Notices tagged with hongkong, page 2
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Hilarious. Just a vicious rumor! Not even contemplating the option! Less than a week later:
> Dine-in services banned from 6pm to 4.59am the next daywww.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/heโฆ
#hongkong #covid
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Hong Kong has detected dozens of covid cases, all imported. Extensive contact tracing and mandatory testing has been performed and no local spread has been detected. It is suspected to be mostly omicron strain. Restrictions for air cargo personnel have been tightened. People who can work from home are recommended to do so.
Over the last two years HK has had 12667 known covid cases and 213 confirmed covid deaths.
www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/
#hongkong #covid
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"Hong Kongโs Stand News shuts down after national security police arrest 7, freeze HK$61 million in assets"
> Hong Kongโs Stand News shuts down after national security police arrest 7, freeze HK$61 million in assets
> Current and former chief editors arrested on Wednesday as more than 200 police take part in morning raids; ex-Apple Daily editor already in custody among the sevenwww.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/laโฆ
#hongkong #NatSecLawHK
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I was worried that maybe the 2021 LegCo elections were a concrete sign of how One Country Two Systems was being dismantled before our very eyes, a quarter century ahead of schedule. I feel comforted to know that Emperor Xi says it's all good.
That was sarcasm.
> On Sundayโs Legislative Council (LegCo) elections, the Chinese leader said the polls โproved that the improved electoral system is in line with the principle of โOne Country, Two Systemsโ as well as the reality of Hong Kongโ.
> โThe elections had manifested the democratic rights which allowed Hong Kong compatriots to be masters of their own home, and implemented the principles of patriots administering Hong Kong,โ he said. โIt also established a political system which ensures the balanced participation of various sectors.โ
www.thehindu.com/news/internatโฆ
#hongkong #NatSecLawHK #LegCo #LegCoHK #LegCo2021 #LegCoHK2021
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Election day in #hongkong ! I wonder if the opposition might win this time?
Just kidding, the opposition was canceled.
And yet, the rest of the system is in good shape, better than many places: Voting day is a Sunday, public transport is free today and the incarcerated have the right to vote, there are polling booths at the prison.
It's just that approval committee for candidates that undermines the whole thing and makes the rest nothing more than a costly charade. Unless people vote blank, of course. That's still legal.
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Specified Places For Enhanced Quarantine & Surveillance Measures on Omicron Variant :
Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, the United States of America, Zambia, Zimbabwe
www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/inbโฆ
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"Local trade in elephant ivory will be banned from 2021-12-31"
Absolutely astonishing that it wasn't already.
https://libranet.de/dev/null#hongkong
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Oh. Sweden reclassified as risk zone A, quarantine on return bumped from 2 weeks to 3 weeks.
As of Friday this week, 2021-12-03:
www.news.gov.hk/eng/2021/11/20โฆ
#hongkong #sweden #covid #quarantine
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Truth in Television
> [ . . . ] Customers noticed that episode 12 of season 16 [of the Simpsons] is missing from Disney +, which launched in [Hong Kong] this month.
[ . . . ]
> During their trip to Beijing, they visit Tiananmen Square where a sign reads: "On this site, in 1989, nothing happened" [ . . . ]
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-chโฆ
#NatSecLawHK #hongkong
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The MTR had some ad about the upcoming election with the text "[improve election system]", "[ensure patriots leading hong kong]" or something like that and I am feeling physically ill.
https://libranet.de/dev/null#hongkong #HKNatSecLaw #antielab
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> Besides endorsing the Chief Executive, the committee will now simply select, from among its own members, 40 individuals to serve concurrently as members of the new Legislative Council (LegCo).
> Finally, the Election Committee is responsible for nominating all aspiring Legislative Council candidates. They cannot contest without the signatures of five Election Committee members, that is, one from each of the Election Committeeโs five sectors.
hongkongfp.com/2021/09/18/bareโฆ
So, effectively single-party rule.
#hongkong #NatSecLawHK
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> Hong Kong political party Civic Passion has announced it is to disband with immediate effect, a week after its chairman Cheng Chung-tai was ousted from the legislature.
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> The decision to disqualify Cheng leaves just one member of legislature who is not aligned with the pro-government camp.
hongkongfp.com/2021/09/03/breaโฆ
#hongkong #NatSecLawHK
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@clacke Contrasts #Hong_Kong in 2003 responding to #SARS with #Sweden in 2020 responding to #COVID-19.
Admittedly, I was barely even aware of SARS at the time (and completely missed MERS a few years later). But at the time, I was working full time, attending a college and a university, teaching a class at church, and trying to work out custody of #sonTwo. I was running full tilt for around 20 hours a day, drinking around 4 twelve-cup pots of coffee each day.
I'm really surprised I remember those years at all.
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https://nypost.com/2020/07/07/beijing-just-told-big-tech-to-flee-hong-kong/ [nypost com]
#China's new #HongKong security law may drive western Internet companies out of HK, says the New York Post.
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It sounds like both the #NBA and #Blizzard - #Activision should have stayed out of individualsโ expressions of belief about the situation in #Hong_Kong. It is hard to be sympathetic toward huge profit-making organizations that get in hot water for showing theyโd surrender their own grandmothers for execution if the pay was high enough.
โThis is not an expression of our organizational viewpointโ would have been sufficient, but they went beyond that.
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Yesterday I saw two groups of Chinese people in #Sheffield having a huge argument about #HongKong.ย There were about 200 people in total. Police were separating them. They were shouting at each other in Chinese, but I asked one of the people there and they told me it was about Hong Kong.ย
It was quite intense.. People were very angry.
There seemed to be a lot more pro Chinese people than pro Hong Kong.ย
BBC reports it here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-49914304
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Welcome to our city, the future home of the giant robot uprising!
#hongkong https://social.heldscal.la/attachment/1404381
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> Aggressive Construction Company Limited
I love #hongkong company names. Imagining a meeting with this company:
- Umm, so the plans for this block called for 40-storey buildings ...
- ... and we built 50 floors! Yeeeah!! What're you gonna do about it, huh, PUNK?!
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Hyvรครค joulua from Stanley Market Finnish Christmas Wonders 2017!
There is reindeer sausage and scented Moomin candles.
#hongkong
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I for one think TKO is a great first prototype of our future 3D arcologies.
And I did find a great cha chaan teng.
http://www.ejinsight.com/20160927-tseung-kwan-o-when-urban-planning-goes-wrong/
I wouldn't mind a more picturesque street level, but in TKO it's just a fact of life that streets are for buses and taxis. I love walkways, and I love that you can walk 2 km indoors if you want, or 2 km along the shore, with the *not smelly thank you very much* sea breeze in your face.
#hongkong