#Dentistry #CivilServant
Government dental services carry on routine duty without washout period during coronavirus outbreak

The facebook page of Civil Servants' Secrets, where whistleblowers' messages are published, revealed on March 30, 2020 that dentists and dental nurses working in government's clinics were demanded to take up coronavirus inspection work in ports or Asia-Expo once or twice a week.

Without any washout period, they are directly sent back to carry on their routine services at dental clinics after the inspection work. At the port areas, they gave out quarantine orders to overseas arrivals and collect samples of sputum from those passengers with onset of Coronavirus.

Source: Facebook Page of Civil Servants' Secrets

#Mar30 #ChinesePneumonia #GlobalOutbreak #WashoutPeriod #HealthCrisis

#PoliticalSuppression #1C1S
China Axes Hong Kong's Electoral System to Boost Influence

Source: Stand News #Mar30

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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/29262

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China Axes Hong Kong's Electoral System to Boost Influence

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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/29261

On March 30, 2021, Beijing imposed an overhaul in Hong Kong's electoral system. After a two-day meeting, the PRC's National People’s Congress Standing Committee (#NPCSC) directly amended two annexes in Hong Kong's Basic Law. All these changes will come into immediate effect on March 31, 2021.

In the Election Committee to select the Chief Executive, all 117 district councillor seats are eliminated.

The seats are replaced by “representatives of members of area committees”, including members of the government-appointed District Fight Crime Committees, the District Fire Safety Committee of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories, as well as representatives of associations of Hong Kong residents in the mainland.

A new sector will be added. They are deputies to the PRC's National People’s Congress (#NPC), the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (#CPPCC), as well as representatives of “Hong Kong members of relevant national organisations”.

As for the Legislative Council (#LegCo), the number of directly elected seats in the geographical constituency will be reduced. The District Councillor seats within the LegCo are to be removed.

The changes are likely to increase the influence of the pro-Establishment camp while ridding of the role of the locally elected District Councillors.

The District Council election had been the only direct election in Hong Kong since the Handover in 1997. In the 2019 election, the pro-democracy camp had a landslide victory across the territory, winning 388 seats to the pro-Beijing camp's 59.

Source: Stand News #Mar30

#HongKongElection #ChiefExecutive #DistrictCouncil #CCPRules
#ElectoralOverhaul #Beijing

Government Supporter in HK Praises the "Leadership" in Accented Cantonese

Source: Stand News #Mar30

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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/29350

Government Supporter in HK Praises the "Leadership" in Accented Cantonese

As part of the Hong Kong government-led Kwun Tong Town Centre redevelopment project, the Yue Man Square public transport interchange is put to use on Friday, April 2, 2021.

On March 30, 2021,the Urban Renewal Authority held an event for media preview and arranged meeting with designated "old" resident in the neighborhood.

When meeting the media, a resident Ms Lee in her eighties praised the new design of the station. She even choked with tears, saying in accented Cantonese, "Thanks to the leadership! It is so great!".

#KwunTong #YueManSquare #URA #MediaArrangement

Source: Stand New #Mar30
https://bit.ly/3fB3G9J

#Censorship #PoliticalSuppression
The University of Hong Kong Severs Ties with Its Own Students' Union

In a public statement and an email to all students issued on March 30, 2021, the University of Hong Kong (#HKU) severed ties with the students' union (#HKUSU) that is generated by election.

The management accuses its students' union of conducting "radical behaviors and speeches that will risk the university for breaching the law".

The university managenent would take control over the students',union's offices and other facilities, stop collecting membership fees on its behalf, and stop providing it with financial management services.

In late February 2021, the Chinese University of Hong Kong took similar action by suppressing the newly elected students' union. In the end, the entire cabinet of the students union resigned.

HKU's action followed China-funded media's latest attack on the students' unions in the city.

Source: Stand News #Mar30
https://bit.ly/2PzNfQv

#Education #University #StudentsUnion

#Court #PoliticalPrisoner
#JoshuaWong: Don't Let the World Change Us

Source: Stand News #Mar30

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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/29567

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#JoshuaWong: Don't Let the World Change Us

In almost 2 years since the Anti-ELAB movement broke out in 2019, Hong Kong's representative figures of the pro-democracy "resistance" camp are either in jail or in exile.

Among them, former lawmaker #EddieChu, former journalist #GywnethHo, district councillors #LesterShum and #TiffanyYuen have been detained and denied bail since late February 2021. They are among the 47 pro-democracy activists arrested for joining the primary election in 2020.

Former chair of #Demisisto #NathanLaw and former spokesman for the Hong Kong Higher Institutions International Affairs Delegation (#HKIAD) #SunnyCheung have to sever ties with their family in Hong Kong and live in exile.

On March 30, 2021, district councillor #JannelleLeung and activist Joshua Wong, alongside Shum and Yuen, were trialed for taking part in an "unauthorised assembly" on #June4 in Victoria Park in 2020.

