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#Cigarette smoking #kills in nefarious ways: 168 #human lives extinguished & 1,987 housing units in eight tower blocks all 👇destroyed.🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Deadly #HongKong #fire ‘most likely’ caused by smoking, #public inquiry hears
"A clip showing workers #smoking on the rooftop of one #WangFuk Court building on November 26 was played during the hearing, with Dawes pointing out that residents had long complained about the issue to #contractors & #authorities" ⚖️🚭
#tobaccoKills #HKFP
https://hongkongfp.com/2026/03/19/deadly-wang-fuk-court-fire-most-likely-caused-by-smoking-public-inquiry-hears/

Deadly Wang Fuk Court fire ‘most likely’ caused by smoking, public inquiry hears

The massive blaze at a Tai Po housing estate in November was “most likely” caused by smoking, a public inquiry has heard, as a committee investigating the fatal disaster began hearing evidence on Thursday.

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David on Formosa Dec 6

Zhang Yadi is PRC national studying in Europe who wrote articles in support of Tibet. She was arrested while returning to China to visit family

"Her plight illustrates the risk of going home for Chinese nationals who displease the state, as it increasingly tightens control over issues it considers sensitive — such as that of Tibet."

https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/06/loved-ones-fear-for-pro-tibet-student-activist-detained-in-china/

#Tibet #China #HumanRights #TNR #HKFP

Loved ones fear for pro-Tibet student activist detained in China

Zhang Yadi's plight illustrates the risk of going home for Chinese nationals who displease the state, as it increasingly tightens control over issues it considers sensitive -- such as that of Tibet.

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

Joseph Lim

Apr 21, 2025

#filmastodon #mustshare #港臺電影加油
📣🎬
#HongKong filmmakers & #movie crews wrestle w industry decline aft #boxoffice successes
"Director Ho is holding on to e industry despite hv'g to move back in w his family & refrain fr travel'g to cut personal expenses.. He's received an offer to direct a #film in #Taiwan, where cost of #production is cheaper.. In spite of challenges & uncertainty facing e industry, #filmmakers who spoke w #HKFP all said they had no intention of quitting"
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/20/hong-kong-filmmakers-and-movie-crews-wrestle-with-industry-decline-after-box-office-successes/

Hong Kong filmmakers and movie crews wrestle with industry decline after box office successes

Directors, producers and film crews struggle to find work as the local movie industry is experiencing a downturn despite blockbuster successes in recent years.

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

David on Formosa Dec 27, 2024

A book fair in Hong Kong had an elevated police presence and a number of attendees were stopped and searched by police. This is part of an ongoing crackdown against book sellers and publishers in Hong Kong

https://hongkongfp.com/2024/12/27/hong-kong-police-deploy-around-independent-book-fair-as-attendees-stopped-and-searched/

#HongKong #China #Censorship #香港 #books #HKFP

Hong Kong police deploy around independent book fair as attendees stopped and searched

More than 20 Hong Kong police officers have been deployed to a neighbourhood where a week-long independent book fair was underway.

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Joseph Lim

Sep 28, 2024

#HKFP Lens: Scenes from #HongKong’s 2014 Umbrella Movement
"The #protest that would become Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, a largely #peaceful 79-day #prodemocracy #civildisobedience campaign, began with class #boycotts on September 22, 2014"
#香港人加油
https://hongkongfp.com/2024/09/28/hkfp-lens-scenes-from-hong-kongs-2014-umbrella-movement/

HKFP Lens: Scenes from Hong Kong’s 2014 Umbrella Movement

For 79 days in 2014, a pro-democracy civil disobedience campaign that came to be known as the Umbrella Movement brought parts of Hong Kong to a standstill.

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Jack Yan (甄爵恩)May 9, 2024

Bravo to the #HKFP and its brave journalists.

https://mastodon.online/@hkfp/112411255671994504

Hong Kong Free Press (@[email protected])

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娛壹 Nov 9, 2023

尋找Blur在香港的回憶︱
Blur稱來港演出遭拒批簽證
入境處表示從未接獲申請：
不能接受散播誤導資訊須予譴責

“I got away, for a little while/ But then it came back much harder.”
(Blur《Ghost Ship》, 2015）從九龍去大嶼山搭纜車到寶蓮寺， #Blur 只是離開了一回，回來後卻更加嚴峻。樂隊bass手 #AlexJames 在BBC Radio 6節目接受Lauren Laverne訪問，談到原計劃以香港為世界巡迴終站，“apparently, the Chinese government consider us to be #badactors （不良分子） , so we’re not allowed back in Hong Kong sadly.” 他也不禁苦笑。

Hong Kong Free Press最先報道事件，網上迅速擴散，入境處始回覆 #HKFP ，表示處方未有接獲...
https://www.instagram.com/p/CzadMVJty7j/

Joseph Lim

Sep 4, 2023

#HKFP - Foreign Influence Part 3: Around the world in a day with Hong Kong’s street names
"Throughout Hong Kong, you can find street names reflecting the global influences that have shaped its identity, from British and Chinese cities to trading partners and even some unexpected locations."
Takes us back to our years living in the "fragrant harbour" that is #香港 ! #HongKong #history #culture
https://hongkongfp.com/2023/08/27/foreign-influence-part-3-around-the-world-in-a-day-with-hong-kongs-street-names/

Foreign Influence Part 3: Around the world in a day with Hong Kong’s street names

Part of a series on Hong Kong’s historic place names. Hong Kong’s street names offer a glimpse into its rich history as a former British colony on Chinese soil and a global trading hub. They tell a compelling story about its past and its connections to the wider world, showing that perhaps Hong Kong does […]

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🦣丁斯特Dingster Aug 27, 2023

Hong Kong gov't removes decade-old graffiti over security law concerns, as new artwork appears - #HongKong Free Press #HKFP https://apple.news/A3W9CifRXRfG-YvX6KK8-Vw

Hong Kong gov't removes decade-old graffiti over security law concerns, as new artwork appears — Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

Aug 27, 2023 | 6:00 AM

Christof Schöch Dec 25, 2022

Wonderful article by Diana Pang in #HKFP (Hong Kong Free Press) on the #multilingual (#Cantonese and #English) street names in #HongKong and the various kinds of quirks that happened when #translations, #transliterations and other interventions were performed by city officials. https://hongkongfp.com/2022/12/25/foreign-influence-part-1-lost-in-translation-hong-kongs-weird-and-wonderful-street-names/

Foreign influence Part 1: Lost in translation, Hong Kong’s weird and wonderful street names

By Diana Pang There are two different English names near Chung Ying Street (中英街, China England Street), a historical location on the Hong Kong—mainland China border. Car Park Street, a translation of the Chinese name (車坪街), can be seen on the old T-shaped sign while the newer sign reads Che Ping Street, the transliteration of the Cantonese. […]

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