In 2022, an old Honda was found wrapped around a lamppost in Hong Kong, with a young man behind the wheel. Little was known about him or what led to the crash.

Days later, I got a pitch. A journalist had been following the driver for a year before he died. This is the story The driver Tony was a regular in Hong Kong's street racing scene. He and his buddies met online and frequently raced on the city's mountain roads. It's an age-old sport, but some racers told us they took delight in doing it as a fuck-you to police after the 2019 protest crackdown

Do you ever get text messages meant for someone else? Maybe sth like "Are you Linda from the pet store?" And because you're nice, you reply and say they got the wrong number.

Cindy Tsai, a lawyer, did just that. By the end of it all, she would lose about $2.5 million. This is not just any phone scam, and the scammers aren't the villains you may think they are. We followed the thread and found massive scam centers in Southeast Asia that use forced labor and trafficking victims to carry out fraud of breathtaking scale and sophistication.

China has promised to put all coronavirus patients in quarantine centers. And then what? A food delivery worker told us that he sent his father to such a site. A few days later, the older man stopped picking up his calls. It was one of several makeshift facilities that have sprung up in Wuhan to house the growing number of coronavirus patients. Peng Bangze's dad went to one such place, called Sunny Sky Inn.

It takes a lot to break into something like Hong Kong's legislative building, but it took precisely one British Hong Kong flag to turn a symbol of colonial rule into an image defining the break-in. But what exactly does the flag mean? A short FAQ:

Photo: Winson Wong/@SCMPNews 1. "Do many protesters want Hong Kong to return to British rule?"

No. There are a handful of people who want to "make Hong Kong Great Britain again," but they are so marginal that few take them seriously.

And waving the flag doesn't mean you desire British rule either.

I’m in Central, Hong Kong, near the site of the recent protests against the China extradition bill. I want to show you a few things that might give us hints about where the protests are coming from. Follow this thread for a quick walking tour! Let’s start from perhaps Hong Kong’s most famous building, the Bank of China tower. It's designed by the late Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei.

I was researching a story about Hong Kong and found this great graphic by @adolfux from 2014, when people were occupying roads to demand freer elections. The protester may look familiar at first. But there's something off about his look if you compare him to protesters today. The umbrella part about him is the same today, but a few other things aren't, and the differences are revealing. Let's start from his head.

Most protesters we saw on Wednesday outside the government HQ, the same main site of the 2014 and 2019 protests, did not show their faces.

How do you organize a massive occupation and keep it all together? Look no further than Hong Kong. Here’s a quick look the logistics of the #HongKongProtests on Wednesday.

Photo: SCMP/Martin Chan “How do they rest, eat, or go to the bathroom? How do they get the information about where to go and what to wear?” (an @InkstoneNews reader asked)

Another massive demonstration is taking place right now outside Hong Kong's government HQ, blocking traffic as protesters did in the 2014 Umbrella Revolution where protesters called for freer elections. Here's (probably more than) what you need to know about the protests: Let's start with the bill at the center of the protests this week. Hundreds of thousands of people marched on Sunday to protest a bill that will change Hong Kong's laws to make two things possible.