#FailedState
Hong Kong quarantine pushes Cathay pilots to 'breaking point'
//#CathayPacific has been hit by a wave of pilot resignations in recent weeks as resentment over Hong Kong's strict quarantine regime boils over and crew scramble for emerging opportunities overseas.
The departures come as Hong Kong ties itself to Beijing's closed-border zero-Covid strategy - a move that has kept the city coronavirus-free but internationally isolated.
Hong Kong's leaders say normalising travel with China must come before the rest of the world, a strategy that has caused growing alarm within multinationals in a finance hub that dubs itself "Asia's World City".
AFP interviewed four Cathay pilots who requested anonymity. Each said they knew more than a dozen colleagues who had resigned in the last few weeks.
Pilots fear Hong Kong's future as one of Asia's busiest transport hubs is now at risk.
"Once airlines move infrastructure like technicians, ground crew and pilots out of Hong Kong to places like Seoul and Bangkok, trust me, they're not coming back," one pilot said.
One pilot who flies commercial said he had been unable to see his family overseas for more than 20 months because of the quarantine restrictions and his need to stay flying to top up his depleted salary.
He said he felt Hong Kong's leaders have abandoned the idea of the city being an international hub at the request of "our overlords to the north" - a reference to Beijing.
"I love Hong Kong but if we're not going to plan our way out of this with a roadmap the question becomes what am I doing here?" he said.
"I can't take another year of this."//
Image: Stand News
Source: AFP; Straits Times #Dec2
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-quarantine-pushes-cathay-pilots-to-breaking-point
#Beijing #Covid19 #Pandemic #Quarantine #Pilot #Resignation
Hong Kong quarantine pushes Cathay pilots to 'breaking point'
//#CathayPacific has been hit by a wave of pilot resignations in recent weeks as resentment over Hong Kong's strict quarantine regime boils over and crew scramble for emerging opportunities overseas.
The departures come as Hong Kong ties itself to Beijing's closed-border zero-Covid strategy - a move that has kept the city coronavirus-free but internationally isolated.
Hong Kong's leaders say normalising travel with China must come before the rest of the world, a strategy that has caused growing alarm within multinationals in a finance hub that dubs itself "Asia's World City".
AFP interviewed four Cathay pilots who requested anonymity. Each said they knew more than a dozen colleagues who had resigned in the last few weeks.
Pilots fear Hong Kong's future as one of Asia's busiest transport hubs is now at risk.
"Once airlines move infrastructure like technicians, ground crew and pilots out of Hong Kong to places like Seoul and Bangkok, trust me, they're not coming back," one pilot said.
One pilot who flies commercial said he had been unable to see his family overseas for more than 20 months because of the quarantine restrictions and his need to stay flying to top up his depleted salary.
He said he felt Hong Kong's leaders have abandoned the idea of the city being an international hub at the request of "our overlords to the north" - a reference to Beijing.
"I love Hong Kong but if we're not going to plan our way out of this with a roadmap the question becomes what am I doing here?" he said.
"I can't take another year of this."//
Image: Stand News
Source: AFP; Straits Times #Dec2
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-quarantine-pushes-cathay-pilots-to-breaking-point
#Beijing #Covid19 #Pandemic #Quarantine #Pilot #Resignation
The Straits Times
Hong Kong quarantine pushes Cathay pilots to 'breaking point'
One cargo pilot said he planned to resign "within six months" and look for employment overseas.
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Editorial Committee of Hong Kong Baptist University's Students' Union resigns en masse due to #Censorship
On January 28, 2022, students’ Union Editorial Board of the Hong Kong Baptist University (#HKBU) revealed on Facebook that the university managenent had repeatedly interfered in students' editorial work.
The student board said the university had asked them to stop using the term “Wuhan virus” in their reports, interfered their coverage of the university’s national security curriculum, and asked them to withdraw copies of a recent issue of their student magazine, “Jumbo”.
The board accused the university of suppressing the students' publication, and announced that all its members would resign with immediate effect.
The university, meanwhile, decided to discontinue its relationship with the students' board and terminate students' rights to use all the facilities on campus. The university management claimed that they would take disciplinary action against the students concerned.
Source: Luminant Hong Kong; #Jan28
https://t.me/luminanthk/5224
#StudentUnion #PressFreedom #Resignation #HongKongStudents
Editorial Committee of Hong Kong Baptist University's Students' Union resigns en masse due to #Censorship
On January 28, 2022, students’ Union Editorial Board of the Hong Kong Baptist University (#HKBU) revealed on Facebook that the university managenent had repeatedly interfered in students' editorial work.
