Yearly Archives: 2024

A few Trump fans in the comments section. If Kamala Harris inspires some voters, it is because of the contrast between her and any visibly elderly white guy – be it a Joe or a Donald. She is on the … Continue reading →

More on Lord Neuberger from HK Watch (blocked by the ISP without irony for me in Hong Kong)…  45 civil society organisations from around the world sent a letter to Lord Neuberger, a former president of the British Supreme Court, … Continue reading →

A man in his early 20s is sentenced to eight weeks in prison for ‘insulting the Chinese national anthem’ at an international volleyball game last year…  Chan filed an appeal against his conviction and sentence immediately after Magistrate Kestrel Lam … Continue reading →

CE John Lee says the Hong Kong economy will improve next year, thanks in part to the arrival of two baby panda bears. The Standard report also mentions the possibility of a ‘giant panda economy’. (We must now accommodate no … Continue reading →

An interesting scoop from Transit Jam on lousy security measures at the HK-Zhuhai bridge border crossing… Contractors at the “restricted area” bridging the mainland, Hong Kong and Macao use an elaborate system of discarded or outdated passes and messaging codewords … Continue reading →

Owen Chow gets a three-day sentence for unauthorized removal of a complaint form – to the Ombudsman about prison officers’ interception of books – from the jail in which he is currently held. His lawyer gets a small fine. Magistrate … Continue reading →

Statement by UK charity Prisoners Abroad on Lord Neuberger (subject of above headline). The group seems surprisingly (charitably?) supportive of his role on Hong Kong’s CFA. David Webb looks at the ever-rising proportion of unconvicted people in Hong Kong jails… … Continue reading →

The Court of Final Appeal denies an appeal by pan-dems Martin Lee, Margaret Ng, Jimmy Lai, Albert Ho, Lee Cheuk-yan, “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung and Cyd Ho to overturn their convictions for unauthorized assembly on August 19, 2019 – when … Continue reading →

The Diplomat reports that some Hongkongers without BNO passports are being denied access to their MPF savings. This is the first coverage of the issue I’ve seen that labels it as ‘transnational repression’…  After Bloomberg published a piece on how … Continue reading →

Secretary for Security Chris Tang turns alliterative – in translation via the Standard, at least – in identifying a new enemy of NatSec-era Hong Kong: Vivian maligners. Never be a Vivian maligner. We are all Vivian maligners now. He denounces … Continue reading →