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Free home meals for distressful #HongKongers in #UK
In recent months, heaps of Hong Kong people left the city for good and moved to England. Among them some could be financially improvised, while others could be afflicted for various reasons.
The #GoodNeighbourChurch England, a pro-democracy charity group originated in Hong Kong, launched a heartening “Free Home-cooked meals” project for Hongkongers in need, with an aim to take care not only the “tummies” but also the “hearts” of those in distress.
The project has been positively received in the UK with more volunteers signing up to cook and donate free meals.
The Good Neighbour Church England, the organizer of the project said that the project targets both youngsters and adults residing in the UK, regardless of the location.
Anyone who is homesick, longing for Hong Kong; or improvised; or unable to gather and dine with their family members can enroll for free meals.
There is no constrain set to recruit volunteers neither, so long as they “#LoveHongKong and love #Hongkongers.” The organizer also left “meal arrangement” open and flexible for the two parties to either “dine together at home” or arrange “takeaway”.
Source: Stand News; #Aug13
https://bit.ly/3gxbxoH
Free home meals for distressful #HongKongers in #UK
In recent months, heaps of Hong Kong people left the city for good and moved to England. Among them some could be financially improvised, while others could be afflicted for various reasons.
The #GoodNeighbourChurch England, a pro-democracy charity group originated in Hong Kong, launched a heartening “Free Home-cooked meals” project for Hongkongers in need, with an aim to take care not only the “tummies” but also the “hearts” of those in distress.
The project has been positively received in the UK with more volunteers signing up to cook and donate free meals.
The Good Neighbour Church England, the organizer of the project said that the project targets both youngsters and adults residing in the UK, regardless of the location.
Anyone who is homesick, longing for Hong Kong; or improvised; or unable to gather and dine with their family members can enroll for free meals.
There is no constrain set to recruit volunteers neither, so long as they “#LoveHongKong and love #Hongkongers.” The organizer also left “meal arrangement” open and flexible for the two parties to either “dine together at home” or arrange “takeaway”.
Source: Stand News; #Aug13
https://bit.ly/3gxbxoH
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在英港人團體推「住家飯」計劃 助經濟困難、掛住香港者免費開飯 | 立場報道 | 立場新聞
近月港人移英者眾，當中不少人生活條件欠佳，或因種種原因，精神壓力山大。有在英港人組織推「英倫住家飯」計劃，配對...
German Media Criticized China as a “Soulless Medal Factory”,
14-year-old Gold Medallist Practices Diving Hard for her Sick Mother
Source: Stand News #Aug07
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14-year-old Gold Medallist Practices Diving Hard for her Sick Mother
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German Media Criticized China as a “Soulless Medal Factory”,
14-year-old Gold Medallist Practices Diving Hard for her Sick Mother
Tokyo Olympics ended on 8 August which China is almost the champion for having the most Olympics gold medals. However, its “national system” of training athletes to win glory has been controversial. Suddeutche Zeitung recently described China as a “soulless medal factory” in an article. The 14 years old Olympics champion Quan Hongchan, also known as the “diving genius”, was mentioned in the previous interview that she was tricked into diving due to her poor academic results and the incentives to get medical treatment for her sick mother. She has to dive more than a hundred times a day and nearly 300 times on land that she only stay at home during the holidays and has never been to amusement parks or zoos.
Some Weibo netizens lamented the poor treatment of athletes by the national team and felt very distressed. After she won the award, many Chinese snack brands offered to give away her favourite snack, and some mainland companies also gave away a house, a shop, and RMB $200,000 in cash.
Moreover, a Weibo public account, “Middle-Class Life Observation”, posted a comment, but was being banned at the moment, stated that because Quan was too young to be sensible to thank the party and the country. Instead, she directly said that she once wanted to give up but revealed her wills to make money to treat her mother’s illness by working hard. However, she had no idea what kind of disease her mother has as she did not know how to pronounce those words. It is questionable that Quan, who started diving at the age of 7, may not receive a good education at all, making her speech “difficult to beautify”.
