HongKongers Turn to Blockchain to Preserve Protest Archives
LikeCoin, a decentralized publishing infrastructure on the Cosmos blockchain, is being used to preserve media coverage of the 2019 Hong Kong protests.
As Quartz reported, people began backing up key episodes of the city’s current affairs program, Hong Kong Connection, earlier this month. The award-winning show is the property of public broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong. The broadcaster announced in May that it would erase archive content over a year old; it has increasingly fallen under government influence.
Source: Decrypt #May27
https://decrypt.co/72057/hong-kong-media-turns-blockchain-preserve-protest-archives
#Media #Blockchain #Protest #LikeCoin
LikeCoin, a decentralized publishing infrastructure on the Cosmos blockchain, is being used to preserve media coverage of the 2019 Hong Kong protests.
As Quartz reported, people began backing up key episodes of the city’s current affairs program, Hong Kong Connection, earlier this month. The award-winning show is the property of public broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong. The broadcaster announced in May that it would erase archive content over a year old; it has increasingly fallen under government influence.
Source: Decrypt #May27
https://decrypt.co/72057/hong-kong-media-turns-blockchain-preserve-protest-archives
#Media #Blockchain #Protest #LikeCoin
#FailedState #PoliceState
#WhiteTerror Spreads to #Sport Sector: Pro-China Legislator Condemns Hong Kong Athletes
Source: InMedia #Jun18
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#WhiteTerror Spreads to #Sport Sector: Pro-China Legislator Condemns Hong Kong Athletes
Source: InMedia #Jun18
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#WhiteTerror Spreads to #Sport Sector: Pro-China Legislator Condemns Hong Kong Athletes
According to Hong Kong's Chief Executive #CarrieLam, the SAR Government had purchased the broadcasting rights for the #Tokyo #OlympicGames, and arranged for five TV stations to broadcast.
In the panel meeting on Home Affairs at the Legislative Council (#LegCo), athletes representative of Hong Kong were, however, attacked by the pro-Beijing DAB party.
For instance, Leung Che-cheung, a #DAB member, criticized the Hong Kong Ladies’ Foil Team members, for reportedly hand signing the pro-democracy “Five Demand, Not One Less” slogan during the 2019 World Cup.
The pro-China legislator comdemns it as an action "against the Government".
Leung continued to ask the Government to follow up with this matter.
Concuring with Leung, the Government's Commissioner for Sports Yeung Tak-keung claimed that “politics should be separated from sports”.
Yeung said that athletes must sign a guideline before participating in competitions, and should not express political demands on the Olympic occasions. Yeung emphasized that there is any violation, the game would be suspended and the personnel would be penalized.
Source: InMedia #Jun18
https://bit.ly/3gCIbV4
#HomeAffairs #FreeSpeech #NationalTeam
#WhiteTerror Spreads to #Sport Sector: Pro-China Legislator Condemns Hong Kong Athletes
According to Hong Kong's Chief Executive #CarrieLam, the SAR Government had purchased the broadcasting rights for the #Tokyo #OlympicGames, and arranged for five TV stations to broadcast.
In the panel meeting on Home Affairs at the Legislative Council (#LegCo), athletes representative of Hong Kong were, however, attacked by the pro-Beijing DAB party.
For instance, Leung Che-cheung, a #DAB member, criticized the Hong Kong Ladies’ Foil Team members, for reportedly hand signing the pro-democracy “Five Demand, Not One Less” slogan during the 2019 World Cup.
The pro-China legislator comdemns it as an action "against the Government".
Leung continued to ask the Government to follow up with this matter.
Concuring with Leung, the Government's Commissioner for Sports Yeung Tak-keung claimed that “politics should be separated from sports”.
Yeung said that athletes must sign a guideline before participating in competitions, and should not express political demands on the Olympic occasions. Yeung emphasized that there is any violation, the game would be suspended and the personnel would be penalized.
Source: InMedia #Jun18
https://bit.ly/3gCIbV4
#HomeAffairs #FreeSpeech #NationalTeam
#PoliceState
#July1 protest organiser: As long as Hongkongers refuse to forget, echoes will reach us one day
For the first time in 18 years, the Civil Human Rights Front (#CHRF) will not submit an approval request to the Hong Kong police regarding the annual pro-democracy July 1 march.
