Yearly Archives: 2024

SCMP reports on the ‘Dragon Slaying’ bomb plot trial… An alleged core member of the “Dragon Slaying Brigade” has accused Hong Kong police of using threats to force him into giving false statements after his arrest over a thwarted bomb … Continue reading →

More HK47 pre-sentencing mitigation, including endorsements from former government officials Anthony Cheung and Law Chi-kwong. Both had once been members of the Democratic Party. Hard to believe in these all-patriots/jailed opposition days that Beijing once allowed the local administration to … Continue reading →

The ‘Inflatable Wonders’ exhibition takes a nasty turn as Armenian artist Joann weighs in (Standard story here)… The team behind a Hong Kong art installation mocked by some online users has said it will press ahead with the exhibition despite … Continue reading →

More on the ‘Inflatable Wonders’ at Central waterfront…  The team behind a Hong Kong art installation of inflatables that was mocked online for one of the exhibit’s resemblance to gravestones has defended its decisions on how to display the works. … Continue reading →

How the charming Regina Ip we know and love today overcame (it says here) her antisocial personality in the 1970s. (Note that she had already been recruited to the civil service at the time.) A 70-year-old man jailed for playing … Continue reading →

Tasked with creating mega-buzz events to show how Hong Kong is back to normal, civil servants use their great creative powers and come up with Inflatable Wonders – blow-up historic landmarks on Central waterfront. Photos here to deflate your expectations, … Continue reading →

Handover Day video from Chris Patten. Not mincing his words. A 6,600-word written message from CE John Lee here.  Merciful HKFP summary. A holiday concert by Denise Ho disrupted by the police. A dentist gets taken away for questioning. HKFP … Continue reading →

We don’t hear so much now about post-Covid Hong Kong being ‘back to normal’. Maybe it’s just the passage of time making ‘normal’ normal, or maybe someone thought things were actually still too weird. The holiday weekend will see 4,000 … Continue reading →

Chief Executive John Lee gives an interview to Sing Tao on the economy, saying… Hong Kong should develop its economy at full speed with the priority for now being on quantity in the belief that quality will inevitably follow. What … Continue reading →

Mitigation hearings begin in the HK47 case, with special media zones and inflatable tunnels, and Benny Tai’s lawyer arguing that he should get no more than a two-year prison sentence. (I guess quoting Lord Sumption would have been provocative.) Chief … Continue reading →