Category Archives: Blog

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 →

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 →