According to the acting convenor Chung Chong-fai, the Civil Human Rights Front has stopped operating since its convenor Figo Chan has been jailed in May concerning a pro-democracy protest on October 1, 2019.
Chung said the Front will elect a new convenor in September 2021.
Chung added, many groups will organize street booths on July 1: "Even if the Front has finished its historical mission, it doesn't mean Hongkongers will stop speaking up."
"As long as Hongkongers refuse to forget, echoes will reach us one day," Chung reminded his fellow citizens.
Source: Stand New #Jun20
https://bit.ly/3qapvQZ
#HongKongProtests
#July1 protest organiser: As long as Hongkongers refuse to forget, echoes will reach us one day
For the first time in 18 years, the Civil Human Rights Front (#CHRF) will not submit an approval request to the Hong Kong police regarding the annual pro-democracy July 1 march.
According to the acting convenor Chung Chong-fai, the Civil Human Rights Front has stopped operating since its convenor Figo Chan has been jailed in May concerning a pro-democracy protest on October 1, 2019.
Chung said the Front will elect a new convenor in September 2021.
Chung added, many groups will organize street booths on July 1: "Even if the Front has finished its historical mission, it doesn't mean Hongkongers will stop speaking up."
"As long as Hongkongers refuse to forget, echoes will reach us one day," Chung reminded his fellow citizens.
Source: Stand New #Jun20
https://bit.ly/3qapvQZ
#HongKongProtests
The PRC's Education Bureau suggests having a legal status of Putonghua and Simplified Chinese in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area.
#Putonghua #GreaterBayArea #GuangdongHongKongMacau #GoHKgraphics
#Putonghua #GreaterBayArea #GuangdongHongKongMacau #GoHKgraphics
Nike boss defends firm’s business in China
The boss of Nike has made a robust defence of the firm's business in China after facing a consumer boycott there.
Chief executive John Donahoe said "Nike is a brand that is of China and for China" in response to a question about competition from Chinese brands.
Mr Donahoe was speaking during a call with Wall Street analysts about Nike's latest earnings report.
The comments come after the sportswear giant was recently hit by a backlash over statements about Xinjiang.
Source: BBC #Jun25
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57606588
#Nike #China #Boycott #JohnDonahoe #Xinjiang
The boss of Nike has made a robust defence of the firm's business in China after facing a consumer boycott there.
Chief executive John Donahoe said "Nike is a brand that is of China and for China" in response to a question about competition from Chinese brands.
Mr Donahoe was speaking during a call with Wall Street analysts about Nike's latest earnings report.
The comments come after the sportswear giant was recently hit by a backlash over statements about Xinjiang.
Source: BBC #Jun25
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57606588
#Nike #China #Boycott #JohnDonahoe #Xinjiang
America both helps and hinders China’s military-industrial complex
JIANGHANG AIRCRAFT EQUIPMENT has struggled to tantalise investors with the fuel systems and detachable petrol tanks it builds for Chinese warplanes. The company, controlled by Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), the country’s biggest aerospace-and-defence conglomerate, had witnessed its share price slump by 50% since it went public in Shanghai last year. But in the first three months of the year demand for its wares has soared. On May 28th Jianghang said that net profit for the period nearly doubled, year on year. Trading in its shares subsequently had to be halted after their price rose by 10%, the maximum permitted one-day swing.
Source: The Economist #Jun05
https://t.co/0uTF3cXSD6
#China #AVIC #Shanghai #Fuel
JIANGHANG AIRCRAFT EQUIPMENT has struggled to tantalise investors with the fuel systems and detachable petrol tanks it builds for Chinese warplanes. The company, controlled by Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), the country’s biggest aerospace-and-defence conglomerate, had witnessed its share price slump by 50% since it went public in Shanghai last year. But in the first three months of the year demand for its wares has soared. On May 28th Jianghang said that net profit for the period nearly doubled, year on year. Trading in its shares subsequently had to be halted after their price rose by 10%, the maximum permitted one-day swing.
Source: The Economist #Jun05
https://t.co/0uTF3cXSD6
#China #AVIC #Shanghai #Fuel
#PoliceState #PoliticalProsecution
HK Police Arrests More #AppleDaily Editors
Source: Stand News #Jun27
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HK Police Arrests More #AppleDaily Editors
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HK Police Arrests More #AppleDaily Editors
On the evening of June 27, 2021, Hong Kong Police arrested one more editor who used to write in the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily.
