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District Councilors Host Media Reception in Chair's Office, Only to be Banned by Home Affairs Department
The Kwai Tsing District Council is set to convene a meeting on 12 May, during which the pro-Democracy camp will pass a declaration expressing strong condemnation towards the cutting of the district council's budget by the Home Affairs Department.
Vice chair of the Kwai Tsing District Council Cheung Man Lung stated that chair Sin Chung-kai had received a note on Wednesday (#May6) from the district officer stating that Sin could not host the media reception in his office, further adding that he would report to the police if there were a gathering of more than four people, violating the social distancing ban.
Kenneth Cheng, district officer of the Kwai Tsing district suggested that the chair's office could be used for the media reception since it is considered a political declaration. The pro-democracy camp then changed the location of the media reception from the Kwai Hing Government Offices to councilor Ng Kim Sing's office, located in Kwai Fong Estate.
Police officers from the Kwai Tsing Police Public Relations Branch entered the chair's office on Thursday morning (#May7) to "understand the situation". Home Affairs Department employees also ripped away press notices posted by pro-democracy councilors, claiming that the information stated on the notices was not accurate. Cheung stated that the Home Affairs Department would only try harder to suppress the district council, and criticized the actions as idiotic and ridiculous.
Source: Inmedia #May7
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District Councilors Host Media Reception in Chair's Office, Only to be Banned by Home Affairs Department
The Kwai Tsing District Council is set to convene a meeting on 12 May, during which the pro-Democracy camp will pass a declaration expressing strong condemnation towards the cutting of the district council's budget by the Home Affairs Department.
Vice chair of the Kwai Tsing District Council Cheung Man Lung stated that chair Sin Chung-kai had received a note on Wednesday (#May6) from the district officer stating that Sin could not host the media reception in his office, further adding that he would report to the police if there were a gathering of more than four people, violating the social distancing ban.
Kenneth Cheng, district officer of the Kwai Tsing district suggested that the chair's office could be used for the media reception since it is considered a political declaration. The pro-democracy camp then changed the location of the media reception from the Kwai Hing Government Offices to councilor Ng Kim Sing's office, located in Kwai Fong Estate.
Police officers from the Kwai Tsing Police Public Relations Branch entered the chair's office on Thursday morning (#May7) to "understand the situation". Home Affairs Department employees also ripped away press notices posted by pro-democracy councilors, claiming that the information stated on the notices was not accurate. Cheung stated that the Home Affairs Department would only try harder to suppress the district council, and criticized the actions as idiotic and ridiculous.
Source: Inmedia #May7
#KwaiTsing #GovernmentSuppresion
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Government Reprsentative Refuses to Provide Secretary Support in District Council, Due to Difference of Terms
The Kowloon City District Council had a meeting on May 7. Pro-democracy councillors were dissatisfied with the Home Affairs Department's refusal to support the election of the chairman of the "Police Monitor Committee" with secretary service.
The government representative to the Kowloon City District Franco Wai-fan Kwok insisted that the district-based police monitoring council is not within the scope of the District Council's functions. He said that District Office could not include the discussion in the meeting records, even with objection.
When the pro-democracy and the pro-establishment factions debated, some government officials including Lam Ming-wai, the director of environment and hygiene in the Kowloon City District, snickered.
Source: In Media #May7
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Government Reprsentative Refuses to Provide Secretary Support in District Council, Due to Difference of Terms
The Kowloon City District Council had a meeting on May 7. Pro-democracy councillors were dissatisfied with the Home Affairs Department's refusal to support the election of the chairman of the "Police Monitor Committee" with secretary service.
The government representative to the Kowloon City District Franco Wai-fan Kwok insisted that the district-based police monitoring council is not within the scope of the District Council's functions. He said that District Office could not include the discussion in the meeting records, even with objection.
When the pro-democracy and the pro-establishment factions debated, some government officials including Lam Ming-wai, the director of environment and hygiene in the Kowloon City District, snickered.
