HKFP reports the closure of Undergrad, the Hong Kong U student paper founded in 1952…
…after failing to recruit enough members for its editorial board …
In a statement, the 2025 editorial board attributes the move to ‘the natural ebb and flow of history’ – a nice touch of irony, perhaps.
HKFP points out that in recent years…
At least six universities, including HKU, have seen their student unions disbanded, evicted, or stripped of institutional ties.
How many independent student unions or publications still exist in Hong Kong?
In the Standard…
An off-duty police officer attached to the National Security Department admitted on Monday (Jun 29) to secretly filming beneath a woman’s skirt at an MTR station and attempting to seize a colleague’s loaded service revolver.
Ko Chun-chung, 39, pleaded guilty at West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts, sitting as a District Court, to one count of unlawful recording or observing of intimate parts and one count of attempting to possess a firearm without a license.
I’m sure ossifer Ko Chun-chung is walking the streets as a free man on bail. Especially concerning as he obviously has some pent up issues and in no way poses a potential threat to the community, eh? Not a CE determined NatSec offence, luckily.
Perhaps the up-skirting victim was suspected of a being in a conspiracy to collude with a foreign power to assault him with her breast with seditious intent.
You can’t be too careful when national security is a stake!
Officer Ko pleaded guilty and is now in custody at the Siu Lam looney farm. While awaiting his sentence he will undergo psychiatric evaluation.