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While Australia has become home for tens of thousands of Hong Kong locals fleeing the city's draconian security law, activists say Canberra should be doing more to recruit Hong Kong talent and accelerate asylum approvals.
My first feature for
@NikkeiAsia
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Amidst strict lockdowns and dystopian Covid restrictions in Wangjing district, Beijing.
Taken by Hunter Cheung.
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Remember all those who passed before us, all those who who died trying to make their voices heard, all those who fought until the very end 33 years ago today. Never forget.
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Anyone attending the Tiananmen Square massacre vigil this year in Hong Kong may face up to 5 years in prison.
Criminalising such a peaceful, solemn expression of dissent is further proof that freedom of speech and assembly is no longer allowed in Hong Kong.
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The Hong Kong police created the new hashtag
#HKIndependence
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I hope they won’t get into trouble for inciting secession.
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The latest crackdown on Apple Daily, one of the last remaining safeguards of press freedom in 🇭🇰, proves that the National Security Law does not only target a small minority of troublemakers, but is used to silence and intimidate those who dare to stand up for human rights in 🇭🇰.
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Saluting the brave women of Hong Kong, Thailand, and Myanmar who are bravely participating in protests in defense of democracy, and fighting against the twin authoritarian forces of establishment and patriarchy. We stand as one.
#InternationalWomensDay
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A wave of peaceful student-led protests calling for political reform and respect for human rights was violently cut short by military suppression on this date 32 years ago in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
絕對權力，絕對腐化
不自由，毋寧死
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9 June 2019 in Hong Kong: More than a million people took part in the anti-extradition law protest. The day the revolution began.
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32 years ago, thousands of Chinese people sacrificed their lives fighting for a future they hoped would be free. As Tiananmen’s history was repeatedly whitewashed and rewritten, those of us in the free world all owe them a duty to remember.
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Myanmar protestors successfully letting everyone else in the world relate to their struggles:
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From Minneapolis to Hong Kong- we stand in solidarity with all those who suffer from state-sanctioned police brutality and who are fighting for change and justice by any means necessary.
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The People’s Liberation Army in Hong Kong performed a piece called “I am a bullet” in which one line literally goes “Anyone who dares to make waves, we will destroy you on the spot. ”
Aggressive nationalism on full display here.
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This time last year, Hong Kong was lit up in a sea of purple as people gathered at a
#MeToo
rally to protest the Police Force's sexual misconduct against female arrestees and to show support for the victims.
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Queues of families departing 🇭🇰 for 🇬🇧, leaving the place they called home for years in search of personal security and freedom in another country.
A mass exodus of people from any territory is a reflection of degraded human rights conditions and systemic repression at home.
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Denise Ho, prominent LGBTQ+ activist and pro-democracy advocate in Hong Kong, has had her career destroyed for standing by her principles and is now arrested for sedition.
Not only are oppositional voices within the political establishment punished, the ones outside are too.
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The National Security Police were called on by Chinese University to investigate their own students just because graduates yesterday were waving flags and chanting slogans in support of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement. What a disgrace.
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One seeks to defend democracy, the other to dismantle it.
One opposes dictatorship, the other is attempting to install one.
Protesting against authoritarianism is very much different from protesting against the results of a fair democratic election.
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WHO the fuck is managing this account?!
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A year ago, the police criticised Hong Kong universities for having become “weapons factories” and a “hotbed of crime” where student protestors were spreading across campuses like “cancer cells” when THIS was what the police did in these universities:
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This attacker, who deliberately slashed 3 people, was praised for "being noble" and got a reduced sentence because he was a "victim of social unrest." Meanwhile, protestors who responded to police brutality and institutional violence are regarded as cockroaches and scum.
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Every prominent voice of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong now is either jailed, in exile, or charged for subversion of state power.
The purpose of implementing the National Security Law has never been more clear: to silence dissent and eliminate political opposition.
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Tankies: "this protest has to be a CIA-backed operation because protestors' signs are in English."
Just admit that you are racist fools who refuse to acknowledge that South East Asians can also read and write in English and have the ability to mobilise a protest on their own.
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Like the other Tiananmen Square memorials, the painted slogan「冷血屠城烈士英魂不朽，誓殲豺狼民主星火不滅」"The souls of martyrs shall linger forever after the brutal massacre, the sparks of democracy will forever glow when evil is vanquished" has been removed from
@HKUniversity
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Why am I seeing a Chetnik flag amongst the Serbian crowd at the Tsitsipas vs Djokovic match? Are ultra fascist symbols allowed in the
@AustralianOpen
now?
