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THE DAY IN PHOTOS: June 4, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 05 12:59 AM

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

Remembering the Tiananmen Square protest

Tyrone Siu, Reuters
Posted at Jun 04 11:16 PM

Thousands of people take part in a candlelight vigil to mark the 30th anniversary of the crackdown of pro-democracy movement at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, at Victoria Park in Hong Kong, on Tuesday. Read more »

Labor groups commemorate Tiananmen Square protests

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 04 07:52 PM

Members of various labor groups light candles in front of the Chinese Embassy in Makati on Tuesday to commemorate 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, an event that, until recently, China refuses to discuss. Read more »

China tightens security around Tiananmen on anniversary of crackdown

Reuters
Posted at Jun 04 01:34 PM

BEIJING - Tourists thronged Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Tuesday amid tighter-than-usual security, although most visitors approached by Reuters said they were unaware of the bloody crackdown on student-led protests 30 years ago or would not discuss it. Read more »

Tiananmen ‘immunized China against turmoil’, says state-run daily

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 03 01:41 PM

It is rare for Chinese officials or media to publicly discuss the taboo topic. Authorities have detained activists and tightened online censorship ahead of the anniversary. Read more »

China military says shouldn't say Tiananmen protests were 'suppressed'

Reuters
Posted at May 31 07:19 AM

BEIJING - China's Defense Ministry on Thursday took exception to the use of the word "suppression" to refer to how the military put down pro-democracy protests in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square three decades ago. Read more »

Veteran cleric and Hong Kong democrat keeps up quest for 'historical truth' of Tiananmen

James Pomfret, Reuters
Posted at May 28 01:05 PM

HONG KONG - Veteran Hong Kong democracy campaigner and Baptist cleric Chu Yiu-ming was in his mid-40s when he joined demonstrators around Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, just before a bloody crackdown that roiled China. Read more »

China's post-Tiananmen re-emergence onto the world

Reuters
Posted at May 27 03:04 PM

Next Tuesday, June 4, marks 30 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 »

White amidst red

Ahmad Masood, Reuters
Posted at Oct 19 07:43 PM

Ushers pose for photos at the Tiananmen Square during the opening of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on Wednesday. The Communist Party recently announced that it would allow foreign companies to set up party cells in the country. Read more »

Beijing faces backlash after dissident Liu Xiaobo dies in custody

Agence France Presse
Posted at Jul 14 09:14 AM

SHENYANG - China's Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo died Thursday after losing his battle with terminal cancer, remaining in custody under guard in hospital until his last breath as Beijing faced a wave of criticism over its treatment of the Tiananmen Square protest veteran. Read more »

Documents from purged Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang to be published in Hong Kong

Benjamin Kang Lim and Ben Blanchard, Reuters
Posted at Jul 19 11:18 AM

BEIJING - A collection of documents from Zhao Ziyang, who was China's reformist Communist Party chief until he was toppled in 1989 for opposing the Tiananmen crackdown, has been smuggled out of the country and will be published in Hong Kong this month, according to a publishing house that is turning them into a book. Read more »

Hong Kong's Tiananmen museum closes over legal woes

Clare Baldwin, Reuters
Posted at Jul 12 09:58 AM

HONG KONG - China's only museum commemorating the 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square is to close temporarily after a long-running legal battle with the management and owners of the building it is housed in. Read more »