Source: In Media #May7
#HomeAffairsDepartment
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"This is a Hong Kong I'm not familiar with": #Chickeeduck Owner Recounts Police Raid on Newly-Opened Branch
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"This is a Hong Kong I'm not familiar with": #Chickeeduck Owner Recounts Police Raid on Newly-Opened Branch
After national security police raided #Chickeeduck 's new Tsuen Wan branch on May 6, 2021, store owner #HerbertChow recounted the ordeal in English to reporters at the store.
About 30 officers entered the premises with a search warrant, he said, claiming that the store may have products that violated the National Security Law.
Although the police only searched for products, all store staff were detained and not allowed to leave, even at Chow's request.
Many customers left the store when the police began surrounding and cordoning off the shop, and police took down the ID card numbers of the customers before letting them go.
Chow and four other employees remained in the store as the policemen conducted their search for about an hour, opening bags and carton boxes. The police found nothing. However, one senior officer told Chow that although the police were not confiscating any evidence, the investigation was not finished.
He gave Chow a verbal warning: "In the future, if you violate the National Security Law, we will prosecute you."
When Chow asked him whether he had violated any law, the officer only answered, "We have no responsibility to answer your question." "I just want to know whether I can continue business," Chow said.
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Since the police did not remove any questionable items, he reasoned, everything in the store could be assumed to be legal, and the store could continue to open for business. "So have I violated any law?" Chow asked, "Should I continue, or should I take away some stuff?" The officer only said again that they were not obliged to answer.
"So this is Hong Kong," said a flabbergasted Chow. "The national security department is so powerful, they can come in, interrupt your business for one hour, take your customers' ID card numbers, and they don't have to explain.“
"This is a Hong Kong I'm not familiar with. I've been living here for 57 years; this is the first time I've experienced this."
Chow is resolute in continuing his business despite the harassment, though his view of the police force is quickly dimming.
"I used to tell youngsters that there are good people in the police force. I'm changing [my stance]."
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"This is a Hong Kong I'm not familiar with": #Chickeeduck Owner Recounts Police Raid on Newly-Opened Branch
After national security police raided #Chickeeduck 's new Tsuen Wan branch on May 6, 2021, store owner #HerbertChow recounted the ordeal in English to reporters at the store.
About 30 officers entered the premises with a search warrant, he said, claiming that the store may have products that violated the National Security Law.
Although the police only searched for products, all store staff were detained and not allowed to leave, even at Chow's request.
Many customers left the store when the police began surrounding and cordoning off the shop, and police took down the ID card numbers of the customers before letting them go.
Chow and four other employees remained in the store as the policemen conducted their search for about an hour, opening bags and carton boxes. The police found nothing. However, one senior officer told Chow that although the police were not confiscating any evidence, the investigation was not finished.
He gave Chow a verbal warning: "In the future, if you violate the National Security Law, we will prosecute you."
When Chow asked him whether he had violated any law, the officer only answered, "We have no responsibility to answer your question." "I just want to know whether I can continue business," Chow said.
Watch video:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/29618
Since the police did not remove any questionable items, he reasoned, everything in the store could be assumed to be legal, and the store could continue to open for business. "So have I violated any law?" Chow asked, "Should I continue, or should I take away some stuff?" The officer only said again that they were not obliged to answer.
"So this is Hong Kong," said a flabbergasted Chow. "The national security department is so powerful, they can come in, interrupt your business for one hour, take your customers' ID card numbers, and they don't have to explain.“
"This is a Hong Kong I'm not familiar with. I've been living here for 57 years; this is the first time I've experienced this."
Chow is resolute in continuing his business despite the harassment, though his view of the police force is quickly dimming.
"I used to tell youngsters that there are good people in the police force. I'm changing [my stance]."
#YellowEconomy #PoliticalSuppression #NationalSecurityLaw
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More Hong Kong Teachers Resign, as #WhiteTerror Sweeps Campuses
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More Hong Kong Teachers Resign, as #WhiteTerror Sweeps Campuses
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Watching You: Face-Recognition Forcibly Installed in Housing Estates in Hong Kong
It is found that some security contractors of a Hong Kong’s housing estate have forcibly added face recognition technology to their security systems, causing great discontent among residents.
