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A whistleblower from the Chinese arm of Big Four accountant EY has alleged the firm looked the other way when presented with details of a risky stock purchase while performing an audit of a major client. Me with @BenGartside. telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/…
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Breaking: @hkcnews_com reporting 47 of the 53 pro-democracy activists arrested in January under the National Security Law will be charged with subversion tomorrow. They are likely to be served with indefinite detention orders, meaning they will be locked up until their trial. twitter.com/hkcnews_com/st…
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Beijing's plans to overhaul HK's electoral system have just been revealed by the very-well-sourced HK01. Only 20 of the 90 seats in the reconstituted LegCo will be elected, with all anti-government candidates certain to be preventing from standing anyway. Democracy in tatters.
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Breaking: HK pro-democracy activist Andy Li, missing after returning from mainland China, has been held at a psychiatric hospital in secret according to @AppleDaily_HK sources - who claim it’s to prevent him speaking about details of his detention in China.hk.appledaily.com/news/20210329/…
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Carrie Lam has slammed former Democratic Party chair Emily Lau for ‘not understanding democracy’.
That’d be the same Carrie Lam who in 2018 donated HK$30,000 to the Democratic Party - who’s candidates were all arrested under the National Security Law in January. Riddle me that.
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June 2020: Ed. Sec. Kevin Yeung says schools should be prepared to call the police if kids show serious disrespect to the 🇨🇳 national anthem
April 2021: Yeung rejects compulsory reporting of suspected child abuse cases in skls bc kids are "after all only at skls for a few hours"
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Apple Daily reporting that the website of Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party, the party of Taiwanese President @iingwen, has now been censored in HK. Clear the authorities are plotting an extension of a version of China’s Great Firewall to include HK.
hk.appledaily.com/local/20210425…
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Breaking: Document reveals Chinese military scientists discussed weaponising SARS coronaviruses five years before the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. @StateDept sources confirmed docs were obtained by them in May 2020.
Now in The @australian with @SharriMarkson. theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic…
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SCMP reporting the HK Police's Director of National Security Frederic Choi was found in an 'unlicensed massage parlour' during a raid - now on leave pending investigation. Choi is so senior he appears on the 'senior officers' section of the HKPF website...
scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
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So this week will see the last few days of operations for @appledaily_hk. A sad day for all of us who’ve written for the paper but especially for the full-time journalists & staff. A bandit regime is now happy to put a profitable company out of business for political reasons.
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Can confirm reports from @StandNewsHK & others that tomorrow (Thursday) will see the last ever print edition of @appledaily_hk. Print run of 1 million.
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The front page of the last ever edition of @appledaily_hk.
「港人雨中痛別 我哋撐《蘋果》」
“Hongkongers bid a sad farewell in the rain, we support Apple”
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So proud to have been a small part of such an amazing team. Apple Daily journalists sacrificed everything to ensure Hongkongers could access uncensored media & pro-democracy voices for as long as possible. Now that’s gone but they gave everything they possibly could. 香港人加油！
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Breaking: Following the closure of Apple Daily, HK’s largest remaining pro-democracy news outlet @StandNewsHK has announced it will remove all op-eds & comment pieces from its website & suspend subscriptions. It will only publish news pieces from now on.
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BREAKING: Citizen News (@hkcnews_com) reports former Apple Daily lead editorial writer Fung Wai-kong was arrested under the National Security Law for ‘colluding with foreign forces’ while at HK airport waiting for a flight. twitter.com/hkcnews_com/st…
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Tonight an Apple Daily editor was arrested at HK airport under the NSL. His name is Fung Wai-kong (馮偉光) & used the pen-name 盧峯.
He was my editor & would receive my columns in English & Chinese.
@DominicRaab this man was attempting to board a flight to London. Do something.
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Chinese factories that supply Apple and Nike and make products sold in the U.S. phased out thousands of workers from Xinjiang as Western governments push multinationals to eliminate forced labor from their supply chains in China - WSJ
Sanctions work.
wsj.com/articles/chine…
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Don’t forget that the HK police officer shown fraternising with triads in this video from 721 was later revealed to be Superintendent John Carroll - a senior British expatriate officer.
The men were wielding blunt instruments. Carroll didn’t arrest them, he went over to chat. twitter.com/nytimes/status…
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Let that headline sink in.
Five *speech therapists* arrested for sedition over a children’s book about sheep.
Every day HK descends further & further into an Orwellian nightmare.
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Tong Ying-Kit (唐英傑), the first person to be charged under the National Security Law, has just been found guilty of inciting secession and engaging in terrorist activities.
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Blistering Times piece on Liz Truss & the British Ambassador to China. Wilson’s views on China not exactly a secret but claim she asked why we don’t treat China “like we treat the French” is shocking. Truss right to slap down - PRC is committing genocide. thetimes.co.uk/article/liz-tr…
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Chinese state media pushing an email claiming to be from Peng Shuai to the WTA after it raised concerns about her whereabouts. Says her allegations against a fmr top CCP official are not true & “I’ve just been resting at home and everything is fine”
This reeks. #WhereIsPengShuai twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/s…
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