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Government gets upset with ‘patriots’ too
The HK Journalists Association (a non-profit organization) gets hit for profits tax of HK$400,000 for 2017-18… The HKJA has increasingly been a target of government officials and pro-Beijing media outlets in recent years. State-backed Wen Wei Po in 2021 labelled … Continue reading
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Jimmy Lai ate my hamster
Prosecution witness in Jimmy Lai trial… Former media tycoon Jimmy Lai sought to paint China in a negative light in Apple Daily’s English edition so the United States would take hostile actions against Beijing, an ex-senior executive of the now-defunct … Continue reading
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A ‘good HK story’ story
HKFP turns pitches that got nowhere into a news item with maybe a dash of ‘soft resistance’ – the challenges involved in telling good Hong Kong stories. Even the sewage works rejected a request for a photo feature. Interesting to … Continue reading
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HK like it was in 1997…
…the Hang Seng Index is below 15,000. The Law Society finds that some of its members engaged in professional misconduct owing to links with the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund. The Bar Association, on the other hand, clears its members accused … Continue reading
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No-one arrested for wearing a T-shirt over weekend
The SCMP asks the seemingly age-old question: what is ‘soft resistance’? Scholars reply that… …even though government officials might find it necessary to hit out at anti-China and anti-Hong Kong forces, they should use the term sparingly lest they stifle … Continue reading
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‘Different views in society’ horror
At the Jimmy Lai trial, the court hears more about Apple Daily being biased. The Hong Kong Chief Executive tells the Hong Kong Federation of Journalists that their job is to ‘tell good Hong Kong stories’… Lee accused Western politicians … Continue reading
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My money’s still on ‘not going to happen’
Bloomberg op-ed on Hong Kong’s fiscal challenges… Stacked against these two ambitious endeavors [Lantau Tomorrow and the Northern Metropolis], all fiscal savings from the past will evaporate. In fact, one might as well pretend that Hong Kong has no fiscal … Continue reading
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Missed you at the election!
Had a phone call yesterday from the Registration and Electoral Office. They’re very concerned that the polling card they sent me before the District Council election was returned. Could it be that I had moved house? Yes, indeed it could. … Continue reading
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You can’t have your archaic and eat it
The FT on China’s ban on wording in stock-market listings prospectuses that ‘disparages the country’s laws and policies, business environment and judicial situation’… Many bankers acknowledge that the language of offering documents has been toned down. They say they are … Continue reading
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Monday contrasts
From Foreign Policy, Luke de Pulford on finding himself named as a co-conspirator in the Jimmy Lai trial. … …[To Beijing, t]he national security law alone fails to address the underlying problem of Hong Kong’s burning desire for autonomy. So … Continue reading
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