Coming this fall, and available now for pre-order, a project that has been in the works since 2019. Among the Braves, with , the story of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement and the lives and city it has shaped.
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Vale TJ.
Focusing in on one tiny bit of Hong Kong showed so much about how the city works (and doesn’t).
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Some personal news, I've closed Transit Jam for now: I'll keep it up as an archive, a rather intense 3-year snapshot of HK transport. 775 stories, 175 detailed road death reports, a huge number of scoops and exclusives, real impact reporting.
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A fascinating life. Few people have shaken the hands of Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao.
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A symposium was held in #Beijing on Wednesday to commemorate a #HongKong businessman Henry Fok Ying-tung, who made great contributions to #China’s opening up and the implementation of “one country, two systems” in Hong Kong.
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Books by satirical cartoonist Zunzi disappear from Hong Kong public libraries after paper axes comic
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“It is difficult to explain how the SAR government turned into such an intolerant creature. Was it encouraged by the local representatives of the motherland to dial up the Wolf Warrior domesticity?”
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Please read the story that’s been 30+ years in the making, taught me the real meaning of fomo, humbled me to filth about the specialness of my own story—and gave me a sisterhood I never knew I needed so much nyti.ms/3VREJu3
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foreign ministers of the bloc said some countries wanted to invite the junta back to ASEAN meetings because "the time for isolation has served its purpose."
The junta has time. China is re-starting things, India's new port opening etc. They have waited decades before.
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Southeast Asian nations have made “no significant progress” on implementing a peace plan to end the bloodshed in Myanmar, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said Thursday as a summit wrapped up. frontiermyanmar.net/en/indonesian-
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"I have to be honest that no significant progress has been made on the implementation of the five-point consensus…” (and MAH says it is junk)
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//ASEAN sources said another ASEAN leaders' retreat to review the five-point consensus has been proposed, though a decision has yet to be made...//
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Scroll until your thumb gets tired and then keep scrolling to get to Myanmar.
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So excited to attend Chinese cultural property repatriation ceremony . The return of two 7th-century carvings symbolizes our cooperation in protecting cultural heritage. It will enhance friendship between our two peoples & bring positive energy into China-US relations
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Another tough week for Hong Kong media.
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.@mingpaocom has axed political cartoonist Zunzi’s comics and will stop publishing them from Sunday. Coincidentally, one column next to one of Zunzi’s piece comes with the encapsulating headline “beautiful new Hong Kong”.
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There are many, many other examples. It is a fascinating sort of bubble to observe.
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Bernard Chan openly admits that many pro-Beijing figures and businessmen have no idea how basic governance works on the mainland.
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Holden Chow repeatedly used the term "draconian" in an interview with me to describe the NSL. Only when I asked him about his choice of descriptor did he admit he had no idea it carried a negative connotation.
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Many of the new generation of pro-Beijing lawmakers went to expensive boarding schools and universities outside of Hong Kong but it is remarkable how unworldly they are, what they chose to believe as truth and how frequently they say offensive things seemingly without knowing.
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A journalist always ready to go where the story was, but also willing to stop in the middle of a warzone to rescue a hedgehog. 's obituary for our colleague , killed in Ukraine:
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One of the many incorrect whataboutisms that pro-Beijing lawmaker love to bring up is that it is illegal in the U.S. to burn or destroy the American flag.
This is 100% false: uscourts.gov/sites/default/
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This would criminalize online depictions of the “Black Bauhinia” flag // “The proposed amendments will enhance the protection of the regional flag & emblem by clarifying that the provisions on related offences cover desecrating behaviour in both real life & over the internet.” twitter.com/scmpnews/statu…
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Panel for members on Thursday about the Myanmar junta's plan for a sham election. Tune in online or come in person if you're in Bangkok.
Become a Frontier member here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/membership/
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On May 11, @FrontierMM will organise a hybrid panel looking at regional response to the #Myanmar regime’s planned polls.
We’ll be joined by ex-Thai FM Kasit Piromya, @thinzashunleiyi, @moemoethuzar, Nyantha Maw Lin and @TeppeiKasai. Registration link has been sent to members.
