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After #HongKongPolice made a Facebook post thanking 300,000 people/accounts liking their page, people apparently unliked it en masse, the figure dipped below 300,000. Some users note that people can follow instead of liking a page to get info #HongKong
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Citing the song as part of “political propaganda”, #HongKong education chief Kevin Yeung officially bans #AntiELAB #HongKongProtests song #GlorytoHK Glory to Hong Kong at schools. He was making a written reply to Education sector lawmaker Ip Kin-yuen
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#HongKong Social work sector lawmaker Shiu Ka-chun read out the lyrics to the #HongKongProtests song #GlorytoHongKong to wrap up his speech on the controverisal national anthem bill in #LegCo
"Build a free, glory, #HK"
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#BREAKING 12 #HongKong youths accused of illegal border crossing will go on trial in Yantian on Monday, according to the #12HKyouths concern group. They were allegedly trying to flee to Taiwan on boat when intercepted by Guangdong coastguard in August
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Polytechnic University #PolyU social sciences scholar Chung Kim-wah (R) told #RTHK he's heading back to campus to try and bring out some 20 students from his department. He says he believes they're not violent protesters but are only doing "resources-sorting" #HongKongProtests
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#HongKong leader #CarrieLam announces unprecedented #LegcoElection2020 postponement, through the use of Emergency laws, becuz of #coronavirus epidemic. She calls it the hardest choice in past 7 months. Cites allies’ doubts on safety of electioneering amid virus
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Another rally at Edinburgh Place in Central — this one marking the fall of the Berlin Wall & Communist states in Eastern Europe 30 years ago. This is a “wall” #HongKongProtesters built with all the messages they’ve drawn on it #HongKongProtests
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Martin Lee, representing a citizen in a JR case demanding #HongKongPolice show unique ID numbers while on duty, attacked the Govt as behaving in a “rotten” way by “not producing a single legal doc relevant to case & only asking a chief inspector”& not someone higher up to respond
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The pro-#Beijing #DAB’s lawmakers will hold a press conference tomorrow, saying the mom of Chan Yin-lam, who mysteriously died last year amid the #HongKongProtests, opposes a pro-democracy district councillors’ proposal to name a Tseung Kwan O park after Chan. Photo: @StandNewsHK
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The 12 are now confirmed to be in Yantian, Shenzhen, under criminal detention, & “their legal rights protected by the authorities”, says Shenzhen police twitter.com/rthk_enews/sta…
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This morning in #HongKong, Joshua Wong & 3 fellow activists will be sentenced for taking part in the unauthorised - yet largely peaceful - assembly to commemorate the June Fourth #TiananmenSquareMassacre last year
It’s the first such prosecution since the 1989 #Beijing bloodshed
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#HongKong #MTR says 83 of its 94 stations have suffered damages in recent #HongKongProtests, include 800 gates, 500 ticket vendor machines, 700 CCTV cameras, 400 light rail Octopus card machines & 12 elevators. Firm urged protesters to care for everyone’s safety & stop damaging
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From @frances_sit Commotion outside poll station of Kennedy Town & Mount Davis. After residents noticed ppl trying 2 move 2 ballot boxes into centre. Centre officer explains 2 ppl with assessibility issue had to vote elsewhere and now the votes r moved here. residents still angry
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Insulting spray paints against #HongKong ex-magistrate Stanley Ho, labeled a “pro-democracy yellow judge” by pro-#Beijing media, appear on 2 buildings in Kowloon Tong. Part of it is now covered up. #HongKongPolice list case as criminal damage, no one’s arrested so far
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Unionist Carol Ng, currently remanded as one of 47 activists charged with conspiring to commit subversion over unofficial primaries for the cancelled #2020Legco poll, has resigned as chair of the Confederation of Trade Unions, says the pro-democracy CTU #NSL #HK #HongKong
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Are only “approved press” allowed to cover events from now on in #HongKong?
Reports from the scene of the list of organizations barred from reporting:
Associated Press @AP
AFP @AFP
Reuters @Reuters
Getty Images @GettyImages
Stand News @StandNewsHK
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A pharmacy in #MongKok that's one of the few shops that remained open despite the clashes, presumably as it sells materials to first-aiders, has apparently been hit by tear gas #HongKongProtests
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#HongKong Security minister John Lee says the #HongKongPolice mass arrests target “active elements” who are suspected of subversion, but not against voters who took part in “so-called primary elections” last July
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One by one, #HongKong public hospital workers who are on strike demanding a full border seal from non-locals submit a petition to the Hospital Authority at it’s HQ #HAEA #nCoV2019 #WuhanCoronovirus #WuhanVirus #China
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Ministers who can’t take questions to start their new jobs will earn HK$330,000 plus a month twitter.com/alvinllum/stat…
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Just read this #HongKong Govt statement again - released on 18 Aug 2019, after the “peaceful” protest took place
“The Government will begin sincere dialogue with the public, mend social rifts and rebuild social harmony when everything has calmed down.”
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As #CarrieLam is poised to announce postponing the #LegcoElection2020 for a year, as sources indicate through the use of emergency laws, it will be interesting to see how Article 69 of the Basic Law will have to change. It states a #Legco term in #HongKong is 4 years.
#HongKong radio journalist. Views here are my own. Retweet ≠ endorsement.