What do the heavily manned and funded NatSec police do all day? We don’t know. What state of mind do you end up in if you have to spend weeks trawling through Facebook or surreptitiously inspecting people’s T-shirts in an unceasing hunt for seditious incitement? We don’t know that, either. Meanwhile…
An off-duty Hong Kong national security police officer attempted to seize a gun from a colleague inside a station on Wednesday after he was arrested for allegedly taking upskirt photos of a woman, with the suspect and two others injured during the struggle.
The constable, a member of the force’s National Security Department, grappled with two other officers inside Tsim Sha Tsui Police Station as he tried to snatch the gun, the Post learned.
No shots were fired.
(HKFP story here.)
Hong Kong’s political, legal, media and other institutions have become heavily patriotic and opposition-free in recent years. But the authorities and media are still pretty open about law enforcement personnel involved in such diverse wrongdoings as: money laundering (seven, yesterday), knocking someone off a speeding motorbike (fatally, last week), driving while drunk (two months ago), taking HK$1 million in bribes (recently in court), and beating and framing homeless men (ditto). Contrast with the flat-out rejection of documented allegations of excessive use of force during the 2019 protests. At least, it seems, no-one has the means or the willingness (or awareness?) to censor other sorts of disciplined services’ ill-discipline. If they would whitewash anything, surely it would be an alleged case of creepy and pitiful ‘upskirt’ photos.
PR companies salivate at the news that a tycoon is pledging a decent sum of money to ‘boost Hong Kong’s image’. The SCMP reports…
Tycoon Michael Kadoorie is spearheading a drive to raise US$50 million to promote Hong Kong through a worldwide PR campaign, the Post has learned, two months after a Beijing official told local business leaders to take “concrete actions” to support the city.
Sources said on Thursday that Kadoorie, chairman of CLP Group, the city’s largest electricity supplier, met several property tycoons including Peter Lee Ka-kit, co-chairman and managing director of Henderson Land Development, and Sun Hung Kai Properties’ Raymond Kwok Ping-luen, as well as representatives from Nan Fung Group and Alibaba Group Holding three weeks ago to share his grand plan. Alibaba is the owner of the Post.
“Kadoorie pointed out that Hong Kong has a bad name outside with its political problems and felt that there is a need to launch a campaign to turn the tide, telling the world that Hong Kong is safe and a good place to do business,” a source told the Post.
Looking forward to another Consulum saga!
“Tycoon Michael Kadoorie is spearheading a drive to raise US$50 million to promote Hong Kong through a worldwide PR campaign…”
Maybe these “tycoons” can pay a handful of homegrown HK app developer geeks to create something to rival and surpass TikTok and Little Red Book? I heard there are potentially tens of millions of foreigners from one country in particular that would be kicking down the doors to sign up.
O/T: Mable Chan has hit the heights with a new category of bullshit – bull diarrhoea in today’s SCMP.
https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3294980/how-hong-kong-international-airport-will-reach-new-heights?module=opinion&pgtype=homepage
Her ghost writer (I shudder at the thought she might have written it herself) must have found something extra-strong to smoke.
Why $850m? A savvy international PR agency has spotted a lucrative op and easy touch.
Luckily its their money not ours, plenty of which is being squandered on infantile campaigns that also reek of desperation.
Presumably the cop taking upskirt photos was merely doing his duty, checking that no woman had seditious slogans on her knickers.
As for Michael Kadoorie, more relevant than his chairing CLP may be the fact that he owns half of a big hotel group, so has a vested interest in attracting more visitors to Hong Kong.
@wmjp
Reads like it was written by Chatgpt. Or a 13-year old as homework. Or both. Incredibly, Mable managed to omit mention of Skytopia’s intriguing “jet fresh market” and awe-inspiring “one-stop art ecosystem”. And all for HK$100 billion.
Did I – ?
I write this poem slowly: careful lines,
Looking for some neat and perfect rhymes,
Sometimes, quite soon, I find a word I want;
Other times, it’s harder and I don’t.
English, as a language, hasn’t many
Rhymes. It’s awkward, maybe also funny
How words that look, are spelt, the same – ‘limb’ –
Are spoken in a different way – ‘climb’.
What’s my point? Please, I’m only saying –
Stop. I’ll finish now and stop complaining.
Sometimes, in a fearful mood, I wonder:
Did I speak or write to an absconder?
Looking at the consulum saga link, I’ve just realised that the $44m phoned-in tagline of “Raise capital. Raise a family. Raise your heartbeat.” is basically an HR friendly version of Irvine Welsh’s far more inspired and savagely biting take on late-stage capitalism, beige in tooth and claw, from Trainspotting.
“Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life.”
“Maybe these “tycoons” can pay a handful of homegrown HK app developer geeks to create something to rival and surpass TikTok and Little Red Book? I heard there are potentially tens of millions of foreigners from one country in particular that would be kicking down the doors to sign up.”
I was thinking the same thing.
Imagine if HK were to create the next Tik Tok.
Unfortunately those old dinosaurs have no vision when it comes to this, so it won’t happen.
@wmjp – look on the bright side. If all Mable’s “new commercial, tourist and leisure activities” materialise, many visitors may just stay in the airport area and not clutter up the rest of the territory.
TikTok ban has been upheld. Not a huge surprise. I wonder what happens next??