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"China has betrayed the people of Hong Kong so the West should stop kowtowing to Beijing for an illusory great pot of gold" twitter.com/Reuters/status…
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As an action star, #DonnieYen has never been more sought after. He is starring alongside Keanu Reeves in #JohnWickChapter4. He was recently on the cover of GQ Hype as "Hong Kong's Ageless Action Hero."
But here's why not everyone back home is celebrating:
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China's biggest influencer tanked his career, literally.
@EricLiu_USA: His team weren’t even aware of the June 4 and thought it was any other ordinary day. This by itself highlights how successful China’s censorship apparatus is.
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And while we are all in bed, families and friends of some 160 arrested today are waiting outside the Wan Chai police station for their loved ones to be released. It’s a sad sight that will only become increasingly common in HK. Photo: Stand News
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On 31 Aug 2019, police stormed a train in Prince Edward station and assaulted passengers.
As the anniversary nears, Pakkin Leung, a reporter who filmed the incident, received a letter with a cutter blade warning him to stay silent. twitter.com/StandNewsHK/st…
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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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Months after the protests, workers in Hong Kong are still asked to glue bricks to the ground to prevent them from being dug up. “It doesn’t really work. We are just following the orders we were given,” he said.
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A group of volunteers have installed hand sanitizer dispensers at over 300 old tenement buildings in #HongKong and deliver regular supply for refill. Their goal is to reach 2000 buildings and keep them supplied for at least two months.
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Lost in the Fumes, a documentary on the young #HongKong politician and activist, Edward Leung, is now available on iTunes. He was jailed for six years in 2018 over the Mong Kok riot in 2016. Check it out if you can.
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Families of two #HongKong activists detained in mainland China spoke to @StandNewsHK. One father fled to HK during Cultural Revolution so he tried to dissuade his son from protesting “but he didn’t listen.” thestandnews.com/politics/12%E6…
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Latest work by @AhTo_comic, riffing off Carrie Lam’s famous quote in 2017 that “a place has been reserved for her in heaven”.
Angel: “But I can’t find your name wor...Mrs. Lam..”
“Then I return the place! I don’t want it anymore!”
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Next Magazine released a statement, condemning Hong Kong police for detaining two reporters while they were reporting on an investigative story related to superintendent Rupert Dover. The pair have since been released from Tseung Kwan O police station.
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- public broadcaster @rthk_enews, which is now under a government probe, is also blocked from entering Apple Daily headquarters to report on the ongoing search.
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Some exits at Mong Kok MTR are closed, while #police stand guard at remaining ones, both in the station and on the ground.
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Local photographer Ko Chung Ming’s entry to Sony World Photography Awards, titled Wounds of HongKong, is taken down from the site by World Photography Organisation, which cited concern raised abt sensitive nature of the images and ongoing review.
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Feng feng, a professor from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts is accused of plagiarism - ppl noted how much the works at his solo exhibition resemble Dick Bruna’s Miffy. But he has denied it, saying all public symbols, esp commercial ones, are artists’ creative “vocabulary”.
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In 2015, only a handful independent cinemas dared to screen the film, which is a compilation of five shorts. For the first time in my life, when the film ended, no one uttered a word. The theatre was so silent you could hear a pin drop. twitter.com/hardmaru/statu…
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Quite amazing to see Belarusian students enacting their own version of Liberty Leading the People, which has also inspired protest art in Hong Kong. twitter.com/franakviacorka…
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Two 21-year-old twin brothers are sentenced to 7 weeks in jail for vandalising MTR facilities. Father, who has nasopharynx cancer, is diagnosed with lymphoma last week and is not expected to live long. Judge turned down request for a suspended sentence thestandnews.com/politics/%E5%A…
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Stand News did an uplifting story on a snack shop, which applied to be a private food supplier for correctional institutions, to ensure arrested protesters can have better meals - even if it means the shop is making a loss of HK$20,000 every month. thestandnews.com/society/%E9%BB…
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What living in Hong Kong feels like these days.
From Facebook page Hong Kong Worker.
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This isn't merely whitewashing, but downright glorifying HK police. It paints police's only fault as not reacting quickly enough and dismisses all criticisms as "smear campaign". Expert cites US to argue police brutality in HK is merely a "perception". scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
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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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The crowd quickly dispersing into side streets as police cornered them from two ends of Hennessy Road. You can hear consecutive rounds of pepper balls being fired in the background and people choking from it.
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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.
Journalist based in Hong Kong. Formerly @VICEWorldNews, @SCMPNews. Words in @WPReview, @latimes and @AJEnglish
Contact: rachel_cheung1@protonmail.com