Violence spreads across Hong Kong’s New Territories in 24th weekend of unrest
Hong KongReuters Police fired tear gas and water cannon to break up rallies as activists blocked roads and trashed shopping malls across Hong Kong’s New Territories and Kowloon peninsula on Sunday during the 24th straight weekend of anti-government unrest. Protesters shouted abuse at “black police” in Cantonese wherever officers appeared, referring to perceived brutality against […]
Hong Kong urged to call time on “archaic” Indigenous land policy
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Hong Kong must end a discriminatory land policy that favours Indigenous men, land rights campaigners said last week, after a top court upheld a minor law that has long been criticised for exacerbating the city’s chronic housing shortage. The government’s small house policy, introduced in 1972 to improve living conditions of […]