Yearly Archives: 2024

The Working Group on Patriotic Education proudly presents the song Our Home. Highlights of the video include the C919 airliner, astronauts lined up on a stage, panda bears, and the Kowloon National Palace Museum, plus lots of kids, displaying varying … Continue reading →

Few business stories get clicks like a (probably paywalled) Bloomberg report of blood and mayhem among property tycoons and luxury brands… Only three of the more than 30 units at the [1881] mall owned by billionaire Li Ka-shing’s CK Asset … Continue reading →

It’s easy to forget that Hong Kong’s Democratic Party still exists. Former Chair Wu Chi-wai is among the HK 47, in jail awaiting sentencing for participating in the pan-dems’ 2020 primary election. The party is in effect barred from what … Continue reading →

Following overseas criticism of the Stand News sedition trial, the Hong Kong government makes known its displeasure… After the District Court found three defendants guilty of “conspiracy to publish and/or reproduce seditious publication” yesterday (August 29), officials from the United … Continue reading →

The Stand News case ends with both defendants found guilty of conspiring to publish ‘seditious’ material. NatSec Judge Kwok Wai-kin found 10 of 17 articles (listed here) to be seditious – op-eds written by various contributors… “[Former chief editors Chung … Continue reading →

Strange how long-delayed NatSec trials are finally coming to a head right now. More HK47 mitigation pleas. Defence lawyers compete to describe how unimportant their clients were, while NatSec judges appear unimpressed… [Carol – brief bio] Ng said in her … Continue reading →

From the HK47 mitigation pleas. Long Hair… After judges ruled the group would have created “a constitutional crisis” had they won the election, the defendants have been in mitigation hearings since June to plead for lenient sentences. But two of … Continue reading →

Undaunted by the HK government’s wrathful response to its coverage of the History Museum’s NatSec exhibit, the New York Times has a go at local education officials’ advice that hormone-crazed teens play badminton when they feel carnal desires stirring within … Continue reading →

The (paywalled) NYT visits the HK Museum of History’s National Security Exhibition… The Hong Kong Museum of History was the place to go to understand the city’s transformation from fishing village to a glittering metropolis. It housed a life-size replica … Continue reading →

The Hong Kong government issues a press statement complaining that a Bloomberg article on a proposed cybersecurity law selectively quoted consultation submissions… The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) today (August 20) opposed Bloomberg’s biased report on … Continue reading →