#FirstHand #May9
National Security Police in Hong Kong Intervenes Pro-democracy Group on #MothersDay
On May 9, 2021, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which is the organizer of the annual June Fourth vigil in Hong Kong, set up a street booth in Mongkok.
The day was Mother's Day. The group placed donation box for the Tiananmen Mothers and called on the public to commemorate the 1989 June 4th Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing.
Moments later, a large team of National Security Police arrived at the site and intervened.
#JuneFourth #NationalSecurityLaw #PoliceState
National Security Police in Hong Kong Intervenes Pro-democracy Group on #MothersDay
On May 9, 2021, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which is the organizer of the annual June Fourth vigil in Hong Kong, set up a street booth in Mongkok.
The day was Mother's Day. The group placed donation box for the Tiananmen Mothers and called on the public to commemorate the 1989 June 4th Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing.
Moments later, a large team of National Security Police arrived at the site and intervened.
#JuneFourth #NationalSecurityLaw #PoliceState
Huawei allegedly spies on Dutch telecom users including political figures, arose Dutch regulators investigation
Source: Stand News #Apr20
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Huawei allegedly spies on Dutch telecom users including political figures, arose Dutch regulators investigation
Netherland's media De Volkskrant obtained a confidential document alleges that Huawei had access to monitor the calls of users of KPN, the largest telecommunications network in the Netherlands, 10 years ago. The Guardian reported that the confidential report, made for KPN by the Capgemini consultancy firm in 2010, concluded that Huawei could have been monitoring the calls of approximately 6.5 million users without KPN’s knowledge, including politicians such as former prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Chinese dissidents. Both KPN and Huawei deny the allegations. The Dutch telecommunications regulator announced on Monday (19 April) that it will investigate the incident.
According to the report, Huawei staff in the Netherlands and China could have monitored calls made by Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, local dignitaries, and Chinese dissidents. "The continued existence of KPN Mobile is in serious danger because permits may be revoked or the government and businesses may give up their confidence in KPN if it becomes known that the Chinese government can eavesdrop on KPN mobile numbers and shut down the network", de Volkskrant quotes the report.
Source: Stand News #Apr20
https://bit.ly/3txBRmn
#Huawei #Netherlands #Telecommunication #Politics #Eavesdrop #Investment #TheGuardians #KPN
Netherland's media De Volkskrant obtained a confidential document alleges that Huawei had access to monitor the calls of users of KPN, the largest telecommunications network in the Netherlands, 10 years ago. The Guardian reported that the confidential report, made for KPN by the Capgemini consultancy firm in 2010, concluded that Huawei could have been monitoring the calls of approximately 6.5 million users without KPN’s knowledge, including politicians such as former prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Chinese dissidents. Both KPN and Huawei deny the allegations. The Dutch telecommunications regulator announced on Monday (19 April) that it will investigate the incident.
According to the report, Huawei staff in the Netherlands and China could have monitored calls made by Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, local dignitaries, and Chinese dissidents. "The continued existence of KPN Mobile is in serious danger because permits may be revoked or the government and businesses may give up their confidence in KPN if it becomes known that the Chinese government can eavesdrop on KPN mobile numbers and shut down the network", de Volkskrant quotes the report.
Source: Stand News #Apr20
https://bit.ly/3txBRmn
#Huawei #Netherlands #Telecommunication #Politics #Eavesdrop #Investment #TheGuardians #KPN
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Leaked Chinese document reveals a sinister plan to ‘unleash’ coronaviruses
A document written by Chinese scientists and Chinese public health officials in 2015 discussed the weaponisation of SARS coronavirus, reveals the Weekend Australian.
Titled The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Man-Made Viruses as Genetic Bioweapons, the paper predicted that World War Three would be fought with biological weapons.
Released five years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it describes SARS coronaviruses as a “new era of genetic weapons” that can be “artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponised and unleashed in a way never seen before”.
Source: NewsComAu #May08
https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/leaked-chinese-document-reveals-a-sinister-plan-to-unleash-coronaviruses/news-story/53674e8108ad5a655e07e990daa85465
#COVID19 #SARS #Unleash #Chinese #Weapon
A document written by Chinese scientists and Chinese public health officials in 2015 discussed the weaponisation of SARS coronavirus, reveals the Weekend Australian.