Source: Stand News #Aug07
https://bit.ly/3ybucw8
#Olympics #Tokyo #China #Germany #Diving #Weibo #Athletes #Education #QuanHongchan #Diving #SuddeutcheZeitung
14-year-old Gold Medallist Practices Diving Hard for her Sick Mother
Tokyo Olympics ended on 8 August which China is almost the champion for having the most Olympics gold medals. However, its “national system” of training athletes to win glory has been controversial. Suddeutche Zeitung recently described China as a “soulless medal factory” in an article. The 14 years old Olympics champion Quan Hongchan, also known as the “diving genius”, was mentioned in the previous interview that she was tricked into diving due to her poor academic results and the incentives to get medical treatment for her sick mother. She has to dive more than a hundred times a day and nearly 300 times on land that she only stay at home during the holidays and has never been to amusement parks or zoos.
Some Weibo netizens lamented the poor treatment of athletes by the national team and felt very distressed. After she won the award, many Chinese snack brands offered to give away her favourite snack, and some mainland companies also gave away a house, a shop, and RMB $200,000 in cash.
Moreover, a Weibo public account, “Middle-Class Life Observation”, posted a comment, but was being banned at the moment, stated that because Quan was too young to be sensible to thank the party and the country. Instead, she directly said that she once wanted to give up but revealed her wills to make money to treat her mother’s illness by working hard. However, she had no idea what kind of disease her mother has as she did not know how to pronounce those words. It is questionable that Quan, who started diving at the age of 7, may not receive a good education at all, making her speech “difficult to beautify”.
Source: Stand News #Aug07
https://bit.ly/3ybucw8
#Olympics #Tokyo #China #Germany #Diving #Weibo #Athletes #Education #QuanHongchan #Diving #SuddeutcheZeitung
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德媒評中國「沒靈魂的獎牌工廠」 14 歲金牌得主全紅嬋稱為醫病母苦練跳水 | 立場報道 | 立場新聞
東京奧運明天（8 日）結束，中國目前奧運金牌數位列第一，但其「舉國體制」訓練運動員為國爭光一直備受爭議，《南德...
China's Magic Weapon
Governments around the world are uncovering secret operations to expand China's influence - the work of a little-known branch of the Chinese Communist Party called the United Front Work Department. President Xi has called it his 'magic weapon'.
Australia has changed its laws to combat foreign interference, and America says eight out of ten industrial espionage cases now involve China. So what is the United Front doing in the UK? Jane Corbin investigates this powerful but shadowy organisation. Has influence become interference as China bids to become the most powerful nation on earth?
Source: BBC #Aug23
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000z2yt
#China #Weapon #PresidentXi #CCP #Australia
Governments around the world are uncovering secret operations to expand China's influence - the work of a little-known branch of the Chinese Communist Party called the United Front Work Department. President Xi has called it his 'magic weapon'.
Australia has changed its laws to combat foreign interference, and America says eight out of ten industrial espionage cases now involve China. So what is the United Front doing in the UK? Jane Corbin investigates this powerful but shadowy organisation. Has influence become interference as China bids to become the most powerful nation on earth?
Source: BBC #Aug23
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000z2yt
#China #Weapon #PresidentXi #CCP #Australia
China rejects WHO plan for study of COVID-19 origin
China rejected on Thursday a World Health Organization (WHO) plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, which includes the hypothesis it could have escaped from a Chinese laboratory, a top health official said.
The WHO this month proposed a second phase of studies into the origins of the coronavirus in China, including audits of laboratories and markets in the city of Wuhan, calling for transparency from authorities.
"We will not accept such an origins-tracing plan as it, in some aspects, disregards common sense and defies science," Zeng Yixin, vice minister of the National Health Commission (NHC), told reporters.
Source: Reuters #Jul23
https://reut.rs/2UB4PGn
#China #Covid19 #WHO #NHC
China rejected on Thursday a World Health Organization (WHO) plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, which includes the hypothesis it could have escaped from a Chinese laboratory, a top health official said.
The WHO this month proposed a second phase of studies into the origins of the coronavirus in China, including audits of laboratories and markets in the city of Wuhan, calling for transparency from authorities.
"We will not accept such an origins-tracing plan as it, in some aspects, disregards common sense and defies science," Zeng Yixin, vice minister of the National Health Commission (NHC), told reporters.
