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I just started a new role with Nikkei Asia in New York as their U.S. news editor. I’ll be driving our U.S-Asia coverage from business, finance to politics — with some writing on the side.
Hit me up for NYC tips, pitches, coffee and bagel recommendations!
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Having spent more than a week outside of Hong Kong, I’ve noticed COVID/the pandemic rarely comes up in conversations and that I feel significantly less stressed and anxious.
Stockholm syndrome is real in HK
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BREAKING: Hong Kong Immigration department has witheld extension of work visa for Tim Owens KC - the lawyer who is meant to represent Jimmy Lai.
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We’re past the 5pm deadline and the Pillar of Shame remains standing.
@HKUniversity
said they “are still seeking legal advice and working with related parties to handle the matter in a legal and reasonable manner”
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As dusk approaches, the US consulate and the EU office light up candles in their up windows.
@EUinHKandMO
has 33 candles for 33rd anniversary
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Heartbreaking to see this stream of notifications announcing the closure of
@appledaily_hk
and that tomorrow’s print will be the last Apple Daily newspaper
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Tyrone Siu and I followed the Lais, who are leaving a city they no longer recognise as home, on their journey to Scotland over the course of five months
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Personal news: I am joining
@NikkeiAsia
as their HK correspondent. Do get in touch and let me know what you think we need to cover.
pak.yiu
@nex
.nikkei.com
or DM me!
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Coldplay, Taylor Swift and now Beyoncé skipping Hong Kong - supposedly Asia’s world city - on their Asia tour.
Wonder why?
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A year on after the BNO scheme was launched, tens of thousands of HKers have emigrated to the UK. While many have struggled to find jobs, not one person we spoke to has regretted leaving their home city
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HK01 looked around the isolation units in Tsing Yi and found there were only communal toilets and most units were empty.
Chinese state media said the units be delivered by today (Feb 28)
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This is shameful, in the dead of the night, when no ones around...
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BREAKING: Tim Owens, who was meant to represent Jimmy Lai in his national security case, has left Hong Kong after immigration department denied an extension to his existing work visa that would allow him to work on Lai's case
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Spotted: Someone wrote ‘Revolution of our time’ above pro-establishment DAB’s add ‘Reform Hong Kong’
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Taiwan carries the torch of Tiananmen as Hong Kong is silenced
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First opposition legislators and activists, then NGOs, journos and lawyers. Now Ta Kung Pao is going after taxi drivers
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HK Alliance members called for the release of citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, who was just sentenced to 4 years, and the release of the 12 HKers as their trial begins today.
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Hong Kongers leaving the city are taking with them an identity and set of values that will cease to exist as Beijing cracksdown on Hong Kong
Across the world the diaspora are preserving their culture and identity through various efforts:
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Hong Kong media's home pages on Monday after a weekend of protests in China
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Scoop: Hong Kong is a critical outpost for many NGOs that don’t dare operate in the mainland and want to work freely without fear, but those days are beginning to become a thing of the past as rights groups quietly leave the city
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Personal news: I've left HK. Noodles became my favourite dish during my years in HK/China and I was worried I would not find the same flavours overseas (scarred by growing up in Aus). But a recent celebration of Asian food in the west have eased my woes
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UN Human Rights Committee begins its review of Hong Kong's committment to international human rights
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“We must be prepared for a prolonged war,” Li Dahong, editor-in-chief of Ta Kung Wen Wei group told top executives a day after the national security law was imposed in 2020 “The fundamental work is still to win the people’s hearts.”
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Today, Martin Lee, 82, along with nine others including media tycoon Jimmy Lai are expecting to be sentenced today
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My last story w/ Reuters:
Ytday the largest indpt trade union in HK disbands. At least 29 others have already done so since start of the yr. The landscape for labour rights will become more like the mainland where labour activism face persistent crackdowns
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HKU, the city’s most prestigious university has issued guidelines on national security law, including setting up a committee to vet alleged violations of academic freedom, in compliance with the NSL
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We analysed 26,000 editorials published by the major newspapers in Hong Kong.
Between 2014 and 2022, references to “Hong Kong people” fell by more than 40% in editorials
Use of “Democracy” also fell while CCP phrases eg “patriots rule Hong Kong” increased
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A very good morning to National Security Education day in Hong Kong. There is a slew of activities and events across the city in the name of national security. (pictured: front pages of pro-beijing newspapers on April 15)
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Police have arrested veteran journalist, political commentator and journalism teacher Allan Au 區家麟 after searching his home this morning - source says the arrest is related to the StandNews case
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.
@discoverhk
launched their latest campaign for HK with Aussie-star Nick Cummins.
The three videos don’t reflect the current reality of the city at all and were clearly filmed pre-pandemic
There’s a still of Cummins at the now-closed Tung Po Kitchen😢
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Today marks one year after Beijing imposed a national security law for Hong Kong, marking a new chapter for the city.
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My first
@nikkeiasia
cover story w/
@Sonarayanan
on whether Hong Kong still is “Asia’s world city”.
