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lol I’m literally a Chinese citizen born in Hong Kong, which due to our ethnically discriminatory nationality policy is restricted to Hongkongers of Chinese ancestry. Sorry the fact one of my parents isn’t Han violates your one-drop rule.
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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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A very HK solution:
Instead of giving $100m to the needy, give it to the supermarket duopoly comprised of Jardine’s Wellcome and Li Ka-shing’s ParknShop chains—both of which have bumped up prices and turned a profit during the pandemic—and trust them to distribute food vouchers. twitter.com/rthk_enews/sta…
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The slew of changes being made to HK's textbooks should be shocking, but is grimly predictable considering the following:
1) Political purges in the education sector washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…
2) The Liaison Office’s stranglehold on the publishing industry bloomberg.com/news/features/… twitter.com/HKGlobalConnec…
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What gaslighting an entire city looks like. twitter.com/maryhui/status…
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Deeply dispiriting news for all friends and followers of @aaronMCN, as well as every Hongkonger who treasures our rapidly diminishing press freedom.
"In response to media enquiries, the Immigration Department (ImmD) does not comment on individual cases” incoming. twitter.com/hkfp/status/12…
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Hong Kong Story’s Andy Li among 12 people arrested by the Chinese Coast Guard on a vessel offshore from Guangdong sailing to Taiwan.
12人潛逃台灣失敗 包括因《國安法》被捕李宇軒 中國海警正扣柙 hk01.com/article/516136…
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Thundering reception for Lam Cheuk-ting and Ted Hui as they step out of the West Kowloon courts, bailed on $15,000 and $5,000 respectively and having surrendered their passports.
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HK01 reports that three maritime escape routes connecting HK and Taiwan, plied by protesters since July, have been effectively “plugged up” since China’s coastguard strengthened its presence in the waters around HK in order to intercept fleeing dissidents. hk01.com/article/516387…
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Still can’t believe I’m writing these words about Hong Kong. twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/…
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Like a lot of Hongkongers, my family escaped here from China in the hold of a “snake boat” that chugged across the Pearl River estuary to what was then a beacon of hope.
That people are now doing essentially the same to escape this place is unimaginable—or at least it should be.
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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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Outside Prince Edward station, it’s hard to tell who outnumbers whom: the citizens queuing up to commemorate the anniversary of the 8.31 incident or the riot police surrounding them. For now, the heavy police presence means all of MK is awash with black clothes and white flowers.
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Pepper balls fired down Prince Edward Rd W after a medic is arrested and crowds yell. Before riot police charged north up Tong Choi a projection on the police station spelled out the words: “8.31 beat to death,” the popular slogan decrying the indiscriminate MTR attack last year.
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Months in the making, the journey of the 12 HK protesters intercepted at sea last week involved an EU national and likely tacit support from Taiwan.
Huge thanks to the HKers and Taiwanese who helped us piece together details behind this remarkable story.
washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…
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Outside LegCo, a one-man protest calling for immediate restoration of the 6 September Legislative Council election delayed for at least one year by Chief Executive Carrie Lam.
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When you march around town for hours to vox pop the people queuing outside multiple sample collection sites for the government’s controversial universal coronavirus testing programme but there’s literally no one at any of them.
σ^_^;
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Today’s the day HK’s election was scheduled for before being postponed by at least a year, and a rally is due to kick off in Kowloon to protest the move.
Thousands of police are patrolling the area. My bus across the harbour was boarded by officers who searched everyone’s bags.
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On police-lined Nathan Road, the pavement is packed with people walking north chanting protest slogans, including the now-banned “liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our time.
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Kettled on Nathan between Saigon and Ning Po after a blue flag was raised near where Student Politics members were giving out face masks.
Most journalists were allowed out after checking our press passes but some reporters, either students or from small outlets, were retained.
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Bedlam just broke out on Shantung Street in Mong Kong after undercover police posing as protesters tackled several people to the ground and pepper sprayed the crowd.
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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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Everyone trapped inside the stores is now being carded, patted down, and having their bags searched.
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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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Police closing in from all sides. It’s impossible to leave Mong Kok now without passing through a police line.
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