Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong's business community is “freaked out” over China's crackdown
The Guardian, February 9, 2016
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/10/hong-kongs-business-community-freaking-out-over-chinas-crackdown

中国教育部要求加大对港澳台爱国主义教育 被批强把“爱党”作“爱国”(Chinese Education Ministry’s call for more “patriotic” education in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan criticized as enforced “love of the Party” as “patriotism”)
Radio Free Asia, February 10, 2016
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/gangtai/yf2-02102016103012.html

香港教育局提倡学生认读简体字引发争议 (Hong Kong Education Bureau’s suggestion to promote reading of simplified characters stirs controversy)
Radio Free Asia, February 10, 2016
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/gangtai/xl2-02102016102827.html

China/Hong Kong: Free “disappeared” booksellers
Human Rights Watch, February 10, 2016
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/02/10/china/hong-kong-free-disappeared-booksellers

Localist group in Mong Kok violence unlikely to make headway in Hong Kong political arena
South China Morning Post, February 11, 2016
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1911866/localist-group-mong-kok-violence-unlikely-make-headway-hong