Source: Reuters #Jul23
https://reut.rs/2UB4PGn
#China #Covid19 #WHO #NHC
Hong Kong Government Ousts Elected Lawmaker #ChengChungTai by "Disqualification"
Source: Stand News #Aug27
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Hong Kong Government Ousts Elected Lawmaker #ChengChungTai by "Disqualification"
The ‘Candidate Eligibility Review Committee’ of the Hong Kong SAR Government ousted CHENG Chung-tai, one of the final two opposition lawmakers from the city's lawmaking body, Legislative Council, on Thursday, 26 Aug, 2021. The news was announced by Hong Kong’s Chief Secretary John Lee Ka-chiu.
Hong Kong's next Chief Executive will be selected by a non-elected 1,500-membered electoral in 2022. All of the members must be screened by the ‘Candidate Eligibility Review Committee’, chaired by #JohnLee, the city's former Security Chief.
The Committee has reviewed 1,498 electoral candidates and disqualified two of them. One of them is opposition lawmaker CHENG Chung-tai. Lee claimed, once Cheng loses his electoral candidature, he is disqualified immediately from his lawmaker seat.
Lee claimed that the committee had asked Cheng for information in ‘some matters’. After Cheng replied, the Committee for ‘Safeguarding National Security of the Hong Kong SAR’ said Cheng did not qualify.
Source: Initium Media #Aug27
https://bit.ly/3ykshFu
#PoliticalSuppression #Disqualifications #DQ #PoliceState #FakeElection #ChiefExecutiveElection #NationalSecurityLaw
The ‘Candidate Eligibility Review Committee’ of the Hong Kong SAR Government ousted CHENG Chung-tai, one of the final two opposition lawmakers from the city's lawmaking body, Legislative Council, on Thursday, 26 Aug, 2021. The news was announced by Hong Kong’s Chief Secretary John Lee Ka-chiu.
Hong Kong's next Chief Executive will be selected by a non-elected 1,500-membered electoral in 2022. All of the members must be screened by the ‘Candidate Eligibility Review Committee’, chaired by #JohnLee, the city's former Security Chief.
The Committee has reviewed 1,498 electoral candidates and disqualified two of them. One of them is opposition lawmaker CHENG Chung-tai. Lee claimed, once Cheng loses his electoral candidature, he is disqualified immediately from his lawmaker seat.
Lee claimed that the committee had asked Cheng for information in ‘some matters’. After Cheng replied, the Committee for ‘Safeguarding National Security of the Hong Kong SAR’ said Cheng did not qualify.
Source: Initium Media #Aug27
https://bit.ly/3ykshFu
#PoliticalSuppression #Disqualifications #DQ #PoliceState #FakeElection #ChiefExecutiveElection #NationalSecurityLaw
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晚報：資審會完成審查選委會參選人，鄭松泰資格無效、隨即喪失立法會議席
香港 資格審查委員會完成審查及確認選委會界別分組選舉候選人資格 ，立法會議員鄭松泰被裁定資格無效，他亦隨之即時喪失立法會議席。
HK National Security Police Accuses Veteran Pro-democracy NGO as "Agent of Foreign Power"
Source: Stand News; RTHK #Aug25
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HK National Security Police Accuses Veteran Pro-democracy NGO as "Agent of Foreign Power"
On August 25, 2021 in Hong Kong, the National Security Police appeared at the barrister's office of #ChowHangTung, the vice-president of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. The police cited Article 43 of the National Security Law and demanded Chow to hand over "information about the Alliance" including meeting records since 2014.
The Alliance is a pro-demoncracy charity group established in Hong Kong, as a response to the 1989 June 4th Tiananman Massacre by the Chinese Communist Party that year. The Alliance has been organizing the June 4 candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park since 1990.
According to Chow, the police in the letter claimed that the Alliance is "an agent of foreign power". The police specifically asked for information regarding the Alliance's potential exchanges with "political parties outside the PRC or Taiwan"; Mark Simon, the former aide of Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai; and humanitarian lawyers' group.
Chow said, "The whole matter is clearly an abuse of the national security law to suppress civil society."