For instance, the installations in Fullview Garden in Siu Sai Wan are provided by #Hikivision, a state-owned Chinese enterprise which has high-resolution cameras with up to a 99% accuracy for recognition.
Source: Unwire HK #May7
https://unwire.hk/2021/05/07/cnsordoor/fun-tech/
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Watching You: Face-Recognition Forcibly Installed in Housing Estates in Hong Kong
It is found that some security contractors of a Hong Kong’s housing estate have forcibly added face recognition technology to their security systems, causing great discontent among residents.
For instance, the installations in Fullview Garden in Siu Sai Wan are provided by #Hikivision, a state-owned Chinese enterprise which has high-resolution cameras with up to a 99% accuracy for recognition.
Source: Unwire HK #May7
https://unwire.hk/2021/05/07/cnsordoor/fun-tech/
#MassSurveillance #BigBrother #FacialRecognition
#ChineseEnterprise
#HumanitarianCrisis
Former Turkish PM joins Netizens in Condemning China for Suppressing the #Ugyhurs
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between #Turkey and the #PRC, the #ChineseEmbassy in Turkey co-organised a drawing competition with the Ministry of National Education, Turkey for Turkish youth, titled “China in My Dreams.”
Taking note of the event, many netizens uploaded pictures of Uyghur genocide with the hashtag #hayalimdekiçin (“China in My Dreams”), among which even include former Prime Minister #AhmetDavutoğlu.
These works include blue-shirted men sitting under the iron curtains of #Xinjiang concentration camps; a #Uyghur little girl silenced by men covered in a Five-starred red flag and a bloodied East Turkestan flag; a lonely boy crying on #EidMubarak as his family was locked up in the #Gulags.
Long-time friend of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and former Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, also uploaded a picture on Twitter.
He writes, “The Education Ministry is organising a painting competition titled “China in My Dreams” for our kids. Our dream is East Turkistan. Dear children, picture the dream of saving our brothers and sisters in our fatherland from oppression and send that to this competition. Speak up to those who doesn’t wish to hear!”
#UyghurGenocide
#hayalimdekiçin
Source: RFA #May7
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Former Turkish PM joins Netizens in Condemning China for Suppressing the #Ugyhurs
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between #Turkey and the #PRC, the #ChineseEmbassy in Turkey co-organised a drawing competition with the Ministry of National Education, Turkey for Turkish youth, titled “China in My Dreams.”
Taking note of the event, many netizens uploaded pictures of Uyghur genocide with the hashtag #hayalimdekiçin (“China in My Dreams”), among which even include former Prime Minister #AhmetDavutoğlu.
These works include blue-shirted men sitting under the iron curtains of #Xinjiang concentration camps; a #Uyghur little girl silenced by men covered in a Five-starred red flag and a bloodied East Turkestan flag; a lonely boy crying on #EidMubarak as his family was locked up in the #Gulags.
Long-time friend of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and former Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, also uploaded a picture on Twitter.
He writes, “The Education Ministry is organising a painting competition titled “China in My Dreams” for our kids. Our dream is East Turkistan. Dear children, picture the dream of saving our brothers and sisters in our fatherland from oppression and send that to this competition. Speak up to those who doesn’t wish to hear!”
#UyghurGenocide
#hayalimdekiçin
Source: RFA #May7
https://www.facebook.com/cantonese.rfa/photos/a.454006908007166/5435573129850494/
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China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory
Source: Foreigh Policy #May7
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China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory
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China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory
By Robert Barnett
//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)...
#Gyalaphug is, however, different: It is in #Bhutan. Wu and a retinue of officials, police, and journalists had crossed an international border. They were in a 232-square-mile area claimed by China since the early 1980s but internationally understood as part of Lhuntse district in northern Bhutan. The Chinese officials were visiting to celebrate their success, unnoticed by the world, in planting settlers, security personnel, and military infrastructure within territory internationally and historically understood to be Bhutanese...
