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Residents of Taipei largely went about their commutes as normal on Monday morning, aside from those who found their routes blocked by road closures around the Presidential Office Building, where the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) Lai Ching-te was being sworn in as the island’s next leader. Chen Shih-eu, 32, however, was not heading to work. Instead, she was standing on the side of the road outside the nearby 228 Peace Memorial Park watching a livestream of Lai’s inauguration on her phone. “I think it’s a very important moment for Taiwanese, especially for our young generation,” she told ...
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Government plans to overhaul the Social Workers Registration Board reflect a distrustful attitude to social workers, a union has said, claiming that authorities’ undervalue the sector. The Hong Kong Social Workers’ General Union, established in 1980, said on Facebook on Sunday that – while it expected the licensing body would be revamped – it was surprised by the speed of the government’s move, which left little space for discussion or consultation. The city’s welfare chief Chris Sun wrote on May 10 on Facebook that the licensing body was failing to bar those convicted of national security off...
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Lawyers for Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai have said they will argue the tycoon has no case to answer in his national security trial, in which he faces three conspiracy charges involving foreign collusion and sedition. Senior Counsel Robert Pang, representing Lai, said on Monday that the defence would contend that the prosecution’s evidence was insufficient to support the tycoon’s conviction. He asked the court for time to prepare a “no case to answer” written submission. Pang raised the matter before the prosecution began playing Lai’s past interviews with overseas media outlets and a talk s...
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Deputy Secretary for Security Apollonia Liu will head up the government’s PR department from Friday, replacing Fletch Chan as the Information Services Department (ISD) chief. Liu does not have a background in media, communications or PR. She has been serving as a deputy security chief since 2018, following a seven-year stint as the deputy director of administration and development at the Department of Justice. She joined the Administrative Service in August 1990, rising through the ranks and becoming an Administrative Officer in April 1990, according to a government press release on Friday. Du...
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Hong Kong’s environmental authorities have conditionally approved an ecological report into a planned technology hub near the city’s border with mainland China, giving the project the go ahead despite green groups’ concerns. Director of Environmental Protection Samuel Chui on Friday defended the environmental impact assessment report for the San Tin Technopole project as “scientific, professional and comprehensive,” adding that the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) had proposed additional ecological mitigation measures on top of the eight suggested in the report. One of the main measur...
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When Lai Ching-te addressed reporters in the evening of January 13, minutes after his victory in Taiwan’s presidential election was announced, he struck what some analysts and media outlets called a “conciliatory” tone. The next time he steps onto an official stage – one that has been erected in front of the imposing Japanese colonial-era Presidential Office Building – will be to deliver his inaugural address as the island’s leader. Lai will succeed his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) predecessor Tsai Ing-wen on Monday. Listening carefully to his words will not only be officials in the audi...
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Hundreds of people gathered outside the headquarters of Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Taipei on Sunday afternoon to urge incoming president Lai Ching-te to implement political reform and address rising house prices. The rally was organised by the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), relative newcomers to the democratic island’s political scene. During January’s presidential election, TPP candidate Ko Wen-je appealed to young Taiwanese voters, promising a “third way” between the DPP and traditional opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT). Despite losing to the DPP’s Lai Ching-te, ...
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In 2002 a geologist called Kenneth Adelman started a project in which he documented coastal erosion in California with a series of aerial photographs, uploaded to the internet and still visible here. But in 2008, he was sued by the owner of a coastal property, Barbra Streisand, who claimed US$50 million for invasion of privacy, and sought an order for the removal of photograph no. 3850, which included her clifftop home: As a lawsuit this was not a success. Adelman counter-sued under a California law against SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation). Streisand lost and was ordere...
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The media can “ask questions” but not provoke conflicts or make slanderous remarks, Chief Executive John Lee has said at an awards ceremony for the city’s news industry. The news industry must abide by professional ethics and provide readers with accurate and comprehensive information, as well as pertinent and unbiased reports, Lee said at the Hong Kong News Awards on Friday. He offered the organiser, the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong, his support for “promoting the development of high quality journalism,” and added that Hong Kong’s economy needed the power of the media to spread the news of ...
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A strange, indeed barely believable, controversy has erupted over a question which appears hardly disputable: whether Hong Kong still enjoys the degree of press freedom that it did before 2020. “Nothing has changed” is the official line pushed by government spokesmen in Beijing, echoed by local Grenville Cross in newspaper pieces. For the opposite view we have Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontiéres or RSF if you are subject to Quebec Province language laws) who are the compilers and curators of the relevant international league table, the World Press Freedom Index. The message of...
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