Chow also said other core members of the Alliance have received similar demand from the police.
Source: Stand News; RTHK #Aug25
https://thestandnews.page.link/ttbhffLt5CmDSrNj6
#PoliticalProsecution #NationalSecurityLaw #Alliance #June4Massacre #WhiteTerror
#ForeignPower
On August 25, 2021 in Hong Kong, the National Security Police appeared at the barrister's office of #ChowHangTung, the vice-president of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. The police cited Article 43 of the National Security Law and demanded Chow to hand over "information about the Alliance" including meeting records since 2014.
The Alliance is a pro-demoncracy charity group established in Hong Kong, as a response to the 1989 June 4th Tiananman Massacre by the Chinese Communist Party that year. The Alliance has been organizing the June 4 candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park since 1990.
According to Chow, the police in the letter claimed that the Alliance is "an agent of foreign power". The police specifically asked for information regarding the Alliance's potential exchanges with "political parties outside the PRC or Taiwan"; Mark Simon, the former aide of Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai; and humanitarian lawyers' group.
Chow said, "The whole matter is clearly an abuse of the national security law to suppress civil society."
Chow also said other core members of the Alliance have received similar demand from the police.
Source: Stand News; RTHK #Aug25
https://thestandnews.page.link/ttbhffLt5CmDSrNj6
#PoliticalProsecution #NationalSecurityLaw #Alliance #June4Massacre #WhiteTerror
#ForeignPower
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警國安處引國安法 43 條 要求支聯會交資料 消息：警相信支聯會屬外國代理人 | 立場報道 | 立場新聞
【晚上 10 時更新 新增警方回覆】警方國安處人員今早（ 25 日）到支聯會副主席鄒幸彤在中環的大律師辦公室，...
More than 20 Diplomats in Beijing Calling China to Release the 2 Arrested Canadians;
China Criticizes Canada for “Gathering Nations and Confusing Right and Wrong”.
Source: Stand News #Aug12
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China Criticizes Canada for “Gathering Nations and Confusing Right and Wrong”.
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More than 20 Diplomats in Beijing Calling China to Release the 2 Arrested Canadians;
China Criticizes Canada for “Gathering Nations and Confusing Right and Wrong”.
Canadian merchant Michael Spavor was being convicted of espionage by a Chinese court and sentenced to 11-year imprisonment. Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau criticized the trial process as a sham trial, being unfair and Opaque.
Diplomats from more than 20 countries, including the United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and the EU, gathered at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing to show their supports. They urged to have a fair trial or a release of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticized Canada for “gathering individual countries, disregarding the facts and confusing the right and wrong”.
Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau stated in the live broadcast at CTV Television Network on August 11 that the sentence is a lack of fairness and transparency. He also indicated that “We are known that arbitrary detention of China and a sham trial with a lack of transparency and with an unreasonable judgement do not match the International Law”. He continued that the Canadian government was negotiating with Senior officials from China and the US, finding the solution to release both. However, Marc did not reveal any details.
Source: Stand News #Aug12
https://bit.ly/3jaPXb4
#Canada #China #Japan #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #Australia #Germany #EU #Embassy #ShamTrial #Transparency #Unfairness #ForeignAffairs #MichaelKovrig #MichaelSpavor #MarcGarneau
China Criticizes Canada for “Gathering Nations and Confusing Right and Wrong”.
Canadian merchant Michael Spavor was being convicted of espionage by a Chinese court and sentenced to 11-year imprisonment. Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau criticized the trial process as a sham trial, being unfair and Opaque.
Diplomats from more than 20 countries, including the United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and the EU, gathered at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing to show their supports. They urged to have a fair trial or a release of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticized Canada for “gathering individual countries, disregarding the facts and confusing the right and wrong”.
Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau stated in the live broadcast at CTV Television Network on August 11 that the sentence is a lack of fairness and transparency. He also indicated that “We are known that arbitrary detention of China and a sham trial with a lack of transparency and with an unreasonable judgement do not match the International Law”. He continued that the Canadian government was negotiating with Senior officials from China and the US, finding the solution to release both. However, Marc did not reveal any details.