Titled The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Man-Made Viruses as Genetic Bioweapons, the paper predicted that World War Three would be fought with biological weapons.
Released five years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it describes SARS coronaviruses as a “new era of genetic weapons” that can be “artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponised and unleashed in a way never seen before”.
Source: NewsComAu #May08
https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/leaked-chinese-document-reveals-a-sinister-plan-to-unleash-coronaviruses/news-story/53674e8108ad5a655e07e990daa85465
#COVID19 #SARS #Unleash #Chinese #Weapon
One year on, Wuhan market at epicentre of virus outbreak remains barricaded and empty
For over six years, 38-year-old Wuhan restaurant owner Lai Yun started most days the same way - with a trip to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, just ten minutes walk from his house.
“I’d send the kids to school, have breakfast and then walk over to the market. It was very convenient,” he said.
That changed on Dec. 31, 2019, after four cases of a mystery pneumonia were linked to the market and it was shuttered overnight. By the end of the month, the city had begun a gruelling 76-day lockdown that came with just hours notice and barred people from leaving their homes.
Source: Reuters #Dec11
https://reut.rs/2W2miVt
#Wuhan #Virus #Outbreak #Lockdown
For over six years, 38-year-old Wuhan restaurant owner Lai Yun started most days the same way - with a trip to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, just ten minutes walk from his house.
“I’d send the kids to school, have breakfast and then walk over to the market. It was very convenient,” he said.
That changed on Dec. 31, 2019, after four cases of a mystery pneumonia were linked to the market and it was shuttered overnight. By the end of the month, the city had begun a gruelling 76-day lockdown that came with just hours notice and barred people from leaving their homes.
Source: Reuters #Dec11
https://reut.rs/2W2miVt
#Wuhan #Virus #Outbreak #Lockdown
#Court #Hongkonger
23-year-old female pro-democracy student sentenced to 38 months behind bars: "This is the path I must take, a responsibility I must bear"
Source: Apple Daily; Stand News #April30
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23-year-old female pro-democracy student sentenced to 38 months behind bars: "This is the path I must take, a responsibility I must bear"
Source: Apple Daily; Stand News #April30
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23-year-old female pro-democracy student sentenced to 38 months behind bars: "This is the path I must take, a responsibility I must bear"
In Hong Kong, 23-year-old female student Yeung Wing-yu recently admitted to possessing more than 100 molotov cocktails during the Anti-Extradition Law movement in 2019. She was sentenced to three years and two months in prison on April 30, 2021.
In her hand-written petition letter to the court, she mentioned that the more she sought knowledge, the more she felt that society was full of injustice and in the end, she committed the crime in this case.
She also said, "the greatest loss to our current society, is the loss of trust". She wrote that she is filled with guilt for worrying her family during her time in custody. She also said that she would not ask the court for a lighter sentence, since it is understood that a long prison sentence was inevitable and "this is the path I must take, a responsibility I must bear".
The letter concludes with a message of encouragement to all those who walked on the same path, "There are already enough people in confinement, so please take care, protect yourself and do your best to survive! I'll be waiting to receive all your letters inside."
Source: Apple Daily; Stand News #April30
https://bit.ly/3vwA7eg
https://bit.ly/3aR5kks
#Sentence #PetrolBomb #Path #Petition #NeverForget
23-year-old female pro-democracy student sentenced to 38 months behind bars: "This is the path I must take, a responsibility I must bear"
In Hong Kong, 23-year-old female student Yeung Wing-yu recently admitted to possessing more than 100 molotov cocktails during the Anti-Extradition Law movement in 2019. She was sentenced to three years and two months in prison on April 30, 2021.
In her hand-written petition letter to the court, she mentioned that the more she sought knowledge, the more she felt that society was full of injustice and in the end, she committed the crime in this case.
She also said, "the greatest loss to our current society, is the loss of trust". She wrote that she is filled with guilt for worrying her family during her time in custody. She also said that she would not ask the court for a lighter sentence, since it is understood that a long prison sentence was inevitable and "this is the path I must take, a responsibility I must bear".