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Hong Kong protestors have been calling for the abolition of the Police Force since September 2019. You can see "Disband Hong Kong Police, delay no more!" signs and banners in literally every protest.
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For the first time in Hong Kong history, there will be no more effective opposition in the legislature. Pro-democracy legislators were unseated for failing to display "patriotism" and show "loyalty" to Beijing. This is what authoritarianism looks like.
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So pro-Putin flags and banners of the Russian motorcycle gang Night Wolves are allowed to be brought into the
@AustralianOpen
but spectators holding Ukraine flags and wearing
#WhereIsPengShuai
t-shirts are being scrutinised? Do better
@TennisAustralia
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Happy Valentine’s Day to all the freedom lovers in Hong Kong and around the world💕
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Chinese women took to the streets for abortion justice and reproductive freedom in the States today.
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The Pillar of Shame 國殤之柱, a sculpture that pays tribute to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, faces removal from the University of Hong Kong campus where it had stayed for 24 years. Yet another attempt to whitewash history and suppress collective memory.
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The National Security Law was enacted exactly a year ago. Since then, over 90,000 people have left Hong Kong. More than 4,300 have relocated to Australia, and more than 6,100 have gained residency in Taiwan.
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Devastating graphic by
@adolfux
showing all the lawyers, journalists, activists, district councillors and legislators who had been arrested in the past two years in Hong Kong.
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Grim data showing Hong Kong's shrinking population. The biggest drop in at least 6 decades. More than 120 thousand residents had left to find a home elsewhere as their freedoms and rights had become severely restricted.
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Solidarity rallies were held in London, Sydney, Tokyo, Vancouver, and many other cities, to commemorate the 2nd anniversary of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement. The government may have silenced Hong Kong, but the voices of our people can still be clearly heard around the world.
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Found in Mei Foo, Hong Kong.
We remember Leung Ling-kit, an anti-extradition protestor who fell to his death from a building this day last year while hanging a protest banner.
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Chants of「光復香港，時代革命」can be heard around the world today, from the streets of Manchester to cinemas in Sydney. Loud and defiant.
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Umbrella Movement, Hong Kong, 2014.
The fight for democracy endures.
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20-year-old Hong Kong independence activist Tony Chung became the youngest person convicted under the city's draconian national security law.
He was targeted solely for exercising his right to freedom of expression.
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My first “desk neighbour” in primary school and close friend for more than 15 years. Unbelievable. Incredibly happy for you. You deserve this and more, Minnie. You make Hong Kong so so so proud.
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Milk Tea Alliance, a small but rapidly expanding collective that unites defenders of democracy across Asia, now has Myanmar as its newest member.
#SaveMyanmar
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Amazing turnout for the pro-democracy rally today in Sydney against a Hong Kong government-sponsored event that aimed to whitewash its crackdown on civil society. Thanks for all the support💛
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Completely unacceptable for the Hong Kong government to issue arrest warrants and bounties for activists abroad. This is a transparent effort to spread fear and eliminate dissent in all parts of the globe and must be condemned in the strongest terms by the🇦🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸governments.
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Watching
@appledaily_hk
's livestream of their newsroom putting final touches on tomorrow's paper. The front page reads "Apple Daily will fight on."
Never fail to appreciate Hong Kongers' 打不死精神, their tenacity and their will to carry on in times of adversity.
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Hong Kong police literally arresting people for throwing shade at them
During the protest in Mongkok, a 32-year-old woman threw a pair of sunglasses at a police officer, and was subsequently arrested and prosecuted.
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Beijing is setting up detention centres in Hong Kong where “suspects” can be held indefinitely for perceived political transgressions.
This is dictatorship under the guise of national security.
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The Pillar of Shame is successfully immortalised by
@hkladyliberty
as a 3D model that is now available for everyone to download, print and own at
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HOLD A REFERENDUM THEN YOU COWARDS I DARE YOU
Various sectors in Hong Kong and the majority of Hong Kong residents have expressed support for the national security legislation for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, opposing external interference led by the United States.
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You know it’s a huge problem when the statement “Hong Kong is really beautiful” has to be censored because it is considered too politically sensitive. Since when is it an issue to proclaim love for your own home?
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Raymond Yeung, a former teacher at my alma mater, is going to plead guilty to a charge of unlawful assembly relating to his participation in a 2019 protest in Hong Kong.
