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The Guardian picks up the Reversed Front: Bonfire story… Downloading the game could lead to players being charged with possessing seditious material, while making in-app purchases could be viewed as providing funding to the developers “for the commission of secession … Continue reading →

Online game-cum-NatSec threat Reversed Front: Bonfire tops the Hong Kong Google Trends search-monitoring tool after the police issue a stern warning against downloading or supporting it. (Actually, the HKFP screenshot shows that if you add Chinese and English searches for … Continue reading →

The government rejects a proposal to buy back taxi licences for HK$5 million each… The value of a licence and a taxi has gone from a historic high of HK$7.66 million in 2009 to below HK$3 million in recent months, … Continue reading →

A Bloomberg op-ed claims that Hong Kong’s dollar peg is in practice over. As evidence, the author points to the fact that local benchmark interest rates are significantly lower than US ones. If the past is any guide, this situation … Continue reading →

Already in prison for subversion (participating in the pan-dem primary election), Joshua Wong is charged with another NatSec offence – conspiring to collude with foreign forces… Wong stands accused of conspiring with self-exiled activist Nathan Law and “other persons unknown” … Continue reading →

Bloomberg on the recent replacement of Beijing’s Liaison Office boss in Hong Kong… As fraught an exercise political tea-leaf reading may be, the difference in tone between Zheng and Zhou’s first public comments may well speak to Beijing’s shifting priorities … Continue reading →

From HKFP, pix and stories from Causeway Bay yesterday… In Victoria Park, a man holding an electric candle while sitting on a bench was surrounded by police officers at around 4.30pm. The man, wearing a face mask, a white cap, … Continue reading →

The nearest thing to a June 4 vigil allowed these days is people walking around Causeway Bay eating ice cream cones. The largest-scale activity to mark the events of 1989 is the police presence. SCMP on the authorities’ June 4 … Continue reading →

Not really, but sort of, perhaps. Financial Secretary Paul Chan… …noted that the Development Bureau had already initiated various studies on the Lantau Tomorrow Vision and that technical research would proceed to prepare for potential challenges, including hydrological considerations, should … Continue reading →

HKFP op-ed asks why lawmakers have been advised to keep quiet on the Office of the Ombudsman’s deletion of online archives… …local media reported that authorities silenced LegCo on this issue. Authorities sent out “warm reminders” that LegCo members should … Continue reading →