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Freelance journalist, contributor . Former correspondent. Earlier works , , , etc.

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    18 hours ago

    "Exterminate" the Rohingya. For the first time, Myanmar soldiers admit to an orchestrated campaign to eradicate the Muslim minority.

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    Sep 7

    So in Dec 2018 we called out McKinsey for holding a corporate retreat in Xinjiang. But what Disney did by filming Mulan in the epicenter of the Xinjiang detention camp network —and then thanking the security forces there in the credits — is on an entirely different level.

    McKinsey consultants dined al fresco in Kashgar, treated to a light show that projected two-humped camels onto the city's crenelated wall. 4.19 miles away, a sprawling detention center had been built to house thousands of Muslims.
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  3. Sep 6

    Also Hong Kong 2020: the police’s two-month-old national security unit saying they consulted with the DOJ and decided the colonial-era sedition law was “most appropriate” for the arrest of an activist who’d set up street booths

    "Uttering seditious words." Welcome to Hong Kong 2020.
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    Sep 6

    A dialogue with Daryl Ng has begun over on FB, with reference to this article: . Perhaps the 3rd-gen tycoons will take the lead in abolishing corporate voting? Or will they hang on to their power and continue to prevent local democratic reform?

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    Sep 5

    An reporter was stopped and searched by around 10 riot police officers, and was ordered to take off their face mask so officers could 'verify' their identity against the photo on their ID card & press pass.

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    Sep 6

    Instead of wearing black, one man hangs a black tee on a pole to “make his opinion heard”. His demand: “resume the legislative council election now, give me back my right to vote.”

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    Sep 4

    Really good explainer on the power of Chinese mobile app Wechat. "WeChat is terrible because there is no alternative. It’s too closely tied to life."

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    Sep 4

    ESF doc says classroom not a 'safe space’ for debate & discussion: “In theory, it should be...But in reality, it is not. Students & their families have the full range of backgrounds & political opinions. What we do & talk about in class will be discussed...outside the classroom."

    A 15-page internal document for teachers at on states: “We must not advocate ... any activity that seeks to undermine the authority of either the Hong Kong SAR government or Central government”
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    Sep 4

    Powerful visual documentary of what's disappeared in Hong Kong since the passage of the National Security Law. In words, a lot. In pictures, an even more devastating story. From &

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  10. Sep 4

    And of course, Hong Kong served as a haven for political refugees including Tiananmen Square student leaders. Now, an entire section about the movement and the June 4 massacre got removed. The names Zhou Yongkang & Bo Xilai were also taken out from this section about corruption.

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    Sep 4

    Check out this piece by and ⁦⁩ that shows you how speech in Hong Kong has changed since Beijing imposed a sweeping law on the city that targets dissent.

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  12. Sep 4

    How publishers have hastily rewritten their Liberal Studies textbooks is well documented by Hong Kong's media. Here's an example we found: a reference to the suspected "collusion between the government, big businesses, rural powers & triads" (underlined in red) was scrubbed

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  13. Sep 4

    For more than two decades, the only Hong Kong I'd known was one where free expression and dissent were legally protected and a vibrant tradition. and I documented what's changed and disappeared when a place loses these rights.

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    Sep 3

    We went to Inner Mongolia this week and found incredible courage - Mongol parents, teachers, students, even police fighting for their own language - but also sweeping security crackdown, w targets as young as middle school. Please read

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    Sep 2

    Public Security Bureaus across banners and districts in Tongliao of Inner Mongolia put out notices on Tuesday, publicizing lists of "offenders" & their headshots, all accused of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble." Several notices mentioned locations –– all near schools ...

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    Aug 30

    “But now that two-thirds of Chinese capital is in private hands, it is surprising that those who have benefited most from privatisation and economic liberalisation are allowed to pass all of their wealth on to their children without any tax”

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    Aug 30

    Around two hundred police entered the mall, saying the crowds had violated social distancing rules of no more than 2 people.

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  18. Aug 28

    The youngest of the group, stopped and detained by the Guangdong marine police about 45 miles southeast of Hong Kong Island while trying to escape to Taiwan on a speedboat, is 16.

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    Aug 27

    As Ryan has pointed out, this story resonates so deeply for the many HKers whose own family escaped to HK from the Mainland. Writer Chen Bingan 陳秉安 who researched what he called the "Great Exodus to HK" 大逃港 from the 1950s-70s puts the number at 2 million. 1/2

    HK01 reports that three maritime escape routes connecting HK and Taiwan, plied by protesters since July, have been effectively “plugged up” since China’s coastguard strengthened its presence in the waters around HK in order to intercept fleeing dissidents.
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    Aug 27

    NEW: China secretly built scores of massive new prison and internment camps in the past 3 years, escalating its campaign against Muslim minorities even after it publicly claimed the detainees were been set free Some camps can hold >10,000 people.

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