mulling over some numbers…🧵
1/ Art Basel Hong Kong attendance:
2024: 75,000
2023: 86,000
2019: 88,000 (peak)

Hundreds trickle in and out of Tai Ping Shan on Sunday to bid farewell to Mount Zero Book. The bookstore announced it was closing earlier this year after receiving numerous “weekly greetings” from various government departments.

Our story on a Dubai prince little known in #HongKong . He makes waves in the city after pledging US$500 million in HK for a family office. But he abruptly postpones the launch scheduled this afternoon.

Incredible image of the exactly zero women included in Xi's meeting with US business... ft.com/content/76aceb…

#NEW : Hong Kong and California call for new subnational tie-up to tackle climate change amid rising US-China tensions. The US state environment chief cited “so much in common” between the San Francisco Bay Area and its Guangdong counterpart. sc.mp/ahz9l?utm_sour… via @scmpnews

Cathay Pacific budget carrier HK Express eyes mainland China for expansion, aims to boost capacity scmp.com/news/hong-kong…

Andrew Left, who was fined and banned from trading shares in Hong Kong for 5 years by the Securities and Futures Commission for making “reckless” allegations about China Evergrande Group’s financial situation in 2012, now wants a refund and an apology

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Is #Hong Kong ready for ban on throwaway items?
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Government to post warnings at immigration checkpoints and hotels to remind travellers to have their own hygiene products, such as razors.
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Styrofoam containers to be outlawed.

By ⁦Ezra Cheung scmp.com/news/hong-kong…

A fresh set of national security offences is coming into force in Hong Kong on Saturday, after lawmakers unanimously approved a homegrown national security law.

My first report for Al Jazeera English

Full video: youtu.be/d0oAu2VoLTc?si…

The abbreviation for the “designated [garbage] bags” under Hong Kong’s Municipal Solid Waste scheme is officially called “D-Bags”

An extra council meeting has been added tmr morning for resumption of 2nd reading of the #Article23 nat sec bill, pushing the legislation into the last mile.

legco.gov.hk/yr2024/english…

We pieced together reasons why #HongKong went full speed with #Article23 . Insiders said curbing impacts of potential sanctions or smear campaigns could explain the rush.
sc.mp/p06l7?utm_sour… via @scmpnews

Hong Kong auditors need more legal assurances a domestic national security bill will not pose an onerous burden as they handle confidential corporate information that could potentially be linked to state secrets, representatives have said. sc.mp/dq8dx?utm_sour… via @scmpnews

#BREAKING : Twelve Hong Kongers received jail sentences of between 6.5 years and 7 years over the storming of the legislature on July 1, 2019.

Those jailed include actor Gregory Wong, activists Ventus Lau, Owen Chow and Althea Suen.

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Andy Li, one of the #12speedboatfugitives and a key prosecution witness in the #NSL trial of #JimmyLai , has begun to give evidence in chief led by designated prosecutor Anthony Chau.

It’s been months since Li’s last appearance in court, pleading guilty in Aug 2021.