"Extreme Bedingungen" in Hongkong nach Rekordregen
Reißende Flüsse auf Straßen, überflutete U-Bahn-Stationen: Heftige Regenfälle haben die Millionenmetropole Hongkong lahmgelegt. Die Regierung spricht von "extremen Bedingungen". Besserung ist nicht in Sicht.
Die schlimmsten Regenfaelle in ueber 140 Jahren.... also in #HongKong
Die Unwetter in #Griechenland lassen innerhalb eines Tages so viel Regen ab, wie sonst im ganzen Jahr & in #Taiwan stieg die Inflation wegen der vielen Taifune im August.
Wir sind sowas von fucked!
Gruesse aus NRW, wo gerade die Temperaturrekorde fuer den September gebrochen werden und ich in kurzer Hose rumlaufen koennte.
Und in #Bayern sitzen Unweltaktivist:innen in Uhaft 🤯
Anyone missing some Leslie Cheung? A Chinese Ghost Story is one of my favourite movies in the world, and so is this beautiful song he say.
PS: The movie is based on one of the Tales from "Tales from a Chinese Studio", an ancient compendium of ghost/supernatural stories from the 16th century.
#hongkong has a well-oiled machinery when it comes to weather events.
HK Observatory issues weather warnings: Amber rain, red rain, black rain, monsoon, typhoon T1, T3, T8, T10
Schools, employers, government and private services have well-documented standards for when they'll be open, be closed, offer limited service etc, depending on weather signal and timing.
The city thankfully made a decision relatively early on, before adding millions of people, to invest in separate systems for rain drainage and waste sewage. The drainage has margins for even the most extreme weather events.
Hongkong: Kopfgeld auf Aktivisten im Exil ausgesetzt
Seit drei Jahren gilt Chinas "Sicherheitsgesetz" in Hongkong - nun kommt es erneut zur Anwendung: Die Behörden erließen Haftbefehle inklusive Kopfgeld gegen ehemalige Abgeordnete und Aktivisten, die im Exil leben. Von Eva Lamby-Schmitt.
Verdicts in Hong Kong’s biggest trial against democratic opposition come >3 yrs after police arrested 47 #democrats in raids at homes across the city. They were charged w/ #conspiracy to commit subversion under a #NationalSecurity law imposed by #China.
This is an excellent overview of Anita Mui’s life and career. I wasn’t always aware of it then, but I think late 80s and 90s HK and TW pop and movie stars who displayed androgyny and queerness and allyship were way ahead of their time. (A-Mei, the indigenous Taiwanese superstar, is another)
The organizers of the AFC eAsian Cup 2023 used "Hong Kong, China" as the name for the Hong Kong team, but they couldn't make Konami update their eFootball 2024 game from saying just "Hong Kong", so the Hong Kong Football Association withdrew from the tournament.
The team was told only three hours before their game.
Brisbane or Sydney?
Which city in Australia is the world's biggest Indo Hong Kong refugee camp?