The student board said the university had asked them to stop using the term “Wuhan virus” in their reports, interfered their coverage of the university’s national security curriculum, and asked them to withdraw copies of a recent issue of their student magazine, “Jumbo”.
The board accused the university of suppressing the students' publication, and announced that all its members would resign with immediate effect.
The university, meanwhile, decided to discontinue its relationship with the students' board and terminate students' rights to use all the facilities on campus. The university management claimed that they would take disciplinary action against the students concerned.
Source: Luminant Hong Kong; #Jan28
https://t.me/luminanthk/5224
#StudentUnion #PressFreedom #Resignation #HongKongStudents
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今日（28日）晚上八時，浸會大學學生會編委會宣布第五十四屆編輯委員會內閣「楚鳴」全體成員即日請辭，並感謝當初對「楚鳴」投下信任票的會員，同時就未能於餘下任期繼續服務浸大學生而致歉。
聲明中提到校方要求編委會在其招募記者電郵內容進行刪減，並有關對國安課程的報導進行干預，及要求編委會停止使用「武漢肺炎」等字眼，同時要求刪減其刊物《浸報》其中的徵犒和回收，同日校方撤銷編委的官方電郵使用權。
編委會認為，對其出版或撰寫過的刊物內省不疚，問心無愧，指「總辭一舉絕非敝內閣所願，惜編委服…
今日（28日）晚上八時，浸會大學學生會編委會宣布第五十四屆編輯委員會內閣「楚鳴」全體成員即日請辭，並感謝當初對「楚鳴」投下信任票的會員，同時就未能於餘下任期繼續服務浸大學生而致歉。
聲明中提到校方要求編委會在其招募記者電郵內容進行刪減，並有關對國安課程的報導進行干預，及要求編委會停止使用「武漢肺炎」等字眼，同時要求刪減其刊物《浸報》其中的徵犒和回收，同日校方撤銷編委的官方電郵使用權。
編委會認為，對其出版或撰寫過的刊物內省不疚，問心無愧，指「總辭一舉絕非敝內閣所願，惜編委服…
#Resignation
Around 1% of Hong Kong civil servants quit in 2021/22
In Hong Kong, a rise in civil servants and Administrative Officers of the Government quitting their jobs is noticeable in recent years.
In the first 9 months of 2021/22, 8,274 civil servants have left the government, among them, 2,800 handed in their resignation.
The resignations, which represented a 50% increase than last year, were said only made up a small percentage of those who left at the same period. An official source from Civil Service Bureau claimed.
Hong Kong has around 178,000 government workers as of the end of March 2022. Those resigned accounted 1.6%, the highest figure since the return of Hong Kong to China.
The labour union representing civil service employees raised their concern over the vacancy arising from the increase in departure and decline in recruitment, amidst also political and work pressure.
Source: Ming Pao; #Apr19
https://bit.ly/3KaPqAc
#FailedState #CivilServant
Around 1% of Hong Kong civil servants quit in 2021/22
In Hong Kong, a rise in civil servants and Administrative Officers of the Government quitting their jobs is noticeable in recent years.
In the first 9 months of 2021/22, 8,274 civil servants have left the government, among them, 2,800 handed in their resignation.
The resignations, which represented a 50% increase than last year, were said only made up a small percentage of those who left at the same period. An official source from Civil Service Bureau claimed.
Hong Kong has around 178,000 government workers as of the end of March 2022. Those resigned accounted 1.6%, the highest figure since the return of Hong Kong to China.
The labour union representing civil service employees raised their concern over the vacancy arising from the increase in departure and decline in recruitment, amidst also political and work pressure.
Source: Ming Pao; #Apr19
https://bit.ly/3KaPqAc
#FailedState #CivilServant
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2800公僕辭職 回歸後新高 工會：政治及工作壓力增 公務員局：涉多項因素 - 20220419 - 要聞
【明報專訊】近年公務員和政務職系（AO）辭職者趨增，公務員事務局回覆本報查詢，2021/22年度截至12月、即首9個月，有逾2800名公務員辭職，較2020/21全年度增五成，辭職人數佔公務員實際員額比率逾1％，兩者同為回歸以來新高。有公務員工會認為，公務員面對的政治和工作壓力增加，擔心近年投考數字下跌，未必能填補空缺。