in
Hong Kong. Zhu Rongchang, 74, from Jiangxi province, pleaded not guilty to flag desecration, arguing that he was exercising his right to free speech. He burned the flag in Golden Bauhinia Square in central Hong Kong on 22 July, in a
protest against the Beijing government.
September 10th, 2010
Freedom of expression is alive and kicking in the Special Administrative Region. Priyanka Boghani reports
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August 3rd, 2010
Google’s Hong Kong
question page has been blocked in some parts of mainland China. The page allows users in China to ask questions of any description, acting as an open forum. The Chinese government uses a “Great Firewall” to censor and block all overseas websites that they consider controversial. Google China closed its offices earlier this year after disputes with Beijing about censoring and has since then relocated in Hong Kong.
April 16th, 2010
The
South China Morning Post issued a
formal apology on Wednesday after misprinting a front page photograph caption of President Hu Jintao arriving in the US to meet President Obama. Instead of printing Hu Jintao’s name in Chinese, the paper accidentally published that of
Hu Jia, the Chinese political dissident who was recently denied medical parole by Beijing authorities. On its front page, the South China Morning Post stated that it “sincerely apologises for the Chinese name translation error”.
April 6th, 2010
Google has
failed to renew its internet content provider licence in China, which expired at the end of March. This will not affect its Google.cn search engine, which has
already redirected its traffic to servers in Hong Kong. Other services, such as Google Maps – which are still held on mainland servers – are expected to be transferred over to its Hong Kong operations shortly.
May 20th, 2009
The Hong Kong Journalists Association is an internationally recognized voice on press freedom in Hong Kong. It is constantly on the offensive against barriers to news coverage, such as legislation that infringes on the free flow of information and the public’s right to know.