Source: Stand News #Aug12
https://bit.ly/3jaPXb4
#Canada #China #Japan #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #Australia #Germany #EU #Embassy #ShamTrial #Transparency #Unfairness #ForeignAffairs #MichaelKovrig #MichaelSpavor #MarcGarneau
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廿多國外交官北京聲援加拿大 促請中方釋放兩加籍被捕人 中方批「糾集個別國家、混淆是非」 | 立場報道 | 立場新聞
加拿大商人斯帕弗（Michael Spavor）被中國法院裁定間諜罪名成立，判囚11年，加拿大外交部長加爾諾批...
Security fears for Hongkongers as alleged Beijing sympathiser joins rehoming taskforce
Fears over the security of Hong Kongers moving to Britain have been raised after the appointment of an alleged Beijing sympathiser to the Government’s rehoming taskforce.
The Telegraph can reveal that the body advising ministers on how to assimilate new arrivals includes a prominent member of a London-based Chinese organisation that publicly supports the authoritarian crackdown which prompted the exodus.
Senior Conservatives on Saturday night urged the Government to review the “short-sighted” appointment after British-based Hong Kong activists voiced fears their details could be shared with the Chinese embassy.
Source: The Telegraph #Aug21
https://bit.ly/3mtlfMC
#Security #HongKonger #Beijing #Rehoming
Fears over the security of Hong Kongers moving to Britain have been raised after the appointment of an alleged Beijing sympathiser to the Government’s rehoming taskforce.
The Telegraph can reveal that the body advising ministers on how to assimilate new arrivals includes a prominent member of a London-based Chinese organisation that publicly supports the authoritarian crackdown which prompted the exodus.
Senior Conservatives on Saturday night urged the Government to review the “short-sighted” appointment after British-based Hong Kong activists voiced fears their details could be shared with the Chinese embassy.
Source: The Telegraph #Aug21
https://bit.ly/3mtlfMC
#Security #HongKonger #Beijing #Rehoming
HK court denies bail to Apple Daily staff facing national security charges
Four staff members from the now-closed pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper were denied bail in a Hong Kong court on Thursday after they were charged with colluding with foreign forces under a national security law that has intensified fears over media freedoms.
Public broadcaster RTHK said national security judge Victor So rejected their bail applications because there was not enough evidence to show the defendants "will not commit further acts endangering national security".
The charges are the latest in a national security probe into media tycoon Jimmy Lai's newspaper, which folded after several hundred police raided its headquarters on June 17, freezing key assets and bank accounts.
Source: Reuters #Jul22
https://reut.rs/3Blrbfw
#AppleDaily #NationalSecurityLaw #VictorSo #Newspaper #JimmyLai
Four staff members from the now-closed pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper were denied bail in a Hong Kong court on Thursday after they were charged with colluding with foreign forces under a national security law that has intensified fears over media freedoms.
Public broadcaster RTHK said national security judge Victor So rejected their bail applications because there was not enough evidence to show the defendants "will not commit further acts endangering national security".
The charges are the latest in a national security probe into media tycoon Jimmy Lai's newspaper, which folded after several hundred police raided its headquarters on June 17, freezing key assets and bank accounts.
Source: Reuters #Jul22
https://reut.rs/3Blrbfw
#AppleDaily #NationalSecurityLaw #VictorSo #Newspaper #JimmyLai
Hong Kong Authorities Charge Pro-democracy Demonstration Convener After 2 Years
Chung Kin-ping is a Hongkonger who convened a pro-democracy protest in Yuen Long during the Anti-ELAB Movement in 2019. He was arrested and detained by the Hong Kong police on August 23, 2021, and was mentioned in Fanling Magistrates' Court the next day.
The court accepted the prosecution's request to refuse bail for Chung. He will be remanded until the next hearing on September 21, 2021.
The protest in question took place on July 27, 2019, the weekend after the 7.21 Attack at Yuen Long MTR Station. Large crowds gathered despite police banning the protest; in the evening, numerous riot police rushed into Yuen Long Station and arrested protesters.
