Monthly Archives: June 2021

HK Police uncover a Special Occasion gunpowder plot. (No ‘bang’ here – but you probably guessed that. Maybe a few dozen beer bottles.) This comes after the sleuths tracked down dangerous stickers, and as they prepare to put 10,000 cops … Continue reading →

Today’s top tip: If you want to get someone arrested, put a sticker on their door. RTHK is cancelling more shows, while a former editorial writer at Apple Daily is arrested at the airport before boarding his flight – ‘collusion … Continue reading →

The government announces senior appointments and removals. Matthew Cheung is released from his misery (where will he retire?). Unusually for a Security Secretary, John Lee moves up to Chief Secretary. Police Commissioner (for 19 months) Tang Ping-keung becomes Security Secretary. … Continue reading →

In the nearest thing Hong Kong will get to a democratic vote in the foreseeable future, people lined up in the streets yesterday to buy up a million copies of the last edition of Apple Daily. Chinese officials unleash a … Continue reading →

Reasons for the killing of Apple Daily (it says here): to scare all HongKongers; to silence all independent media; and to make everyone forget history. We could also add plain personal vindictiveness – a desire for revenge dating back to … Continue reading →

…while I work out what to do with four souvenir subversive bottles of Watson’s water. I’m assuming the bottles will keep their future rare collectors’ item/heritage value if the contents have been used (distilled water is good for pickling). On … Continue reading →

The asphyxiation of Apple Daily nears its end, now the Hong Kong authorities have frozen its assets and left it with no funds to pay staff or suppliers. An editorial. Ramy Inocencio livestreams the last night of the live news … Continue reading →

The Hong Kong community is currently devoting millions of man-hours to working out the clunky registration, multi-stage collection and relatively straightforward but restrictive expenditure details of the government’s Consumption Voucher Scheme, which was originally intended to boost the economy during … Continue reading →

Highlight of my ‘staycation’ was watching online – along with everyone – Apple Daily being raided again, and top management arrested (and later of course denied bail).  For extra added creepiness, Security Secretary John Lee threatened others to keep away … Continue reading →

It’s been 18.5 months since I was last out of Hong Kong, and over six weeks since my second – but to the government, apparently pointless – vaccination. So on another ‘staycation’ for the next few days. Some artisanal hand-curated … Continue reading →