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Cops order Tiananmen vigil group to delete websites

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 16 06:25 PM

Organizers of Hong Kong's annual Tiananmen vigil said they had been ordered by national security police to delete their online presence. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: September 9, 2021

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 09 11:40 PM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Police raid museum commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre victims

Tyrone Siu, Reuters
Posted at Sep 09 06:57 PM

Police raid the June 4th Museum, which commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown in Hong Kong on Thursday Read more »

Museum commemorating 1989 Tiananmen victims reopens online

Reuters
Posted at Aug 04 07:20 PM

A museum dedicated to the victims of China's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square reopened online. Read more »

Xi hails 'irreversible' rise of China at 100th birthday of Communist Party

Patrick Baert and Beiyi Seow, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 01 10:42 AM

The era of China "being slaughtered and bullied is gone forever," said Xi, wearing the 'Mao-style' jacket, adding the "great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical course."   Read more »

China blocks shopping app after post on Tiananmen anniversary

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 07 08:07 PM

A Chinese shopping app has been blocked on social media after a post on the anniversary of the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989, as Beijing's censorship kicked into gear around the sensitive date. Read more »

China blasts US, EU consulates in Hong Kong for Tiananmen candles

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 05 12:04 PM

China on Saturday berated the United States and European Union consulates in Hong Kong for displaying candles to commemorate the June 4 Tiananmen crackdown, slamming it as a "clumsy political show" to destabilize the city.   Read more »

Remembering China's Tiananmen Square crackdown

Isaac Lawrence, AFP
Posted at Jun 05 11:22 AM

A woman (L) holds a front page copy of a newspaper from after China's Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 in Hong Kong on Friday after police closed the venue where Hong Kong people traditionally gather annually to mourn the victims of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. Read more »

Famed Tiananmen Square 'Tank Man' photo vanishes from Bing search engine

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 05 09:38 AM

Searches for the famous Tiananmen Square "Tank Man" protest photo came up empty on Microsoft search engine Bing on Friday, raising censorship concerns on the anniversary of the deadly crackdown. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: June 4, 2021

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 16 03:19 PM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Phone lights signal Hong Kong's Tiananmen memories still shine

Yan Zhao, Daniel Suen and Louise Delmotte, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 04 11:43 PM

As the clock struck 8pm in Hong Kong's shopping district of Mong Kok, dozens of people simultaneously turned their mobile phone lights on, a small gesture of defiance in a city where mass remembrance of Beijing's Tiananmen crackdown has been banned. Read more »

Tiananmen Square massacre remembered 32 years on

Jire Carreon, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 04 09:14 PM

Members of various cause-oriented groups hold a protest and candle lighting ceremony while offering a thousand white roses at the 11th World Scout Jamboree Memorial Rotonda in Quezon City on Friday to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.  Read more »

Hong Kong cordons off annual Tiananmen vigil site, arrests organizer

Pak Yiu and Clare Jim, Reuters
Posted at Jun 04 06:16 PM

Hong Kong closed off a park where tens of thousands gather annually to commemorate China's 1989 Tiananmen crackdown and arrested the vigil's organizer, in what activists see as suppression of one of the city's main symbols of democratic hope.   Read more »

Ahead of Tiananmen anniversary, Taiwan calls on China to return power to the people

Reuters
Posted at Jun 03 02:31 PM

Taiwan called on China on Thursday to return power to the people and embark upon real political reform rather than avoid facing up to the bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing. Read more »

Tiananmen crackdown: Ban on vigil but Hongkongers make plans to mark June 4

Phila Siu, Jeffie Lam and Ng Kang-chung, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jun 01 01:18 PM

Since Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong last June banning acts of subversion, secession, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces, concerns have mounted that the organisers of the vigil, as well as those who attend it, risk being held in breach of the law. Read more »

TIMELINE: From reform hopes to brutal crackdown - China's Tiananmen protests

Reuters
Posted at Jun 24 04:09 AM

Thursday marks 31 years since China bloodily suppressed pro-democracy demonstrations in and around central Beijing's Tiananmen Square when Chinese troops opened fire on their own people. Read more »

Hong Kong commemorates 31st anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests

Tyrone Siu, Reuters
Posted at Jun 04 11:52 PM

Protesters take part in a candlelight vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong on Thursday to mark the 31st anniversary of the crackdown of pro-democracy protests at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989. Read more »

Retired China soccer star calls for ouster of Communist Party

Reuters
Updated as of Jun 04 08:36 PM

Hao Haidong, 50, who was a major star in China during the 1990s and 2000s, and is known to have a residence in Spain, spoke in a 53-minute video interview. Thursday is the 31st anniversary of the crackdown on student protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Read more »

Protest disrupts Hong Kong legislative debate over China national anthem bill

Reuters
Posted at Jun 04 03:57 PM

Police and firefighters entered Hong Kong's legislature on Thursday after two pro-democracy lawmakers threw foul-smelling liquid to protest against China's "murderous" crackdown by Chinese troops in and around Tiananmen Square 31 years ago. Read more »

Hong Kong bans Tiananmen vigil for first time, in new challenge to protests

Daniel Victor, The New York Times
Posted at Jun 02 07:30 AM

Hong Kong on Monday prohibited for the first time the annual June 4 vigil to honor victims of the pro-democracy Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, which the Chinese government crushed with deadly force. Read more »