The letter concludes with a message of encouragement to all those who walked on the same path, "There are already enough people in confinement, so please take care, protect yourself and do your best to survive! I'll be waiting to receive all your letters inside."
Source: Apple Daily; Stand News #April30
https://bit.ly/3vwA7eg
https://bit.ly/3aR5kks
#Sentence #PetrolBomb #Path #Petition #NeverForget
#NeverGiveUp #Court
HK Journalist #BaoChoy to #Appeal: "I will regret for a lifetime if I give up pursuing justice"
On May 5, 2021, former #RTHK producer and award-winning journalist Bao Choy announced that she would appeal against her conviction. The Hong Kong court has previously ruled her guilty of giving "false declarations" in connection with a car plate license search she made for a news documentary on the 2019 Yuen Long gang attack.
"I will regret for a lifetime if I give up pursuing justice. I won't be able to sleep at night," Choy wrote. "As a media worker, reporting facts and speaking the truth have always been my mission. As my city is falling apart, I expect myself to live in reality, with sincerity, honesty and integrity."
Source: RTHK; Stand News #May05
https://bit.ly/3eT1NUb
#Journalism #Injustice #PoliticalProsecution #Censorship #WhiteTerror
#YuenLong721
HK Journalist #BaoChoy to #Appeal: "I will regret for a lifetime if I give up pursuing justice"
On May 5, 2021, former #RTHK producer and award-winning journalist Bao Choy announced that she would appeal against her conviction. The Hong Kong court has previously ruled her guilty of giving "false declarations" in connection with a car plate license search she made for a news documentary on the 2019 Yuen Long gang attack.
"I will regret for a lifetime if I give up pursuing justice. I won't be able to sleep at night," Choy wrote. "As a media worker, reporting facts and speaking the truth have always been my mission. As my city is falling apart, I expect myself to live in reality, with sincerity, honesty and integrity."
Source: RTHK; Stand News #May05
https://bit.ly/3eT1NUb
#Journalism #Injustice #PoliticalProsecution #Censorship #WhiteTerror
#YuenLong721
According to reports, the Australian Ministry of Financial has rejected the Chinese state-owned enterprise China State Construction Company’s acquisition of an Australian construction company in response to national security risks
Source: Stand News #Jan12
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According to reports, the Australian Ministry of Financial has rejected the Chinese state-owned enterprise China State Construction Company’s acquisition of an Australian construction company in response to national security risks
China state-owned enterprise China State Construction Group planned to acquisition Australian Construction Company Probuild up to 300 million USD, which is 23.4 million HKD. However, Australian Finance Minister Josh Frydenberg and Foreign Investment Review Committee believed that the trade may constitute risks of national security in Australia. This is not in the interests of Australia, the Australian Federal Government will veto the transaction, and China State Construction will eventually cancel the acquisition.
According to ABC, South African parent company of Probuild Wilson Bayly Holmes-Ovcon (WBHO) confirmed to the local media, China State Construction already cancel acquisition. The reason is Frydenberg, and Foreign Investment Review Committee thought that the trade is harmful to national security, so that Australian Government rejected the trade. WBHO also stated, they already communication with potential acquirer in very long time, both had reached consensus, but the transaction fell through.
Australian Financial Department had not response to report and indicated to not commenting on foreign investment review arrangements. Australian Acting Prime Minister McCormack confirmed that China Construction withdraw the acquisition but said it could not disclose the reason for the rejection of foreign investment review.
Source: Stand News #Jan12
https://bit.ly/33sXZU9
#Australia #NationalSecurity #China #Construction #Finance #Risk #Probuild #WBHO
China state-owned enterprise China State Construction Group planned to acquisition Australian Construction Company Probuild up to 300 million USD, which is 23.4 million HKD. However, Australian Finance Minister Josh Frydenberg and Foreign Investment Review Committee believed that the trade may constitute risks of national security in Australia. This is not in the interests of Australia, the Australian Federal Government will veto the transaction, and China State Construction will eventually cancel the acquisition.
