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Jul 26, 2023 | 
theepochtimes.com | Danny Tang |Harry McKenny |May Tam |Sherry Lin
The 33rd Hong Kong Book Fair opens on July 19 for seven days at the Wanchai Convention and Exhibition Center. Books dealing with social movements’ politics are hardly to be found. Publishers banned from participating in last year’s fair remain conspicuous absentees this time. Some mainland visitors lamented the decline of freedoms in Hong Kong.
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Jul 22, 2023 | 
theepochtimes.com | Big Al Mack |Harry McKenny
In recent weeks Hong Kong witnessed some deeply troubling cases of suicides and homicides committed by potential mental illness sufferers. From the depression suffered by well-known Chinese American singer CoCo Lee, to the man who stabbed two women to death in Hollywood Plaza, Diamond Hill with a 12-inch-long knife, and to the suffocation of three young daughters in a subdivided flat in Sham Shui Po by their mother, Hong Kong people are once again being reminded of the mental health issues.
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Jun 30, 2023 | 
theepochtimes.com | Danny Tang |Harry McKenny
At the Hong Kong Hospital Authority (HA) meeting on June 29, Chairperson Fan Hong-ling gave an update to the media on the latest loss of medical care personnel. He pointed out that as of the end of April, the attrition situation of doctors has improved slightly, with a net increase of 79 full-time doctors in the past 12 months, while the exodus of nurses continues unabated, with a net loss of 458.
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Jun 20, 2023 | 
epochtimes.fr | Harry McKenny
« L’endroit où l’on va n’est peut-être pas le paradis, mais l’endroit où l’on s’échappe doit être l’enfer. » Chen Weijie, un ancien entraîneur de fitness de Shenzhen qui a suivi la route populaire des passagers clandestins vers les États-Unis en mai, a déclaré qu’il n’avait jamais l’intention de retourner en Chine à moins que le Parti communiste ne soit plus au pouvoir. Chen Weijie est originaire du comté de Fenyi, de la ville de Xinyu, dans la province de Jiangxi.
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Jun 19, 2023 | 
es.theepochtimes.com | Harry McKenny
“Puede que el lugar al que ir no sea el cielo, pero el lugar del que escapar debe ser el infierno”. Chen Weijie, exentrenador físico de Shenzhen que siguió la popular ruta de los polizones a Estados Unidos en mayo, declaró que no piensa volver nunca a China a menos que no haya más gobierno del Partido Comunista. Chen Weijie es del condado de Fenyi, ciudad de Xinyu, provincia de Jiangxi. Su madre falleció cuando él era joven.
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Jun 19, 2023 | 
theepochtimes.com | Harry McKenny
Netizens: Everything remains in our hearts At the time when the Hong Kong Department of Justice (DOJ) applied to the court for an injunction to prohibit the dissemination of the anti-extradition protest song “Glory to Hong Kong,” and the court has yet to make a ruling, several different versions, as well as the audio/video clips of “Glory to Hong Kong” seem to have been removed from the shelves.
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Jun 19, 2023 | 
theepochtimes.com | Harry McKenny
“The place to go may not be heaven, but the place to escape must be hell.” Chen Weijie, a former Shenzhen fitness coach who followed the popular stowaways route to the United States in May, said that he never intends to return to China unless there is no more Communist Party rule. Chen Weijie is from Fenyi County, Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province. His mother passed away when he was young. After finishing junior high school, he set up a stall and sold things on trains.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
theepochtimes.com | Harry McKenny
June 9 marked the fourth anniversary of the anti-extradition movement in Hong Kong. Under the threat of the national security law (NSL), when the Hong Kong media was silenced, and local commemorative activities seemed to have disappeared, there were still some Hongkongers who braved the rain to ascend atop Lion Rock, a landmark symbol of Hong Kong people and raised the “GLORY HK” light sign, expressing their hope for freedom and light amidst darkness.
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Jun 13, 2023 | 
theepochtimes.com | Harry McKenny
June 9 marks the fourth anniversary of Hong Kong’s “anti-extradition movement.” Hong Kong, which for a long time being famed as an international metropolis, has changed beyond recognition four years on. Analyst believes that although the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) all-round suppression has silenced Hong Kong, Hong Kong people have a historical heritage of pursuing freedom and will not yield or give up. They are still fighting hard around the world.
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Jun 8, 2023 | 
theepochtimes.com | Harry McKenny
The Department of Justice (DOJ) in Hong Kong announced on June 6 that it has applied to the court for a full injunction and a temporary injunction to prohibit anyone from spreading “Glory to Hong Kong” (a pro-democratic song). The song has been mistakenly played at several international sports events as the Hong Kong national anthem instead of the Communist China anthem. The Hong Kong government has often negotiated with Google to ban the song.
