傳媒良知 透視真相
In Afghanistan, the new Taliban government has replaced the ministry of women’s affairs with the “ministry of vice and virtue”. It has been named “Ministries of Prayer and Guidance and the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”. Additionally, Female employees who had been trying to come to work for several weeks were told to return home.
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IN THE FRIGHTENING, arson-filled days leading up to China’s National Day two years ago, a group of protesters in Hong
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Millions of children turned up for the first day of school in this part of the world yesterday to find after-school assignments have been slashed back or binned entirely.
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Forced to abort their own babies, repeatedly raped, tortured, humiliated, and often left to die. That was the horrifying reality for hundreds of thousands of women and girls who were coerced into prostitution and sexual slavery by the Japanese army during the Second World War.
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Debates arise due to contrasting opinions, and opinions form due to subjectivity. Subjectivity is an inevitable aspect of human nature.
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A YOUNG POLICE OFFICER is approached from behind and stabbed by a politically radicalized man who then commits suicide. It’s a classic terrorism scenario.
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MY DAUGHTER ONCE asked me if we were “pro-China”. “Sweetheart,” I replied. “We’re pro-everyone. We’re pro-China, pro-Hong Kong, pro-West, pro-East, pro-South and pro-space aliens, especially the latter.”
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Kenyan runner Abel Mutai was only a few feet away from the finish line, but he got confused with the sign and stopped, thinking he had finished the race. A Spanish runner, Ivan Fernandez, was right behind him and, realizing what was going on, started screaming at the Kenyan to keep running. Mutai didn’t know Spanish and didn’t understand. Realizing what was happening, Fernandez pushed Mutai to the victory.
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IT IS BECOMING increasingly clear what will happen to Hong Kong’s economic and legal foundations at midnight on June 30th, 2047, when the transition period to being part of China comes to an end.
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Trump’s impeachment trial just finished — it led to nothing, but I found it interesting that the protesters in Washington DC were using the same slogan as the ones in Hong Kong.
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I often find that simple visual meme tells the story in a quick neat way!
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The BBC recently shared yet another story about a Hong Kong family fleeing this horrible, oppressed city to escape to the delightful heavenly safety of UK (Utopia Kingdom).
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I took the wrong path today and got slightly lost somewhere up towards Tai Mo Shan.
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Putting words on paper or on the computer screen is more than mere communication, it is an art. It conveys meanings, ideas, images, emotions, thoughts and illusions. It can be wielded in so many forms. It can make you laugh, cry, angry, intrigued or even feel a surge of love. It is no wonder that as early as 1839, the power of writing was celebrated by English author Edward Bulmer-Lytton, who coined the phrase, “The pen is mightier than the sword.”
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Mulan is arguably one of the most controversial films in recent years. Not because of the inclusion of any controversial messages, but due to the talk circulating its lead actress Liu Yi-fei regarding her support of the Hong Kong police during last year’s anti-government protests. After people learned of this, Disney’s live-action film was widely boycotted.
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Today (15 September) is the deadline for the US sanctions that ban Huawei’s access to microchips in an attempt to block the tech giant from leading 5G technology.
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FIVE NEWS DIARY ITEMS
1) TAIWAN LAST YEAR: “Radical protesters from Hong Kong will be welcomed with open arms.”
TAIWAN LAST WEEK: “Criminals attempting to enter Taiwan illegally will be prosecuted with the full force of the law.”
This is a thought-provoking conversation.
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Yesterday’s news has saddened many people in Hong Kong. The mother of a 15-year-old girl found dead at sea last year was harassed by pro-democracy supporters as she left the Coroner’s Court where she delivered a tearful testimony on her daughter’s death.
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People in Hong Kong, under colonial rule, were for the most part, apolitical. They just wanted to be left alone to make a good life for themselves. However, ever since the handover in 1997, there has been a growing movement for the citizens to exercise some sort of control over their own destiny.
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“Kong Tsung-gan” has fled Hong Kong because of “threats”, he admits in a post on HKFreePress just now, 1pm Monday 08/10. “They reached the point where I decided it was best to leave Hong Kong,” he writes. No details or evidence about the “threats” is provided.
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Last Friday, the Trump administration took the unusual step of imposing sanctions on Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and 10 other top officials from Hong Kong and mainland China for “undermining Hong Kong’s autonomy”.
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NOOOOO! My family and thousands of other Hong Kong users, mostly youngsters, have just been banned from the lipsync/ dance/ music app TikTok as its US boss desperately tried to prove its anti-Chinese credentials.
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THE AWFUL STORY of what happened in the Hong Kong suburb of Yuen Long on July 21 last year has been told thousands of times.
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Once upon a time there was a kingdom called Nland. It was ruled by a king who sent emissaries all over the world to discover new places where Nland could be further enriched. One day an emissary returned with the news of a new place called Hong.
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As anti-China’s sentiment grows rapidly in Hong Kong, China’s Greater Bay Area has been described as an evil giant that swallows Hong Kong.
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The picturesque night view of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, shows the face of a vibrant city. After years of political turbulence, Addis Ababa and many other African cities are now booming with development.
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In Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs, shelter runs second only to survival. It is a topic very much in the hearts of everyone who lives in Hong Kong right now. Anyone who has visited or lived in Hong Kong will believe the myth that it is very overcrowded and there is very little land available for development. It is a myth perpetrated by developers and silently aided and abetted by the government.
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In my first article on the Hong Kong protests about the extradition bill, I had ended with:
Beijing may feel that the “One country, two systems” experiment has failed and decide that it may be best to have Hong Kong run like a province of China. This, Beijing can achieve with a mere stroke of a brush.
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