By Oiwan Lam Since the 2019 anti-extradition protests in Hong Kong, many citizens from around the world have shown solidarity through social media hashtags such as #standwithHK. However, very f...
Myanmar’s military authorities have banned public assemblies but this has only encouraged protesters to devise new ways of expressing opposition to the coup. After the military grabbed power on...
https://hongkongfp.com/2021/03/05/protest-innovations-from-myanmars-civil-disobedience-movement/
By Oiwan Lam The term “seafood” went viral on social media last week in connection with the Myanmar military takeover after the Chinese Embassy in Yangon denied daily flights from China were ...
By Oiwan Lam Activists from a number of Asian countries are calling for the boycott of the film “Mulan,” released by Disney on September 4, on the grounds that production’s lead actor, Liu...
By Filip Noubel In many societies living under oppression and cultural denial, music is often the only space and form of resistance. This is particularly true for the 11 million Uyghurs in West...
By Oiwan Lam With Hong Kong seeing a spike in Covid-19 cases, the city prepares to test its entire population for the new coronavirus by the end of August — while pro-Beijing politicians push�...
By Oiwan Lam As the Black Lives Matter protests that followed the killing of George Floyd in the US evolved into a global anti-racism movement, communities around the world were inspired to trans...
By Fiona So In the latest of a string of incidents sparking national debate over undue Chinese influence on Australian university campuses, the University of New South Wales (UNSW) was criticized...
By Filip Noubel Emojis representing Uyghur characters and culture are now available on the messenger platform Telegram in an effort by the Uyghur diaspora in Russian-speaking countries to raise...
https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/15/new-uyghur-emojis-foster-cultural-resistance-on-social-media/
By Mong Palatino Singapore has been consistently praised in global news reports for its approach in containing the spread of Covid-19. But since the first week of April 2020, the country has ...
By Oiwan Lam Canada-based Internet censorship research organization, Citizen Lab, points out in their latest report, “Censored Contagion: How Information on the Coronavirus is Managed on Chines...
By Oiwan Lam Chinese media outlets have been accused of echoing the Chinese Communist Party’s political propaganda in understating the severity of the COVID-19 outbreak. It was only on 20 Jan...
By Oiwan Lam I live with my husband and six-year-old daughter in Hong Kong, and for the past two weeks, like many Hongkongers, we have been living in semi-quarantine. We stay home most of the tim...
https://hongkongfp.com/2020/02/15/semi-quarantined-living-coronavirus-outbreak-hong-kong/
By Oiwan Lam Former human rights lawyer and famous citizen journalist Chen Qiushi arrived in Wuhan city, the centre of the coronavirus outbreak, on January 24, 2020, to report from inside the qua...
Taiwan’s Pro-Beijing Kuomintang (KMT) party has shifted its 2020 presidential campaign strategy in the past few weeks. Instead of focusing on how the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) stra...
By Oiwan Lam Mainland China’s public call for “unifying Taiwan by force” (武統台灣) surged after Tsai Ing-wen of the pro-Taiwan independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the...
By Filip Noubel Next Saturday, Taiwan will hold key presidential and legislative elections in which three candidates are competing for the post that holds strong political prerogatives: the curr...
https://hongkongfp.com/2020/01/04/taiwans-2020-presidential-elections-contenders/
By Oiwan Lam A new restaurant and shopping guide in Hong Kong is helping citizens identify shops that support the anti-government protests. The guide is called the “Hong Kong’s Rice Pig Guide...
https://hongkongfp.com/2019/12/28/hong-kong-local-entrepreneurs-champion-pro-democracy-cause/
By Filip Noubel Since Xi Jinping established himself as the undisputed leader of China in 2013, the role of global media in reshaping the image of China has become one of the top priorities for...
By Oiwan Lam Huawei, the most prominent tech giant in China, is considered to be one of the most successful national brands which has established a monopoly status in the domestic market boosted ...
By Lokman Tsui Lokman Tsui is an Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). This story is an edited version of a post published b...
https://hongkongfp.com/2019/12/08/november-12-clashes-chinese-university-hong-kong-eyewitness-view/
By Oiwan Lam This week, the United States passed a law aimed at protecting Hong Kong’s autonomous status and its residents’ civic rights. Proposed in 2014 and reintroduced to the U.S. House C...
By Weiboscope HKU This article is based on a Chinese transcript of a public talk delivered by Dr Fu King-wa of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre of Hong Kong University on independent pla...
By Oiwan Lam Ahead of the 70th anniversary of the People Republic of China, the Chinese State Council Information Office issued a white paper on China’s human rights conditions on September 22,...
By Chris Rickleton When Tursynbek Kabiuly arrived in Kazakhstan in February following a 17-month absence enforced by Chinese authorities, he could see the joy on his wife Oralkhan’s face. But u...
https://hongkongfp.com/2019/10/13/xinjiang-long-road-recovery/
By Mong Palatino Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is suing Terry Xu, chief editor of independent news website The Online Citizen (TOC), for defamation in relation to a news article p...
https://hongkongfp.com/2019/09/11/singapore-prime-minister-sues-independent-news-website-defamation/
By Mong Palatino There are more than 130,000 Filipinos in Hong Kong, a majority of whom are domestic workers. Every Sunday, many congregate in Central, the business and retail heart of Hong Ko...
https://hongkongfp.com/2019/09/06/hong-kong-protests-eyes-filipino-migrant-worker/
By Don Le A song written by a Vietnamese-American composer who was inspired by the anti-extradition bill protests in Hong Kong has gone viral among both Vietnamese and Hong Kong netizens. The...
By Oiwan Lam In the wake of the 2019 anti-extradition protests that swept Hong Kong, local cafe Brew Note hosted a public salon to discuss the new generation of protesters on the island. The gues...
By Kevin Rennie Writer and popular online commentator, Chinese-Australian Yang Hengjun, has been held in detention for six months by Chinese authorities since his arrest at Guangzhou airport on ...