According to ABC, South African parent company of Probuild Wilson Bayly Holmes-Ovcon (WBHO) confirmed to the local media, China State Construction already cancel acquisition. The reason is Frydenberg, and Foreign Investment Review Committee thought that the trade is harmful to national security, so that Australian Government rejected the trade. WBHO also stated, they already communication with potential acquirer in very long time, both had reached consensus, but the transaction fell through.
Australian Financial Department had not response to report and indicated to not commenting on foreign investment review arrangements. Australian Acting Prime Minister McCormack confirmed that China Construction withdraw the acquisition but said it could not disclose the reason for the rejection of foreign investment review.
Source: Stand News #Jan12
https://bit.ly/33sXZU9
#Australia #NationalSecurity #China #Construction #Finance #Risk #Probuild #WBHO
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China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory
In October 2015, China announced that a new village, called Gyalaphug in Tibetan or Jieluobu in Chinese, had been established in the south of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). In April 2020, the Communist Party secretary of the TAR, Wu Yingjie, traveled across two passes, both more than 14,000 feet high, on his way to visit the new village. There he told the residents—all of them Tibetans—to “put down roots like Kalsang flowers in the borderland of snows” and to “raise the bright five-star red flag high.” Film of the visit was broadcast on local TV channels and plastered on the front pages of Tibetan newspapers. It was not reported outside China: Hundreds of new villages are being built in Tibet, and this one seemed no different.
Source: Foreignpolicy #May07
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/07/china-bhutan-border-villages-security-forces/
#China #Villages #Country #Territory
In October 2015, China announced that a new village, called Gyalaphug in Tibetan or Jieluobu in Chinese, had been established in the south of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). In April 2020, the Communist Party secretary of the TAR, Wu Yingjie, traveled across two passes, both more than 14,000 feet high, on his way to visit the new village. There he told the residents—all of them Tibetans—to “put down roots like Kalsang flowers in the borderland of snows” and to “raise the bright five-star red flag high.” Film of the visit was broadcast on local TV channels and plastered on the front pages of Tibetan newspapers. It was not reported outside China: Hundreds of new villages are being built in Tibet, and this one seemed no different.
Source: Foreignpolicy #May07
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/07/china-bhutan-border-villages-security-forces/
#China #Villages #Country #Territory
Columbia Failed to Disclose $1 Million in CCP Funding
Columbia University failed to disclose at least $1 million in Chinese government funding that went toward hosting a Confucius Institute, which the State Department has described as a part of Beijing's propaganda effort targeting U.S. students.
The New York-based university is the only Ivy League institution to host a Confucius Institute, a controversial Chinese government-funded program that at its height operated in more than 100 U.S. colleges. Hanban, the Beijing-controlled entity that manages the Confucius Institute, pledged at least $1 million in donations to Columbia University, according to a Chinese state media report. Department of Education records show that Columbia never disclosed any such donations to the federal government.
Source: Washington Free Beacon #Dec07
https://freebeacon.com/campus/columbia-failed-to-disclose-1-million-in-ccp-funding/
#ColumbiaUniversity #Funding #Chinese #Confucius #Beijing
Columbia University failed to disclose at least $1 million in Chinese government funding that went toward hosting a Confucius Institute, which the State Department has described as a part of Beijing's propaganda effort targeting U.S. students.
The New York-based university is the only Ivy League institution to host a Confucius Institute, a controversial Chinese government-funded program that at its height operated in more than 100 U.S. colleges. Hanban, the Beijing-controlled entity that manages the Confucius Institute, pledged at least $1 million in donations to Columbia University, according to a Chinese state media report. Department of Education records show that Columbia never disclosed any such donations to the federal government.
Source: Washington Free Beacon #Dec07
https://freebeacon.com/campus/columbia-failed-to-disclose-1-million-in-ccp-funding/
#ColumbiaUniversity #Funding #Chinese #Confucius #Beijing
#NeverGiveUp
Hong Kong Pro-democracy Activist #GwynethHo: Don’t let “suffering” retaliate the movement
The following is an excerpt of a #letter written by former journalist and currently detained activist Gwyneth Ho:
"It is human nature to be afraid of prison, but we should not think of imprisonment as a form of suffering imposed by the government to activists, where activists’ freedom is being completely restricted in a passive state.
