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@laurelchor
Jul 21, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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I was just on my way to grab lunch when I saw officers wearing helmets and shields enter the luxury Landmark mall. They rounded up a handful of boys who had been staging a small lunchtime protest inside. #HongKongProtests Image
Multiple police vans and a couple dozen cops to deal with 4 boys inside a mall. ImageImage
Again, they’re quite young. One of them is a dedicated lunchtime protest leader. It appears as though the plainclothes cops were the ones charged with grabbing them and taking their info down. ImageImage
A French lady was trying to get past the police cordon. I overheard her say on the phone: “There are 2 little kids and 50 police officers”
They’ve blocked off the Mandarin Oriental entrance to the Landmark atrium, right by Christian Dior. Image
They are taking down the info of the last of the four boys. Image
They’ve released the four boys and have left the mall. I guess I’ll go eat my stupid tacos now... 😔
I’ve left but one came back and has been joined by another. They are signing Glory to HK and holding up blank sheets of paper. Image

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Jan 18, 2022
Reporting live from the scene where the doomed, allegedly potentially Covid-infected hamsters live: 3 AFCD vans with staff in full hazmat, police officers (including plainclothes ones), police cordons, and camera crews.
The police have blocked off the hazard area and are telling people to cross the road and use the opposite sidewalk
Correction: 2 police vans, 2 AFCD vans (for 2,000 hamsters, though it’s unclear how many are in the shop)
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Jan 18, 2022
Updating my CV properly for the 1st time since 2006 & I've been thinking a lot about how grateful I am to have cut my teeth as a journalist @CoconutsHK, where I had (almost) free reign to be sassy & salty AF, esp when covering the Umbrella Movement. eg: coconuts.co/hongkong/news/…
It makes me so sad to think that future (and current) young journalists in Hong Kong won't get the chance to grow in an environment where they don't have to worry about whether their words will land them in jail. The loss of potential is beyond measure and unimaginably tragic.
I also had a momentary brain fart where I tried to click on a link in my CV to an old Apple Daily story that featured my little environmental project, which aimed to get people exploring HK's outdoors. The realization when I got an error page hit me like a punch to the gut.
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Jan 17, 2022
I’m actually struggling to come up with an analogy to explain to those unfamiliar with Chinese culture just how offensive this is. I’m almost laughing at the thought of how my late grandma would react to this… I used to spend hours folding joss paper with her for offerings.
This isn’t nearly as bad in comparison but it reminds me of the time I ordered pad thai in Paris (it was late and I was desperate for Asian food ok) and this is how it showed up.
I-
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Jul 1, 2021
Quite the turnout for the rally for Uighurs/Tibet/Hong Kong outside the Chinese Embassy in London for the 100th anniversary of the CCP and the 24th anniversary of the HK Handover. It’s a sharp contrast from the somber day that Hong Kong had.
There’s a man in all yellow and he’s begun leading the HKers to another rally in Chinatown.
Rally starts in half an hour and these are all the people leaving the Chinese embassy protest to head to the next rally.
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Jun 9, 2021
I pay attention to trolls bc I’m a masochist but also bc they often represent not uncommon views. This guy who comments on my IG blames protesters for the CCP tightening its grip on Hong Kong *but not the CCP itself*. Image
It’s a hypercynical, hyperpractical belief in the inevitability and inescapability of the CCP’s continued authoritarian rule. They think that HK was doing just fine & that ungrateful protesters who were otherwise enjoying a “decent” quality of life “forced” the CCP to crack down.
It’s a fairly common view amongst older generations & in mainland China: keep your head down, work hard, & accept trade offs on the human rights & democracy fronts in exchange for a stable life and some upward mobility: if no one had complained, things would have stayed the same.
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Oct 1, 2020
Sidewalk march happening on Yee Wo St in Causeway Bay despite heavy police presence. #hongkongprotests
And as quickly as it appeared it has dissipated. Some remain standing by bus stops holding up Apple Daily pages in protest. As has been the case for many protests this year, it’s hard to distinguish between shoppers, bystanders and protesters until they begin chanting.
Just saw two young women walk past at group of police. One exclaimed “Eek! It’s dangerous to be next to all these Ah Sirs!”
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