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As 1000s queue overnight for masks, this exchange:
“Thanks to Carrie Lam for giving me this opportunity.”
“Why?”
“I never thought I’d sleep out on the street to buy face masks.”
They may have lost hope and faith in their gov’t, but HKers haven’t lost their dark sense of humour.
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Another silver for Siobhán Haughey in the 100m freestyle! After already winning Hong Kong’s first swimming medal and making this the first Olympics in which Hong Kong has won more than one medal, she has now become our first Olympian to score multiple medals in a single Olympics.
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The “Made in HK” vaudeville may seem like much ado about nothing, but it gets to the heart of the city’s existential crisis: Beijing says 1 Country, 2 Systems now means we can keep economic, but not political autonomy. Washington says it’s all or nothing.
washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…
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“Citizens cover their faces: Carrie Lam covers her heart.”
Hongkongers are hitting the street again, this time braving both rain and a draconian emergency law outlawing masks at demonstrations.
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.@StandNewsHK announces it is ceasing operations and letting go of all staff, after HK police froze its assets and arrested six for publishing seditious material.
After Apple Daily, this is the second opposition news source that authorities have shut down this year.
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Seeing「時代革命」(“revolution of our time”) written atop a judiciously buttered slice of Hong Kong-style French toast is a dream you, too, can realise at pro-democracy bing sutt 行運冰室 Lucky Cafe in Taipei.
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Video circulating among dive instructors of a rare whale shark sighting in Hong Kong yesterday.
Not revealing where because we want the critter left in peace—unlike in the Philippines or Taiwan, whale sharks are not protected in our waters, and can be legally caught and killed.
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Police, many in full riot gear, were deployed to schools across the city today. Uniformed schoolchildren were stopped, searched and intimidated for staging peaceful protests or handing out flyers. A bleak glimpse of Hong Kong under martial law.
(Pics via AD, TG, HKUSU Campus TV)
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They went to the trouble of annexing Taiwan for the PRC yet Tasmania isn't Australian, Northern Ireland has left the UK, and Newfoundland, Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii, and the entire Arctic Archipelago have all succeeded from Canada.
I'm just fascinated by how bad this map is. twitter.com/NFL345/status/…
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As Taiwan remembers the 228 massacre that began its decades-long White Terror, police in Hong Kong have arrested pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, former Labour Party leader Lee Cheuk-yen, and former Democratic Party leaders Yeung Sum and Albert Ho.
s.nextmedia.com/realtime/a.php…
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One year ago today. twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/…
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Unreal scene as riot police come in from all directions, using pepper spray to disperse people on TST’s iconic Avenue of Stars. A marine police launch bobs in the blackened water of Victoria Harbour while the Central skyline glitters in the distance.
What had this city become?
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Eat all the subversive cake while you still can.
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So this whole time blue ribbons and tankies have been spinning spurious conspiracy theories about the US training millions of Hong Kong protesters, turns out they were actually training the Hong Kong police.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ twitter.com/wilfredchan/st…
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HK01 reporting that the government will announce today that it is postponing the Legislative Council elections scheduled for September 6 for one year, due to COVID-19.
消息：政府今公布立法會選舉押後一年 另有重大消息一併公布 hk01.com/article/504700…
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“Today’s Xinjiang, tomorrow’s Hong Kong”: New video shared on Telegram expresses Hongkongers’ fears about lampposts being installed in parts of the city that are feared to have facial recognition technology reminiscent of those used to track people’s social credit score in China.
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Placing 60 million people on lockdown didn’t create panic, the US withdrawing some consular staff did. twitter.com/zlj517/status/…
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Over 8 million votes cast for President Tsai Ing-wen.
This is the biggest election landslide since Taiwan’s first presidential election in 1996.
#TaiwanElection
#Taiwan2020
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“You can scrub away our words, but you can’t scrub away the truth.”
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Everyone here is calling it “Hong Kong’s Dunkirk”
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Outside Sham Shui Po Police Station, a group of local residents—mostly unmasked and not wearing black—have gathered to have beers and dessert and yell at the cops across the street. Just an ordinary Tuesday night.
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For a while the unimog got trapped by a cling film barrier put up by protesters.
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Yet another day of mass arrests of pro-democracy politicians and activists in Hong Kong unfolding today. Over 2 dozen people rounded up by Hong Kong police including 82-year-old Martin Lee, @appledaily_hk’s Jimmy Lai, @chrf_hk’s Jimmy Sham, and @loktinau.
today.line.me/HK/article/MYw…
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Protest-themed carols at the TST Star Ferry Pier. This riff on “Santa is Coming to Town” is titled “Article 23 is Coming to Town.”
“Christmas is here again and you have teargas to breathe, “ they sing.
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