Two-faced Chinese Rush to Cyprus: Run Before It's Too Late

Chinese dignitaries claim to be patriotic but secretly find an escape door for themselves. According to Al Jazeera, Cyprus issued 1,400 "Golden Passports" to applicants from more than 70 different countries, including 500 Chinese citizens, between 2017 and 2019. A Chinese businessman accepted an interview with Radio Free Asia, bluntly saying that everyone was aware of the crisis, "it will be too late if you don't escape (China) now."

Chinese businessman Mr. Zhang revealed that there had been definitely more than several hundreds officials who had migrated overseas or secretly obtained foreign passports in the past three years. One of the reasons for them to migrate overseas is because everyone is aware of the crisis brought on by the mad and impulsive Chinese leaders. All the hard work and wealth accumulated by the last generations will be washed down the drains in this crisis. Nobody can afford to lose. No one is willing to sacrifice their families' health and the future of their children to satisfy the Xi Jinping government's preposterous ambition.

Under the unfavorable factors such as economic downturn and massive collapse of private enterprises in China, Mr. Zhang said many of his friends decided to sell their assets and migrate overseas. "We were aware of it long time ago. It will be too late if you don't escape (China) now. They sold their local assets and made investment in foreign countries to actually preserve the value of their assets. Friends staying in China will have to constantly face the challenge of asset shrinkage."

Source: Apple Daily #Aug27
https://hk.appledaily.com/china/20200827/R5OSAYXSLFH5DDGVCEMG2TY6YU/

#Cyprus #GoldenPassport #CyprusPapers #EU #Emigration

#Migration #Emigration
Cardiothoracic Surgery Consultant Doctor resigned for emigration,
Hospital Authority Chief: A worrying trend

Source: Stand News; #Aug13

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Cardiothoracic Surgery Consultant Doctor resigned for emigration,
Hospital Authority Chief: A worrying trend

Hong Kong is undergoing another wave of mass emigration, many among are professional talents.Henry Fan Hung-Ling, Chairman of Hong Kong Hospital Authority (HA) admitted that the turnover rate of doctors and nurses increases year-over-year, and "the trend is worrying". He added that many of the leaving medical professionals are on emigration plan departing Hong Kong permanently.

Among those, a Consultant Doctor (very senior doctor in Hong Kong public hospital) specializing in Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Children's Hospital just resigned. Dr. Barnabe Antonio Rocha, one of the 12 Cardiothoracic Surgery Consultants in HA, will be leaving his position shortly. According to another anonymous Consultant Doctor, Doctor Rocha is experted in cardiac surgery for child and his departure marks a loss of talent in the Hospital.

Doctor Tony Ling Siu-Chi, President of the Hong Kong Public Doctors' Association, commented certain "actions" and "news" by Hong Kong government masks the city with white terror, leading to this new wave of mass emigration involving many people from various sectors, including doctors. He furthered, the government must need to think thoroughly a question - why there are so many Hong Kong people losing confidence to their city, their home.

Source: Stand News; #Aug13
#Diaspora #WhiteTerror #FailedState #HospitalAuthority

The latest Hong Kong population is 7.39 million, which declined by 1.2% from last year, the biggest drop in at least six decades.

#Population #Emigration #Demographics #GoHKgraphics

Independent English bookshop in Hong Kong Closes as Owner Leaves the City

In Hong Kong, the independent English bookshop, Bleak House Books (清明堂) will be closed in mid-October, 2021. The co-founder Albert King-ho Wan announced on Sunday, August 29, 2021.

Wan and his family will be leaving Hong Kong in the near future. Wan wrote in the blog of the bookstore, "the backdrop to these developments is, of course, politics".

Albert Wan was born in the 1970s in the United States and grew up there until he moved back to Hong Kong with his family in 2016. Previously a lawyer, Albert Wan started #BleakHouseBooks in early 2018 in San Po Kong, Kowloon.

Bleak House Books mainly sells vintage English books and comics and has become popular among readers over time. The bookshop also held talks for readers to exchange reflections.

Albert Wan said that the bookshop will be closed on October 15, 2021. Wan explained that his family’s daily lives are not overtly political, "but as George Orwell once remarked, in our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics. All issues are political issues."

