A #HongKong 🇨🇳 -based company will build and operate a #spaceport covering at least ten square kilometres (four square miles) in #Djibouti 🇩🇯. The facility will include seven #launchpads and three #rocket 🚀 testing pads.
At #HongKong#airport#HKG, I saw that many groups of people, be it family or friends, take #selfies in front of the boarding gate to mark the start of their vacations. To be frank, it does surprise me that so many people still do that. I suppose such seemingly-naïve behaviour is what is called “#sense of #ritual”, which is admirable.
EU klagt in ihrem Bericht über Chinas Repressionen in Hongkong
Ein EU-Bericht zeichnet ein düsteres Bild zur Lage in Hongkong: Chinas Regierung habe die eigentlich garantierten Grundfreiheiten weiter massiv eingeschränkt, heißt es dort. Die Repressionen zielten besonders auf die prodemokratische Bewegung ab.
Mindestens zwei Todesopfer nach Starkregen in Hongkong
Die massivsten Regenfälle seit fast 140 Jahren haben in Hongkong für schwere Überschwemmungen gesorgt. Mindestens zwei Menschen starben, mehr als 100 wurden verletzt. Das öffentliche Leben kam durch das Extremwetter nahezu zum Erliegen.
Having lived in #Southampton for perhaps far too long, this doesn't surprise me.
The only question is whether Soton does something substantive about it.
"#HongKong protesters allegedly attacked by #Chinese activists in Southampton...
"...One of the attackers, some of whom were said to be #UniversityOfSouthampton students, could be heard shouting in Mandarin: “Hong Kong belongs to #China” and waving what appeared to be the Chinese flag..."
Hong Kong was ranked 135 out of 180 countries and territories in RSF's 2024 press freedom index
"Once a bastion of press freedom, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China has suffered an unprecedented series of setbacks since 2020, when Beijing adopted a National Security Law aimed at silencing independent voices"
🇭🇰Hong Kong: "A third in Hong Kong may have had COVID amid Omicron, most with no symptoms"
"With such a large number of unrecognized cases circulating the virus in the community, it was not surprising that the Omicron outbreak was uncontrollable, even though stringent measures, such as contact tracing and quarantine for close contacts, continued to be in effect"
I once worked for an airline and we had interline privileges (heavily discounted travel) on other airlines. I flew to New York and Brussels that way, and had planned on visiting #HongKong too. When HK was turned over to the CCP I dropped that idea, but soooo wish I had gone earlier. This article brought back all those memories:
How to enjoy a short weekend trip to Hong Kong: What to see, where to eat, what to do
I saw a person with a Taiwan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korfball jacket and then a person with a Hong Kong Korfball T-shirt and kid said that, oh yeah, those people spoke at school today.
It's a Dutch basketball-like game, and apparently in addition to the Netherlands there are players in at least Taiwan and Hong Kong.
"Fourteen pro-democracy activists were convicted in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case on Thursday by a court that said their plan to effect change through an unofficial primary election would have undermined the government’s authority and created a constitutional crisis."
China will have to pry her out of Canada to get her back. Fat chance of that happening.
On Sunday – Chow’s 27th birthday – she published two posts breaking the silence she had kept since she was released more than two and half years ago.
“I don’t want to be forced to do anything any more, and I don’t want to be forced to go to mainland #China any more,” she said. #ProDemocracy#Demosisto
Hello from New New Hong Kong!
Hello from Brisbane which is new new HONG KONG we have more HK refugees than any other place in the world! WELCOME HK TO BRISBANE KEEP EM COMIng!