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Whilst heavy riot police deployment in Central has throttled the daily “Lunch With You” protests there, office workers and residents in Wong Chuk Hang are today marching through the post-industrial creative hub, calling for the five demands and the “revolution of our time.”
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As domestic production of masks continues to climb, Taiwan’s mask rationing system will get another upgrade next week.
People will be able to buy 9 masks every 2 weeks online then collect them at convenience stores. They’ll also be able to send up to 30 abroad every two months.
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This is rapidly becoming a pattern: every time HK police arrest someone for subversion, secession or foreign collusion, the central government liaison office—which once avoided overt signs of directing HK affairs—loudly eggs them on. The mask is truly off. hd.stheadline.com/news/realtime/…
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Researchers at a Shenzhen hospital have just found #2019nCoV survives in the excrement of the infected. This strongly suggests fecal as well as respiratory transmission is possible, making a scenario like the infamous Amoy Gardens SARS outbreak possible.
weibo.com/2831150640/Ise…
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Just 15 minutes into the “Stuck with You” pressure test protest at Hong Kong International Airport and there are already several hundred #antiELAB protesters gathered outside at the airport bus terminus. These things tend not to get serious until a few hours after the start time.
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Hong Kong police have sealed off Tuen Mun’s Sun Yat-sen Park and the Red House—reputedly Sun’s revolutionary hideout—on the anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution.
How long until Dr Sun’s statue is removed from HKU along with the Pillar of Shame?
(photo via @StandNewsHK)
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A year in the life of Hong Kong’s National Security Law: every day, a new “red line.”
via @StandNewsHK
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Hey @GAINAXNET, did you license this? Chinese state media is using the Neon Genesis Evangelion soundtrack in its propaganda against Hong Kong democracy protests and I suspect it might be copyright infringement. twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/s…
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Mong Kok is being fought for block by block, as riot police sweep through, nabbing some and cordoning off dozens for processing. Many caught in their crosshairs attempt to find shelter in nearby shops.
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Five police vehicles and four units patrolling the Cenotaph after Hong Kong people threaten to
*checks notes*
lay flowers to commemorate the war dead on Liberation Day (the now-defunct holiday that until 1997 marked the return of British rule and the end of Japanese occupation.
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Taiwan is tightening residency conditions for HK applicants, asking whether they’ve worked for/pledged allegiance to the SAR—an anti-infiltration safeguard akin to those applied to mainland applicants.
They now view the HK gov’t as equivalent to Beijing. hk.appledaily.com/china/20210612…
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Apple Daily reports that the Hong Kong Police Force has been issued close to 640,000 N95 respirators by the gov’t—over 40 times more than the Department of Health.
HKPF also received 40,000 protective coverall suits, versus 2,000 for medical personnel.
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The most fascinating thing about #nnevvy is seeing how deeply wumao have internalised the people-party equivalency and how ineffective that tack is against people secure enough to welcome criticism of their gov't.
Maybe it'll spur a few of the NMSL trolls to look in the mirror. twitter.com/GraceChiao27/s…
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Government officials have refused to directly answer whether journalists would be liable to persecution for covering newly outlawed opinions and “wanted” individuals—but the chilling effect of such strategic ambiguity is already being felt with media organisations self-censoring. twitter.com/hkchrislau/sta…
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This Weibo poll covers every possible opinion you could express (in China).
“What do you have to say about the #NBAChina fiasco?”
🔘”Support banning broadcasts!”
🔘 “I wouldn’t watch this kind of NBA anyway!”
🔘 “Morey must apologise!”
🔘 “Basketball fans have the motherland!”
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In Hong Kong crackdown, police repeatedly broke their own rules — and faced no consequences wapo.st/hong-kong-poli…
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What if the @WHO isn't a corrupt cabal maliciously misleading the world to defend the CCP, and is just a timid, flaccid bureaucracy too crippled by the competing interests of its own member states to offer any practical let alone moral leadership during a rapidly evolving crisis.
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After local chain Chickeeduck erected a Goddess of Democracy statue in their Discovery Park store, mall owner New World Devt has demanded its removal.
NWD is part of the local property cartel, invests hugely in China, and its chair is a CPPCCSC member.
hk01.com/article/487138…
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Joining us in Taiwan today is former RTHK host Tsang Chi-ho, who used to present the satirical show Headliner before it was axed last year for “insulting” the police, and was sacked by the gov’t broadcaster with immediate effect last month.
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Just a few of the images shared online exposing the double standards of HK police last night. A man who repeatedly assaulted journalists was genially led away, while another openly brandishing a cleaver was lent a riot shield. Compare and contrast with treatment of protesters.
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HKU Prof Yuen Kwok-yung, who led the discovery of the SARS #coronavirus in 2003, says the coming days are our “last window of opportunity” to contain the #WuhanOutbreak, which has hit an attack rate of 83%, and calls on everyone in HK to wear face masks.
today.line.me/HK/article/L99…
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Wait until he hears about this country of 23.6 million just across the Taiwan Strait that effectively prevented community outbreak, limited infections to fewer than 3 dozen, and provided all citizens with masks and sanitizer whilst preventing panic and not disrupting normal life. twitter.com/YuanfenYang/st…
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Still can’t believe I’m writing these words about Hong Kong. twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/…
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Blue flag raised by police again outside a store on Sai Yeung Choi St in which they’re searching people who sought shelter there, after the crowd began chanting anti-police slogans.
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“The high court ruled it’s unconstitutional? High court of where?”
“HK.”
“The constitution of where? The PRC?”
“The Basic Law.”
“HK has a constitution?”
Seeing mainlanders mind-blown over the CFA ruling is both hilarious and reminds you what is so valuable and special about HK.
Managing Editor @cnmediaproject 中國傳媒研究計劃主編