He now urgently requires mitigation letters from his former colleagues and students. Details below.
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Another one of those depressing, hopeless days in Hong Kong...
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Conan O’Brien to a cardboard cutout of Carrie Lam: “You look like you’re here to pass a death sentence.”
You’re not wrong there
@ConanOBrien
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Read somewhere that the spread of coronavirus depends on two factors:
1. how dense the population is and
2. how dense the population is.
Luckily for Hong Kong, even though our population is dense, most of the population here is not dense, hence the virus can be largely contained.
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Got called a CCP shill for writing this but I stand by what I said: we can hold the CCP accountable without supporting xenophobic rhetoric and turning our backs on Asians elsewhere in the world who are experiencing racial attacks on a daily basis.
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HKUST has banned students from repainting the “hope lies in the people, change begins with resistance” slogan on campus grounds.
Censorship is so pervasive in Hong Kong that students can no longer show resistance even in the safety of their own schools.
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By freezing its bank accounts, the government is forcing the only pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong to permanently shut down its operation and terminate publication. An assault on
@appledaily_hk
is an assault on press freedom and independent news media in Hong Kong.
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A list of people who have been arrested and are currently detained incommunicado for their participation in the 2022 White Paper protests in China:
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父權不死，極權不止。
父权不死，极权不止。
Totalitarianism wouldn’t end without the death of patriarchy.
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There was a claim circulating in the past few days that former Governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten had visited the International Court of Justice in the Hague to ask for Hong Kong's return to the United Kingdom.
The claim is false. h/t
@lukedepulford
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The three-finger salute has been used as a symbol of resistance across protest movements throughout the years in Hong Kong, Thailand and now Myanmar. There is power in solidarity.
မင်းတစ်ယောက်တည်းမဟုတ်ဘူး။
အတူတူတိုက်ခိုက်ကြသည်
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Taken during last year’s protest against the anti-mask law in Hong Kong:
“This autumn day, they banned us from wearing face masks,
Tomorrow, they would no longer let us speak.
If we don’t speak up now,
We’d become as lowly as slaves.”
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Who would have thought that queuing for newspapers early in the morning could be a form of protest, an act of resistance?
Only in Hong Kong.
#撐蘋果日報
#SupportAppleDaily
#WeNeedAppleDaily
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These images demonstrate the artistic creativity of Hong Kongers but they also reflect the sad reality in how we now have to adapt to speak and protest in code to circumvent an outrageous word ban.
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In Hong Kong, human rights advocates are rendered criminals just because they sought to challenge Beijing’s overarching powers. The charges laid against them, which carry maximum penalty of life imprisonment, are a blatant assault to democracy and a gross miscarriage of justice.
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A 79-year-old activist known for protecting young protestors from police during demonstrations in Hong Kong was ARRESTED for displaying a poem in Chinese saying, "I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers. Head bowed, like an ox I serve the people."
The utter lack of humanity.
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“Beneath our umbrellas is an idea, and that idea is bulletproof.”
In Liberty Sculpture Park, California
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state of press freedom in Hong Kong:
- journalists from “internationally known" foreign media are denied visas to work here
- independent media, freelancers now not considered the "press"
- government-registered media outlets are all that's left to "monitor" the government
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100 days since the draconian National Security Law took effect in Hong Kong and we saw newspaper headquarters being raided, protestors and activists getting arrested one by one, teachers fired for promoting democracy in the classroom...
And there’s only more to come.
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“I am persuaded that neither prison bars, nor election ban, nor any other arbitrary powers would stop us from activism. What we are doing now is to explain the value of freedom to the world, so much that we are willing to sacrifice the freedom of our own.” -
@joshuawongcf
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I’m afraid that my birthday cake from last year will be considered seditious under today’s standards what with the slogans and the lihkg pig topping that is now deemed a “controversial pattern” that is “causing discomfort” and “affecting community cohesion”.
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Students can no longer put up posters like these now that the HKU management is seeking to strip the campus Lennon Wall bare and to stifle constructive political discussion within the school.
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Will this ever end? 5 more Hong Kong activists seeking refuge in 🇬🇧 and 🇺🇸 now have arrest warrants issued against them by the Hong Kong national security police and have bounties on their heads for their overseas advocacy work.
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This is what you look like when you are a useless, spineless coward spewing dangerous, baseless conspiracy theories whilst pushing for draconian legislation during a public health crisis. In sum, not a good look:
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As told by an 'old girl': Diocesan Girls' School is one of many schools in Hong Kong who are unabashedly pro-establishment. Girls are taught to be silent and obedient to authority. We are told not to be vocal about social issues, as it may negatively affect the school's image.
