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  1. #1181

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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:
    Police recruitment day

    Police state 2000 people attended
    Police friendly Press suggest 1600
    The Civil Human Rights Front put the number at 224 people present at its peak
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    Sort of like how the police estimate that 324 people joined thst chrf march
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    Need to edit will post later


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    Not sure where the Wix issue was discussed...



    A group of exiled activists said a website they put up to call for greater democratic freedoms in the city had been taken down on Monday by Wix, the Israeli company hosting it. Nathan Law, one of the activists, posted images on Twitter of a letter written by the Hong Kong police to Wix, demanding the company take down the site or face a fine and six months of imprisonment for an employee.

    Three hours after Mr. Law’s tweet, Wix reversed course. The company restored the site and issued an apology. A company spokeswoman said that the site had been removed by mistake and that the company was reviewing its process for screening takedown requests.
    The New York Times: In Hong Kong, Short-Lived Censorship Hints at a Deeper Standoff.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/t...ensorship.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    Not sure where the Wix issue was discussed...



    The New York Times: In Hong Kong, Short-Lived Censorship Hints at a Deeper Standoff.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/t...ensorship.html
    Expect an injunction to ban the site from being accessed from HK with a provision for similar sites also to be blocked.

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    The first honest government appointment in years.
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    Not true

    Still peddling round-tripped money as FDI. Where's the one country?

    https://www.news.gov.hk/eng/2021/06/...ml?type=ticker
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    I think we should put it this way: Promoting HK as a business hub is still...how should I put it..."nominally" important to the HK government, I mean they still go through the motions to do that as Yau does. BUT, the priority clearly is national security...if that conflicts with HK as a business hub, then security takes precedence. If that hurts HK's status as an international finance centre, who cares, according to the government, the Greater Bay Area is the future. How? How dare you ask on the specifics, I'll report you to national security hotline? What the government says cannot be challenged! (I'm mocking the government obviously, but its not a stretch to imagine that given the worsening political climate).

    In short, international business concerns can take a hike, according to the government:

    https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/25/b...hnk/index.html

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    Some nice new kit to replace the Unimogs and further enhance community policing
    https://twitter.com/galileocheng/sta...377107462?s=21