From RazvenHK…
Ahead of the first anniversary of the Tai Po fire, media reports that a local Catholic church’s Mass to be held for the 168 killed has been cancelled after the church was contacted by the police. The event was replaced with Mass to be held for everyone who died this year.
The Tai Po church’s announcement includes the sort of typo you get when you reword something in a hurry…
A Mass for all our deceased brothers and sisters who passed away this year died will be held in the Church on Sunday, November 15 at 5:30pm. All are welcome to attend. The Mass will be in Chinese.
Interesting comparison: in Hong Kong, Joshua Wong gets 10 years in prison for ‘collusion with foreign entities’; in the UK, Russell Brand gets 10 years in prison for rape and assault.
Background in case you need it. Bill Bishop on Jensen Huang’s poor choice of extramarital fling…
On the Jensen Huang-Alice Huang affair, you have to give the [Ministry of State Security] credit for running another successful op. They are good and getting better. I have seen some takes that it is no big deal he had an affair with an alleged PRC spy because he needed no pillow talk convincing to push for looser export controls, but that misses a few things: He is (was?) text and phone buddies with President Trump, so if he divulged anything about his conversations with Trump to her, or his thoughts about Trump or chatter about China policy or frankly anything from Trump, that would be valuable to any foreign intelligence service, and especially to the MSS; Was she ever alone with his phone or computer, say when he got up to use the bathroom?
…With the new Congress, expect subpoenas and public hearings in which he is trashed and he and Nvidia are further damaged…
Beijing ‘slams spy allegations as smear’.
If only there was a day for the Catholic Church to remember ALL the dead… oh no wait, there is, it’s All Souls Day, it was last Monday and it’s been on the calendar every year since 998. Not 1998, 998.
Pricks. Managing to cheapen the fire memorial AND All Souls Day in one go.
Additional “interesting comparison”: In Hong Kong a district councillor gets just 30 months for raping a child.
https://hongkongfp.com/2026/11/03/yuen-long-district-councillor-jailed-for-2-5-years-over-unlawful-sexual-intercourse-with-13-year-old-girl/