#FungWaiKong, aged 57, was the editor-in-chief of the English news of Apple Daily and a columnist for the Chinese-language edition under thd pen name Lo Fung.
The police accused of him "conspiring to collude with foreign countries or foreign forces to endanger national security". The arrest was made at the airport.
Fung Wai-kong is the seventh employee of the now-closed Apple Daily who was arrested under #NationalSecurityLaw. The founder #JimmyLai, a pro-democracy media tycoon, has been jailed since Janurary 2021.
The 26-year-old Apple Daily was forced to shut down on June 23, 2021 after the police raided the headquarters, arrested 3 editors and 2 executives, and froze the key assets and bank accounts of the newspaper. On the day when the last edition was announced, police arrested one more new commentator.
The Hong Kong Journalists' Association (#HKJA) condemned the police for targeting journalists.
Source: Stand News #Jun27
https://bit.ly/2SAUrgY
#Journalism #PressFreedom #SupportAppleDaily #PoliticalPrisoner
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HK Police Arrests More #AppleDaily Editors
On the evening of June 27, 2021, Hong Kong Police arrested one more editor who used to write in the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily.
#FungWaiKong, aged 57, was the editor-in-chief of the English news of Apple Daily and a columnist for the Chinese-language edition under thd pen name Lo Fung.
The police accused of him "conspiring to collude with foreign countries or foreign forces to endanger national security". The arrest was made at the airport.
Fung Wai-kong is the seventh employee of the now-closed Apple Daily who was arrested under #NationalSecurityLaw. The founder #JimmyLai, a pro-democracy media tycoon, has been jailed since Janurary 2021.
The 26-year-old Apple Daily was forced to shut down on June 23, 2021 after the police raided the headquarters, arrested 3 editors and 2 executives, and froze the key assets and bank accounts of the newspaper. On the day when the last edition was announced, police arrested one more new commentator.
The Hong Kong Journalists' Association (#HKJA) condemned the police for targeting journalists.
Source: Stand News #Jun27
https://bit.ly/2SAUrgY
#Journalism #PressFreedom #SupportAppleDaily #PoliticalPrisoner
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Detained HK Activist #OwenChow: Good Works Are Always Born in the Worst of Times
Source: Stand News; Apple Daily; RTHK #Jun22
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Detained HK Activist #OwenChow: Good Works Are Always Born in the Worst of Times
Source: Stand News; Apple Daily; RTHK #Jun22
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Detained HK Activist #OwenChow: Good Works Are Always Born in the Worst of Times
On June 22, 2021, Owen Chow, a 24-year-old pro-democracy activist, was finally granted bail after being detained for months.
Chow was among the 47 pro-democracy figures who were arrested by the police for participating in the Primary Election of the pro-democracy camp in 2020. They were charged with subverting the state under the National Security Law.
Among the 47 people detained, Chow is only the 12th person who has been granted bail; however, he was barred by the High Court from making any speeches or take part in any action that could be seen as "endangering national security". He cannot participate in any elections or contact foreign officials.
In addition, Chow has to surrender all his travel documents and not to leave Hong Kong. He has to report to the police every evening and observe an overnight curfew.
Leaving the detention center for the moment, Chow said to the journalists, "Good works are always born in the worst of times."
Source: Stand News; Apple Daily; RTHK #Jun22
https://bit.ly/3vW96Rz
#Save47 #PoliticalSuppression #PoliticalPrisoners #Bail #HighCourt
Detained HK Activist #OwenChow: Good Works Are Always Born in the Worst of Times
On June 22, 2021, Owen Chow, a 24-year-old pro-democracy activist, was finally granted bail after being detained for months.
Chow was among the 47 pro-democracy figures who were arrested by the police for participating in the Primary Election of the pro-democracy camp in 2020. They were charged with subverting the state under the National Security Law.
Among the 47 people detained, Chow is only the 12th person who has been granted bail; however, he was barred by the High Court from making any speeches or take part in any action that could be seen as "endangering national security". He cannot participate in any elections or contact foreign officials.
In addition, Chow has to surrender all his travel documents and not to leave Hong Kong. He has to report to the police every evening and observe an overnight curfew.
Leaving the detention center for the moment, Chow said to the journalists, "Good works are always born in the worst of times."
