Sa #HongKong#Disneyland nag-celebrate ng 78th birthday si lola Amada Marcelo bilang regalo ng kanyang apong si Bayan Patroller Winona Bianca Marie Adil.
These route-specific demarcated sidewalk queuing areas make a lot of sense … and they make bus boarding in Hong Kong very efficient. #transit#hongkong#cities
#HongKong’s examination authority says it will deliver university entrance test papers to mainland #China under tight security in convoy of armoured trucks.
“From words to prosperity.” 📖
“We see reading as part of living.” 📚
“From now on I would keep the lights on in my heart.” ❤️
“Books always make life more vibrant! Thank you.”
#hongkong is doing great on the holidays front, we get Christian holidays and traditional Chinese holidays and Buddhist holidays.
So we have Easter this weekend, Ching Ming next Thursday and Buddha's Birthday the month after.
Also we have Labor Day on the original May First as declared by the Second International, not for Chinese reasons, but for British reasons. The Mainland gets the whole week off.
Today’s #DogofPeace is this pup I saw at the 10th anniversary of the Sunflower Movement. She’s wearing a strip of cloth written in “Liberate #hongkong the revolution of our times”. According to the Taiwan Ministry of the Interior, 46,000 Hong Kong immigrants have moved to Taiwan from 2018-2023.
Hong Kong is reporting its highest march temperature in 140 years.
And it's not just Hong Kong.
Rio, Portland, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Buffalo, Sydney, Toronto, Singapore, Kerala - those are only some of the cities that came up in the top results for "march heat record".
"Yet, for all that, Hong Kong flourished... under the aegis of empire. ... Though denied full democratic rights, its people eventually prospered."
Simon Tisdall in the Guardian decrying China's destruction of Hong Kong's democracy by, er... harking back to the British Empire's undemocratic treatment of Hong Kong. China's treatment of Hong Kong is a disgrace, but I'm not sure this is the killer argument Tisdall seems to think.
“The national security law – with its vague provisions on secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion – has already been used along with a colonial-era sedition law to arrest and silence dissent in Hong Kong.”