The closure is a decision made with great sadness, said Wan. He added that given the state of politics in Hong Kong, "My wife and I can no longer see a life for ourselves and our children in this city, at least in the near future."

Source: Stand News #Aug29
https://thestandnews.page.link/NBKUcSdHhuqu6u527

More at:
https://blog.bleakhousebooks.com.hk/the-last-memo/

#NationSecurityLaw #emigration #MigrationWave #BookStore #Lawyer #AlbertWan

#FailedState
Hongkongers are Leaving Faster than Ever as Anti-Pandemic Measures Strangle City Life

#Emigration #WuhanPneumonia #MandatoryCOVIDTesting

Sources: Oriental Daily, Lee Hung Yin Facebook

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Hongkongers are Leaving Faster than Ever as Anti-Pandemic Measures Strangle City Life

Hong Kong's current wave of emigration is showing signs of accelerating as its authorities further tightens its anti-pandemic policies, leaving its streets empty and businesses shuttered.

An eerie quiet across malls, metro and streets as Covid grips Hong Kong
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/32299?single

According to official numbers, there has been 25,300 Hong Kong residents departing the city on the week ending Feb 20, an increase of 22% from the previous week, reaching nearly 3,000 on Feb 13. These numbers are a new high since the government began its stringent quarantine and social distancing measures in response to the latest pandemic outbreak.

Among the departures, 72% left via the airport, while the remaining headed for mainland China via the two checkpoints that are still open at reduced capacity.

While the departure numbers do not distinguish between those planning to return from those leaving for good, Hong Kong's current 21-day quarantine upon entry certainly discourages traveling for vacation.

Commentator Lee Hung Yin noted that the numbers are particularly high on Sundays, a day on which there is a direct flight to London in the early morning. This flight might be more favorable for those leaving the city, as it allows more time for farewells with friends and relatives.

Not only does the wave of emigration signify a loss of talents, the departing Hongkongers are also taking their savings and capital with them.

According to Oriental Daily, Hong Kong has seen 48 Billion USD leaving the city in the year 2021. A report from Daiwa Capital Markets estimates a further 100 Billion USD leaving the city in the next 24 months, the majority of it happening in 2022.

Source:
Oriental Daily
https://orientaldaily.on.cc/content/%E7%94%A2%E7%B6%93/odn-20220222-0222_00202_004/%E4%B8%8A%E5%91%A82-5%E8%90%AC%E4%BA%BA%E9%9B%A2%E5%A2%83-%E7%96%AB%E4%B8%8B%E6%96%B0%E9%AB%98
Lee Hung Yin Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/100052120232558/posts/50283068813093

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#BNO
UK allows young Hongkongers a pathway to British citizenship

#UK #Citizenship #NationalSecurityLaw #Emigration

Source: RFA; #Feb25

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UK allows young Hongkongers a pathway to British citizenship

The British government announced new amendments to the British National (Overseas) immigration route on February 25, 2022, which allows Hong Kongers who were born on or after 1997 and who have parents with BNO passports to access it independently of their parents.

The BNO scheme, designed to offer a path to citizenship for Hong Kong nationals in the wake of Beijing’s national security law being imposed, required that applicants hold a BNO passport.

While the scheme allows applicants to bring relatives, including adult children, with them to the UK, many young people who have taken part in pro-democracy protests in 2019 have had to flee alone because their parents wish to remain in Hong Kong.

Acknowledging that this was creating “unfair outcomes”, Immigration minister Kevin Foster said it was “right and important” that the government change the policy to enable individuals aged 18 or over who were born on or after 1 July 1997 and who have at least one BNO parent to apply to the route independently.

He said the government intended to lay the changes to the immigration rules in September, with the changes expected to go live in October.

#UK #Citizenship #NationalSecurityLaw #Emigration

Source: RFA; #Feb25
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/htm/uk-visa-02242022121049.html

#Award
A 19-year-old Hongkonger wins National Poetry Competition

#EricYip #NationalPoetryCompetition #Fricatives #Freedom #Emigration

Source: Initial Media #Mar31

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A 19-year-old Hongkonger wins National Poetry Competition

#EricYip, who is from Hong Kong, won for his poem #Fricatives in the #NationalPoetryCompetition. The 19-year-old economics student from the University of Cambridge has become the youngest person to ever win the competition.

