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#Alert #ChinaPneumonia #Wuhan #Japan

HKT08:44 #Jan16
Wuhan Pneumonia Spread from China to Japan

Japan has confirmed its first case of an infection of the new coronavirus from China, the patient is a Chinese national who has visited Wuhan.
The patient has recovered and discharged from hospital.

Source: Now News #Jan16

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#FirstHand #Jan16
Young Man Attacked by 3 Men with Knives


23:41 | Mongkok
A young man was wounded and bleeding profusely outside of Ginza Plaza of Sai Yeung Choi Street South in Mong Kok. He was lying in a pool of blood.

Eyewitnesses said that the young man was wounded with knives by 3 suspects in black clothes. All of them had their faces concealed with face masks. Paramedics and riot police were called to the scene

#Attack #Mongkok
#FirstHand #Jan16
Surgical Mask Left by Assailant to be sent for DNA Test


2358 | Mong Kok
The picture shows a surgical mask suspected to have been left on Dundas Street by one of the suspects who attacked the young man.

The police officers at the scene, however, lacked professionalism, as they seemed hesitant, and were even grumbling. They only mentioned that the mask will be brought back for DNA test.

#Attack #Mongkok
#LunchWithYou

Lunchtime Protest in Kwun Tong: Citizens Expressed Concerns Over The Soaring Number Of Dead Bodies And Suicide Cases

“Lunch With You” Protest was held in Tsun Yip Street Playground, Kwun Tong at 1 p.m. on January 16, with an aim to raise awareness on the soaring number of dead bodies and suicide cases in the last few months.

Around 100 civilians particated in the protest, expressing concerns and doubt towards the “no suspicious circumstances” conclusion made by police on majority of the cases.

Some paticpants held signs and chanted slogans such as “Hong Kong People Will Not Stop the Resistance Against Tyranny” and “See you at Chater Garden on Jan 19”. Particpating civlians left peacefully after the lunchtime protest.

Source: Flash Media Hong Kong
#Jan16 #KwunTong #Suicide #Death #HongKongProtest2020
Pro-Beijing Lawmaker "Asks On Behalf of The Young People" What Would Happen After 2047,
Carrie Lam: Urge Them to Cherish One Country Two Systems Otherwise "They Could Be Responsible for the Situation That They Are Most Worried About"


On Jan 16, Chief Executive Carrie Lam attended the question and answer session of the Legislative Council.  Anna Chiang of the pro-Beijing party DAB claimed to raise a question "on behalf of the young people".  She said young people want democracy, but this made her and "foreigners" question as to "whether Hong Kong does not have freedom and democracy".

Chiang then answered her own question, saying that "the young people are actually concerned about 2047" and asking what the government would do to make the young people believe there is still one country two systems after 2047. Pro-democracy lawmaker Charles Mok then yelled "five demands not one less", but was asked to leave.

Carrie Lam said that Hong Kong SAR operates directly under the Chinese Government.  As long as Hong Kong adheres to the one country two systems principle and respects the differences in the two systems, there would be no changes after 2047 and stability would go on. She also claimed that most of the young people were born after the handover.  They receive education and employment in a stable and prosperous Hong Kong under one country two systems.  She urged everyone to cherish one country two systems and do not undermine "such important principle and direction because of a misunderstanding".  "They could be responsible for the situation that they are most worried about today".

Helena Wong of the Democratic Party burst into an uproar in response to Carrie Lam's statement.  She was then asked to leave by Andrew Leung, the pro-Beijing President of the LegCo.

Source: InMedia #Jan16
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7 Forbidden Topics in Universities in China

Editor's note: Colleges and universities in China have been instructed to steer clear of seven topics in their courses. Reasons provided by Xi Jinping administration showed an inconceivable retrogression in Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ideology, probably an explicit evidence of the leader's sense of insecurity and his anxiety in losing powers to rivalries.

1. Universal Values
Cause: they challenges or even expels Chinese commmunist party leaders and the party's leadership

2. Freedom of Press
Cause: The idea upsets the stability of CCP and society

3. Civil Society
Cause: It creates a new force at grassroots level independent of the CCP

4. Civil Rights
Cause: they upset the CCP’s macro-control over citizens

5. CCP's historical aberrations Cause: this might undermine CCP’s legitimacy to rule or overturn CCP

6. Elite Cronyism / privileged capitalist class
Cause: it 'distorts' the fact that political reform necessitates economic liberalization.

7. Judicial Independence
Cause: it challenges CCP's rule and authority if the courts are no longer under the direct control of CCP

Source : BBC

#Jan16 #StateTerrorism #Authoritarianism #Brainwash
The Release of Report on Police Suspended

//The Independent Police Complaints Council has indefinitely postponed the release of a preliminary report into the handling of social unrest as it awaits the outcome of a judicial review of its powers.

...Media reports earlier this month suggested that the IPCC's initial report would show "many shortcomings" in the policing of protests last summer.

The report would cover only the first month of social unrest in June last year, including a mass demonstration on June 9, protests outside the Legislative Council on June 12 and the storming of the Legco complex on July 1.

Other contentious issues, such as the police's response to an attack by a white-shirted mob on members of the public and protesters at Yuen Long Station on July 21, would have to wait for further reports.//

Source: RTHK #Jan16
news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1503193-20200116.htm
Re-elected BAR Chairman Philip Dykes Confirms Credible Media Reports on Police Brutality in Hong Kong, Despite Carrie Lam's Denial

The Bar Association held its annual general election on January 16, with its current Chairman, Philip Dykes SC re-elected without contest, while incumbent Executive member, Anita Yip, SC was elected as vice chairman.

Dykes hopes that he can speak up more for his fellow industry players in the coming year, rather than responding to contentious issues surrounding Hong Kong. However, he admitted frankly that it is too difficult to predict the future, and that his hopes could fall through.

HKSAR Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, when attending Q and A session in Legislative Council in the morning of Jan 16, denied the existence of police brutality in Hong Kong and she called on the community to support the police. Dykes said that he was both amused and amazed by Lam’s statement, and he even made a sarcastic remark, asking Carrie Lam which media does she subscribe to.

Countering Lam’s view, Dykes reiterated that there were numerous credible reports of the police using excessive force, including some by renowned international organizations. Besides, members of the IPCC also suggested hiring experts for further investigations.

Source: Stand News
https://thestandnews.com/politics/戴啟思連任大律師公會主席-批林鄭否認警暴論難以置信-不知她看什麼媒體/

#Jan16 #PoliceBrutality #PhilipDykes
#Breaking #Sanction
US announces new sanctions against 6 linked to Mass Arrest of pro-democracy activists in HK

The US announced sanctions against six Hong Kong or Chinese officials connected to the mass arrests of pro-democracy activists on January 6.
 
The six people targeted for new sanctions include Frederic Choi, director of the national security division of the Hong Kong police; Sun Qingye, a deputy to Zheng Yanxiong, who was appointed in July to head a new national security office in Hong Kong.

Also named were pro-Beijing legislator Tam Yiu-chung, You Quan of China’s United Front Work Department, and Assistant Commissioners of Police for National Security, Kelvin Kong Hok-lai and Andrew Kan Kai-yan.

Source: Apple Daily, Reuters; #Jan16
#TaiMoShan
More #CCP-styled Slogans Found on Hong Kong's Highest Peak, #XiJinping's order: "Be ready to the war and win"

Source: Stand News #Jan16

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