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Irascible Police Treats Civilians Impolitely

2307 | Kowloon Bay
An irascible officer shouted at journalists, saying "stop pretending to be journalists behind them!" However, no one seemed to care and persisted with their work.

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Two Tales of a Community: District Councilor's First-hand Stories From His Constituency

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Two Tales of a Community: District Councilor's First-hand Stories From His Constituency

On the rally, a Shatin District Councilor shared 2 stories surrounding the Chun Yeung Estate.

The first is a family of three, a single mother with 2 children, one of whom had ADHD. They had lived in a ramshackle subdivided flat for about 8 years, and finally found their way into the public rental housing. “Then they knew about Chun Yeung Estate,” the councilor said, incandescent with rage. “Why should the government make its citizens pay more for her own policy failures? How irresponsible!”

Another story is from a worker in the catering industry. “Tens of thousands of people work in the areas surrounding Chun Yeung Estate, many of which were either from the logistics industry or the food management industry,” the counselor explained. “He was extremely concerned that if any waste from the quarantine center were not treated properly, it would pollute nearby sewage treatment and even water sources, affecting the Food management factories nearby, with disastrous results to all of Hong Kong.”

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#Borders #FailedState
Growth in Passenger Traffic From China to Hong Kong Despite Coronavirus Outbreak: 65% Increase in the In-flow of Non-Hong Kong Residents

While Hong Kong-China borders remain open, passenger traffic has increased despite that compulsory quarantine measures were imposed on February 8. This disproves Carrie Lam's claim made on Feb 14 that about the decrease in the cross-border inflow of people into Hong Kong.

In fact, apart from the first two days after the quarantine measure was in effect, passenger traffic at the Shenzhen Bay port has continued to increase.

As of Feb 14, the quarantine centers have been occupied by 67%.

Source: Stand News #Feb15
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Kwai Tsing Residents Suggest Alternative Location for Quarantine Facility

On Sunday, February 16, over 400 Kwai Tsing residents joined the march initiated by the pro-democracy district councilors.

They proposed alternative locations that are further away from residential area such as Kwai Chung Park, vacant government dormintory and Disneyland, for the government to set up quarantine facilities.

The residents opposed the government's current plan to set up designated clinic for the highly contagious Wuhan pneumomia within the 100,000-populated district and near other health facilities for infants, mothers and thr elderly.

Since the authorities had been ignoring citizens' demands, the residents, old and young, had no other way but to take it to the street. They still hoped the government would listen, as alternatives were available.

Source: Stand News #Feb16
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Police Obstruct Lawful Protest from Taking Place On Time, Police Ask Reporter: "Do you guys get paid?”

In Fo Tan, residents protested against the government's use of Chun Yeung Estate as Isolation Centre on Sunday, February 16.

Having obained the letter of no objection from the police, the rally originally scheduled at 3pm was, however, delayed till 5pm due to police opposition.

Special Crowd Management vehicles and Unimog Vehicles were on site standing by, while the police set up road blocks at Fo Tan to search passing vehicles. Starting from 3pm, there had been stop- and- search operations in multiple areas in Fo Tan, during which two reporters were searched and were asked by policemen, “Does the Stand News sell newspaper?”, “Do you guys get paid?”, “Do you guys need to standby at all
times?”

Source: Stand News #Feb16

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#SelfHelp #GovernanceCrisis
Free Face Masks Distributed by the Nepali Youth Campaigner in Yuen Long, Hong Kong to elderly and people in need.

Photo: Internet #Feb17
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#Poll #CoronavirusCrisis
Public Opinion Poll: Coronavirus Pandemic is halting pro-democracy protests temporarily, but no add-on support goes to the government

The data was collected by Prof. Francis Lee and his team. This supplementaey analysis was presented by Dr. Leung Kai-chi, a lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

1. The “rally round the flag effect” is a concept used in political science to explain increased short-run popular support of the government during periods of crisis or war.

While Hong Kong citizens have been combating the epidemic in solidarity on the community level, it has not benefited the government in terms of public confidence and support.

2. Although the proportion of “Zero trust in Police” has fallen below 50%, at 46%, it still marks a huge difference compared to 7% before the 2019 Anti-extradition law movement. There is no sign of reversing public confidence in this regard.

3. Survey findings showed that many elderlies gave full mark to “trust in police”. Yet, it is worth-noting that among all those who gave full marks, only 32% are 70-years-old or above and this segment accounted merely 13% of all respondents.

4. No respondent in the age group 15-19 gave full mark to “trust in police”.

5. The education level of many respondents who gave full mark to “trust in police” are primary school or lower. The rate is significantly higher among all respondents.

6. The receding in protest activities currently, is temporary and an outcome of epidemic outbreak. Large-scale protest activities are likely to resume once when the outbreak is eased.

Source: Stand News

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