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From local artist Kit Man - "subverting the state with white paper". Protesters that held a blank placard protest yesterday were warned of breaching the new national security law. One comment asks, "is the state made of tofu?"
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Now is a good time to revisit what the composer of #GloryToHongKong, PI told me last year: “If a regime were to react so severely that a simple song is banned and all who are involved are arrested, it shows that it is the regime itself that fears the people and its ideas.” twitter.com/damon_pang/sta…
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#HongKong unveiled new “National Insecurity Office”
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Pro-democratic politicians are holding a primary election in #HongKong today, ahead of the Legislative Council election in Sept. Held for the 1st time, the move is to consolidate support so the pan-democrats can take more seats in the legislature. legco2020.vote4.hk/primaries/stat…
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"Today and tmr is...the time for us to use peaceful and rational means to show the world, we can exercise democracy," says Robert Chung, founder of the poll institute. The poll question they asked yesterday: Is HK still a free city? 61% said no.
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It would be so much easier to just give in, comply with the new laws, drop one’s ideals, stay alive. “But could you live with yourself?”
I wrote about #HongKong society's response to the National Security Law in my first piece for @latimes. twitter.com/latimes/status…
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Over 20 waiting outside this small restaurant, the queue wrapping around the block. Volunteers had to divert traffic by asking voters to move to another station nearby.
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I'm sorry, but this totally outdid the bus. twitter.com/holmeschan_/st…
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Best voting station official in town.
Photo: 棉花糖與咖啡廳
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The si lai (housewife) in front of me didn’t bother to bring her groceries cart into the voting booth and just left it outside. The staff reassured her they wont let anyone take it. Si lai: 唔洗，黎得投票既人唔會做啲咁嘅嘢。
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Wait till you meet the head of IT. twitter.com/rachel_cheung1…
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As someone who also waited three hours yesterday - and therefore had a west face by noon - I can tell you that smile doesn’t come easy. t.co/VyIH3jzA8m
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Turn the volume up. I cannot be the only one who hears this.
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Vote counting at the #HongKong Public Opinion Research Institute continues after 610,000 casted their ballots at the two-day primary elections organised by pro-democratic politicians.
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The same wall two days apart. The slogans you can cover, the wall you can repaint, but memories and beliefs you cannot erase.
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“Promise me, you will only go out at night after 6pm and be home by 5am. Pinky swear, okay?”
Credit: @cusonlo twitter.com/rachel_cheung1…
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#HongKong govt is closing amusement places amid 3rd wave of COVID-19, so it will be a while before I can check this out. But the Siu Hei playground, newly designed by One Bite Design Studio and Never-Never, is a sight to behold.
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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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My social media feed is flooded with images of the evening sky in #HongKong tonight.
Credit: Suki Yuen/明週, 100毛, U Magazine
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People in #HongKong eat their dinners on the streets and in parks after the govt banned dining in at restaurants after 6pm.
Photo: Apple Daily
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At a boba shop in #HongKong: “support one country one system”, “long live chairman Mao” , “Mao once said a single spark can light a prairie fire”.
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UK Foreign Secretary @DominicRaab: UK is suspending extradition treaty with #HongKong immediately and indefinitely. "We will not consider reactivating those arrangements unless and until there is clear, robust safeguard, which can prevent extradition treaties from being misused."
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There’s no more than the usual traffic at Yuen Long Station, but MTR has implemented “crowd management measures” and closed off five exits, on the anniversary of 721, where a mob wielding sticks attacked passengers and press members indiscriminately.
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And if you go down the escalator, you will find an army of riot police officers on the ground at the bus station.
Last year, two officers were filmed leaving the scene of the attack, while reinforcement arrived 38 minutes later.
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Police officers patrolling the neighbourhood. The 721 attack at Yuen Long marked a turning point in the protest movement as most people saw their failure to respond to the attack and hold perpetrators accountable as collusion between the force and triads.
Journalist based in Hong Kong. Formerly @VICEWorldNews, @SCMPNews. Words in @WPReview, @latimes and @AJEnglish
Contact: rachel_cheung1@protonmail.com