Lam is stuck in a difficult position - appeasing Beijing while trying to balance the interests of global businesses
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Hong Kong dethroned: No longer the world’s freest economy.The government will now have to figure a new way to tout itself
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The Tiananmen candlelight vigil in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park many moons ago. Unreal that the park is now hosting a carnival instead…
Photo was taken from the roof of the Metro Park hotel, which is now the office for the National Security Police
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No one in HK is willing to step forward and host commemorative event on June 4 in memory of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, as leaders of the annual candlelight vigil are behind bars and a palpable fear envelopes society
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Who would've thought talking about not voting in the LegCo election would become so sensitive that faces of those vox poped need blurring. Speaks volumes about how Hong Kong has changed
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HK police say Xi Jinping’s visit to HK on June 30 and July 1 will bring disruptions to central business area and that they will also impose a no fly zone in all of HK for drones
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Today feels strange. For as long as I’ve been in Hong Kong I have always worked July 1 covering the annual protest. This year, Causeway Bay is like any other day, families and friends out and about…Except for the heavy police presence.
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Hong Kong student activist Tony Chung sentenced to 3 years and 7 months jail after pleading guilty to inciting secession and money laundering
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Japanese photographer
@kisekimichiko
was denied entry to Hong Kong on December 30th. She had published photo book of the 2019 protests called “VOICE Hong Kong 2019”
“I clearly felt that Hong Kong’s freedoms are gone.”
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Many people coming to Victoria Park only to find it closed off. One resident said it was heartbreaking. “We’ve lost the freedom to express ourself, it’s not the same city anymore.”
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My first tea leaves for Nikkei. I write about how the HK has reopened under a new “normal”. Visiting executives say the city’s back in business but lest we forget the political and civil freedoms that have eroded drastically in the last three years
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After more than 40 years in Hong Kong, Amnesty will shut its regional headquarters:
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Hong Kong's LegCo just passed an amendment bill to the Immigration Ordinance, which gives authorities the power to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the city and includes measures that would further undermine refugee rights.
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New report by
@RSF_inter
on China’s state of journalism finds close to 130 Chinese journalists detained, 80 foreign corros booted out, and HK media freedoms under threat due to national security law
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Omicron has broken Hong Kong’s zerocovid strategy and exposed the government‘s inability to make a decision and lead. Policy flip flops, unclear messaging and huge public trust deficit has led to high death rates and a covid crisis spilling over into china
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Hong Kong’s June 4 Museum, which has been operating for years, has decided to temporarily shut after a visit from the government last night for suspected violation of places of public entertainment ordinance, citing safety of staff and visitors
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Hong Kong’s top court overturns a previous judgment that the joint enterprise principle can be applied to riot and illegal assembly cases. But an extended form could be applied for conspiracy or incitement
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Carrie Lam has consistently insisted the national security law targets an extremely small minority of people in Hong Kong. Since then we've seen lawmakers locked up, activists in exile and now one of the world's largest human rights group leaving Hong Kong
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@amnesty
chair Anjhula Mya Singh Bais: "This decision, made with a heavy heart, has been driven by Hong Kong’s national security law, which has made it effectively impossible for human rights organizations in HK to work freely and without fear of serious reprisals from gov"
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Physical reminders in HK of the Tiananmen massacre have been removed
- pillar of shame, goddess of democracy, Calligraphy of Tiananmen slogan @ HKU
- Tiananmen books in public libraries, tank man image in textbooks
- HK Alliance Tiananmen museum
- Wang Xingwei’s New Beijing at M+
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The number of police deployed tonight is shocking, every couple of meters, every corner groups of police are stopping and searching people at random
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Nearly 10,000 overseas Chinese have been forced to return to China since 2014 through coercive means that are dressed up as part of the anticorruption drive, report by
@SafeguardDefend
finds
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Hong Kong schools self censor and remove books from shelves fearing security law from
@mingpaocom
One school took 173 books off shelves including Nelson Chow's book titled "Identity and values of Hong Kong People"
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Growing doubts over Hong Kong's judicial independence two years after national security law was imposed is threatening the city's appeal as a regional hub.
Businesses are increasinigly discussing whether to use HK or Singapore law in contracts
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Figo Chan, Leung Kwok Hung, Eddie Chu and 4 others sentenced between 6 to 12 months for various charges of illegal assembly for their roles in last year’s July 1 protest - the first after HK’s national security law was passed
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Ads for National Security Education day plastered all over the cross harbour tunnel entrance, while I sit on a bus with this graffitied on back of seat...
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Been in Italy for ten days now, belly full of pasta, and have not seen a single Chinese tour group. Where are they?
Have heard a lot of Dutch and (American) English in Rome and Florence though
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Ah To was one of the few political artists that stayed in HK after the NSL AND continued to work. His satirical cartoons on current affairs are loved by many in HK
HK comic artist Ah To has just announced on social media that he is leaving HK
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Hong Kong unveils a new security law that will curtail freedoms expand its powers to stifle dissent. The proposed Article 23 also focuses on foreign interference, which will put foreigners in the city at a higher risk.
