HK democrats accuse China of dirty tricks in poll campaign
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Hong Kong democrats have accused China of orchestrating a "dirty tricks" campaign to smear their candidates ahead of key autumn elections.
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China said Saturday it would consider allowing Hong Kong's leader to be directly elected by 2017 but activists seeking quicker reform in the former British colony criticised the decision.
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Leung Kwok-hung regularly disrupts legislative sessions with pro-democracy outbursts. He has shown up to voting centers in a pig mask and Chinese emperor's jacket. Most recently, he burned photos of the Chinese president during the leader's visit to Hong Kong.
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After a campaign marred by scandal and alleged intimidation, the people of Hong Kong voted Sunday under gray skies in legislative elections that could give pro-democracy figures more clout than they have held since China reclaimed Hong Kong in July 1997.
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The Chinese government has created a &quot;climate of fear&quot; in Hong Kong designed to skew the result of this Sunday&#39;s election, a human rights group says.
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A Democratic Party manual tells operatives in battleground states how to combat voter intimidation, but Republicans complained on Thursday that the guidelines encourage Democrats to use scare tactics.
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Hong Kong&#39;s democrats yesterday fell short of expectations in elections to the legislative council after voters, wary of alienating China&#39;s communist rulers, chose the stability offered by the Beijing camp.
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The Republican party claimed Democrats illegally coordinated a voter mobilization blitz for John Kerry in Florida with groups not regulated by electoral authorities.
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HONG KONG An already heated legislative election campaign here took an unexpected turn Tuesday with an announcement by the Democratic Party that one of its candidates has been arrested in mainland China and sentenced without trial to six months in ...
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China's Communist Party tells its members that  corruption could threaten its hold on power.
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HONG KONG : China has created a &quot;toxic political climate&quot; in Hong Kong through threats and intimidation designed to skew Sunday&#39;s elections in favour of pro-Beijing candidates, a global rights watchdog said.
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Pro-democracy candidates in Hong Kong, stung by sex and money scandals, made only limited gains while the China camp made big gains in directly elected seats in legislative elections, results showed on Monday.
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Democrats have tightened their grip on Hong Kong&#39;s legislature, but still have no mandate to push their agenda of universal suffrage in the southern Chinese enclave.
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The spying conviction against a prominent Hong Kong journalist has brought criticism against China from human rights and media advocacy groups.
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Hong Kong residents voted on Sunday in a legislative election that could bring big gains for the democracy camp, which has angered Beijing by demanding universal suffrage in the former British colony.
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Hong Kong's government has ordered a  probe into vote counting discrepancies from Sunday's  legislative election, the latest in a string of blunders that  have embarrassed the local China-backed administration.
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In what has all the hallmarks of a political set-up, Chinese police have arrested Alex Ho, a Democratic Party candidate in the upcoming Legislative Council elections in Hong Kong, on charges of soliciting a prostitute.