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Benny Tai was my Constitutional Law professor at HKU and he remains to be an inspiration for many students who'd like to use the law as a means to achieve social justice. I will be forever grateful that I have been taught by him.
#BREAKING
: University of Hong Kong fires law professor Benny Tai, founder of the 2014 Occupy protests, with 18 votes for vs 2 votes against. Following Shiu Ka-chun at Hong Kong Baptist University, Tai became the second known university teacher sacked over the 2014 Occupy Central.
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Those who have been openly critical of the authorities, either verbally or in writing, have great reason to fear persecution under Hong Kong’s National Security Law. This is an indisputable fact now.
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Nothing says “we are open and transparent” like threatening economic coercion against countries demanding independent inquiry and asking legitimate questions
Australia has been warned by the Chinese ambassador that it could face an economic hit if it does not back down from a push into the nation’s handling of the coronavirus.
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State of academic freedom in Hong Kong
- Pro-democracy teachers licenses revoked, forced to self-censor
- Sections in textbooks that are critical of Beijing removed
- Curriculums revamped to 'foster students' sense of national identity' and patriotism
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The Hong Kong police are setting up a new unit that "would have intelligence gathering, investigation and training capabilities" to enforce the national security law.
Hi Hong Kong twitter, they are coming for us.
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New Hong Kong police warning banner: You will be criminally prosecuted if you display flags or banners and chant slogans that show intentions of 'splitting the country' or 'subverting the regime'
Make no mistake that the National Security Law is a counter-protest legislation
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"There is no right so precious to the people of Hong Kong as the freedom of expression and the freedom of peaceful assembly. Not only is the freedom to speak the truth the core of human dignity, it is also the last safety valve in a democratic society." - Margaret Ng
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A woman in Hong Kong was arrested for having sex on her apartment's balcony. A sad day for exhibitionists.
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Rather than holding the real perpetrators of an indiscriminate mob attack last year to account, the Hong Kong Police attempts to rewrite history by arresting a pro-democracy legislator for rioting when he was proven time and again to be a victim of the attack.
Admin:
@cheuktinglam
has been arrest. He is accused of rioting in Yuen Long on July 21 2019.
The Police also accused him of conspiring with others to damage property and obstructing the course of justice in Tuen Mun on July 6 2019
He is currently in the Sha Tin Police Station.
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China is aiming to limit abortions performed for "non-medical purposes" to reverse its declining birth rate. Restrictive abortion policies strip away women's reproductive autonomy and are incompatible with human rights norms.
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At the University of Hong Kong 3 years ago. When students could still boycott classes to protest Hong Kong's declining rule of law and judicial independence.
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What weekends in Hong Kong will look like in the foreseeable future: riot police forcibly shutting down shopping mall protests and violently dispersing crowds of peaceful protestors all in the name of “disease control” and “enforcing social distancing measures”
In a scene not seen for several months in Hong Kong, a planned singalong at Tai Koo Shing’s Cityplaza shopping mall was brought to an abrupt halt when police entered the mall and prompted those gathered to disperse
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Congrats to the
@washingtonpost
team on winning the
@HRPressAwards
for their exposé on the misconduct of the Hong Kong Police Force- so well deserved! Glad to have contributed a bit to the project alongside HKU’s Digital Verification Corps
@wallacecffan
@LErnst_HKU
@samdubberley
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hello how can one get their hands on these mooncakes if they’re not in Hong Kong? (ps i miss home🥺)
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Domestic helpers have ALWAYS been treated as second-class citizens in Hong Kong, and their employers have ALWAYS been able to find a way to exploit them. Legislations have to be in place to keep abusers in check and to protect workers' basic labour rights.
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"When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength." (Trump, 1990)
This week marks 31 years since the Tianamen Square massacre, when Chinese troops opened fire on civilian protesters. Yesterday, Trump threatened to mobilize military force to end protests across the US. When will leaders learn that brutality does not lead to success??
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So glad to see
#MeToo
gaining traction in China- signs read "We are not walking vaginas" and "Believe women". The authorities have tried to clamp down on the feminist movement time and time again, but they can't silence all women who refuse to be silenced any longer.
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In Sydney, Australia.
Those who know of the history of the Tiananmen Square Massacre bears the responsibility to pass on the history for those who are erased from the truth.
We will never forget.
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