🇺🇦Hong Kong World City☔️

In January, Hong Kong jailed a designer for 9 months for carrying 3 spanners near a protest site.

All in the noble cause of protecting the rent-seeking owners of taxi licences. The last time any red or green taxi licences were issued was 1994. For more see: webb-site.com/articles/roadc…

Hong Kong’s year of protest now feels like a mirage. “Among the Braves” follows four pro-democracy activists, none of whom find a happy ending: econ.st/49lQ3Vn 👇

Manilla exit BRI: "In a major development with geopolitical implications, the Philippine Department of Transportation has announced the full termination of a series of big-ticket infrastructure projects with China in favor of Japanese and Western rivals." asiatimes.com/2023/11/why-th…

Breaking: At 30-Sep-2023, the number and percentage of people on remand in HK jails, unconvicted and presumed innocent, reached new highs of 3,304 and 37.21%, or 38.34% excluding immigration detainees. webb-site.com/dbpub/jail.asp

1/ @Guardian analysis of satellite imagery of the northern #Gaza Strip in the aftermath of heavy bombardments has identified more than 1,000 craters visible from space within approximately 10 square kilometres. theguardian.com/world/2023/nov… #freepalestine

1/ 🇪🇹 YES there's Ethiopian food in #HongKong - every Friday at TST's Africa Centre private kitchen. africacenterhk.com/ethiopian-erit…

It me. As a ginger. Emerging from the AC in Autumn, after six months cowering from Hong Kong's savage sun.

@tomgrundy I laughed out loud. 🤣

Interesting numbers on an expected yet sad trend in Hong Kong: locals moving out, mainland Chinese moving in. news.yahoo.com/beijings-crack…

China’s Confucius Institutes are disappearing from US campuses #Echobox=1698955933-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">scmp.com/news/world/uni…

Over half of Hong Kong professionals considering leaving the city within 5 years, survey finds 🔗 hongkongfp.com/2023/10/04/ove…

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@thumbelulu @deteem This looks putrid. 🤮

@RTHK_HK lol

Wong Tai Sin Station — the aftermath of last night’s black rainstorm. Here are the unsung heroes who toiled away in the submerged subway to remove debris and silt, and help expedite the return of Hong Kong’s railway service.

This comes one week after the Hong Kong government issued a notice about "fake news" that Shenzhen would discharge water during Typhoon Saola. At the time they "condemned the people who issued the fake news". Hong Kong was given 16 minutes notice about the current discharge.

China’s exports fell by 8.8% in August year-on-year, while imports contracted 7.3%, customs data showed on Thursday, increasing pressure on the country’s vast manufacturing sector as demand sags at home and abroad cnn.it/3sP9LZa