Matt Frei
Hong Kong’s protesters are digging in for the long haul
This is Maidan at 35 degrees and 98 percent humidity. There is the same sense of quiet determination and organisation. They are digging in for the long haul.
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Protester evicted for heckling Hong Kong leader
As China celebrates National Day, a protester is evicted from an official event in Hong Kong for heckling leader CY Leung, and protests continue on the streets.
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Emmy the Great on a Hong Kong ‘dreamed by its people’
My family left Hong Kong in 1995, but my parents and sister went back to live there eventually, so I visit every year, writes musician and writer Emma-Lee Moss, known by her stage name Emmy the Great.
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Matt Frei
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Lindsey Hilsum
Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of Censors
If you want to buy a yellow ribbon to tie round your ponytail, don’t bother to look online in China. The phrase “yellow ribbon” has been censored. And it’s not hard to work out why.
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Hong Kong protests continue – but where are the police?
Hong Kong’s police force fired tear gas and pepper spray at demonstrators on Sunday. But officers have now withdrawn from the city centre, in a move that has disconcerted protesters.
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‘Hong Kong wants equal rights’, says protest leader
The teenage protest leader Joshua Wong, who was arrested on Friday during a police crackdown in Hong Kong, says that people of every generation in Hong Kong will ‘stand in the street’ for change.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Hong Kong: how much unrest will China tolerate?
The demonstrators are a new generation, but they all know what happened in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989, when the Communist Party crushed a student protest in Beijing with tanks.
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Decision time in Hong Kong
Hong Kong descends into chaos as the city’s youthful protesters decide how far they want to push a pro-democracy movement in order to shut down the global financial hub.
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‘Even in Tiananmen, they waited to use tear gas’
The Chinese novelist Diane Wei Liang, who spent part of her childhood with her parents in a labour camp, and Hong Kong businessman Sir David Tang, founder of fashion brand Shanghai Tang, debate.
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Hong Kong demonstrators defiant as protests grow
Hong Kong democracy protesters defy volleys of tear gas and police baton charges to stand firm in the global financial hub, in an attempt to challenge Beijing’s demands to restrict free elections.
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Video: Hong Kong protesters face off against riot police
Watch as Hong Kong police fire tear gas to try to disperse pro-democracy activists as tensions escalate. Protestors are calling for greater political freedoms in the former British colony.
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Hong Kong erupts in protest against China’s rule
Police use tear gas to disperse pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong as thousands mount a determined challenge to Beijing’s attempts to restrict free elections – in defiance of previous promises.
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Old China – undisturbed by 30 years of change
Yangshuo county, southern China, has changed since photo-journalist Raul Gallego Abellan was there three years ago. But it still offers a glimpse of the old China and the rural life that sustained it.
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UN climate change summit – Q&A
This weekend saw the world’s biggest march on climate change to date. Will the enthusiasm be replicated at the New York on Tuesday? Channel 4 News takes a look.
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Bigger than Amazon and eBay, Alibaba set to float
China’s e-commerce behemoth Alibaba handles most of the country’s online shopping. As it is joins the US stock market, it has set its sights on expansion in the USA and Europe.