Source: Stand News; Apple Daily; RTHK #Jun22
https://bit.ly/3vW96Rz
#Save47 #PoliticalSuppression #PoliticalPrisoners #Bail #HighCourt
#Censorship #PoliceState
Hong Kong Authotities Amend #FilmCensorshipOrdinance, Demanding Censors to Ban Films that “Endanger National Security”
Source: InMedia #Jun11 https://bit.ly/3xeNoJy
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Hong Kong Authotities Amend #FilmCensorshipOrdinance, Demanding Censors to Ban Films that “Endanger National Security”
Source: InMedia #Jun11 https://bit.ly/3xeNoJy
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Hong Kong Authotities Amend #FilmCensorshipOrdinance, Demanding Censors to Ban Films that “Endanger National Security”
The Hong Kong government amended and implemented the guideline for censors under the Film Censorship Ordinance on June 11, 2021.
The amendments are associated to the #NationalSecurityLaw that has been forcefully enacted in June 2020.
The government demands the Censors to check whether a film contains any content that portrays "activities that endanger national security", and any content that is “objectively and reasonably capable of being perceived as endorsing, supporting, promoting, glorifying, encouraging or inciting such act or activity”. The Ordinance allows censors to ban the film.
Source: InMedia #Jun11 https://bit.ly/3xeNoJy
#HongKongCinema #FilmCensor #FreeSpeech #WhiteTerror
Hong Kong Authotities Amend #FilmCensorshipOrdinance, Demanding Censors to Ban Films that “Endanger National Security”
The Hong Kong government amended and implemented the guideline for censors under the Film Censorship Ordinance on June 11, 2021.
The amendments are associated to the #NationalSecurityLaw that has been forcefully enacted in June 2020.
The government demands the Censors to check whether a film contains any content that portrays "activities that endanger national security", and any content that is “objectively and reasonably capable of being perceived as endorsing, supporting, promoting, glorifying, encouraging or inciting such act or activity”. The Ordinance allows censors to ban the film.
Source: InMedia #Jun11 https://bit.ly/3xeNoJy
#HongKongCinema #FilmCensor #FreeSpeech #WhiteTerror
Accusing Beijing for Suppressing Hong Kong Democratic Protest, NATO Secretary General Emphasizes Collective Policy Against China
Source: Stand News #Jun14
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Accusing Beijing for Suppressing Hong Kong Democratic Protest, NATO Secretary General Emphasizes Collective Policy Against China
US president Joe Biden arrived Brussels on Sunday night (13 June) to prepare the NATO Summit after the G7 Summit. The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltelberg said before the meeting that NATO member states need to strengthen their collective policy on China.
Jens Stoltelberg told Canada CBC in an interview that China has the second biggest defense budget, the biggest navy in the world, and is investing heavily in new military equipment, “that affect our security”. “China does not share our values,” he said. “We see that in the way they crack down on democratic protests in Hong Kong, how they oppress minorities like the Uyghurs and also how they use modern technology, social media and facial recognition, to monitor, to do surveillance of their own population.”
“All of this makes it important for NATO to develop a policy, to strengthen our policy, when it comes to China,” he added.
Stoltelberg said the world still have to engage with China on issues such as arms control and climate change, but China's arrest and ongoing detention of Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig is “absolutely unacceptable”.
Source: Stand News #Jun14
https://bit.ly/3dfBTKm
#NATO #suppress #democracy #michaelkrovig #michaelspavor #China #joebiden
US president Joe Biden arrived Brussels on Sunday night (13 June) to prepare the NATO Summit after the G7 Summit. The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltelberg said before the meeting that NATO member states need to strengthen their collective policy on China.
Jens Stoltelberg told Canada CBC in an interview that China has the second biggest defense budget, the biggest navy in the world, and is investing heavily in new military equipment, “that affect our security”. “China does not share our values,” he said. “We see that in the way they crack down on democratic protests in Hong Kong, how they oppress minorities like the Uyghurs and also how they use modern technology, social media and facial recognition, to monitor, to do surveillance of their own population.”
“All of this makes it important for NATO to develop a policy, to strengthen our policy, when it comes to China,” he added.
Stoltelberg said the world still have to engage with China on issues such as arms control and climate change, but China's arrest and ongoing detention of Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig is “absolutely unacceptable”.
