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"Our actions have forced the government to gradually close the border. Near 60% of mainlanders entered Hong Kong through the three border control points that remain open," says Winnie Yu from Hospital Authority Employees Alliance. >2400 participated in the first day of strike.
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“Those in power make bad decisions, but it's us ordinary people who suffer the consequences," a 28-year-old teacher told me. She spent 20 days in quarantine after being listed as a close contact.
My latest for @Telegraph:
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While riot police take a break protesters have spilled onto other streets, shouting slogans as they go. How and if the march will proceed is still unknown.
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Having lost trust/hope in the government, #HongKong people are now crowdsourcing to set up their own mask production line to meet local demand. Raw materials and machines obtained. Looking for people with experience in manufacturing surgical masks.
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Citizen News spoke to a postman, who took up extra shifts to deliver parcels - most of them masks - to citizens after postal service resumed on Monday. Some wept when they received the parcels. One immediately opened it and gave some masks to the postman. hkcnews.com/article/27028/…
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While one group of police detained a crowd for stop and search outside Sogo, another fired teargas from the other end of the road, so suddenly that their own colleagues were caught without their gas masks on.
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“7 months ago, I plucked all my courage to file a complaint of rape and sexual by unknown police officers inside Tsuen Wan Police station. I hoped and prayed that the complaint would be investigated impartially...none of that has happened.” facebook.com/615726795/post…
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Immortalised on #AnimalCrossing, which has fast become the only space for protest graffiti in Hong Kong.
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A 22-year-old lifeguard is sentenced to four years in jail for rioting. He is the first defendant to admit guilty to riot charges. He was arrested on June 12, when thousands surrounded the LegCo to protest the reading of controversial extradition bill. news.mingpao.com/ins/%e6%b8%af%…
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District councilor Derek Chu held a screening of romantic film Beyond the Dream tonight and invited director Kiwi Chow to share. Police stormed the event towards its end and accused the 40 attendees of breaking social distancing rules.
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I imagine the people who are shouting "it's fine! everything's fine!" are also the same people looking at the stocks and think "IT'S NOTTTTT" twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/s…
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One of Carrie Lam’s ambush operations occurring now. Police setting up cordons on Tung On Street in Yau Ma Tei to place the neighbourhood under lockdown without any prior notification.
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This is one of the reasons why there was such a huge reaction to the government’s killing of the boars. They might be targeting the boars, but people saw themselves in the way the boars were treated. twitter.com/jmulich/status…
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Six air crew members have been placed under medical surveillance after having close contact with #coronavirus patients, yet Cathay Dragon refuses to suspend flights to mainland China. Union considering to go on strike, Apple Daily reports. hk.news.appledaily.com/local/20200131…
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There’ve been many spinoffs of the movie poster for #HongKong film Beyond the Dream. Even Big Waster, mascot of environmental protection department joined in at one point.
But we now have a winner, I think. “I don’t mind the handover, do you?”
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Instead of wearing black, one man hangs a black tee on a pole to “make his opinion heard”. His demand: “resume the legislative council election now, give me back my right to vote.”
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Someone left a Bluetooth speaker on the floor, playing Glory to #HongKong. Within minutes, police rushed over with the purple flag.
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We looked into why people in Hong Kong, especially the elderly, are skeptical about vaccine benefits. A number of new qualitative studies also shed light on the factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy in older adults. telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
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even told to BYOM: Bring Your Own Masks and that hospitals cannot provide them with any. As this poster by HA Employees Alliance asks, “have you seen police buy their own guns for work?”
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#HongKong cartoonist and visual artist Wong Chiu Tat said he left the city last year. Political cartoons are region specific, so it’s challenging to keep creating works abt HK, he said. “But it’s better than in HK, where I couldn’t even draw anything.”
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Chants of the protest slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times” put riot police officers incredibly on edge. They unfurled the purple flag and are now setting up cordon lines.
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Heavy police presence in #HongKong to stamp out any expression of dissent on the centennial anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. In Causeway Bay, officers found a banner from a man that said “the city will never die.”
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Roberto Bolaño's 2666, The Classic of Poetry, a Chinese dictionary are among books a 19 yro has prepared for his jail term. Tens of thousands were arrested by #HongKong police since protests erupted in 2019, this is a story on what happens afterwards. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
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“I will live well. I will love this home and its people. I don’t see darkness for the light is in my heart. Your honour, you see, I am a free man.”
Justin Wong’s latest illustration in his series That City in Mingpao.
Journalist based in Hong Kong. Formerly @VICEWorldNews, @SCMPNews. Words in @WPReview, @latimes and @AJEnglish
Contact: rachel_cheung1@protonmail.com