They were among 24 pro-democracy figures who were charged for participating in the annual candlelight vigil to commemorate the victims of the 1989 #TiananmenSquareMassacre in Beijing. The vigil was for the first time banned by the Hong Kong police in 2020. It is still uncertain that whether the annual rally could be held in 2021.

The four pro-democracy activists admitted to joining the rally and were remanded in custody. In the courtroom, Joshua Wong yelled, "Even if we cannot change the world, don't let the world change us."

The 24-year-old Wong is currently serving his sentence for surrounding the police headquarters during the #AntiELAB protest, while being additionally charged with other offences connecting to the primary election and June 4th #vigil.

Source: Stand News #Mar30
https://bit.ly/333JeXD

#PoliticalSuppression #PoliceState #47Democrats

UK and US criticise WHO's Covid report and accuse China of withholding data

The US and the UK have sharply criticised a World Health Organization report into the beginnings of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan, implicitly accusing China of “withholding access to complete, original data and samples”.

The statement, also signed by 12 other countries including Australia and Canada, came hard on the heels of an admission on Tuesday by the head of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, that the investigation was “not extensive enough” and experts had struggled to access raw information during their four-week visit to Wuhan in January.

Source: The Guardians #Mar30

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/30/who-criticises-chinas-data-sharing-as-it-releases-covid-origins-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 #UK #US #WHO #Covid #China

Beijing Is Getting Better at Disinformation on Global Social Media

When China-linked networks of social media bots and trolls appeared on the global disinformation scene in 2019, most analysts concluded that their impact and reach were fairly limited, particularly in terms of engagement by real users and relative to more sophisticated actors in this realm, like the Russian regime. As many China watchers anticipated, that assessment now seems to be changing.

Several in-depth investigations published over the past two months by academic researchers, think tanks, news outlets, and cybersecurity companies have shed light on the evolution of disinformation campaigns originating in China. Some offer new insights on campaigns that peaked last spring, while others analyze more recent messaging, tactics, and accounts that have emerged since October 2020.

Source: The Diplomat #Mar30

https://thediplomat.com/2021/03/beijing-is-getting-better-at-disinformation-on-global-social-media/

 #Beijing #Disinformation #Media

UK judges quit Hong Kong's top court over national security law concerns while Canadian and Australian judges decide to remain

Source: InmediaHK, #Mar30; HKFP, #Mar31

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UK judges quit Hong Kong's top court over national security law concerns while Canadian and Australian judges decide to remain

Two senior British judges, including the president of the UK Supreme Court, Lord #RobertReed and his deputy Lord #PatrickHodge resigned from Hong Kong's highest court. Four of the ten remaining overseas judges, however, said they would remain to defend the city's "last surviving strong institution of democracy".

Reed said in a statement on March 30, 2022, that they could no longer serve in Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal "without appearing to endorse an administration which has departed from values of political freedom."

The judges resignation was endorsed by the UK prime minister as #BorisJohnson told MPs: “They have evidently concluded the constraints of the national security law make it impossible for them to serve in the way they would want.”

British Foreign Secretary #LizTruss also said that the situation had reached a tippingpoint "untenable" for judges to serve independently without risk legitimising oppression.

"We have seen a systematic erosion of liberty and democracy in Hong Kong. Since the National Security Law was imposed, authorities have cracked down on free speech, the free press and free association."

Four of the ten remaining overseas judges, however, have said on the next day that they will remain, including former Canadian chief justice Beverley McLachlin, Australian judges William Gummow, Anthony Murray Gleeson and Robert French.

Sources:
InmediaHK, #Mar30;
https://bit.ly/3LqiLrr

HKFP, #Mar31
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/03/31/australian-canadian-judges-to-stay-on-hong-kong-top-court-after-2-uk-judges-quit-citing-security-law/

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China-Russia hails ties and scorns international sanctions against Moscow's invasion in Ukraine calling them "illegal" and "counter-productive"

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At a time when Russia is being condemned by the international community for its all-out invasion in Ukraine, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on March 30, 2022 that the desire of China and Russia to develop bilateral relations has become even "stronger" so has the confidence to promote cooperation in various directions.

#WangYi and his Russian counterpart #SergeiLavrov emerged from their meetings with a show of unity, appearing to reaffirm their countries' friendship and criticising economic sanctions imposed by the West against Moscow for invading Ukraine as "illegal" and "counter-productive."

"China-Russia relations have withstood the new test of changing international landscape," Wang said after the meeting. "China is ready to work with Russia to take China-Russia relations to a higher level in the new era."

China has refused to condemn Russia's invasion outright, and it abstained from voting on United Nations resolutions demanding Moscow immediately stop its attack on Ukraine.

Instead, Beijing has accused the United States of intensifying tensions, while highlighting Moscow’s “legitimate security concerns” regarding the eastward expansion of #Nato.

#WangYi #SergeiLavrov #CCP #Moscow #StoptheWar #StandwithUkraine

Source: Voice of America Chinese; #Mar30
https://www.voachinese.com/a/china-russia-more-determined-to-boost-ties-beijing-says-20220330/6507885.html