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Map of Chinese Government-financed projects that were implemented between 2000-2014.
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Cannes film festival takes diplomatic gamble, gives late festival slot to ‘Revolution of Our Times’ Hong Kong protest feature.
Thank you #Cannes2021🎥 @Festival_Cannes @Variety
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Hong Kong’s Apple Daily Tragedy Is Not an Isolated Event
“Beijing may even claim that HK’s [propped up] economy is doing even better after political crackdowns, and use that claim to challenge the US’s values of freedom, democracy, and the rule of law.”
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BREAKING: U.S. Senate passes bill to ban all products from China's Xinjiang
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This year's Hong Kong book fair under the National Security Law
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“There is a different level of risk for people like me who edit using my real name, because I’ve done so for the last 15yrs and—until 2020—there is no reason why that should be dangerous at all.”
We need @Wikimedia to be aware and assist in structural issues with HK's @Wikipedia twitter.com/hkfp/status/14…
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“The situation in HK was getting worse—more and more people were getting arrested and you never knew whether you'll be the next one by simply expressing your political philosophy online. If I did the same thing now, I would 100% be arrested.” @blitzchungHS invenglobal.com/articles/14517…
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At the end of the day, many Hong Kongers are leaving simply because we want to live a life with dignity: twitter.com/Stand_with_HK/…
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Before and after Hong Kong's National Security Law 🇨🇳
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Hong Kong’s Exodus Is Real and Painful
“The migration is accelerating and will likely be permanent. Officials and businesses are wrong to downplay the impact on a hub fast losing financial and global appeal.”
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BREAKING: The Financial Times reports that the Biden administration will this week warn US companies of the increasing risks of operating in Hong Kong as China asserts greater control over the financial hub, citing three people familiar with the matter.
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Teaching kids Cantonese can be a challenge for those who left Hong Kong.
Open-source community projects, like this one, provide Cantonese learning sets in the form structured lessons with storytelling and activities, are available under the CC-BY license:
hambaanglaang.hk
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Love this doodle of "Hong Kong" 💛
Photo: @chungf
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The foreigners in China’s disinformation drive
Foreign video bloggers denouncing what they say is negative coverage of China on highly controversial subjects such as Xinjiang are attracting large numbers of followers on platforms like YouTube.
BBC report bbc.com/news/world-asi…
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We need people on the Wikipedia front line. twitter.com/hkfp/status/14…
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The director of the China Centre, Peter Nolan, cautioned students against discussing China’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, saying it might not be ‘helpful in advancing mutual understanding’. ‘We have a lot of mainland students,’ he warned.
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BBC story on police officers in #Myanmar who defected over to the resistance in the fight to restore democracy.
“We are paid by the people. The weapons we have belong the people. It is totally wrong that we are using these weapons against the people.”
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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The University of Hong Kong has taken down all the posters and banners displayed on its famous “democracy walls” around its campus.
news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compon…
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The construction incident is a metaphor for what’s happening to HK.
The foundational pillars of HK (freedom of speech, assembly, protest, free press, police accountability, independent legal system, elections) are removed one by one, like Jenga pieces.
How is this going to end? twitter.com/surrealhk_/sta…
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“Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times” can mean different things to different people.
But in the context of Tong Ying-kit's NSL court case, HKU prof. Eliza Lee testified that the ‘Liberate Hong Kong’ slogan was about uniting freedom-loving people.
thestandnews.com/english/libera…
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The Biden administration is set to add more than ten #CCPChina🇨🇳 companies to its economic blacklist over human rights abuses and high-tech surveillance in Xinjiang.
reuters.com/world/china/ex…
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[Day 9] Tong Ying-kit purposely avoided hitting police with motorbike: defence
Detailed coverage of the court case of Tong Ying-kit, the first person charged under the NSL, by @holmeschan_ in @StandNewsHK.
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@LEGO_Group “Glory to Hong Kong” — LEGO Brick version
Credit: youtu.be/eTWpda5k7fs
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An RTHK "Hong Kong Connection" episode also featured this clip, and had interviewed with the principal of this kindergarten back in 2020.
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A promotional video from a pro-China kindergarten in Hong Kong. Soon, this will be the norm, not the exception, in Hong Kong.
An independent, crowdfunded advocacy group. Founded by a collective of individuals who have come together to fight for freedom for #HongKong.