Hong Kong

Tens of thousands of residents demonstrated on the streets of Hong Kong on Monday, the 16th anniversary of the city’s return to Chinese rule. The protests have become an annual rite, but the demonstrators’ demands were quite specific this year. They wanted the resignation of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and they called for direct elections.…

New York, January 11, 2013–Hong Kong’s government should withdraw a proposed regulation that would limit journalists’ access to information about business leaders, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.