If we interpret 'suffering' as a passive state, the 'sufferers' will become the 'victims'.
We should not see the experience of suffering as failure or an end to the movement. Otherwise, it will retaliate and wear us down. I hope everyone keeps in mind that the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 go hand in hand and cannot be considered individually. To suffer or the acknowledgement of the risk of suffering has always been a part of the political movement. As long as the state of 'suffering' is not over, our movement goes on."
Source: Stand News #May3
https://bit.ly/3gUCjIt
Hong Kong Pro-democracy Activist #GwynethHo: Don’t let “suffering” retaliate the movement
The following is an excerpt of a #letter written by former journalist and currently detained activist Gwyneth Ho:
"It is human nature to be afraid of prison, but we should not think of imprisonment as a form of suffering imposed by the government to activists, where activists’ freedom is being completely restricted in a passive state.
If we interpret 'suffering' as a passive state, the 'sufferers' will become the 'victims'.
We should not see the experience of suffering as failure or an end to the movement. Otherwise, it will retaliate and wear us down. I hope everyone keeps in mind that the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 go hand in hand and cannot be considered individually. To suffer or the acknowledgement of the risk of suffering has always been a part of the political movement. As long as the state of 'suffering' is not over, our movement goes on."
Source: Stand News #May3
https://bit.ly/3gUCjIt
#PoliticalSuppression #Censorship
More Hong Kong Teachers Resign, as #WhiteTerror Sweeps Campuses
Source: Apple Daily #May7
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More Hong Kong Teachers Resign, as #WhiteTerror Sweeps Campuses
Source: Apple Daily #May7
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#PoliticalSuppression #Censorship
More Hong Kong Teachers Resign, as #WhiteTerror Sweeps Campuses
A wave of resignation is sweeping the Education sector in Hong Kong.
Apple Daily got in touch with one of these resigning teachers in the city. Ms Chan, a veteran secondary school teacher for over 10 years, said there was an atmosphere of terror in schools.
“We have been more cautious in our talk. We even stopped using social media all together. I genuinely believed there was freedom of speech. But in fact, there really are cases of warning due to online comments we've made.”
She revealed she won’t use current affairs as examples. “After all I don’t know what students think. I can be teaching about length, when I talked of the differences between miles and kilometres. But if I said 10 miles and 10 km are different*, would someone think I am mocking the police?”
*Editor's Note: On September 23, 2019, a police officer in Hong Kong ordered journalists to stand “10 miles” away, when he actually meant 10 metres.
Source: Apple Daily #May9
https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20210509/6QPJX7CLH5C6ZBZU5K5UCLQZ5E/
#PoliceState #Education #HongKongTeachers #HongKongStudents #RedLine
More Hong Kong Teachers Resign, as #WhiteTerror Sweeps Campuses
A wave of resignation is sweeping the Education sector in Hong Kong.
Apple Daily got in touch with one of these resigning teachers in the city. Ms Chan, a veteran secondary school teacher for over 10 years, said there was an atmosphere of terror in schools.
“We have been more cautious in our talk. We even stopped using social media all together. I genuinely believed there was freedom of speech. But in fact, there really are cases of warning due to online comments we've made.”
She revealed she won’t use current affairs as examples. “After all I don’t know what students think. I can be teaching about length, when I talked of the differences between miles and kilometres. But if I said 10 miles and 10 km are different*, would someone think I am mocking the police?”
*Editor's Note: On September 23, 2019, a police officer in Hong Kong ordered journalists to stand “10 miles” away, when he actually meant 10 metres.
Source: Apple Daily #May9
https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20210509/6QPJX7CLH5C6ZBZU5K5UCLQZ5E/
#PoliceState #Education #HongKongTeachers #HongKongStudents #RedLine
#FailedState
#FoodPoisoning in #Quarantine Centre Due to Poor Hygiene
Source: Stand News #May10
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#FoodPoisoning in #Quarantine Centre Due to Poor Hygiene
Source: Stand News #May10
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