The poem plays with ideas about language to also comment on colonialism, race, migration, belonging and the guilt of leaving one’s home behind.

Yip’s work was chosen by judges Fiona Benson, David Constantine and Rachel Long, who read all the entries anonymously.

Benson said: “Fricatives is an immensely ambitious and beautifully achieved poem. It puts its reader into the position of a student of English as a second language, the fricative consonants tangling our mouths as we speak the poem, and intriguing us with the alternate meanings that rest precariously on the pronunciation. ‘Proper’ achievements – the correct pronunciation, the good education abroad, and the proud parents – are countered by an underworld of political prisoners and risky, grim sex.”

In an interview, Eric Yip told reporters that he was shocked to have won. “Poetry is definitely one of the arts where you get better with age because you have more lived experiences and you read more and you write more.”

Yip, who cites Ocean Vuong as a writer who made him realise he “had a right” to be heard, speaks Cantonese and Mandarin, but writes poetry in English.

Yip won £5,000 for the first prize. The National Poetry Competition also named nine other winners, including 92-year-old MR Peacocke for her poem Out of School.

#EricYip #NationalPoetryCompetition #Fricatives #Freedom #Emigration

Source: Initial Media #Mar31
https://t.me/theinitiumnews/79

Net Departure from Hong Kong Airport hits another record high, which is even more than some district's total population.

#Emigration #NetDeparture #Immigration #GoHKgraphics

#HongKongExodus
As Hongkongers departed the city in droves over the past two years following China's imposition of draconian #NationalSecurityLaw, many had been separated from their families and friends with whom they used to celebrate special occasions together. 

A restaurant in Wanchai, Hong Kong shared their experience on Facebook page:

source: Backstreet Steakhouse

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Over these past two years, we actually received many reservation requests from overseas customers for their family members who are still living in Hong Kong, especially seniors.  They would book tables for them to celebrate birthdays, and to prepare cakes with personalized messages.

Among these bookings, this one left the biggest impression on me. The customer made the booking online a month in advance for his parents' birthday. When he made the booking, he put in remarks that he had already left Hong Kong.

The week before the booking date, his friends start sending presents, flowers, champagne and cake to the restaurant. They even settled the bill in advance.

On the day of the booking, a family of three came. They were surprised that someone had thoughtfully arranged the dishes and champagne for them. It looked like an ordinary family gathering until we brought out the birthday cake, presents, flowers and greeting cards that were prepared in advance.

The younger sister and mother were deeply moved and they started to sob. When I was about to take a photograph for the family, they asked, with tears in their eyes, to leave an empty spot in the frame for the elder brother who couldn't attend the dinner.

The elderly father didn't show much emotion throughout the night.  At the end of dinner, when he realized that the bill has been paid in advance, he burst into tears. He held my shoulder tightly and asked: was it his son who arranged this dinner for them?

The man - who looked to be in his sixties - broke down in the restaurant crying as he asked me:  "Do you know where my son is now? Is he safe?  How can I reach out to him?"  Before long, the whole family were crying aloud together.

Finally,  they left their contact information to me, and repeatedly asked me to urge their son to call home, and let them know if he was safe.

Celebrating birthdays and festivals is so much more than finding a venue, deciding what to eat, preparing cakes and presents, and making sure everything is nice.

These days, simple as having a night out together might not be easy for some Hong Kong families. Do not take happiness for granted.

source: Backstreet Steakhouse
https://www.facebook.com/backstreetsteakhouse/posts/pfbid0LTuZusdN5huJUqP7ySpbt4TNPfeTwDUQXoVfa3qMZZx7JJncjgEJhAdAKPEHFiKXl

#Hongkongers #Emigration

No wonder why there is rumour about emigration from HK circulating around, 370000 fewer tax returns filed this year.

#Emigration #TaxReturn #GoHKgraphics