This new construction is part of a major drive by Chinese President #XiJinPing since 2017 to fortify the Tibetan borderlands, a dramatic escalation in China’s long-running efforts to outmaneuver India and its neighbors along their Himalayan frontiers. In this case, China doesn’t need the land it is settling in Bhutan: Its aim is to force the Bhutanese government to cede territory that China wants elsewhere in Bhutan to give Beijing a military advantage in its struggle with New Delhi.
Gyalaphug is now one of three new villages (two already occupied, one under construction), 66 miles of new roads, a small hydropower station, two Communist Party administrative centers, a communications base, a disaster relief warehouse, five military or police outposts, and what are believed to be a major signals tower, a satellite receiving station, a military base, and up to six security sites and outposts that China has constructed in what it says are parts of Lhodrak in the TAR but which in fact are in the far north of Bhutan....
Today all of the Menchuma Valley and most of the Beyul are controlled by China. Both are being settled. Together, they constitute 1 percent of Bhutan’s territory; if it were to lose them, it would be comparable to the United States losing Maine or Kentucky...
In Chinese, the term for so-called salami-slicing tactics—slowly cutting off piece by piece of other nations’ territory—is can shi, or “nibbling like a silkworm.” It’s serious business: The belief that India was gnawing at fragments of China’s territory drove Mao to launch the 1962 Sino-Indian War. And the converse of the phrase is jing tun, “swallowing like a whale.” The small bites of the silkworm can turn into crushing jaws...//
Read the full reportage:
http://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/07/china-bhutan-border-villages-security-forces/
Source: Foreigh Policy #May7
#Invasion #Tianxia #AllUnderHeaven #Beijing #Expansion #CCPRules #Bhutan #PeacefulRise #CanShi #Borders
China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory
By Robert Barnett
//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)...
#Gyalaphug is, however, different: It is in #Bhutan. Wu and a retinue of officials, police, and journalists had crossed an international border. They were in a 232-square-mile area claimed by China since the early 1980s but internationally understood as part of Lhuntse district in northern Bhutan. The Chinese officials were visiting to celebrate their success, unnoticed by the world, in planting settlers, security personnel, and military infrastructure within territory internationally and historically understood to be Bhutanese...
This new construction is part of a major drive by Chinese President #XiJinPing since 2017 to fortify the Tibetan borderlands, a dramatic escalation in China’s long-running efforts to outmaneuver India and its neighbors along their Himalayan frontiers. In this case, China doesn’t need the land it is settling in Bhutan: Its aim is to force the Bhutanese government to cede territory that China wants elsewhere in Bhutan to give Beijing a military advantage in its struggle with New Delhi.
Gyalaphug is now one of three new villages (two already occupied, one under construction), 66 miles of new roads, a small hydropower station, two Communist Party administrative centers, a communications base, a disaster relief warehouse, five military or police outposts, and what are believed to be a major signals tower, a satellite receiving station, a military base, and up to six security sites and outposts that China has constructed in what it says are parts of Lhodrak in the TAR but which in fact are in the far north of Bhutan....
Today all of the Menchuma Valley and most of the Beyul are controlled by China. Both are being settled. Together, they constitute 1 percent of Bhutan’s territory; if it were to lose them, it would be comparable to the United States losing Maine or Kentucky...
In Chinese, the term for so-called salami-slicing tactics—slowly cutting off piece by piece of other nations’ territory—is can shi, or “nibbling like a silkworm.” It’s serious business: The belief that India was gnawing at fragments of China’s territory drove Mao to launch the 1962 Sino-Indian War. And the converse of the phrase is jing tun, “swallowing like a whale.” The small bites of the silkworm can turn into crushing jaws...//
Read the full reportage:
http://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/07/china-bhutan-border-villages-security-forces/
Source: Foreigh Policy #May7
#Invasion #Tianxia #AllUnderHeaven #Beijing #Expansion #CCPRules #Bhutan #PeacefulRise #CanShi #Borders
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China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory
Since 2015, a previously unnoticed network of roads, buildings, and military outposts has been constructed deep in a sacred valley in Bhutan.