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In Japan for the coming week…
Will probably Tweet a few things. Some reading from the last few days… One month after the Article 23 NatSec Law came into effect, there have been no arrests. The SCMP gets an explanation… Ronny Tong Ka-wah, a top government … Continue reading
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Things to manage expectations about
Hong Kong should manage expectations of sub-par fireworks displays. This follows a ‘scaled down’ damp-squib event amid bad weather on May 1, which disappointed Mainland tourists, who… …mockingly called the display a “smoke show” after it fogged up the skyline. … Continue reading
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Mainland tourists boost, er, Shenzhen
Not just Hongkongers, but Mainland tourists coming here are going to Shenzhen for the evening… …a group of tourists planned to visit Tsim Sha Tsui and Mong Kok to take photos, and then go to Shenzhen to stay overnight as … Continue reading
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No new mindset, please
More Hong Kong cultural facilities are closing: the President Theatre in Causeway Bay, and concert and other spaces at the KITEC building in Kowloon Bay. And developers might scrap a planned non-profit performing arts space at a new project in … Continue reading
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Those so-called press releases
HKFP op-ed on the so-called smears wantonly slandering despicable shameless and malicious hypocrisy that’s doomed to fail in government press releases responding to overseas criticism of NatSec laws… The new language began creeping into Hong Kong official communications in July … Continue reading
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Focusing on the economy
The Audit Commission finds some easy pickings: public bodies failing to include NatSec provisions in their paperwork… The watchdog said the Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education (HKAGE), an NGO fully funded by the government, had not established any measures … Continue reading
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Worth seeing again while it’s there
I recently went to the Museum of Coastal Defence for a last look before it gets ‘rectified’ later this year, after which it will be renamed the Hong Kong Museum of the War of Resistance and Coastal Defence. A before-and-after … Continue reading
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Mostly mid-week reading…
The trial begins of a group accused of planning a terrorist bombing and shooting attack in 2019. Interesting because: while authorities have announced the discovery of bomb-making and similar activities, the cases rarely seem to come to court; and this … Continue reading
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More threats in our midst
Remember Hong Kong John Lee’s recent warning… “Foreign intelligence officers and their proxies would use different industries as disguise … Spies may marry and raise a family just like an ordinary citizen, and only commit acts of terrorism or theft … Continue reading
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Can disclaimer serve as Magic Shield of Confidence?
Lawmaker Paul Tse adds a disclaimer to his Facebook page, saying criticism of the government is intended to be constructive, not to ‘incite hatred’ or anything. He is presumably pre-empting the new breed of all-patriot types out there who will … Continue reading
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