Source: Stand News #Aug24
https://bit.ly/38aAGAN
#PoliticalProsecution #Arrest #Court #YuenLong721
Chung Kin-ping is a Hongkonger who convened a pro-democracy protest in Yuen Long during the Anti-ELAB Movement in 2019. He was arrested and detained by the Hong Kong police on August 23, 2021, and was mentioned in Fanling Magistrates' Court the next day.
The court accepted the prosecution's request to refuse bail for Chung. He will be remanded until the next hearing on September 21, 2021.
The protest in question took place on July 27, 2019, the weekend after the 7.21 Attack at Yuen Long MTR Station. Large crowds gathered despite police banning the protest; in the evening, numerous riot police rushed into Yuen Long Station and arrested protesters.
Source: Stand News #Aug24
https://bit.ly/38aAGAN
#PoliticalProsecution #Arrest #Court #YuenLong721
85% attendees of Carrie Lam’s consultation forum are pre-selected by government, only 1 opinion against current policies
Source: Stand News #Aug23
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85% attendees of Carrie Lam’s consultation forum are pre-selected by government, only 1 opinion against current policies
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam attended a public consultation forum for her policy address on Sunday, 22 Aug, 2021.
28 attendees spoke during the session, but only one spoke clearly against the government current policies. 90 (84.9%) among the 106 attendees were invited by the government, authorities admitted after the forum.
Those 90 attendees were invited by Home Office in the name of ‘districts individuals’, another 16 were randomly sampled by The Lingnan University, the government’s Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office said.
By inviting districts individuals, ‘citizens with good understanding in district matters’ could raise opinion to the Chief Executive directly, it also helps including the sound from ethnic minorities, the government explained.
Source: Stand News #Aug23
https://t.me/thestandnews/5553
#FailedState #CarrieLam #Consultation #Stage
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam attended a public consultation forum for her policy address on Sunday, 22 Aug, 2021.
28 attendees spoke during the session, but only one spoke clearly against the government current policies. 90 (84.9%) among the 106 attendees were invited by the government, authorities admitted after the forum.
Those 90 attendees were invited by Home Office in the name of ‘districts individuals’, another 16 were randomly sampled by The Lingnan University, the government’s Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office said.
By inviting districts individuals, ‘citizens with good understanding in district matters’ could raise opinion to the Chief Executive directly, it also helps including the sound from ethnic minorities, the government explained.
Source: Stand News #Aug23
https://t.me/thestandnews/5553
#FailedState #CarrieLam #Consultation #Stage
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【九成人都係受邀】
政府昨（22 日）舉行首場施政報告諮詢會，有 106 人出席，包括由大學「隨機抽樣」，以及受政府邀請的「十八區人士」，結果抽中發言的 28 人當中，近半有建制背景，只有 1 人發言時反對政府政策。
政策創新與統籌辦事處回覆查詢時指，在昨日出席的 106 人中，只有 16 個是隨機抽樣的市民，另外 90 人都是獲邀十八區人士。
政府解釋，地區人士出席諮詢會可以讓「熟悉地區事務」的「市民」，有機會直接向行政長官提供意見，亦可以涵蓋隨機抽樣較難選中的人例如少數族裔。
政府昨（22 日）舉行首場施政報告諮詢會，有 106 人出席，包括由大學「隨機抽樣」，以及受政府邀請的「十八區人士」，結果抽中發言的 28 人當中，近半有建制背景，只有 1 人發言時反對政府政策。
政策創新與統籌辦事處回覆查詢時指，在昨日出席的 106 人中，只有 16 個是隨機抽樣的市民，另外 90 人都是獲邀十八區人士。
政府解釋，地區人士出席諮詢會可以讓「熟悉地區事務」的「市民」，有機會直接向行政長官提供意見，亦可以涵蓋隨機抽樣較難選中的人例如少數族裔。
CCTV Again Questions the US Having "an Ulterior Motive" for Joining Wuhan Military World in 2019 Without Seeking Gold
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CCTV Again Questions the US Having "an Ulterior Motive" for Joining Wuhan Military World in 2019 Without Seeking Gold
With more than 200 million COVID-19 infections, the whole world is trying to trace the source of the pandemic. While some in the US have suspected the virus was the leakage from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China continues to wage a public opinion war, questioning the US to be the source of the virus. Following 25 million signatures collected by the Chinese tabloid Global Times, accusing US Fort Detrick laboratory of leaking the virus, official China media CCTV published another article on the 11th on the "Wuhan Military World theory", which proposed that a US athlete joining the game to be the "patient zero" and had transmitted the virus to China.
