Chow Hang-tung is a fucking giant in the ongoing struggle. She will be remembered generations into the future for her astonishing contribution to humanity.
Or not.
Over to you peeps.
Please. Never forget. Never forgive.
This can’t be forever. Don’t wait.
Woof
I’ve just come to make a contribution to this thread - I walked past Victoria Park and all the beady eyed shithouse coppers on June 4th - and unfortunately saw the news about Jessiedog.
This thread is all the more heavier knowing that him talking about his health deteriorating was us getting real-time updates about his struggle with cancer. Such bravery.
Hong Kong feels flat these days, something has left it that maybe people better with words than I would be more apt to describe. It just doesn’t have to that same energy. Like a sterile tourist town that’s still photogenic, but then even the photos have lost a little something.
I visited my old campus I lived on 20 years ago and felt a little sorry for the exchange students I saw on the way there from the airport, who’s experience will be remarkably different to the one I enjoyed. I then saw one or two of em a few days later down at Happy Valley and even though it was rammed, and the sheer power and grace the horses give out when racing past was obviously still evident, that place had lost its crackle too.
I mean, this dudes car gets towed every year:
Every! Year!
Then again, when Hong Kong’s finest has this creature in their ranks:
A 35-year-old off-duty cop will be sentenced in July as he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl at a neighbor’s home under the guise of inspecting the gas pipes last Sep...
www.thestandard.com.hk
‘A 35-year-old off-duty cop will be sentenced in July as he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl at a neighbor’s home under the guise of inspecting the gas pipes last September.’
Cathay still getting a kicking from that lot in Beijing:
Flag carrier has become a regular target of government criticism as it struggles to recover from the COVID pandemic.
www.aljazeera.com
‘Cathay’s management fired 1,000 pilots in 2020 and saw a further 1,000 resign over the next couple of years, according to the HKAOA.
Many pilots who quit cited the stress of complying with Hong Kong’s ultra-strict quarantine rules, which forced the airline to operate “closed loop” flights, where crew were required to isolate for five weeks in a hotel followed by two weeks at home.
Cathay has said it has more than 2,900 pilots, including at its subsidiary budget carrier Hong Kong Express, but needs 3,400 to restore pre-pandemic capacity.
It has announced “robust plans” to hire another 500 pilots.
Some observers have said the government’s criticism is especially unfair given that its rigid restrictions caused many of Cathay’s difficulties in the first place.‘
Also:
‘Two weeks ago fourteen activists who pleaded guilty were convicted. Carol Ng, chair of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) has been jailed without bail for three years. A RadioLabour interview with the executive director of the Hong Kong Labor Rights Monitor, Christopher
Siu-tat Mung.’
A RadioLabour interview with the executive director of the Hong Kong Labor Rights Monitor, Christopher Siu-tat Mung.
rabble.ca
I guess if I can say anything that’s positive it’s that I generally saw normal Chinese Mainlanders there rather than the ones who used to walk about flaunting their obscene wealth by buying luxury goods. Young couples, families etc. And I did see Hong Kongers and Mainlanders getting along much better than I had ever saw previously.
Though this shit is still apalling:
£500 a month for a live-in slave. Shameful
RIP Jessiedog mate
Next time I’m there I’ll make a little memorial up in the hills somewhere, in your honour.
Woof
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