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For more than 10 weeks last fall, thousands of protesters demanded true democracy. A year later, the movement appears to have stalled. 
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Occupy Central co-founder Benny Tai Yiu-ting says he will not rule out mounting a legal challenge against his employer, the University of Hong Kong, for its decision to punish him over the donations he handled....
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An elderly anti-Occupy protester who snatched a yellow ribbon from a student activist was found guilty of assault yesterday....
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Six months have passed since the outbreak of the pro-democracy Occupy protests in Hong Kong, and a small but determined group of activists wants to make sure their struggle isn't forgotten.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Youth groups in Taiwan are marking the anniversary of a movement that occupied the island's parliament and scuttled the ratification of a trade pact with China, Taiwan's biggest trading partner and erstwhile political foe.
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Kristie Lu Stout speaks with director Christopher Doyle about the fight for democracy in Hong Kong.
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Students and civic groups are launching a "non-cooperation movement" - urging people to delay paying their public-housing rent and to pay tax bills in small and symbolic amounts - as an offshoot of the Occupy prodemocracy protests....
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Hong Kong will clear the last occupation site in pro-democracy protests tomorrow, ending more than two months of road blockades in the city that have disrupted traffic and sparked violent clashes between police and demonstrators.
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Lokman Tsui: The sites have been cleared, but students made their point perfectly and it will continue to resonate around the world
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The most dangerous man in the world's fastest-growing country might be a scrawny college freshman: Occupy leader Joshua Wong.
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Watch a time-lapse of Hong Kong's main pro-democracy camp on the day it was cleared out. Photo: Associated Press
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The occupied site in Admiralty was cleared without resistance or any visible scuffles in a police operation that was described by a watchdog as "smooth and peaceful". from South China Morning Post ...
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Police are set to remove protest camps in Hong Kong on Thursday, while the anarchists behind the city’s original Occupy Central have already moved on.
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David Graeber and Yuk Hui write, "If the surest sign that there has been a revolution is the transformation of political common sense, then the movement we are seeing today marks a genuine watershed.
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Police are set to remove protest camps in Hong Kong on Thursday, while the anarchists behind the city’s original Occupy Central have already moved on.
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Thursday is likely target day for thousands of officers to clear remaining Admiralty and Causeway Bay sites after 72 days of occupation
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“Occupy Central” is nearly two months old. From the original tens of thousands of protestors, numbers have dwindled to a handful of people, but the road by my Hong Kong office is still blocked. No wonder that, on my last trip to mainland China, young students and netizens were most interested in Occupy Central and were anxious to talk with me about it.
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Alice Wu says it is clear that some protesters are in fact engaging in 'uncivil' disobedience, as one Mong Kok store found out
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If somebody doesn't step up to readjust Occupy Hong Kong's paradigm—and soon—the movement will surely flatline.
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The founders of Hong Kong's Occupy Central pro-democracy movement hand themselves in to police, but leave without being charged.
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Professors Benny Tai Yiu-ting and Chan Kin-man and Pastor Chu Yiu-ming announced that they will surrender to police on Wednesday.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - The founders of Hong Kong's Occupy Central civil disobedience movement on Tuesday called on pro-democracy activists to retreat from the city center over fears of violence, just hours...
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Citing Chinese saying on limits to tolerance, chief executive tells protesters that stand-offs by police at sit-in sites are not sign of weakness
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