More on overcrowded beaches. HKFP reports…
To prevent environmental degradation due to excessive tourism, the AFCD will deploy 11 staff members to patrol Sharp Island – part of Hong Kong’s UNESCO Global Geopark – and conduct hourly drone inspections, local media reported on Tuesday.
Buoys will also be positioned at sea to mark coral reefs and prevent tourists from trampling the fragile ecosystems.
…The verbal advice by AFCD officers carries no legal weight and will be inadequate to tackle excessive snorkelling and other problematic activities, such as clam digging, the NGO said.
Greenpeace obviously aren’t thinking of the commercial potential. Why not charge Mainland tourists to trample fragile ecosystems? Say HK$50 per clam, and HK$1,000 for stomping on coral?
More NatSec… Political commentator Wong Kwok-ngon, aged 72, has been in jail since December. He was arrested on suspicion of “doing an act that has a seditious intention with a seditious intention”. Also for allegedly divulging details of a national security investigation – which presumably means he told someone else that he was being investigated. He will be the first to be tried for it. The trial is set for October.
Wong was taken in by national security police in December, on the same day he was set to appear at a press conference about the fatal Wang Fuk Court fire, which had occurred days before.
And then there’s the law making it illegal to urge people not to vote…
The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), which oversees Hong Kong’s election legislation, said in a Monday statement that the two men, aged 38 and 63, were charged with alleged breaches of the Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Conduct) Ordinance.
…Lam is accused of leaving a comment on a media outlet’s social media post to incite an invalid vote at the election. The post was a news report on security chief Chris Tang’s remarks that it is an offence to incite people not to vote or cast an invalid vote.
Wong shared a post by wanted overseas-based activist Alan Keung on social media, calling on people not to vote.
Reminder: it is perfectly legal in Hong Kong not to vote.
“Judge Chan told those in the public gallery that police would take down their names if they called out words of encouragement for Wong after the hearing ended” (HKFP)
But what if they called out “Send him down”, or “C’mon you prosecutors”? Is the concern about disrupting court proceedings or offering best wishes?
Suggestion, how about some of our more savvy tekkies flood Xiaohongshu with recommendations for those spots we locals avoid ike the plague?
My choice would be Landmark where all the reasonablly priced refreshment outlets were turfed out to make way for ‘maisons’. I did hear that Starbucks is back at the location previously operated by Pret, but thats a no no.
Some fetching images of leng loi kitted out in hanfu and draped over the balustrades should do the trick. Hoardes of penniless youth clogging the aisles would certainly ” redefine the very essence of experience in Central.”
@MM
The long-forgotten Wellcome in the basement of the Landmark was a favourite, if slightly incongruous supermarket back in the ’90s.