However, foreign media, such as CNN, has dismissed this claim. China-labelled "Patient zero" Maatje Benassi said that she has never been diagnosed in COVID-19 but has become a talking point of Chinese netizens, with her home address posted on the internet. "It's like waking up from a bad dream going into a nightmare day after day", she said.
Source: Stand News #Aug12
https://bit.ly/387UW67
#COVID19 #WuhanMilitaryWorld #WuhanInstituteOfVirology #FortDetrick #PatientZero #MaatjeBenassi #GlobalTimes #CCTV #CNN #China #US
With more than 200 million COVID-19 infections, the whole world is trying to trace the source of the pandemic. While some in the US have suspected the virus was the leakage from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China continues to wage a public opinion war, questioning the US to be the source of the virus. Following 25 million signatures collected by the Chinese tabloid Global Times, accusing US Fort Detrick laboratory of leaking the virus, official China media CCTV published another article on the 11th on the "Wuhan Military World theory", which proposed that a US athlete joining the game to be the "patient zero" and had transmitted the virus to China.
However, foreign media, such as CNN, has dismissed this claim. China-labelled "Patient zero" Maatje Benassi said that she has never been diagnosed in COVID-19 but has become a talking point of Chinese netizens, with her home address posted on the internet. "It's like waking up from a bad dream going into a nightmare day after day", she said.
Source: Stand News #Aug12
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China’s trade halt with Lithuania over Taiwan ties sends warning to Europe
China’s use of trade as a weapon in diplomatic disputes appears to be now targeted at Lithuania, home to fewer than 3 million people, after the Baltic nation agreed to exchange diplomatic offices with Taiwan.
But Beijing’s unofficial halt to its already limited trade with Lithuania is more about sending a warning to the rest of Europe, analysts have said.
Lithuania and Taiwan have agreed to establish mutual representative offices as a sign of deepening ties between the two governments. In response Beijing recalled its ambassador from Vilnius and expelled Lithuania’s from Beijing.
Source: The Guardians #Aug26
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/26/chinas-trade-halt-with-lithuania-over-taiwan-ties-sends-warning-to-europe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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China’s use of trade as a weapon in diplomatic disputes appears to be now targeted at Lithuania, home to fewer than 3 million people, after the Baltic nation agreed to exchange diplomatic offices with Taiwan.
But Beijing’s unofficial halt to its already limited trade with Lithuania is more about sending a warning to the rest of Europe, analysts have said.
Lithuania and Taiwan have agreed to establish mutual representative offices as a sign of deepening ties between the two governments. In response Beijing recalled its ambassador from Vilnius and expelled Lithuania’s from Beijing.
Source: The Guardians #Aug26
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/26/chinas-trade-halt-with-lithuania-over-taiwan-ties-sends-warning-to-europe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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China schools: 'Xi Jinping Thought' introduced into curriculum
China will introduce the political ideology of the Chinese President in its national curriculum.
"Xi Jinping thought" will help "teenagers establish Marxist beliefs", said the Ministry of Education (MOE) in new guidelines.
The ideology will be integrated from primary school up to university.
This is the latest effort by Mr Xi to consolidate the ruling Chinese Communist Party's role in different areas of society.
Source: BBC #Aug25
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58301575
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China will introduce the political ideology of the Chinese President in its national curriculum.
"Xi Jinping thought" will help "teenagers establish Marxist beliefs", said the Ministry of Education (MOE) in new guidelines.
The ideology will be integrated from primary school up to university.
This is the latest effort by Mr Xi to consolidate the ruling Chinese Communist Party's role in different areas of society.
Source: BBC #Aug25
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58301575
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Strict Covid-19 curbs leave Hong Kong 'indefinitely trapped', #EUchamber says
Source: Straits Times #Aug20
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Strict Covid-19 curbs leave Hong Kong 'indefinitely trapped', #EUchamber says
Source: Straits Times #Aug20
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