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Surreal. The cover photo for this Tweet taken by the NYT at the Met contains pieces of dubious provenance that have already been removed from display.
Listen to our podcast to learn how they got there:
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Amazing…the Met in New York admits its stolen art problem is huge…and takes steps to rectify it. nytimes.com/2023/05/09/art
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Why is the Met so full of stolen art? Listen to Dynamite Doug, our new podcast, which uncovers how one man enriched himself, and a curator at the Met, while pillaging Cambodia during a genocide. Listen on
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The Atlantic’s Xochitl Gonzalez was named a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary for her essays on how inequality shapes identity, and how gentrification warps the physical and emotional terrains of our lives. Read her essential work:
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"Wen Wei Po cited an unnamed political figure claiming that Ockenden’s protest was a scheme by external forces, and an effort to generate “smears” about freedom of speech being oppressed in Hong Kong."
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Transport news site Transit Jam becomes latest Hong Kong outlet to close
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The ability to simultaneously insult both an entire category of democratically elected representatives and hundreds of thousands of migrant domestic workers is something only a representative of HK’s ruling class could pull off with a straight face.
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Hong Kong ex-official compares district councillors to migrant domestic workers, says they could be fired if disobedient
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Chinese consulate in Gwangju has lodged its opposition to Korean human rights foundation for handing out an award to Hong Kong activist Chow Hang-tung, claiming that she is a "criminal who took part in a violent protest that inflicted damage on China."
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"Mr. Sim said that Mr. Chan did not influence him in any way and that he studiously avoided talking to Mr. Chan about politics." Wise
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မင်္ဂလာဒုံတွင် မြို့နယ် NLD အလုပ်အမှုဆောင် ဦးဝင်းနိုင်၏ ညီမနှင့်သမီးဖြစ်သူတို့ကို ပျူစောထီးများက ပစ်ခတ်သတ်ဖြတ်
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Happy to take part in this upcoming conference at CUHK with many fascinating-looking papers on censorship and Hong Kong cinema from past to present.
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‘They said they could make me straight’: Hongkonger recalls ‘brainwashing’ by group with gov’t funding from ‘equality’ fund
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If you read nothing else today, read this profile of two astonishing young men, Sami al-Gada and Hassan Tibwa, students and taxi drivers in Sudan who rescued so many.
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in today on the populist feedback loop that largely replaced the Blob in GOP foreign policy:
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Ping On: Hong Kong’s unrelenting independent press
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Forget Lu Xun. The Eileen Chang subculture is where it's at. , Lyric Li and I look at why her work still reverberates, arguably as much now as it ever has
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One of only a tiny handful of pro-democracy politicians to survive the government’s purges, District Councillor Paul Zimmerman has announced his retirement from elected politics in light of this week’s DC reforms.
He says the move “destroys the final bastion of democracy in HK.”
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The backlash against Hongkongers in Taiwan is dismaying--it was convenient to leverage on their plight in the past for the DPP, but now that there is sufficient fear of China, this leads to a lack of action or even attempts to raise the barriers for Hongkongers
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"As Democracy Further Deteriorates in Hong Kong, Taiwan Proposes Increasing Barriers to Hong Kong Permanent Residency" by @brianhioe
Link: newbloommag.net/2023/05/03/hk-
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A court in Belarus has convicted a dissident journalist who was removed from a commercial airplane that was forced to land in the country. Raman Pratasevich was tried for organizing unrest and plotting to seize power and received an eight year sentence.
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Reporting on conflict, corruption and injustice is more than just a job for some journalists.
The #KurtSchork Awards celebrate the freelancers, local reporters and fixers putting their lives on the line to tell crucial stories.
Learn more and apply: buff.ly/3LHKkjm
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Hong Kongers used for domestic political gain and then tossed away when they are no longer seen as useful, example like 500 at this point.
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Government considers lengthen the period that Hongkongers need to stay in Taiwan to obtain permanent residency, due to spying fears. God, not more of this
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