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Zines come in a wide array of shapes and sizes. Among the extensive collection curated by Samantha Chao, a zine librarian at the Asian Art Archive (AAA) in Hong Kong, certain zines were smaller than palm-sized, while others were about as large as ring binders. To properly accommodate the expanding collection within the city’s first formal zine archive, Chao selected three customised shelves to house the self-published medium that often had thin spines. Inspired by the layout of vinyl record stores, the archive features pull-out drawers filled with alphabetically arranged zines, providing reade...
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Google has blocked Hong Kong users from accessing pro-democracy protest song Glory to Hong Kong on YouTube following a court order. It comes days after Secretary for Justice Paul Lam said the government was “anxious” for the tech company’s response to the ruling. Last Wednesday, a court banned people from “broadcasting, performing, printing, publishing, selling, offering for sale, distributing, disseminating, displaying or reproducing” the song with seditious intent. The Court of Appeal sided with the government, overturning last year’s decision by a lower court rejecting the injunction that c...
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The defence should be allowed to call a witness to the stand for a second time “in the interests of justice,” the lawyer for jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai has argued at the landmark national security trial. But his submission drew the ire of the three judges presiding over the case, who questioned the defence’s failure to ask the former CEO of Apple Daily’s parent company about messaging app evidence in the first place. The defence is seeking to ask Cheung Kim-hung about messages on Slack, a workplace messaging app that the paper’s staff used to discuss the newspaper’s editorial direction. The...
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The licensing body for Hong Kong’s social workers will be overhauled to allow government appointees to command a majority, after the welfare chief said changes were needed to “better protect national security.” The Executive Council, the government advisory body, approved on Tuesday to adjust the composition of the Social Workers Registration Board, which currently has 15 members. The proposed changes wouldtake the total number of members to 27, with 17 seats to be appointed by the government. A bill to amend the city’s Social Workers Registration Ordinance is expected to be submitted to the L...
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Hong Kong’s leader John Lee has dismissed “unwarranted accusations” that the city funded the surveillance of overseas activists wanted by national security police, after a government employee was charged by UK authorities over alleged spying activities. The chief executive on Tuesday also urged Britain to “fairly handle” the case, which involves an employee at the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) in London. Bill Yuen, one of the defendants in the case, is listed as an office manager at the trade office on the government’s directory. Lee also reassured the public that the trade offic...
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A group of current, and former, foreign politicians say they have demanded to be called as witnesses in the landmark national security trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai. Members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, who come from nine countries, include Japan’s former defence minister Gen Nakatani and Iain Duncan Smith – a former UK Conservative party leader who has been sanctioned by China. In a letter seen by the BBC, the group say they have been cited over 50 times during the hearings yet have never been formally contacted to submit evidence. “[W]e now have an opportunity to see how fa...
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Hong Kong welcomed almost 3.4 million visitors in April, according to provisional figures from the Tourism Board. Though it represents a 17.3 per cent increase in visitors compared to last April, the number of arrivals still lags behind the figures seen before the city enacted prolonged Covid-19 travel restrictions in 2020. The city saw 3,391,381 visitors in 2024, the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) said in a Tuesday press release – 73.23 per cent of which were from the mainland. See also: Hong Kong faces uphill battle to lure back Chinese tourists after pandemic and protests “For short-haul ma...
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The Tourism Board will give HK$200 vouchers to visitors from eight Chinese cities who will soon be able to come to Hong Kong under an expanded solo travel scheme, allowing them to experience the city’s “extraordinary charm.” Addressing reporters on Tuesday, Chief Executive John Lee said the vouchers could be spent at “many different types of restaurants and shops.” “The government and the Tourism Board have prepared a series of arrangements so mainland Chinese visitors can feel like they are in a home away from home, and personally experience the extraordinary charm of Hong Kong as an internat...
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Hong Kong’s anti-corruption watchdog has charged two women for allegedly bribing a HSBC counter service officer with an unspecified amount of money in connection to a bank account opening. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) on Monday said the two women – Yu Hui, 26, and Wang Jinyu, 37 – jointly face one count of offering advantage to an agent and will appear at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts on Tuesday for plea. Yu, an executive, and Wang, a live-streaming technician, came to Hong Kong last month and visited an HSBC branch in Wan Chai, where they said they wished to open an ...
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Hong Kong has logged fewer phone scam cases in the first quarter of 2024 but losses soared to HK$789 million, with mainland Chinese students in the city being increasingly targeted by swindlers, police have said. The force said they recorded 474 phone scam cases in the first three months of this year – a 21 per cent drop year-on-year, according to local media reports on Monday. But losses almost quadrupled, with cases of scammers pretending to be officials accounting for HK$764 million, or 97 per cent, of the amount lost in the period. More mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong were conned by...
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