Tiananmen Square

Talking points

15 Apr 2013

How will China treat Iceland's gay first couple?

2:31AM

Till the day a million may gather in Tiananmen Square to remember

15 Apr 2013

There are 108 ways of remembering 1989, like the little beads on a prayer string; simple, humble, tactile reminders of the days when Beijing was a city of hope, caught in the throes of a peaceful...

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Clean-up of Tiananmen Square area ahead of National Day, party congress

8 Sep 2012

Beijing has launched a massive campaign to spruce up Tiananmen Square and its surroundings ahead of the upcoming National Day celebrations and the Communist Party's once-in-a-decade change of...

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Letters to the Editor, August 13, 2012

13 Aug 2012

Do not delay national education

The decision by the government to introduce moral and national education in schools has led to a heated debate between officials and parents.

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Man stabbed to death in latest attack on foreigner

12 Jul 2012

A man of foreign nationality was stabbed to death yesterday in Beijing amid a rising tide of anti-foreigner sentiment.

The attack occurred at the entrance of Qudeng alleyway in...

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Chinese identity wanes

28 Jun 2012

Hongkongers' sense of identity as Chinese citizens has plunged to a 13-year low, according to a poll conducted amid public anger at the death of Tiananmen Square activist Li Wangyang .

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Opinion

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

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3:37AM

Activist's death warrants inquiry

Those who knew Li Wangyang cannot accept that he killed himself. To the long-jailed labour activist's supporters, he was an iron-willed fighter always prepared to rally against injustice.

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Talking points

Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories ...

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Chen Man

SIMPLE PLEASURES I was born in Mongolia. My parents went there because of the Cultural Revolution. When I was [a year old], we moved to Beijing and that's where I grew up, in a typical hutong...

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Rita Fan refuses to apologise over June 4 comments

Ding Zilin, an advocate for parents who lost their children in the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, yesterday denounced Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai's refusal to apologise over her description of the...

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Paintings vanish from Mao rostrum

Eight paintings are missing from the rostrum where Mao Zedong announced the founding of the People's Republic of China, the latest scandal involving cultural institutions on the mainland.

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Remembering Tiananmen: tragedy that shaped a nation

Twenty-two years ago today, hundreds of young lives were brutally crushed in a military crackdown on the Tiananmen pro-democracy movement - a tragedy that would shape the country's politics for...

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