The Pulse

This week, the Secretary for Security and the Chief Executive both vociferously condemned the young protesters outside Legco at the weekend for their "radical" and "violent" actions.

However, during last week’s Question and Answer session in the cou...

With the votes in and the budget approved for the Express Rail Line, it seems as if this particular through train IS actually going to go through.

So the question is: what next for those who oppose it?With us in the studio is Albert Lai of the Prof...

This week the DAB tabled a motion asking the government not only to introduce a Confucius public holiday, but also to promote the ancient sage more in Hong Kong.

Today Confucius is all the rage in Chinese political circles. Thirty years ago, Mao's ...

THis week legislators discussed a motion calling on the mainland to release Liu Xiaobo. The discussion was delayed for seven minutes because pro-government lawmakers refused to even sit in the chamber.

Following up on last Saturday's arrest of Christina Chan, we look at the deteriorating relationship between police and protesters, and whether police are fully respecting the legal and human rights of political and social activists.

Over the past week, commentators of various kinds have been having a field day discussing so-called hot-headed activities on January 1st, and the generation that committed them. Borrowing a term made popular in mainland China, they’re known as the “Pos...

Organisers claimed 30,000 people marched on January 1st. The police said 9,000. They also said they’d mobilised 1,000 officers to cover the event, a better service ratio than you’ll find in many restaurants or stores.

Both sides were shooting video...

This week protesters at the January 1st democracy march were criticised by Liaison Office director Peng Qinghua, Executive Councillor Cheng Yiu-tong, and others for their actions. Particular criticism was leveled at the younger participants. We spoke t...

This week, we devote all of The Pulse to the case of Liu Xiaobo, sentenced to 11 years in prison on Christmas Day on charges of inciting subversion.

This latest sentence came as the result

of his involvement in writing Charter 08, a call for impro...

This week, we devote all of The Pulse to the case of Liu Xiaobo, sentenced to 11 years in prison on Christmas Day on charges of inciting subversion.

This latest sentence came as the result

of his involvement in writing Charter 08, a call for impro...