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Hong Kong authorities have taken a leaf out of the Chinese Communist Party's playbook: interrogating and harassing relatives of activists in exile. Another sign that the two systems is no more. Thanks
@ZhouFengSuo
and
@patrickpoon
for comments
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Here is Tyrone Siu’s beautiful photo essay:
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Scoop w/
@echowonghk
: Last month, US Treasury officials visited Hong Kong quietly and met with financial institutions, law firms and regulators urging them to enforce export control rules on US tech and dual-use goods from being shipped to Russia.
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Seen on Carousell: Selling stand in service for lining up to get your compulsory testing for HK$200. Joke or not though, these long lines to get tested could be one way to spread the virus
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Xinhua: Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Hong Kong for 25th anniversary of handover, making it his first visit out of the mainland
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My role in Hong Kong is open. The
@NikkeiAsia
bureau is looking for someone with a background in business journalism and an understanding of China. Apply here:
DM if you have any questions
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@thlsharon
and I tracked the arrests made by the newly formed national security department and found that those targeted were from the pro-dem camp that include politicians, journalists, activists and students
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This morning, roughly 50 HK democracy activists including politicians, lawyers and academics, were arrested under security law, This is the largest crackdown of dissent we’ve seen since the law was imposed last year
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The school also exhibited a ‘mosaic wall’ of ‘wish cards’ from students supporting NSL.
“NSL has changed Hong Kong from chaos to peace, and guarantees the rights of every HK person; and fully reflects China’s one country two system’.” reads one
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Proposed changes to Hong Kong's immigration law could bar anyone, residents and visitors, from leaving the city, mirroring the arbitrary 'exit bans' mainland China uses on activists and lawyers
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For those wondering how the Lais are, Asa and the family are enjoying their new home. “Even though it rains, it clears out during the day. It’s beautiful here.”
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A must-read analysis on HK looking at pro-ccp media by Ching Cheong
"The central government is determined to retain Hong Kong without Hong Kong people...if people disagree with the principle of One Country, they should emigrate with their whole families..."
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Hong Kong pro-democracy activist convicted for sedition. His crime, chanting protest slogans and criticising the central government.
He will return to court Mar 31 for sentencing
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“Human rights emergency” one year after national security law in Hong Kong says
@amnesty
in their latest assessment
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As John Lee prepares to take the top job wooing election committee members instead of the public, many fear that the security squeeze will tighten even more. Here’s an overview I wrote of Hong Kong’s emergence as a security state
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China’s MOFA sends a letter to all foreign consulates reminding them that detained dual nationals are not allowed consular visits. The letter was sent after UK Foreign Minister raised British national Jimmy Lai’s case with China’s VP Han Zheng in May.
BREAKING: China warns on consular visits to dual citizens detained in Hong Kong.
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Chinese media have begun blurring Nike and Adidas logos following a backlash over western brands ethical sourcing concerns
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Lam says Hong Kong's anti-COVID measures will become more consistent with the mainland, and will continue to strengthen regulations
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After Apple Daily’s final print last night, their online presence has begun disappearing. Pics are of the news app, Twitter, webpage, and a message on telegram saying their account will be deleted soon
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Hong Kong police raided the offices of online news site Stand News and arrested six with ties to the independent media early Wednesday morning
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Since Xi took power, China’s LGBTQ community has less room for advocacy and face growing harassment & censorship. but they’ve not been silenced. Data shows > 40 gay-related acts of dissent last year
Thx
@KevinSlaten
@DariusLongarino
for the insights
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UN report on Xinjiang:
"The extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim groups...may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity."
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HK tv station TVB, locally dubbed ‘CCTVB’, also blurred the Adidas logo recently, according to Apple Daily
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Figo Chan thanked all the peaceful protesters who came out that day 8/18 with a bow and said the gov promised dialogue if citizens were peaceful and reasonable
“We were peaceful and reasonable, governments response to thay was arresting us, prosecuting us and taking us to court.”
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Hong Kong funds seek approval for crypto-linked retail ETFs as city seeks to position itself as a crypto hub
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Jens Galschiøt the artist said he’s working on a way to get the statue out of Hong Kong. He has hired a lawyer who is in touch with Mayer Brown
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Voters snub "patriots only" election with a record low turnout of 30.2%. Results for some seats are pending but it was clear from the start Beijing loyalists were going to sweep up all the seats in LegCo
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Thousands of police have been deployed to ensure a smooth national day celebration in HK as protests expected in the afternoon
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HK’s Civil Service Secretary Patrick Nip said calling the city a police state is an ‘overstatement’
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4.5 to 14 months for prodemocracy activists in banned June 4 vigil case.
Jimmy Lai in his mitigation letter: "If commemorating those who died because of injustice is a crime, then inflict on me that crime and let me suffer the punishment of the crime."
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Judge Hancock said imprisonment is the only option and that community service would not be appropriate
Martin Lee: 11 m suspended sentence
Jimmy Lai: 12 m
Albert Ho: 12 m suspended
Lee Cheuk Yan: 12 m
Margaret Ng: 12 m suspended sentence
Long hair: 18 m
Au Nok Hin: 10 m
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JUST IN: Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Hong Kong from Shenzehn taking the high speed railway into West Kowloon and is welcomed by students and people chanting "welcome welcome"
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