Source: Stand News #Jun14
https://bit.ly/3dfBTKm
#NATO #suppress #democracy #michaelkrovig #michaelspavor #China #joebiden
How China is trying to limit births among Muslim populations in Xinjiang region
The Xinjiang city of Tiemenguan over the past two years has sought to boost its local constabulary by hiring new auxiliary police. Applicants must be under the age of 35, possess a high-school education and be in good physical condition.
But job-seekers must also meet a set of additional criteria, according to recruitment documents posted online. They must bring with them at least two relatives. And they must be Han Chinese, members of the country’s dominant ethnicity.
Source: The Globe and Mail #Jun25
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-chinas-population-control-policies-in-xinjiang-favour-han-ethnic-group/
#China #Births #Muslim #Xinjiang #Tiemenguan #Population
The Xinjiang city of Tiemenguan over the past two years has sought to boost its local constabulary by hiring new auxiliary police. Applicants must be under the age of 35, possess a high-school education and be in good physical condition.
But job-seekers must also meet a set of additional criteria, according to recruitment documents posted online. They must bring with them at least two relatives. And they must be Han Chinese, members of the country’s dominant ethnicity.
Source: The Globe and Mail #Jun25
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-chinas-population-control-policies-in-xinjiang-favour-han-ethnic-group/
#China #Births #Muslim #Xinjiang #Tiemenguan #Population
Why are calls growing to investigate the Wuhan lab leak theory?
There is growing public support among the world’s scientific community for fully exploring the possibility the coronavirus may have emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, leading to the global outbreak that has killed more than 3.7 million people worldwide.
The lab leak theory was largely sidelined in public scientific debate in the early days of the outbreak, after the first cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, were confirmed in the central Chinese city in late 2019.
Source: Aljazeera #Jun06
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/6/calls-to-consider-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-have-grown-why-now
#China #Covid19 #Wuhan #Lab
There is growing public support among the world’s scientific community for fully exploring the possibility the coronavirus may have emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, leading to the global outbreak that has killed more than 3.7 million people worldwide.
The lab leak theory was largely sidelined in public scientific debate in the early days of the outbreak, after the first cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, were confirmed in the central Chinese city in late 2019.
Source: Aljazeera #Jun06
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/6/calls-to-consider-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-have-grown-why-now
#China #Covid19 #Wuhan #Lab
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"Who will be next?"
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"Who will be next?"
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"Who will be next?"
While Apple Daily is being forced into closing after the Hong Kong Police froze its assets, the pro-Beijing camp had been cheering on its demise.
However, on Tuesday, June 22, 2021, pro-Beijing trade union president Ng Chau-pei unexpectedly lashed out against several other news companies, including HK01 and i-Cable, calling them "anti-China and troublemakers in Hong Kong" at heart. He predicted that they, too, will be "ruined by their own hands in the end."
Webcomic artist Ah To is not surprised that these companies, normally considered neutral or pro-Beijing-leaning, would be targeted by the China so soon.
In this comic, he depicts HK01, Oriental Daily, and Sing Tao Daily gleefully watching an "evil media" being "rectified" by police. However, they each begin to break a cold sweat as the gaze of the national security authorities turn upon them, the remnants of the once freely-speaking Hong Kong media.
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"Who will be next?"
While Apple Daily is being forced into closing after the Hong Kong Police froze its assets, the pro-Beijing camp had been cheering on its demise.
However, on Tuesday, June 22, 2021, pro-Beijing trade union president Ng Chau-pei unexpectedly lashed out against several other news companies, including HK01 and i-Cable, calling them "anti-China and troublemakers in Hong Kong" at heart. He predicted that they, too, will be "ruined by their own hands in the end."
Webcomic artist Ah To is not surprised that these companies, normally considered neutral or pro-Beijing-leaning, would be targeted by the China so soon.
In this comic, he depicts HK01, Oriental Daily, and Sing Tao Daily gleefully watching an "evil media" being "rectified" by police. However, they each begin to break a cold sweat as the gaze of the national security authorities turn upon them, the remnants of the once freely-speaking Hong Kong media.
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Ar To
https://www.facebook.com/100044541035098/posts/353904282770937/
Headline News: https://bit.ly/2T8kmNl
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Authorities' Suppression of #AppleDaily Fuels #PublicAnger Online, #Analysis Shows
Source: Hong Kong Citizens News #Jun21
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